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"He had his enemies, I suppose?"

"Disputes, you mean? Over the merits of Puccini and Wagner, Strauss and Verdi But people do not entice an old man from his home many years afterwards to avenge Wagner or Puccini "

It was a shock to the Duchess of Steynes when her son announced his engagement to the grand-daughter of an obscure violinist, Julius Anthony; but still more of a shock was the discovery of Anthony's murdered body in the cinema at which he played.

Dr. Constantine and Detective-Inspector Arkwright join forces in their third (and final) case...

"The blood's coming from a cut at the back of his neck," she said slowly. "He couldn't have done that in falling. Some one must have--"

Sir Adam Braid, the distinguished artist, was a cantankerous old man. Not well-liked by most of his family and associates, he was about to add one more enemy to the list by changing his will ... but not before death paid a visit to his London flat, and Sir Adam was found stabbed through the neck.

Chief-Inspector Fenn takes charge of the case and soon notices the butler seems more frightened than shocked - but what if anything,...

Der junge Bestsellerautor Angus Stuart ist auf dem Weg an die südenglische Küste, wo er seinen wohlverdienten Weihnachtsurlaub verbringen möchte. Doch ein Wintereinbruch macht die Straßen unpassierbar, und Angus quartiert sich notgedrungen in einem Dorfgasthaus ein. Bald hat sich ein illustres Grüppchen gestrandeter Reisender dort versammelt - und es schneit immer weiter. Zunächst ist die Bereitschaft groß, das Beste aus der Situation zu machen, die Reisenden freunden sich ungeachtet aller gesellschaftlichen Unterschiede miteinander an. Aber dann werden kostbare Juwelen gestohlen - und...

Constantine reflected on the various means dentists have at their disposal, should they wish to silence their patients ...

Mr Humphrey Davenport, society dentist, has an embarrassing problem - he has managed to get locked out of his own surgery. And to make matters worse, Mrs Charles Miller is locked inside, minus her false teeth. When the door is finally opened, the patient is found with her throat cut.

Dr. Constantine, a fellow patient at the clinic, is a witness to the gruesome discovery. He lends his chess player's brain to solving a locked room mystery...

There was something about those hands, with their strangely crisped fingers, as though they had been arrested in the very act of closing, that somehow gave the lie to the woman's attitude of sleep.

A howling gale ... A lonely farmhouse ... the tread of a mysterious stranger ... and then the corpse of a beautiful blonde, seemingly stopped in the act of writing.

This is all a bit much for local bobby PC Gunnet, especially when it seems the dead - and aristocratic - woman shouldn't even have been there in the first place. But nonetheless the owner of the farm, John...

"There'll be blue murder here before Christmas "

A number of parties heading for a luxurious holiday spot, are forced by severe winter weather to put up at the 'Noah's Ark', a hostelry they will share with Dr. Constantine, a shrewd chess master and keen observer of all around him. Other guests include bestselling novelist Angus Stuart, the aristocratic Romsey family, a pair of old spinster sisters, and a galloping major whose horseplay gets him into hot water - and then gets him murdered.

Who is the masked intruder who causes such a commotion on the first night? Who...

News travels quickly and mysteriously on board ship. By the time lunch was over, the rumour began to spread that Mr. Smith's death had not been due to natural causes.

The bibulous Mr Smith was no pillar of virtue. Crossing the Atlantic Ocean on the Enriqueta, he met someone he knew on board at midnight - and was strangled. Chief Inspector Shand of the Yard, a fellow traveller on the luxury liner, takes on the case, ably assisted by his friend Jasper Mellish. At first the only clue is what the steward saw: a bandaged face above a set of green pyjamas. But surely the...