When
Scotland
Yard learns
that there
is a select
London
gambling
club into
which
certain
celebrities
are seen to
enter but
are never
seen again,
it is
confronted
with a
problem that
leaves
nothing to
be desired
in the way
of mystery.
An
impoverished
British
noblewoman,
a secret
German agent
and a stolen
naval
document
combine to
add new
complications
to the
situation,
and the
reader is
launched on
a tale that
clearly
justifies
the
reputation
which Mr.
Fletcher
holds as a
writer of
detective
fiction.
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Annexation
Society, The
"Plot to
Steal
England's
Art
Treasures"
was the
headline
which
appeared
recently in
the English
newspaper.
Around this
theme J. S.
Fletcher has
woven a
characteristically
fascinating
tale of
adventure,
of a band of
crooks who
murder
rather than
sacrifice
the
invaluable
treasures,
and of
Jimmie
Trickett,
who in his
search for
the robber
of the
Tsar's
Cross, falls
in love with
an innocent
accomplice
of "The
Annexation
Society."
The action
moves
swiftly from
London to
Paris in the
thrilling
hunt for
clues
ranging all
the way from
a stuffed
goose to the
mysterious
house of the
murderers.
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Barenstein
Mystery, The
What was
behind the
story of the
sword-cane
that was
used to kill
Marcus
Barenstein,
and who was
the
murderer?
Lieutenant
Lauderdale
had called
on him to
take him to
task for an
infamous
proposal
made to his
fiancée,
Millicent
Oxenham,
whose father
was
threatened
with ruin by
Barenstein.
When the
valet
entered the
room, later,
he found the
famous
financier
lying dead
before the
great
fireplace,
evidently
murdered by
the
sword-cane
belonging to
Lauderdale.
This is the
beginning.
There
follows in
rapid
succession a
series of
unforeseen
events,
deepening
the mystery,
which is
finally
unravelled
in a most
unexpected
manner. All
who love
mystery
tales will
want to read
this
exciting
story of
suspense and
a stolen
fortune --
it is
Fletcher at
his best.
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Cartwright
Gardens
Murder Case
In this
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Chestermarke
Instinct,
The
In this
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Ebony Box,
The
In this
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False Scent,
The
In this
quite
original
detective
story, J. S.
Fletcher has
utilized the
fact that a
great
traffic in
stolen
antiques
goes on
between
England and
America.
This
thievery is
so
thoroughly
organized
that even
our
best-known
and
experienced
collectors
have become
indirectly
the
receivers of
stolen
goods.
Mr. Fletcher
traces a
particularly
thrilling
robbery to
its source
through his
Scotland
Yard men who
may seem, he
writes, "the
worst
muddlers one
has ever
encountered,
but they get
there!"
A character
study of the
thief,
running all
through the
book, is
quite
sufficient
to make it
notable
among the
novels of
Mr.
Fletcher.
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Golden Spur,
The
Mr. Fletcher
has long
been a
writer of
romances as
well as
detective
stories.
Usually he
keeps the
two types of
fiction
distinct,
but in some
of his best
detective
yarns he has
brought in
the element
of romance
with
striking
effect. In
"The Golden
Spur," a
castle in
North
Ireland, a
secret room
and a
Princess in
distress,
contrast
vividly with
the dry
efficiency
of Scotland
Yard and
provides in
Mr.
Fletcher's
skillful
hands, a
glittering
foil to the
very modern
methods of
the alert
chief of the
C.I.D.
Everything
that the
most
hardened
lover of
mystery
requires is
here in this
book in
generous
measure --
the exciting
opening, the
problem, the
clue, the
murder, the
solution,
all in J. S.
Fletcher's
most
alluring
style.
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Markenmore
Mystery, The
Who killed
Guy
Markenmore
-- and why?
That is what
Blck, the
famous
London
detective,
wondered as
he viewed
the body of
the
inheritor of
the
Markenmore
estate. What
had Mrs.
Braxfield to
do with it,
Mrs.
Braxfield so
peculiarly
skilled in
the handling
of
death-dealing
weapons?
That was
what the
inhabitants
of the
little
village
wondered as
they sat
over their
ale pots and
made dark
surmises
about the
tragedy. It
is what you,
too, will
wonder as
you read
this latest
thrilling
Fletcher
story.
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Matheson
Formula, The
Robert
Matheson is
the inventor
of the most
deadly
explosive
that has
ever been
perfected.
This is the
record of
what
happened to
him from the
time that he
deposited a
copy of the
formula in
the War
Office
until, after
a series of
furiously
exciting
events, he
finally
witnessed a
scene which
demonstrated
the efficacy
of his own
diabolical
invention.
It is a
story of
murder,
abduction
and theft
conducted by
an
international
ring whose
purpose is
to gain the
formula and
destroy
those who
have
knowledge of
it.
And like all
tales from
the pen of
J. S.
Fletcher,
the dean of
detective
story
writers, it
holds you to
the end with
breathless
interest.
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Middle of
Things, The
Viner, a
young
gentleman of
means and
leisure, who
has an aunt
devoted to
crime
stories at
which he
rather
scoffs
himself, is
suddenly
flung into
the "middle
of things"
by finding
the body of
a murdered
man close to
his own
house.
The quest of
the murder
proceeds
ingeniously
from one
find to
another and
introduces
us to
several very
pleasant
people.
It contains
many
surprises
and
eventually
leads back
to the very
spot, which
astute
readers may
or may not
anticipate
by an early
flash of
intuition.
But the best
head among
them all and
the real
heroine is
Viner's cime-saturated
aunt.
And this is
quite right.
The real
lover of
detective
fiction is
up to every
move in the
game.
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Middle
Temple
Murder, The
A rattling
good
detective
story --
Frank Spargo
is a young
newspaper
man,
sub-editor
of the
London
Watchman,
who
undertakes
the
investigation
of an
unknown
man's murder
as good
"copy" for
his paper.
Once into it
he finds it
concerns a
number of
people with
whom he is
acquainted
and in whom
he is
interested,
among them
the father
of the girl
he loves.
One clue
leads to
another,
until he is
taken far
into the
past of the
dead man,
whose
enemies
prove to
have never
forgotten
their
grudge. But
it is not
until the
last page
that the
actual
villain is
disclosed.
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Mill of Many
Windows, The
In this
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Murder at
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The
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Murder in
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Murder of
the Secret
Agent
Here is the
most
thrilling
case ever
handled by
Chaney and
Camberwell,
private
inquiry
agents of
London.
It opens
with the
inexplicable
disappearance
of a retired
London
jeweler.
A few days
later he is
found dead
-- murdered
-- and
robbed of
jewels
insured for
100,000.
There is no
clue.
Then a
distinguished
and lovely
woman enters
the case and
disappears.
Immediately
afterwards
another
London
jeweler
vanishes --
and is found
murdered.
The name of
a well-known
American
millionaire
suddenly
becomes
involved.
Now for the
first time
there are
certain
clues --
nothing
definite,
yet ideas
that are
worth
investigating
-- and
Chaney and
Camberwell
are at once
on the track
of one of
the
grimmest,
boldest and
shrewdest
schemes in
criminal
history.
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Orange
Yellow
Diamond, The
Lauriston
came to pawn
a ring; he
stayed to
talk to
Zillah, the
pawnbroker's
pretty
granddaughter.
That's how
Lauriston
came to be
implicated
in the
murder of
the old
pawnbroker
and the
daring theft
that
accompanied
it.
Only after a
chase that
led all
through
London,
following
clues that
doubled back
from the
mines of
Kimberley,
was
Lauriston
cleared.
And did they
get the real
criminal
after all?
The astute
reader will
puzzle his
brains a bit
before he
can answer
that.
Anyway, here
is a tale
which all of
Mr.
Fletcher's
enthusiastic
followers --
and all
others --
will enjoy
to the end.
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Rayner Slade
Amalgamation,
The
The
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Scarhaven
Keep
Given an
ancient,
quiet
sea-coast
village for
a setting,
Mr. Fletcher
can weave a
fascinating
yarn of
crime which
quite
transforms
the
locality.
The castle
of Scarhaven
Keep
commanded a
magnificent
view of the
North Sea
and the
Scottish
border, and
it was on
the Keep
tower,
enjoying the
unusual
prospect,
that Bassett
Oliver,
famous
actor, was
last seen.
The mystery
of his
disappearance
is as deep
as the
events
leading to
its solution
are
exciting.
There is no
lack of
action in
this story;
a chase
through the
wild dark
ravines of
the coast,
the fight
and the fire
on the
yacht, and
the rescue
by the
government
cutter,
indicate the
movement.
And there's
an unusually
pretty love
story too,
with an
unusually
pretty and
independent
girl at one
end of it.
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Seven Days'
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South
Foreland
Murder, The
The scene of
this latest
Fletcher
mystery
moves from a
quiet
village on
the southern
coast of
England to
the
sophisticated
casinos of
Monte Carlo.
Shortly
after a
certain Mr.
Rennard
received
into his
keeping the
family
jewels of
the Princess
Kavatzk, he
was
murdered.
Gone too,
was his
middle-aged
neighbor's
pretty wife
and her
lover.
Thereafter
the efforts
of the
police to
track down
the murderer
are
paralleled
by the
abandoned
husband's
investigations,
and when the
end comes,
the forces
of the law
arrive too
late to
thwart a
private
reckoning.
With each
new book J.
S.
Fletcher's
remarkable
power of
sustained
suspense
becomes more
acute, more
breath-taking.
That is why,
perhaps, in
this new
addition to
his long
list of
books, he
has reached
a pinnacle
in the art
of mystery
telling.
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Wolves & the
Lamb, The
"Three
hundred
thousand
pounds!"
Young
Richard
Shrewsbury
inherited
his father's
fortune, but
on reaching
London he
found that
the family
solicitor
had just
died. In his
place the
genial,
smiling
partner and
his
fascinating
secretary
were eager
to help
Richard, and
in a short
time affairs
were gliding
along
smoothly for
the young
man. But
when the
charming
secretary
has to
decide
wheter she
will wear to
the theatre
a valuable
diamond
necklace or
its exact
imitation,
her woman's
vanity
prevails.
From this
moment the
threads of
Mr.
Fletcher's
mystery
story all
begin to
come
together and
solve the
most
puzzling
transactions
of finance
and law
prompted by
the greedy
cleverness
of
Fletcher's
most
interesting
characters.
