Black Dagger Crime S.
11 total works
Six masked and identically dressed clowns meet at a fancy dress ball. One of them is murdered. Was the claivoyante right in claiming that she foresaw the crime? The inspector believed that she recognised the dead man. Did she? Or was she herself to be the next victim?
With a murdered clown, five suspects and several red herrings Josephine Bell sets a pretty problem in detection for David Wintringham the doctor and amateur detective. Her new story of crime and the supernatural is elegantly contrived with a careful attention to intriguing clues and misleading detail. Its exciting course and highly original denouement will in every way justify the expectations of the author's many admirers.
Recently-qualified Dr Roy Cartwright takes a temporary post as a locum in an established London practice.
Soon, he is falsely accused of the attempted rape of a middle-aged female patient—and the practice receptionist, Lilian, warns him that the same thing happened to Dr Markson. Now, Dr Markson is reported to be on holiday; but his body is found in Southampton Water.
Dr Cartwright becomes dragged into corruption and he is lucky that his uncle has friends in Scotland Yard who can try to help him. He also has a friend in Lilian . . .
A fiercely exciting story of cat-and-mouse tactics, played out against the drama of a suicide attempt by a beautiful girl.
As far as the river police are concerned, the attempted suicide is a routine matter. Nothing too special, just a girl throwing herself off Hammersmith Bridge in a fit of desperate remorse.
But when she is admitted to the West Kensington Hospital, she finds herself coming under the scrutiny of Tim Long, the surgical registrar. Out of kindness of heart, then out of grim necessity Tim and the rest of the hospital staff find themselves caught up in the pitiful life of a girl for whom there seems to be ultimately no escape except death.
Uncle Monty has died, and Mrs. Forrestal and her daughter Eileen inherit a gloomy old house and a few personal possessions.
Everything seems intact except for a family heirloom-a roundabout made of china and metal. Many suspicious characters seem unnaturally interested in its whereabouts and Eileen thinks it is a fuss about nothing.
But she soon changes her mind when a murder is committed . . .
`There’s something wrong in Upfold that ought to be put right.’
Who first cast Celia Wainwright in the role of Witch of Upfold, that little village in the Sussex Weald? And how and why did she disappear one night in 1953? What was the connection between her and young Julian Farnham, and why, on the day after she disappeared, did her husband suddenly leave their home at Mulberry Cottage never to return? What, in fact, is the mystery of Mulberry Cottage? Why did it remain empty for nearly ten years? And the rumours—those whispers of witchcraft and murder—are they all true?
Giles Armitage needed to get away from it all and a sailing holiday with friends was just the escape he needed.
Everything was going well until they became stranded in thick fog. Luckily they were invited to stay at a small chateau nearby, until the weather cleared.
But the atmosphere in the chateau was tense. Giles was brought face to face with the woman he once loved, and whom he was trying to forget-the hauntingly beautiful Miriam. Miriam's husband was clearly uneasy and she was terrified-convinced, as she confided in Giles, that someone was trying to kill her. Following a series of disturbing accidents, Giles began to think she could possibly be right.
Jane Fuller had not seen her husband since he was struck off the medical register, left her and went abroad. Now, on the very day she goes to her barrister to start proceedings on a divorce, she learns that he has returned.
Dead. In her living room.
Why did he return? How did he die? How did she not know he was in the house? The finger of suspicion from the police, barrister and the locals automatically falls upon Jane, but through her shock she denies everything. The evidence continues to mount up and then more people start to die in suspicious circumstances…..
Josephine Bell’s imaginative characters and finely sustained tension will keep you hooked as the mysteries are gradually unpicked, and this village’s secrets finally begin to see the light of day.