Anthony Bathurst Mysteries
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The Billiard Room Mystery
by Brian Flynn
Part 1 of the Anthony Bathurst Mysteries series
Set between the Wars at an English country house, of course a dead body turns up in the billiard room, and even worse, Lady Considine's pearls are missing. First in the Anthony Bathurst series.
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The Billiard-Room Mystery
An Anthony Bathurst Mystery
by Brian Flynn
Part 1 of the Anthony Bathurst Mysteries series
I was, awakened by a piercing scream that echoed and re-echoed through the house. It came from the floor below!
"Murder! Murder! Help! Help! Murder!"
The setting is Considine Manor in Sussex, where Sir Charles is holding his annual Cricket Week. But, the house-party is marred by the discovery of a dead body in the billiard room, not to mention the fact that Lady Considine's pearls have been stolen. Can Inspector Baddeley catch the criminal, or will it take the super-sleuth Anthony Lotherington Bathurst to discover the diabolical truth?
The Billiard-Room Mystery was originally, published in 1927. This new edition features an introduction by crime fiction historian Steve Barge.
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The Case of the Black Twenty-Two
by Brian Flynn
Part 2 of the Anthony Bathurst Mysteries series
"Mr. Laurence P. Stewart was murdered last night in his library. He was found with his skull battered in!"
Peter Daventry, a young lawyer, receives instructions from a rich client to purchase three valuable artefacts once belonging to Mary, Queen of Scots. It's a singular request, with no limit on the money to be paid at the auction. But the day after Daventry inspects the items, they are stolen from the auction house and a security guard is found horribly murdered.
The next morning, Daventry and his colleagues are startled to discover that the client, miles away at his country house, has also been slain – in a room locked from the inside. Faced with such a dilemma, there's only one thing that can be done – call for Anthony Bathurst, detective extraordinaire.
The Case of the Black Twenty-Two was originally published in 1928. This new edition includes an introduction by crime fiction historian Steve Barge.
"Convincingly detailed" Birmingham Gazette
"A skilful piece of work" Bystander
"An exciting murder mystery" Daily Whig
"A fine yarn, splendidly told" Western Mail
"There is a realism and directness about this mystery story that ranks it among the best" Dundee Courier
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The Mystery of the Peacock's Eye
An Anthony Bathurst Mystery
by Brian Flynn
Part 3 of the Anthony Bathurst Mysteries series
"Anonymity is such a terribly strong position in which to entrench one's self. To you I am Sheila Delaney - to me you are - an unknown quantity."
At the Hunt Ball in Westhampton, Sheila Delaney dances the night away with a stranger, a man who wanted only, to be known as Mr. X. At the end of the evening, he departs as mysteriously as he appeared.
Months later, private investigator Anthony Bathurst is approached by the Crown Prince of Clorania over a nasty blackmail case.
At the same time a seaside dentist finds that the girl he was treating has been found dead, apparently injected with cyanide.
The three events prove to be intimately related, and Anthony Bathurst and Chief Detective-Inspector Bannister find themselves on the trail of an exceptionally ruthless murderer.
The Mystery of the Peacock's Eye was originally published in 1928. This new edition includes an introduction by crime fiction historian Steve Barge.
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The Murders near Mapleton
An Anthony Bathurst Mystery
by Brian Flynn
Part 4 of the Anthony Bathurst Mysteries series
"This is not suicide, gentlemen. This is murder! Cold-blooded murder! The sooner we get the police here and find Sir Eustace Vernon, the better!"
Christmas Eve at Vernon House is in full swing. Sir Eustace's nearest and dearest, and the great and the good of Mapleton, are all there. But, the season of comfort and joy doesn't run true to form. Before the night is out, Sir Eustace has disappeared and his butler, Purvis, lies dead, poisoned, with a threatening message in his pocket. Or, is it her pocket?
That same evening, Police Commissioner Sir Austin Kemble and investigator Anthony Bathurst are out for a drive. They come across an abandoned car at a railway crossing, and find a body — Sir Eustace Vernon, plus two extraordinary additions. One, a bullet hole in the back of his head. Two, a red bon-bon in his pocket with a threatening message attached.
The Murders near Mapleton was originally, published in 1929. This new edition includes an introduction by crime fiction historian Steve Barge.
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The Five Red Fingers
An Anthony Bathurst Mystery
by Brian Flynn
Part 5 of the Anthony Bathurst Mysteries series
"Hard luck to be murdered just after your horse has won the Derby! Don't you think so, Doctor?"
Julius Maitland, the millionaire horse trainer is excited about his horse's chance to win the Derby. His wife's horse is also strongly fancied. In a neck and neck finish, Maitland's horse takes the race, his wife's in second.
In a national sensation, the winner is disqualified. A telephone call the day after the race summons the police to a house where Maitland's murdered body is found – and he has been dead for at least two days. When Sir Austin Kemble, Commissioner of Police is asked to investigate, he immediately summons his friend Anthony Bathurst. But can Bathurst make sense of a case when the stakes are this high?
The Five Red Fingers was originally published in 1929. This new edition features an introduction by crime fiction historian Steve Barge.
"Undeniably exciting and mysterious" Bystander
"The detective interest and the sporting interest are skilfully interwoven." Northern Whig
"A well-told tale of crime and detection" Aberdeen Press and Journal
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Invisible Death
by Brian Flynn
Part 6 of the Anthony Bathurst Mysteries series
Its favorite afternoon pastime was murder, and its favorite evening occupation was the same, only a trifle more so.
Anthony Bathurst reaches Swallowcliffe Hall, summoned by Constance Whittaker, to protect her husband, Major Whittaker, from an unnamed threat. Bathurst enlists his friend Peter Daventry, a crack shot and good in a fight.
One of the household suddenly drops dead, despite no one being anywhere near him. When poison is, revealed to be, the method of execution, Bathurst finds himself asking how, someone can poison from a distance, or whether there is quite another solution to this fiendish mystery...
Invisible Death was originally, published in 1929. This new edition includes an introduction by crime fiction historian Steve Barge.
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The Creeping Jenny Mystery
by Brian Flynn
Part 7 of the Anthony Bathurst Mysteries series
"So great was the force of the blow, it would have been impossible for the victim to have lived more than a few seconds."
The stately homes of England are under threat from the seemingly untouchable jewel-thief 'Creeping Jenny'. After the latest burglary, Inspector Baddeley suspects the country-house home of Henry Mordaunt might be the next target.
Mordaunt is hosting a party to celebrate the engagement of his daughter, when her fiancé intends to hand over a priceless gem as a gift. But murder unexpectedly strikes, and Mordaunt relies on Baddeley to unmask the culprit. Can he cope without the help of super-sleuth Anthony Bathurst, and his redoubtable sidekick Peter Daventry?
The Creeping Jenny Mystery was originally published in 1929. This new edition includes an introduction by crime fiction historian Steve Barge.
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Murder en Route
An Anthony Bathurst Mystery
by Brian Flynn
Part 8 of the Anthony Bathurst Mysteries series
"Education's like murder. It will out."
Anthony Bathurst drops into a Glebeshire church and when, it transpires that the vicar is acquainted with the medical examiner on a case of murder, Bathurst is hooked. He is soon on the trail of a most bizarre murderer. Who could have slain the slightly mysterious, yet quite unsuspicious, man on the top of a local bus? Bathurst assembles a band of helpers, with the reluctant help of Inspector Curgenven, to get, to the bottom of a most perplexing case. And, the vicar himself helps narrate the story of what is a seemingly impossible crime.
Murder en Route was originally, published in 1930. This new edition includes an introduction by crime fiction historian Steve Barge.
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The Orange Axe
by Brian Flynn
Part 9 of the Anthony Bathurst Mysteries series
"As you seem to be indicating a spot of murder-well-let's have the facts."
Major Daniel Wyatt gathers a group of six people together in the back room of a London restaurant. All are acquainted with André de Ravenac – a known blackmailer, but most probably also a serial murderer. He is currently threatening to destroy the life of a woman they all care for. Hence a plan is hatched to assassinate De Ravenac at a masked ball – and once all of the men agree, lots are drawn. Each is assigned a random role in the plan – as they are all of roughly the same build and will be wearing masks, nobody will know which of them is the man who carries out the fatal blow . . .
The Orange Axe, the ninth Anthony Bathurst mystery, was originally published in 1931. This new edition includes an introduction by crime fiction historian Steve Barge.
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The Triple Bite
by Brian Flynn
Part 10 of the Anthony Bathurst Mysteries series
I never thought it would fall to my lot to write what is popularly known as a "thriller", but Lois insists that I am the right person to do it and when Lois sets her mind on anything-
Young Cecilia Cameron takes up reins as narrator in one of Brian Flynn's most diabolical and surprising mysteries. Cecilia isn't expecting to become embroiled in the secret of the doggerel cryptogram, still less the horror that hangs over a little corner of Sussex. When Anthony Bathurst arrives to investigate, she will discover the real meaning of the tiny blood-smear near the body of the late colonel. . . . Only Bathurst's extraordinary knowledge of the career of the immortal Sherlock Holmes will enable him to succeed in his investigations.
The most exacting thrill-seeker will happily travel hand in hand with Anthony and Cecilia along this trail of clues – and just may eventually help put a name to the guilty party.
The Triple Bite was originally published in 1931. This new edition features an introduction by crime fiction historian Steve Barge.
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The Padded Door
by Brian Flynn
Part 11 of the Anthony Bathurst Mysteries series
"The murderer must have crept stealthily behind Pearson and taken him all unawares-unsuspecting."
Leonard Pearson was not a pleasant individual - a likely blackmailer - so it came as no surprise when he met a sticky end. Attacked from behind, his head smashed with a blunt instrument, the only tangible clue lay in the identity of his final visitor. Captain Hilary Frant called on Pearson that night, and was heard threatening Pearson. And then his heavy walking-stick went mysteriously missing . . .
Frant's family, once he is arrested, have but one recourse - send for Anthony Bathurst. But the trail is already growing cold. With the hanging judge, Mr. Justice Heriot, presiding over the trial, matters seem bleaker still. But an unexpected second death soon turns everything on its head . . .
The Padded Door was first published in 1932. This new edition features an introduction by Steve Barge.
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The Edge of Terror
An Anthony Bathurst Mystery
by Brian Flynn
Part 12 of the Anthony Bathurst Mysteries series
Within the next six months from to-day, I shall have removed from your midst one of the most prominent citizens of your most atrocious town. I have not yet made up my mind which one I shall honour in this way, or the exact day upon which the removal will take place.
A random serial killer? Hardly-the police discover that the first two victims are related. But they have two major problems-they don't know the murderer, or who else might be on the list. And it's going to turn into quite a long list before the murderer is revealed, and diabolical motivations exposed.
Antony Lotherington Bathurst is quickly on the case, on this occasion assisted by Dr. Michael Bannerman, a local resident.
The Edge of Terror was first published in 1932. This new edition features an introduction by Steve Barge.
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The Spiked Lion
by Brian Flynn
Part 13 of the Anthony Bathurst Mysteries series
John Pender Blundell, a codebreaker in the Great War, is found dead in Bushey Park. He met his end, despite the savaged appearance of his body, from cyanide poisoning.
Another similar death is soon discovered, and then yet another. With no apparent connection, Bathurst finds himself faced with a serious puzzle. How do the events link to the recently returned-from-apparent-death heir to the title of Lord Trensham? And what exactly is the spiked lion?
The Spiked Lion was first published in 1933. This new edition features an introduction by Steve Barge.
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The League of Matthias
by Brian Flynn
Part 14 of the Anthony Bathurst Mysteries series
The doctors who performed the post-mortem on his body came to the opinion that his veins had been opened by jagged glass. There was little doubt that this opinion was sound.
Lance Maturin has been travelling across Europe for a few months and finds himself in an Antwerp nightclub. He is mesmerised by one of the dancers and when she passes a note to him, pleading for help, he is drawn into a web of danger and intrigue.
She asks him to protect her from the sinister De Verviac, a violent man obsessed with her. But Maturin is not the only Englishman in the area that evening - Inspector Rawlinson and Anthony Bathurst are there, trailing two missing individuals and the sinister League of Matthias. Before the evening is out, one of them will be dead - and the League of Matthias will strike again...
In a multi-narrated tale, we see how the two stories dovetail. Thrills and misdirection ensue, as we learn the truth about the League of Matthias.
The League of Matthias was first published in 1934. This new edition features an introduction by Steve Barge.
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The Horn
An Anthony Bathurst Mystery
by Brian Flynn
Part 15 of the Anthony Bathurst Mysteries series
"Murder as a fine art, as a pure expression of sadism is almost unknown."
Thus spoke Anthony Bathurst to his friend, Chief Inspector MacMorran, but he will soon come to regret the statement. Julian Skene arrives to ask his assistance in the case of the disappearance of Mark Kenriston. Kenriston walked away after a dinner party on the eve of his marriage and was never, seen again. At the time, the sound of a hunting horn had been echoing in the night.
Now Kenriston's sister, Juliet, is being terrorized. She is also due to be married, is there someone determined to stop that marriage as well? And, as the fear intensifies, the sinister horn begins to sound once more...
The Horn was first, published in 1934. This new edition features an introduction by Steve Barge.
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The Case of the Purple Calf
by Brian Flynn
Part 16 of the Anthony Bathurst Mysteries series
"This Great Kirby motor-car case. A particularly horrible and soul-shattering murder. And the fact that the Commissioner of Police himself calls it a clear case of suicide won't alter the facts."
Three women have died, each apparently the victim of a car accident. When Bathurst discovers the same travelling funfair had been operating in the vicinity of all three deaths, he chooses to investigate without the help of the police. Before long he makes the connection with the Purple Calf night-club and uncovers a criminal conspiracy. This is a classic whodunit ranking with Flynn's best and most original novels.
The Case of the Purple Calf was first published in 1934. This new edition features an introduction by Steve Barge.
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The Sussex Cuckoo
by Brian Flynn
Part 17 of the Anthony Bathurst Mysteries series
The wedges are, fixed for the Sussex Cuckoo. Hurry if you would be in time. Even then, I fear that you may be too late. Terms as arranged. NEHEMIAH.
Thus reads an announcement in the Times Agony Column, catching the eye of Anthony Lotherington Bathurst on the morning he visits botanist James Frith. Frith is the owner of valuable Jacobite antiquities and has been, receiving threatening letters. The next day his corpse is, found. How did Frith end up without a mark on his body, yet dead from tetanus poisoning? Things look even more serious for Bathurst when a second death occurs...
The Sussex Cuckoo was first, published in 1935. This new edition features an introduction by crime fiction historian Steve Barge.
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The Fortescue Candle
by Brian Flynn
Part 18 of the Anthony Bathurst Mysteries series
"The gentleman in Number Fifty-four-Mr. Griggs-'e's been murdered!"
Albert Griggs, the Secretary of State for Home Affairs, is considering an important case. Two brothers have killed a servant-girl in the course of a robbery. Griggs looks at the facts carefully and comes to his final decision - he will not overturn the death penalty.
Was it this execution that led to Griggs being found shot in a hotel room? Or the fact that he had been accused by taking liberties with a certain young lady? Griggs had many enemies - and one of them hated him enough to murder him. But when Anthony Bathurst investigates, he finds something even more perplexing - how is the murder linked to the poisoning of Daphne Arbuthnot, an actress, on stage in the middle of a performance? And how is the Ku Klux Klan involved?
The Fortescue Candle was originally published in 1936. This new edition features an introduction by crime fiction historian Steve Barge.
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Fear and Trembling
by Brian Flynn
Part 19 of the Anthony Bathurst Mysteries series
"As long as there is no more stupid talk of murder, or threats of any kind, you will find me ready and willing to be reasonable."
David Somerset, an industrial chemist, meets a mysterious syndicate in a Gloucestershire village. What exactly does David Somerset have to sell?
Somerset fails to return to London and his son Geoffrey disappears on the same day. The pair of them are soon, found dead. With a killer's sights now set on the other son, Gerald, it falls to Anthony Bathurst to track down the mysterious syndicate and unmask a cunning murderer. But, he's a little distracted by a femme fatale...
Inspector MacMorran is aware of this, and takes some pleasure when Bathurst is briefly baffled, and in love. Along the way, there are chills, red herrings, highly original twists, and an amazing revelation at the end.
Fear and Trembling was first, published in 1936. This new edition features an introduction by Steve Barge.
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Tread Softly
by Brian Flynn
Part 20 of the Anthony Bathurst Mysteries series
"This man Merivale admits that he killed his wife. Makes no bones about it whatever. Confesses that he strangled her. But, he says that he was fast asleep at the time that he was doing it. That all he did, he did in a dream."
Chief Inspector MacMorran is up against the most extraordinary case of his career, a self-confessed killer, who may well be, found innocent given the circumstances. MacMorran is, sure that Merivale is the murderer, but, worried about exoneration in court, he recruits investigator Anthony Bathurst to find evidence to convict.
Bathurst isn't convinced. If Merivale killed his wife deliberately, why pick such a risky story, which is just as likely to convict as clear him? But, if Merivale is innocent, was a third party involved? And, if so, how?
Tread Softly was first, published in 1937. This new edition features an introduction by Steve Barge.
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Cold Evil
by Brian Flynn
Part 21 of the Anthony Bathurst Mysteries series
I believe those men were murdered just as clearly as if they had been stabbed to the heart with a knife. The only sign that they bore was a dull red mark... behind the ears.
Six men meet at the vicarage of St Crayle one evening to tell each other ghost stories. In particular, it is Martin Burke's tale, one of a homicidal chimera in India, that chills his audience to the bone. Burke believes that the events in the story might be a demonstration of pure evil.
This is soon revealed to be a prophecy of sorts, when one of the men disappears that very night, walking home across Constanton Moor. His body is found a week later, without a mark on him, save a look of sheer terror on his face-and a dull red mark behind his ear.
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The Ebony Stag
by Brian Flynn
Part 22 of the Anthony Bathurst Mysteries series
Tell me, Doctor, could the wound have been made by the antlers of an angry stag?
With Scotland Yard overstretched, Anthony Bathurst is recruited to investigate the death of seventy-three-year-old Robert Forsyth in the village of Upchalke. Forsyth had been brutally attacked in his home and stabbed through the chest with an unknown weapon.
As suspicions form that Forsyth was not who he claimed to be, Bathurst is troubled by a particular detail of the case. Why was a model of a stag, carved from ebony, carefully placed next to the corpse, and then smashed to pieces?
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Black Edged
by Brian Flynn
Part 23 of the Anthony Bathurst Mysteries series
The moment they entered, Anthony pointed to the floor and to a hand that protruded from beneath the bed.
Dr. Traquair is determined that either he or his wife should die. He decides to allow her to cut a deck of cards to see who will shoot whom-highest card wins.
As the winner of this deadly duel, Traquair takes flight, desperate to elude capture for his crime. Super-sleuth Anthony Bathurst takes up the chase, but it seems that, this time, he may be matching wits with someone just as crafty as he is. And when more corpses turn up, it looks as though the adversary might be far more ruthless than even Bathurst could have anticipated.
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The Case of the Faithful Heart
by Brian Flynn
Part 24 of the Anthony Bathurst Mysteries series
Before she could finish what she wanted to say, she just gasped once or twice and died there in my arms.
Nothing seems amiss at the Hillier family dinner party but the very next morning Jacqueline Hillier is found dying in her car. Her clothes are dirty and torn, her face bruised, but it was an overdose of chloral hydrate which took her life. Nobody knows where she might have gone... and nobody knows why, after her funeral, her grave is covered in violets.
Anthony Bathurst, a guest at the local hostelry, is intrigued by the case, officially ruled as a suicide. Acting unofficially, outside of the police investigation, his resources are limited, yet he will need to move swiftly-Death is far from done with the Hillier family.
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The Case of the Painted Ladies
by Brian Flynn
Part 25 of the Anthony Bathurst Mysteries series
I cannot tell you of your future, because there is no future for you.
Three remarkable things happen to Aubrey Coventry in one day. First, he is contacted by Wall Street financier Silas Montgomery with a lucrative business proposition-although Montgomery insists on meeting him at two a.m. the following day. Second, at a village garden party, a fortune teller cannot read his future, as he does not have one. And thirdly, a shabbily-dressed man reacts with a vicious snarl when simply asked for a light.
The fortune teller is proven correct when Coventry is found dead in his office the next morning. Private Detective Anthony Bathurst finds himself on the trail of the snarling man, reported to have been following Coventry in the night. To unmask the culprit, however, Bathurst is going to need help from some very special friends...
“The Case of the Painted Ladies” was first published in 1940. This new edition features an introduction by Steve Barge.
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They Never Came Back
by Brian Flynn
Part 26 of the Anthony Bathurst Mysteries series
I don't like any of it. He's either being prevented from going home by force... or else he'll never go home again.
'Lefty' Donovan, a boxer, leaves home after receiving a mysterious offer that seems too good to be true-and is never seen again. His wife, Flora, approaches Anthony Bathurst to look for her husband, but he fears the worst, especially when he discovers another fighter who had vanished in identical circumstances weeks earlier.
As time ticks down to a crucial bout, a body is found, suffering from terrible clawed lacerations, with a mysterious footprint nearby. The work of a mythical beast? The truth is that Bathurst finds himself up against an enemy even more monstrous...
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Such Bright Disguises
by Brian Flynn
Part 27 of the Anthony Bathurst Mysteries series
Murder? Is that how you see it? Well-I don't! Justifiable homicide more like it!
Hubert Grant is a fairly unpleasant man. He also thinks he is happily married.
Dorothy Grant despises her husband but finds consolation in the handsome Laurence Weston. In order for the lovers to be happy, however, the intolerable Hubert needs to be cut out of the picture. Permanently.
Dorothy and Laurence start plotting. But the best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft a-gley and by the end of the scheming, there will be more than one body. Enter detective extraordinaire Anthony Bathurst...
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Glittering Prizes
by Brian Flynn
Part 28 of the Anthony Bathurst Mysteries series
It has been evident to me for some time that this country, the Empire and all that you and I hold dear are in deadly peril.
Mrs. Warren Clinton, the American millionaire, summons nine talented individuals to the Royal Sceptre Hotel. Her stated purpose, to save the British Empire. Through a series of fiendish intellectual tests, she whittles the numbers down to two, only for the chosen pair to be found murdered, and for Mrs. Clinton to have vanished without trace.
Faced with the possibility of an international conspiracy, rooted in Nazi Germany, Anthony Bathurst finds himself challenged as never before. Are all of the guests invited to the hotel exactly whom they appear to be? Who can be trusted, and who is a ruthless murderer?
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Reverse the Charges
by Brian Flynn
Part 29 of the Anthony Bathurst Mysteries series
What I smelt and what you smelt, Constable Wragg, was burning flesh!
William Norman dies of shock after being burnt by hot coals. The Mallett constabulary first look for a motive amongst his fellow farmers. But when a second murder occurs by poisoning, and a third by drowning, it appears this is no farming dispute but the work of a serial killer stalking the streets.
With no indication of where the killer is going to strike next, Anthony Bathurst and Scotland Yard are initially at a complete loss. Are the killings random or are they following an unseen pattern? And how many more bodies will be needed to complete that pattern?
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The Grim Maiden
by Brian Flynn
Part 30 of the Anthony Bathurst Mysteries series
She came to me for help, Andrew, and I failed her. I failed her living, but I promise to God I won't fail her dead!
Richard Arbuthnot is convinced that a crime will be committed. The odd behaviour of a man who shares his train to work in Kingsley raises suspicions, suspicions which soon drive Artbuthnot to contact detective Anthony Bathurst.
The next day, Bathurst is approached by Kathleen Regan to investigate the disappearance of her artist brother. When Bathurst discovers that Regan also lives in Kingsley, it seems that trouble is afoot in that parish.
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The Case of Elymas the Sorceror
An Anthony Bathurst Mystery
by Brian Flynn
Part 31 of the Anthony Bathurst Mysteries series
Less than an hour later, the nude body of the dead man lay in the outhouse which did duty at St. Mead as the official mortuary.
Anthony Bathurst is taking the sea-air at the village of St Mead, when the local constabulary drag him into the investigation of a local murder.
The mystery is grotesque: someone has stripped the body, left it in a field and shaved the victim's moustache off. Soon a second body is found, along with a mentally-challenged young man whispering about "gold" . . .
With these obstacles in his path, can Bathurst possibly unmask the killer?
The Case of Elymas the Sorceror was first published in 1945. This new edition features an introduction by crime fiction historian Steve Barge.
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Conspiracy at Angel
An Anthony Bathurst Mystery
by Brian Flynn
Part 32 of the Anthony Bathurst Mysteries series
"A dead man in my car? But how can that be? Do you mean somebody-er-that was taken ill or something?"
"No, sir. The dead man in your car was murdered."
When Richard Langley entered the town of Angel, he encountered the unexpected. He never expected to meet Priscilla Schofield. He never expected to be asked to deliver her kitten Ahaseurus to Priscilla's father. And he never expected to stumble into the wrong house and come face to face with a gang of criminals.
Soon, Langley finds himself looking over his shoulder for enemies in the shadows and then a body turns up in his car . . . But it is only when Langley himself disappears that Priscilla decides she needs to summon some help-help in the form of Anthony Lotherington Bathurst.
Conspiracy at Angel was first published in 1947. This new edition features an introduction by crime fiction historian Steve Barge.
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The Sharp Quillet
An Anthony Bathurst Mystery
by Brian Flynn
Part 33 of the Anthony Bathurst Mysteries series
"There's little doubt, as I see it, that Flagon was killed by a dart thrown with amazing skill and dexterity."
The Bar Point-to-Point meeting at Quiddington St Philip is always an auspicious occasion. This year, Justice Nicholas Flagon is the favourite to win-there's big money on him, and a fair bit against him as well. But who will scoop the jackpot when the leading jockey fails to finish-on account of getting hit in the neck with a poisoned dart?
Anthony Lotherington Bathurst and Chief Inspector McMorran are more interested in who killed Flagon. Who poisoned a set of darts from the local pub with curare and was capable of hitting a jockey on a speeding horse with a single throw? And who killed a lawyer at Flagon's funeral with the same murder weapon?
The Sharp Quillet was first published in 1947. This new edition features an introduction by crime fiction historian Steve Barge.
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Exit Sir John
An Anthony Bathurst Mystery
by Brian Flynn
Part 34 of the Anthony Bathurst Mysteries series
Elisabeth slept! It is perhaps a matter for wonderment that her sleep was untroubled. For-had she but known it-she was so close to Terror and Tragedy! So close to Death and deaths-so close to the menace of `Mr Levi'!
Mr Medlicott, a solicitor, heads to the country home of his old friend and client Sir John Wynward, to spend Christmas with Sir John's family and friends. But after a peaceful and enjoyable Christmas for all apart from Medlicott himself, Sir John dies on Boxing Night, sitting at his desk in his study-to all appearances, a heart attack.
But natural death is out of the question when both Medlicott and Gooch, the chauffeur, are found murdered. What was Medlicott so afraid of? What did Gooch know that got him killed? Who is the mysterious "Mr Levi", who sent notes to the victims demanding "the diamond"?
Exit Sir John was first published in 1947. This new edition features an introduction by crime fiction historian Steve Barge.
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The Swinging Death
An Anthony Bathurst Mystery
by Brian Flynn
Part 35 of the Anthony Bathurst Mysteries series
The nude body swung-right-left-as its weight played on the rope which the hook held.
Dr. Julian Field had a straightforward day ahead of him-a short train journey to visit his patient, the wife of Philip Stanhope of Stoke Pelly, and then a journey home. So what caused him to leave the station at an earlier station, Fullaford? Whatever it was apparently led him to St. Mark's Church. And whatever it was led to him being found hanging from the light fixture in the church porch . . .
Why were half of his clothes found in the font of the church, and the other half in the font of a different church? Why was his wife summoned in the dead of night to nearby Friar's Woodburn on a fool's errand? And why has a sample of Mrs Stanhope's sputum disappeared? As Anthony Bathurst and Andrew MacMorran investigate, they discover many secrets hiding behind the façade of village life-but which of them was strong enough to lead to murder?
The Swinging Death was first published in 1948. This new edition features an introduction by crime fiction historian Steve Barge.
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Men for Pieces
by Brian Flynn
Part 36 of the Anthony Bathurst Mysteries series
'Tis all a chequerboard of nights and days, where Destiny with men for pieces plays; Hither and thither moves, and mates, and slays, and one by one back in the closet lays.Omar Khayyam
Anthony Bathurst was enjoying a quiet lunch when he is approached for help by his waitress, Stella Forrest. Her boyfriend, Peter Oliver, had disappeared after some trouble at the bank where he worked. When Bathurst breaks into Peter's house, he finds the young man dead, having apparently cut his own throat with a razor.
Even Bathurst is convinced that Peter's guilt over some missing money has led to his death, but when Peter's sister convinces him of the importance of a misplaced bathplug, he is soon in hot pursuit of one of the cleverest killers that he has encountered.
Men For Pieces was first published in 1949. This new edition features an introduction by Steve Barge.
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Black Agent
by Brian Flynn
Part 37 of the Anthony Bathurst Mysteries series
"Good things of the day begin to droop and drowse,
while night's black agents to their preys do rouse"Macbeth, William ShakespeareBarbara Marsden cut a memorable figure in her bright yellow dress at the New Year Social and Dance in Wavering, but nobody saw what happened to her and she vanished without trace. One month later, Vera Ferris appeared at the same venue wearing the same dress. But before anyone can find out where she got it from, she too disappears...After Anthony Bathurst discovers the bodies of the two women, he is faced with a slew of questions. Why would a yellow dress drive someone to murder? Why did the killer steal a bowl of fat from the butcher's shop on the night of each murder? And what on earth does it have to do with a dancing bear?
Black Agent was first published in 1950. This new edition features an introduction by Steve Barge.
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Where There Was Smoke
by Brian Flynn
Part 38 of the Anthony Bathurst Mysteries series
"I never knew, till then, the possibilities inherent in spaghetti when controlled by an ingenious spirit."Anthony Bathurst
With austerity holding the country in a vice-like grip, chemist Donald Finney is happy with any offer of work. Even though the proposal from the mysterious Mr Reheboam of £100 for a single night's work seems too good to be true, he never expected that it would be the last night of his life.
The cause of death is far from clear - there are no wounds on his body, but his skin is strangely discoloured - but the strangest things are what was found on his body. A strange note with the name of a local police inspector and a piece of cooked bacon rind - both curled up and hidden in his belly-button. As Anthony Bathurst races to decipher this strangest of dying messages, it becomes clear that Mr Reheboam's work is far from complete...
Where There Was Smoke was first published in 1950. This new edition features an introduction by Steve Barge.
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And Cauldron Bubble
by Brian Flynn
Part 39 of the Anthony Bathurst Mysteries series
"Double, double toil and trouble. Fire burn and cauldron bubble."Macbeth, William Shakespeare
Sir Hugo Blanchflower's died peacefully in his bed in his castle in Quinster, but his last words to his wife filled her with terror. The next nine years, however, passed without incident until one night in the nearby Red Deer.
Lady Blanchflower and her companion, Mrs Whitburn, seemed to be in an unusual mood when dining in the public house, but there was nothing that would lead an observer to expect what was discovered the following morning. Lady Blanchflower is found in the castle strangled by a silk stocking, and Mrs Whitburn has vanished without trace.
Once Anthony Bathurst discovers Mrs Whitburn's body, the question becomes who was the intended victim? And why was a gentleman's wig found underneath Lady Blanchflower's body?
And Cauldron Bubble was first published in 1951. This new edition features an introduction by Steve Barge.
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The Ring of Innocent
by Brian Flynn
Part 40 of the Anthony Bathurst Mysteries series
"I'll slit his throat - without the slightest compunction or hesitation."
Martin Scudamore was in the cinema when he overheard this threat, as part of a conversation about four rings, and what would happen if "Mr Lovelace" got in their way. Determined to do the right thing, he tells Helen Repton who works at Scotland Yard. And she promptly enlists the help of one Anthony Lotherington Bathurst.
They promptly race to Lovelace's residence but are too late. Lovelace lies dying, only able to gasp two words - "innocent" and, for some reason "teaspoon". Bathurst finds himself in a treasure hunt, up against someone who is willing to kill again to get what they want.
The Ring Of Innocent was first published in 1952. This new edition features an introduction by Steve Barge.
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