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While Miss Marple and Mr Stringer are soliciting donations for a charity - The Reformed Criminals Assistance League - they call on the rich and reclusive Mr Enderby. He tumbles down the long entrance staircase, apparently the victim of a fatal heart attack. The late Mr Enderby had a pathological fear of cats - but why is there one in the house? That and a muddy riding boot print is enough to get Miss Marple investigating - especially when the relatives gather for the reading of the will. Also stars Flora Robson and Bud Tingwell. Based on the Agatha Christie novel After The Funeral. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/after-the-funeral-agatha-christie/ -
The Battledore is a training ship for teenage boys with criminal tendencies, who are supposedly being set on the straight and narrow path – when, in fact, one of the members of the crew is training them for careers in housebreaking. Shortly after joining the board of management of the Trust, Miss Marple witnesses the sudden death of a fellow trustee, who has just returned from a surprise visit to the ship, much disturbed by something he has discovered there. He dies without being able to reveal his discovery and Miss Marple resolves to learn what he discovered - even if it means going aboard the Battledore herself. Also stars Nicholas Parsons, Derek Nimmo and Charles Tingwell. This film is not based on an Agatha Christie novel, although it does contain elements of They Do It With Mirrors. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/mirrors-agatha-christie/ https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/margaret-rutherford-dreadnought-good-manners-andrew-merriman/ -
While travelling by train, Miss Marple witnesses the strangling of a young woman in another train on a parallel track. The police find nothing to support her story, so she conducts her own investigation, with the aid of her close friend Jim Stringer. They conclude the body must have been thrown from the train near Ackenthorpe Hall. There's only one thing for it - Miss Marple goes undercover as a housekeeper at the Hall. Based on Agatha Christie's 4.50 From Paddington. Also stars James Robertson Justice, Joan Hickson and Rutherford's husband Stringer Davis. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/4-50-from-paddington-agatha-christie/ https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/margaret-rutherford-dreadnought-good-manners-andrew-merriman/ -
New Hercule Poirot Mysteries 1. I’m a dead woman, or I shall be soon…Hercule Poirot's quiet supper in a London coffeehouse is interrupted when a young woman confides to him that she is about to be murdered. She is terrified – but begs Poirot not to find and punish her killer. Once she is dead, she insists, justice will have been done. Later that night, Poirot learns that three guests at a fashionable London Hotel have been murdered, and a cufflink has been placed in each one’s mouth. Could there be a connection with the frightened woman? While Poirot struggles to put together the bizarre pieces of the puzzle, the murderer prepares another hotel bedroom for a fourth victim...
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Alexandra “Zan” Moreland, a gifted, beautiful interior designer on the threshold of a successful Manhattan career, is terrified to discover that somebody is not only using her credit cards and manipulating her financial accounts to bankrupt her and destroy her reputation, but may also be impersonating her in a scheme that may involve the much more brutal crimes of kidnapping and murder. Zan is already haunted by the disappearance of her own son, Matthew, kidnapped in broad daylight two years ago in Central Park - a tragedy that has left her torn between hope and despair. Now, on what would be Matthew’s fifth birthday, photos surface that seem to show Zan kidnapping her own child, followed by a chain of events that suggests somebody - but who has stolen her identity? And why? Hounded by the press, under investigation by the police, attacked by both her angry ex-husband and a vindictive business rival, Zan, wracked by fear and pain and sustained only by her belief, which nobody else shares, that Matthew is still alive, sets out to discover who is behind this cruel hoax. What she does not realize is that with every step she takes toward the truth, she is putting herself - and those she loves most -in mortal danger from the person who has ingeniously plotted out her destruction. Even Zan’s supporters, including Alvirah Meehan, the lottery winner and amateur detective and Father Aiden O’Brien, who thinks that Zan may have confessed to him a secret he cannot reveal, believe she may have kidnapped little Matthew. Zan herself begins to doubt her own sanity... -
Alexandra Cooper 7. Workers demolishing a nineteenth-century brownstone where Edgar Allan Poe once lived discover a human skeleton entombed -- standing -- behind a brick wall. When sex crimes prosecutor Alexandra Cooper hears about the case, it strikes her as a classic Poe scene...except that forensic evidence shows that this young woman died within the last twenty-five years. Meanwhile, Alex's old nemesis the Silk Stocking Rapist is once again terrorising Manhattan's Upper East Side. The attacks soon escalate to murder, and the search leads Alex and detectives Mercer Wallace and Mike Chapman to the city's stunning Bronx Botanical Gardens. There, an enigmatic librarian presides over the Raven Society, a group devoted to the work of Poe. In exploring the fabled writer's tormented life for clues, Alex will cross paths with a cunning killer and face some of the greatest challenges of her career. -
Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte 13. Broome - a town on the north-west coats of Australia. When Napoleon Bonaparte, half-caste detective, is called in to investigate the strangling of two attractive widows, a strange and terrible motive for murder is gradually revealed. The victims' nightgowns, stolen from their washing lines, are found ripped to shreds. On discovering that the killer suffers from a rare skin disease, Bony's search narrows. Then a third widow meets the same grisly fate...Aided by Mr Dickenson, the town drunk; Abie, an aboriginal tracker who delights in inhaling petrol fumes and one of the Broome widows, Bony must succeed in catching his fish - which is shaping up to be the biggest and most ferocious human shark ever to rise to his bait. -
For six years the Free Aristotle Macho Edwards (F.A.M.E) campaign has pulled a variety of exotic publicity stunts. To ITN crime reporter Kate Lewis F.A.M.E. is hot news, but to her fiance Chief Inspector Taff Roberts, it's a racket. To him, Ari Edwards is a black pimp who deserves his life sentence for the brutal murder of one of his high class prostitutes. But then a crucial new witness disappears and the detectives on the case begin pressing Taff to get at Kate - who is then grossly assaulted. Retaliating, Taff eventually gets t he murder conviction quashed and Ari Edwards released - but to fatal consequences as those behind the pimp's conviction - senior police and a top City company - close ranks to conceal their involvement. -
Pig’s Head: David Owen
$20.00Pufferfish I. Pufferfish (Contusus brevicandus): Body moderately short, pectorals rounded. Slow swimmer. Scavenger in the mud, at home in the murky shallows, where it roots out and feeds on detritus. Inflatable body able to bloat and even explode under extreme provocation...There are good cops, there are bad cops...and then there is Pufferfish, a.k.a Detective Inspector Franz Heineken. A severed head rolls out of the rubbish in a crowded Tasmanian caravan park, and the hunt is on for the killers ... and for their victim, a man no-one seems to miss, a man no-one wants to know. As Pufferfish digs deeper, he runs straight up against mainland law and order ... and the smell of corruption grows.
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