Bobby was for a moment too surprised to answer. He had thought of every one else but not of the man whose dead face now was staring up at him.
"Yes. I know him," he said.
Bobby Owen's fiancEe and milliner to the wealthy, Olive Farrar, has a problem. It concerns two competitive society matrons and a missing hat. But it becomes a case of murder when the butler of one of the ladies is shot dead, his body stabbed after the fact. While investigating, Bobby encounters many suspicious characters who might have done it - eight...
"Know him?" he asked.
Bobby was for a moment too surprised to answer. He had thought of every one else but not of the man whose de...
Perhaps the victim had not been unconscious but had known her fate, had sent upwards from the black pit a cry that none but murderers had heard.
Bobby takes the rare opportunity for a holiday - albeit a working one. Prompted by his fiancEe Olive, he sets off to France to find out what happened to Miss Polthwaite's diamonds - and why her dead body was discovered at the bottom of a well. The local police have a ready-made suspect, it appears, but Bobby soon forms theories of his own regarding what happened to the unfortunate spinster.
Murder Abroad, originally...
Perhaps the victim had not been unconscious but had known her fate, had sent upwards from the black pit a cry that none but murderers had heard...
"There is no proof of that as yet, sir," Bobby answered cautiously.
"No, I know, but it's what you think," Glynne answered. After a pause, he added: "So do I."
Viscount Byatt was found dead in his car without a mark on him. Millionaire Andy White's corpse was discovered in a remote cottage in Wales - no clue to the cause of death. When a grotesque-looking visitor calls on Detective-Sergeant Bobby Owen in the middle of the night, the latter's help is urgently needed - if a third young man isn't to suffer the...
"You think it's murder, don't you?"
"There is no proof of that as yet, sir," Bobby answered cautiously.
"I'll have breakfast ready before you're dressed," Olive said, her mind full of bacon and eggs, tea, toast.
"Can't stop," Bobby told her. "I've to be at Castle Wych at once."
"What's happened there?"
"Murder," Bobby answered as he made for the door.
Bobby Owen has left London and is now a policeman in the bucolic county of Wychshire. The local community is stunned when a missing heir returns to Castle Wych, determined to claim his inheritance. But following the ensuing dispute over his identity, Castle Wych plays host to...
"I'll have breakfast ready before you're dressed," Olive said, her mind full of bacon and eggs, tea, toast.
"You see," Miss Kayne said, "I committed a murder once myself."
Miss Kayne's proud boast to Detective-Sergeant Bobby Owen is that she has committed the Perfect Murder - a crime with no clues. Bobby thinks at first it is a macabre joke, but before long a body is reportedly found, stabbed in the world-famous Kayne Library. When Bobby gets to the scene, the corpse has disappeared. But instead Miss Kayne's cousin, Nat, is found in a nearby country lane - shot through the heart. Were the two murders connected - or were there even two? Bobby finds himself embroiled in one...
"You see," Miss Kayne said, "I committed a murder once myself."
Miss Kayne's proud boast to Detective-Sergeant Bobby Owen is ...
