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  • The Desmond Merrion Mysteries of Miles Burton: The Complete Collection, Volume 2 (4 Books). Illustrated

    Death in the Tunnel, Death at Low Tide, Death Leaves No Card, Death Takes a Flat

    by Miles Burton ...
    The Desmond Merrion Mysteries of Miles Burton: The Complete Collection, Volume 2 (4 Books) continues the classic series with four expertly crafted detective novels that exemplify the precision and intellectual appeal of Golden Age crime fiction. This illustrated volume includes Death in the Tunnel, Death at Low Tide, Death Leaves No Card, and Death Takes a Flat. Each story presents a distinct and ... Read more

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  • Beware Your Neighbour

    by Miles Burton ...
    The novel centers on the residents of a single street of a small English town; mistrust and suspicion grow when a series of strange warnings are received by the residents. The messages of death escalate into a number of dangerous pranks, and Desmond Merrion, friend of one of the victims, is asked to investigate. Following the deaths of a couple in one of the street's houses, Merrion's long-time ... Read more

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  • Death Takes the Living

    by Miles Burton ...
    Desmond Merrion and Inspector Arnold investigate the disappearance of the newly appointed vicar of the fictitious coastal community of Clynde. The Reverend Jonathon Denby is well connected, the son of a baronet and with a cousin who is a government minister, so Arnold finds himself under pressure to solve the case swiftly. But when a body is discovered floating in the sea nearby the two detectives ... Read more

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  • Heir to Lucifer

    by Miles Burton ...
    DESMOND MERRION and his wife Mavis go to the little seaside town of Croylehaven to spend a holiday. The place is practically owned by the wealthy Croyle family, who live in the large, ugly Castle Croyle. The present head of the family, Lord Croyle, an old gentleman of eighty, generally known as Lucifer, is surrounded by a large number of more or less expectant heirs. ... Read more

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  • Murder in Absence

    by Miles Burton ...
    ''Murder in Absence'' by Miles Burton (John Rhode) is about two seemingly separate crimes: first, the baffling murder of estate agent Rufus Jones in English market town Hembury, followed by an investigation into suspicious activities on a Norwegian freighter in the Mediterranean, both eventually linked by amateur sleuth Desmond Merrion. The novel features classic Golden Age elements, including a ... Read more

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  • The Hardway Diamonds Mystery. Desmond Merrion Novels. Illustrated

    by Miles Burton ...
    The Hardway Diamonds Mystery by Miles Burton is a classic example of Golden Age detective fiction, combining intricate plotting with a carefully constructed puzzle that challenges both detective and reader alike. When a valuable cache of diamonds becomes the center of a mysterious and suspicious affair, what initially appears to be a straightforward case soon reveals unexpected complexities. ... Read more

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  • The Desmond Merrion Mysteries of Miles Burton: The Complete Collection, Volume 1 (4 Books). Illustrated

    The Secret of High Eldersham, Death of Mr. Gantley, The Devereux Court Mystery, The Milk-Churn Murder

    by Miles Burton ...
    The Desmond Merrion Mysteries of Miles Burton: The Complete Collection, Volume 1 (4 Books) is a classic gathering of Golden Age detective fiction, featuring four intricately plotted cases that showcase Burton’s mastery of logical deduction and fair-play mystery. This illustrated volume includes The Secret of High Eldersham, Death of Mr. Gantley, The Devereux Court Mystery, and The Milk-Churn ... Read more

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  • Death in a Duffle Coat

    by Miles Burton ...
    Two old ladies, Miss Price and Miss Marsland, lived together in the Lodge Cottage. Old Miss Price’s death looked like a tragic accident: she must have slipped and fallen in the icy yard of the cottage when, wearing a duffle coat against the cold, she went to fetch a bucket of coal. But it transpired that Miss Price had been murdered. Indeed, the cottage was empty, for Miss Marsland too had ... Read more

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  • Death Leaves No Card

    by Miles Burton ...
    When Death pays a call he generally leaves a card behind... even if it sometimes takes a pathologist to find it. But on the morning that he visited the bathroom at Forstal Farm, he did it incognito. It took a man with a crowbar to break down the bathroom door, and there on the floor was Basil Maplewood, naked, with one foot still hanging over the edge of the bath. Basil was only twenty-one, and in ... Read more

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  • The Hardway Diamonds Mystery

    by Miles Burton ...
    First published by the Mystery League Inc., New York, 1930. On a night of fog Pussy Herridge stole the Hardway diamonds—and on the same night they were re-stolen. It was a grim trail that Dick Penhampton followed which led him to discover one of them on a dead man in the marshes. Who was the Funny Toff, the terror alike of police and criminals, the unknown man with such amazing resource and ... Read more

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  • The Milk-Churn Murder

    by Miles Burton ...
    The book starts with the gruesome discovery of the dismembered body of an unidentified man in a milk churn outside the premises of a suitably surly farmer. He denies all knowledge of the headless corpse or the churn and Arnold and Merrion set off on the trail, which leads them all over the country. Obviously, the first question to arise is one of identity and in this our detectives are aided by ... Read more

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  • Legacy of Death

    by Miles Burton ...
    The story centers on the residents of Forest House, a private nursing-convalescent home. An apparent drug overdose is later determined to be a case of murder, and another resident is discovered along a nearby railroad track with her skull bashed-in. Inspector Arnold and Desmond Merrion investigate a faint trail of clues as they search for the killer. ... Read more

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