British Library Crime Classics from I Cannot Live Without Books

Murder by Matchlight (British Library Crime Classics) by E.C.R. Lorac London, 1945. The capital is shrouded in the darkness of the blackout, and mystery abounds in the parks after dusk. During a stroll through Regent's Park, Bruce Mallaig witnesses two men acting suspiciously around a footbridge. In a matter of moments, one of them has been murdered. Mallaig's view of the assailant… Read more about this item

Scarweather (British Library Crime Classics) by Anthony Rolls In 1913, John Farringdale, with his cousin Eric Foster, visits the famous archaeologist Togen Reisby, at Scarweather -- Reisby's lonely house on the windswept northern coast of England. Eric is quickly attracted to Reisby's much younger wife, and matters soon turn dangerous. Fifteen years later, the final scene of the drama is enacted. This… Read more about this item

Castle Skull: A Rhineland Mystery (British Library Crime Classics) by John Dickson Carr And so a dark shadow looms over the Rhineland where Inspector Henri Bencolin and his accomplice, Jeff Marle, have arrived from Paris. Entreated by the Belgian financier D'Aunay to investigate the gruesome and grimly theatrical death of actor Myron Alison, the pair find themselves at Schloss Schadel, an… Read more about this item

Murder in the Basement (British Library Crime Classics) by Anthony Berkeley When two newlyweds discover that a corpse has been buried in the basement of their new home, a grueling case begins to trace the victim's identity. With all avenues of investigation approaching exhaustion, a tenuous piece of evidence offers a chance for Chief Inspector Moresby and leads him to the… Read more about this item