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  • The Burnt Bones Mystery

    by Max Dalman ...
    Series series Black Heath Classic Crime
    “Why every murderer and lunatic in the whole damned district has got to come and mess about with my kiln I don’t know. How the hell can I make pots?”Patrick Ambleside, the mysterious new guest at the inn in Terracombe on the south Devon coast, is the cause of excited local gossip. Or rather, his luggage is, including as it does an automatic pistol and a large box that is always kept firmly ... Read more

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  • Herald of Death

    by Max Dalman ...
    Series series Black Heath Classic Crime
    “It’s murder all right… With a silver dagger..."When the village police receive a cryptic anonymous note, only later do they realise that it was from a murderer giving prior warning of a bloody crime: the death of Richard Marney, who is fatally stabbed during a fox hunt. Hugh Egmont, jealous of the affection between Richard and his cousin Joan, is the obvious suspect. But Egmont has an alibi - he ... Read more

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  • Death Disposes

    by Max Dalman ...
    Series series Black Heath Classic Crime
    “You know, there’s a certain piquancy in living with relations who most fervently wish one dead!”James Henstone is an invalid. He is also a vindictive old man who enjoys taunting his servants and relatives. Henstone is cared for by his nephew Mark, but announces his intention to make a will leaving everything to Mark’s second cousin Francis. There is a catch, however - Francis is to lose his place ... Read more

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  • The Hidden Light

    by Max Dalman ...
    Series series Black Heath Classic Crime
    Receiving a series of threatening anonymous letters, artist James Garrow calls in private detective David Marchant to investigate. Feeling himself unassailable, and more annoyed than worried, Garrow doesn’t truly believe that his life is in danger, despite the writer’s threats. But Garrow's hubris is misplaced and he is soon found murdered in his own study. When Marchant arrives at the house, he ... Read more

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  • Buried Once

    by Max Dalman ...
    Series series Black Heath Classic Crime
    "He kills his brother—if he has killed his brother, and if his brother’s killed at all——"Virginia Blakeney is used to walking home at night. But as she makes her way along the lanes from Utton Road station on this particular evening her journey is distrubed by the terrifying sound of dragging footsteps following her in the gloom. Taking a shortcut through the graveyard of Upper Utton Church, her ... Read more

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  • Death on May Morning

    by Max Dalman ...
    Series series Black Heath Classic Crime
    The annual May Day celebrations are an Oxford institution. At 6 a.m. on the first day of May, the Magdalen College Choir gather at the top of Magdalen Tower to give a special performance celebrating the joys of spring. But this year will be a less cosy affair. Just as the singing starts, so does the shooting - and de Valgas, university student and son of a South American dictator, falls down dead. ... Read more

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  • Vampire Abroad

    by Max Dalman ...
    Series series Black Heath Classic Crime
    “The bat! The bat!”One morning, Sir Arthur Scarsdale’s butler is alarmed to find that he cannot rouse his master as usual. Breaking down his bedroom door, Scarsdale’s nephew Shelton discovers to his horror that his uncle has died in the night. The local doctor is adamant that death was due to heart failure, but Shelton, also a newly-qualified doctor, is not so sure. He feels there is something odd ... Read more

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  • Poison Unknown

    by Max Dalman ...
    Series series Black Heath Classic Crime
    "They represent an accumulation of knowledge about poisons it would be hard to find in a single building anywhere else..."Professor Charles Roseland is the head of the Juliot Research Centre, a small chemical research institute for newly-qualified scientists. One Friday evening, Roseland leaves to attend a scientific gathering in London. On the following Monday, he is discovered dead in his ... Read more

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  • The Missing Grave

    by Max Dalman ...
    Series series Black Heath Classic Crime
    “Who would need to employ a gardener to dig a grave?”George Hedges is a simple man, whose life revolves around his work and frequent visits to the local alehouse. After one such visit, he is woken by sounds of an intruder at his remote cottage. Then an unearthly voice in his bedroom threatens him with death. Bound and blindfolded he is taken to an obscure location and told to dig. Initially he ... Read more

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  • Third Alibi

    by Max Dalman ...
    Series series Black Heath Classic Crime
    After a few convivial drinks, George Petworth convinces his friend Timothy to accept a foolish bet - can he break into George's uncle's house and steal something without being caught? But after breaking into the wrong house, Timothy gets more than he bargained for when he stumbles upon a dead body in the study. Luckily for him, the police believe his story - for now. But it is only by discovering ... Read more

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  • Three Strangers

    by Max Dalman ...
    Series series Black Heath Classic Crime
    “If this is a fair specimen of the quiet of the English countryside, give me Poplar or Limehouse! There’s a murder in the shrubbery, and Lord knows what else!”On the day of James Remshaw’s execution three strangers appear in the Sussex village of Malford Bishop and converge on Malford Manor, home of Theodore Hardwick and his daughter Elizabeth. One of the strangers, Poldron, insists on being ... Read more

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  • Doctor Disappears

    by Max Dalman ...
    Series series Black Heath Classic Crime
    A mysterious phone call... an urgent case... a car disappearing into the night...After a telephone message dispatches Dr. Wimborne on an emergency late-night visit, his daughter Pamela grows uneasy when her father fails to return home the following morning. Inspector Darwin is soon on the trail, and Wimborne's colleague, Dr. Appleby calls in his friend Dr. Caeser Langland to help conduct his own ... Read more

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