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"You talk of him as if he were alive."
"He is alive," said Benbow Smith.
"And you think he would do murder?"
"I am quite sure that he would do murder, Captain Loddon."

Rose Anne disappeared on the eve of her wedding to Captain Oliver Loddon. Her fiancE received a letter posted from Paris saying she was sorry but there was someone else.

To the police it is quite simple. But Oliver can't believe Rose Anne capable of such a cruel act, and then discovers that her note carries quite another message. Benbow...

There were times when Rachel Treherne fervently wished that her beloved father had left his fortune to somebody else. And never more so than now for, although she was surrounded by relatives who depended on her, whom she loved and who must surely love her,

A Marriage Under the Terror By Patricia Wentworth

"I think you're tempting fate when you say that you will never go back to Danesborough."

Chloe laughed, suddenly, frankly. Her eyes were black again, and very bright.

"It's a fate I don't mind tempting," she said, and dropped his arm.

Young Chloe, poor but beautiful, is made heiress of her mysterious cousin who has made a tidy fortune in blackmailing. The capital - indiscreet letters which would make the likes of all sorts of distinguished English people - is kept secret in a safe behind a black cabinet. Cousin Dane whispers the combination...

"They are letting me say good-bye. I'm to be shot to-morrow. It will be over by the time you get this..."

Laura stood, pale and trembling, in the veiled dress she was to have worn as Jim Mackenzie's bride, and gave her word to marry Basil Stevens, a man she scarcely knew. In his unexpected visit Basil had made three things clear: Laura was the heiress of the great Hallingdon fortune; Jim faced a Soviet firing squad; and only this marriage would save Jim. Why? What was the plot that threatened to destroy him?

It was not until Laura phoned Jim late one night after he...

"Anybody could have told you what Ross was like."

"They did tell me," said Mavis tearfully. "That's why I did it."

Ross Craddock was just the type to be murdered. The new landlord of Craddock house, he begins by giving eviction notice to his aunt Lucy. He threatens the doorman with dismissal. He makes a violent and unwelcome pass to his cousin Mavis. He is vindictive and spiteful and ends up dead. The suspects include Lee who may have walked in her sleep and killed him out of unconscious fear. Or Peter who may have found Ross' advances to...

A classic golden age mystery, and the twelfth book in the hugely popular Miss Silver series.

"I went down to the pool, and he was lying half in and half out of it with his head bleeding and the tide coming in. The water was up to his shoulders."

The marriage between Nan Forsyth and Jervis Weare is a purely business arrangement - to Jervis. But for Nan there is true romance behind it - a romance which began for her in childhood days - and she is content to be considered for the time a scheming adventuress. But, as she soon discovers, both she and Jervis are now the targets of a golden-haired devil and her villainous partner who'll stop at nothing in this story of...

"I hate him worse than I hate snails, and worms, and slugs, and spiders with hairs down their legs..."

Bride-to-be Mally was an unlikely fugitive from the police. It only happened because she became governess to millionaire Sir George Peterson's little girl, Barbara. Barbara hated Pinko, her father's slug-like secretary; and Mally had to agree. But Pinko liked Mally--he wanted her; and if Pinko wants anything he can't have he is apt to be unpleasant. So when, a few days later, the Mogul's priceless diamond was found in Mally's possession, the Slug was delighted. It was his...

Why can no-one stay at the Dower House?

Amabel Grey, a charming and lovely widow, had not seen scientist Julian Forsham since she chose to marry another man. But it is their fate to meet again now at the eerie Dower House, a house whose previous tenants had tended to quit abruptly. Amabel Grey has accepted a large financial offer - or is it a challenge? - to anyone willing to stay in the Dower House for a full six months. A haunted house doesn't deter Amabel - not until some very nasty things start to go bump in the night...

Some old friends appear - Jane (of The...

She was looking at the place where the mirror had hung. It didn't reflect anything because the glass was gone. Instead there was a blackness, a dark hole full of shadows. There was a shuffling and a sighing, and a deep and dreadful groan. Then something moved.

Flossie Palmer worked in the kitchen at 16 Varley Street. It was her job to see that the trays were carried up to Miss Rowland on time. But the job lasted only a few hours and Flossie found herself running, her heart pounding in her throat, down the foggy street, not daring to stop or to listen for the footsteps that...