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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “herbert maynard smith”
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  • Inspector Frost in the City

    by Herbert Maynard Smith ...
    Series series Black Heath Classic Crime
    Inspector Frost is called in when a body is found stabbed in Bolter's Court in the City of London. The young man found bending over the corpse would seem the obvious suspect - and the revelation that the man is none other than the famous American millionaire Mckinley M. Macmillan causes a sensation in the press. But the fact that the victim was not shot, but stabbed with an antique dagger is just ... Read more

    $1.83 CAD

  • Inspector Frost in the Background

    by Herbert Maynard Smith ...
    Series series Black Heath Editions
    Taking a holiday with his wife at the Wrecker's Head at Polpen on the Cornish coast, Inspector Frost is keen to leave anything resembling criminal investigation behind him in London. True, Lady Bohun, whose country house is located not a dozen miles from Polpen, has had her diamonds stolen recently - but since the diamonds were stolen from the family's London home, Frost is happy to leave that ... Read more

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  • Inspector Frost and Lady Brassingham

    by Herbert Maynard Smith ...
    Series series Black Heath Classic Crime
    Lady Brassingham's niece Lady Dorothy Poynings has gone missing from the school at Poynings Hall, where she is headmistress. Miss Dampier, the school's senior assistant, is doing her best to keep the matter quiet, but the pupils (and, more importantly, their parents) are begninning to suspect some scandal. Inspector Frost is called in to discover the young woman's whereabouts. As Lady Dorothy's ... Read more

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  • Inspector Frost's Jigsaw

    by Herbert Maynard Smith ...
    Series series Black Heath Classic Crime
    Mrs. De Morville of The Elms, Aldersford, was shot in broad daylight on an open lawn overlooked by fourteen windows, with four people in the house and a gardener on the other side of the hedge. There was no sign of the murderer. This is the puzzle that Inspector Frost must solve, with the able assistance of his godson Detective Billy Smith. The local police think the death was probably an accident ... Read more

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  • Inspector Frost and the Whitbourne Murder

    by Herbert Maynard Smith ...
    Series series Black Heath Classic Crime
    Inspector Frost and his son-in-law, Detective-Sergeant Billy Smith, are called in to investigate the murder of Henry Whitbourne of Bellhampton Hall. The obvious suspect is Whitbourne's older brother, John. But while Billy is convinced of John's guilt, Frost is less certain. Working together with Superintendent Thomas of Dolminster, Frost soon uncovers evidence of a villainous conspiracy and it ... Read more

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  • Inspector Frost in Crevenna Cove

    by Herbert Maynard Smith ...
    Series series Black Heath Classic Crime
    Inspector Frost and Sergeant Billy Smith are dispatched to the tiny Cornish village of Crevenna, where the body of a holiday-maker has been discovered stabbed on the beach. Was this a random attempt at armed robbery? Or was there a more personal motive? Was the victim a stranger, or was there a connection with some native of Crevenna? To discover the truth, Frost and Smith must get under the skin ... Read more

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  • Inspector Frost and the Waverdale Fire

    by Herbert Maynard Smith ...
    Series series Black Heath Classic Crime
    When Inspector Frost and Detective-Sergeant Billy Smith are sent to look into the fire that destroyed Waverdale, the country house lately purchased by self-made millionaire Edward Oldroyd, the pair initially suspect a possible insurance scam. Yet there are complications - not least the fact that the famous Corleone Emeralds also appear to have gone missing from the house on the night of the fire. ... Read more

    $1.83 CAD

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    A Simon Brade Detective Story

    by Harriette R. Campbell ...
    Series series Black Heath Classic Crime
    "You’ll see the papers tomorrow, so you’ll know that Lord Serbridge has been killed—murdered..."First, Colin Sleet, a hack journalist, commits suicide. Then, Timothy Serbridge, the baby son of Sleet's employer, is kidnapped. Penny Pengold, the Serbridges' governess, is ordered to invite the brilliant amateur detective Simon Brade to Olachan House, the family's remote Scottish estate, in order to ... Read more

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  • Dust in the Vault

    A Philip Tolefree Mystery

    by R.A.J. Walling ...
    Series series Black Heath Classic Crime
    It is high summer and London is sweltering so when Tolefree and Farrar receive a message from their old friend Professor Pye, inviting them to join him in the delightful Cotswold village of Albury, they are only too ready to accept. But Pye has an ulterior motive. He hopes that Tolefree will put his detective talents to work on the mystery of Mr. William Abbott, a man recently arrived in Albury ... Read more

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  • The Late Unlamented

    A Philip Tolefree Mystery

    by R.A.J. Walling ...
    Series series Black Heath Classic Crime
    “We’ve got a rare batch of suspects, don’t you think?”In the immediate aftermath of the second world war, Philip Dolby invites Tolefree to swap the confines of bombed-out London for the idyllic Devon coastal town of Porthgover. But Dolby has an ulterior motive. He wishes Tolefree to turn his professional eye on the situation at Govercomeb House, where he is convinced that Frederick Trivett, the ... Read more

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  • Bury Him Deeper

    A Philip Tolefree Mystery

    by R.A.J. Walling ...
    Series series Black Heath Classic Crime
    Whilst holidaying on the west coast of Scotland, Tolefree lets his friend Farrar take him out in a small chartered boat. When a storm hits, however, Farrar's seamanship proves less than equal to the task and the pair find themselves stranded on Eilean Rona, a lonely Hebridean island whose sole population is made up of Gregg, laird of the isle, his wife and son and their retainers. Initially, Gregg ... Read more

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  • The Coroner Doubts

    A Philip Tolefree Mystery

    by R.A.J. Walling ...
    Series series Black Heath Classic Crime
    “An F.R.S.—a Coroner in doubt about his own verdict—Cox and Bland. A big case, sir. You can’t keep out.”Limpenny, keen archaeologist, is found dead at his cottage on Dartmoor, apparently by suicide. But the coroner, Mr. Rose, is not so sure. Although a jury has found in favour of suicide, Rose decides to call in a third party to consider the case from a new angle. Enter Philip Tolefree, insurance ... Read more

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