The best selling mystery of the nineteenth century. When a man is found dead in a hansom cab, one of Melbourne’s leading citizens is accused of the murder. He pleads his innocence, yet refuses to give an alibi. It falls to a determined lawyer and an intrepid detective to find the truth, revealing long-kept secrets along the way. Fergus Hume’s first and perhaps most famous mystery. It was made into a film in 2012.
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He comes from nowhere - and disappears when his work is done. Mr Satterthwaite soon learns that a visit from Mr Harley Quin means that there's danger in store - and tragedy in the background. Here are twelve baffling cases of murder, scandal and suicide in which Mr Satterthwaite uncovers the truth and brings justice to those falsely accused - with the help of Mr. Quin. -
On exhibit at the marble-pillared Wade Museum of Oriental Art is an enormous black-hooded carriage; and when an inspector opens one of its doors to investigate some strange goings-on, out falls a corpse. But it is not just an ordinary corpse - this one has an elaborately decorated Persian dagger protruding from its chest, fake whiskers on its chin, and a cookbook clutched in its hand. These bizarre components have Dr. Gideon Fell temporarily baffled, but not overwhelmed, as he unravels the clues to reveal the solution to a chillingly horrendous crime. -
Harley Quin is an enigma. Even his friend Mr. Satterthwaite is unable to understand how the man seems to appear and disappear almost like a trick of the light - and when he does appear it's usually in the sparkle of sunshine, or surrounded by a spectrum of coloured light pouring through a stained glass window. Indeed, he is Harlequin. The only consistent thing about the mysterious Mr. Quin is that his presence is always a harbinger of love... or death. Quin and satterthwaite appear in this series of short stories: The Coming Of Mr. Quin; The Shadow On The Glass; At The "Bells And Motley"; The Sign In The Sky; The Soul Of The Croupier; The Man From The Sea; The Voice In The Dark; The Face Of Helen; The Dead Harlequin; The Bird With The Broken Wing; The World's End; Harlequin's Lane. -
Jasper Shrig adventure No. V. 'Tis doubtful whether the terrible method adopted by Jael, wife of Heber the Caanite to rid the world of Sisera has ever been copied by any novelist, but the author has utilised this macabre Biblical incident in his plot. Three-quarters of century elapse between the criminal and the discovery - a rusty nail and a skull found in a Holborn churchyard connect with a very ancient and autocratic dame in the wilds of Cornwall and justice will be done - or at least, murder will out. This is a story packed full of adventures by land and sea, hairbreadth escapes, brawls with smugglers and ship-wreckers,m mystic caverns, weird isolated houses, Bow Street runners - and plenty of comedy and tragedy. -
An activist attorney is murdered at the foot of Angel's Flight,m an elevated railway in the heart of downtown Los Angeles - far from Harry Bosch's Hollywood turf. But the case is so explosive - Howard Elias's lawsuits charging the LAPD with racism and brutality made him a celebrity and a success that earned him the hatred of practically every cop in the city. The suspects are so numerous that it falls to Harry to solve it. Now the streets are super-heating with racial tension and it will only take one mis-step for that tension to boil over. Harry's marriage seems to have unraveled - but has his wife left him for good, or has she fallen deeper into a dangerous addiction? And the hunt for a killer is leading Harry into S and M parlours, dark corners of the internet, into confrontations with violent cops and to another high-profile L.A. murder case - one where every cop had a motive. Harry battles to save his job, his marriage and his city. -
Harry Wethermill has fallen in love at first sight with the beautiful Celia,, a young woman of dubious background who has turned up in Aux-les-Bains as companion to the ostentatious, jewel-flaunting Madame Dauvray - who is found strangled in her sitting room - with no trace of the jewels. Wethermill and his friend Mr. Ricardo enlist the help of French detective Hanaud, in the hope of clearing Celia - but as the investigation progresses, it looks likely to seal her doom.
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Blackwater Bay IV. Laura Brandon didn't want to work for her uncle, so she recommended her friend Julie for the job of physiotherapist at the exclusive Mountview Clinic. A few months later Julie is brutally murdered in the woods that surround the clinic. Laura, tinged with guilt, wants to find out why - so she offers herself as Julie's replacement. As Laura and Sheriff Matt Gabriel struggle to find leads, ex-cop Tom Gilliam, a patient embittered, skilled, and rude enough to put his nose where it shouldn't be, agrees to help. Then there's another murder, eerily similar to the first... -
Craig Stevens wakes up in hospital, his memory wiped and a police guard on his room. A woman has been found decapitated in a car park, his unconscious body beside her, the murder weapon in his hand...Struggling to clear himself from suspicion, Craig Stevens finds that he's battling his own blank memory and the growing scepticism of the police....
