The Milliner's Hat Mystery - formato ePub

ON A DEPRESSING November afternoon, when the street lights scarce sufficed to pierce the wet mist, a young policeman stood at his post in Baker Street at the point where Crawford Street joins the main...

A BIG Sunbeam touring car was crawling along the concrete road of one of the new building estates bordering on Ealing. Its occupants were gazing at the fronts of the houses on either side of the road....

A rich but curmudgeonly old man dies suddenly, and there is evidence of murder. But what was he doing in the night, in a seldom visited part-ruined chapel in his country estate of Carfax Abbey? Who was...

THE INGRAINED love of personal liberty inherent in the British people and their distrust in giving additional power to their governments made Great Britain one of the slowest countries in the world to...

In the hall he found the body of his maidservant, Helen Dunn, aged about fifty, lying on the floor near the telephone. She had bled profusely from a wound in the head and her body was cold.Richardson's...

"There's one thing which I daresay you noticed—that pair of slippers half kicked under the bath were of men's size.""Yes, I noticed that, too, and they were sprinkled with blood." A man went calmly about...

He flung open a drawer and took from it a heavy dagger in a sheath with blood-stains upon it. On the blade were engraved the words, "Blut und Ehre!" Frank Everett was a rising young press attaché at the...

None of the other guests could explain what she was doing in Crooked Lane during the night…Beautiful Margaret Gask, guest at Scudamore Hall, was shot to death on the driveway of the estate. The mink coat...

"I'm writing to you about the death of Mr. Dearborn. You bet the murderer's laughing up his sleeve now that he's got away with it."An inquest is held in South Devon on the death of a man apparently killed...

The D.D.I. recognized him and smiled. "That was a great case you brought us. You'll be interested to hear that it is a case of mur-r-der!"For eight years Basil Thomson headed the famous C.I.D., New Scotland...

"The late Miss Clynes, sir? How dreadful. It must have been very sudden." "It was."Naomi Clynes was found dead, her head in the gas-oven. She left a suicide note, but Richardson, newly promoted to the...

"What are you looking for, sir?" he said. "Bloodstains." Scotland Yard is concerned with the murderer, or murderers, of the mysterious Bernard Pitt. The dead man is discovered with a false identity, courtesy...

First World War espionage was a fascinating and dangerous affair, spawning widespread paranoia in its clandestine wake. The hysteria of the age, stoked by those within the British establishment who sought...

"Savage Island: An Account of a Sojourn in Niué and Tonga" by Basil Thomson. Published by e-artnow. e-artnow publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics &...

In Basil Thomson's 'Savage Island: An Account of a Sojourn in Niué and Tonga', the reader is transported to the South Pacific through vivid descriptions of the people, landscapes, and cultures of Niué...

Basil Thomson's 'The Fijians: A Study of the Decay of Custom' provides a comprehensive exploration of the cultural practices and traditions of the Fijian people, shedding light on the impacts of colonialism...

In a dark copse of trees, in the shadow of the city skyline, the fae hand a changeling child to an unsuspecting woman. Or so they think. When a human woman wants a child, and can't have one by natural...

This isn't the Wild West you've seen before. In the aftermath of a chaotic gold rush and the resulting war, a mega-corporation emerges, seizing control of the nation's gold and the technology produced...

IF my aunt, Sarah Undridge, had lived until today she would have been a hundred years old. I was at a small party given for her ninety-ninth birthday, and she was spry enough then. There was a sense of...

Mary Lynn Melton, now in her mid-40s, has resigned herself to a lonely fate, believing that her manipulative, deceitful, and destructive past has irreparably damaged her relationships and her life. In...

For three centuries, Nara's existence has revolved around providing sexual gratification to men not of her choosing. As a concubine enslaved by a brutal master she knows only as the Conqueror, Nara can...

An Angel Alien. A Bar Owner. A Christmas Eve Nightmare.Aliens enjoy human festivities.When Bar Owner Peter Rodgers receives an alien warning, he races against time to save a friend. He quickly realises...

A Deceiver. A Superhuman. A Questionable Hero.When Hydra Legion Captain Severus travels to a loyal Empire world, he plots to spread lies, deceit and chaos.An old enemy waits in the shadows.Gripping. suspenseful....

Two Men On A Train Going Home For Christmas. A Sparkle. A Love Story Over The Years.When Gabriel Darling goes home for Christmas, he meets the man of his dreams on a train.Readers will love this emotional,...

Ian loves the Earth to the Moon route on Christmas. It pays great bonuses. But Charles, his best friend and secret crush, offers a gripping, emotional perspective that mixes love, romance and the meaning...

He chases crooks in the nineteenth century. She researches the past in the twenty-first. When both attend festivals that turn sinister, can they solve the crimes?Vancouver, 1898. Detective Jack Winston...

Anis and her brother Jatz wish their parents would realise they are now adults.Their life changes when they discover two strange looking men washed up on the beach. The men are telepaths, people outlawed...

When a woman is murdered by a vampire, St. Augustina must become the Constable. St. Augustina's tenure as the new constable of the Magic Guild Guard is not going well. The office staff quit in protest...

A Cold December. An Awful Bar. A Bitter Detective.Detectives hate the holidays.Private Detective Peter Griffins hates the holidays. He loves money. Peter meets a silly woman needing help.Peter investigates...

The first French edition of Les Ursitory was published just after the Second World War. During the war Matéo suffered the horrors of the concentration camps, like many others in his village. This is why...

Bet Swanson has returned to Richmond, the small town she once tried to leave behind, but something unsettling awaits her. The familiar streets seem wrapped in an eerie silence, and the townspeople, once...

A Hot Café Owner. A Romantic Christmas Setting. A University Professor Wanting Love.Doctor Henry Oscar loves order, routine and Canterbury. He loves teaching the next generation. Henry wants a man.But...

A University Student. A Cop. A Brilliant Romance.Student Kai Brands loves Christmas parties. He enjoys the free food, a rarity in his life. Kai meets a beautiful man in a shocking way.Sweet. Moving. Eye-Opening....

A Rubbish Shack. A Lot Of Drunks. A Hardboiled Detective. Detectives escape family during the holiday season. I rather like Freedom Day, a day without my family before Christmas. I enjoy Dave's Shack...

Mary Woods loves her husband. She loves being a mother. Mary wants the best for her family.When World War Two breaks out, Mary Woods watches her husband go to war and wishes her husband would come home...

How do you defeat a monster that can injure the Gods? All everyone wants to do is catch their breath. With Cadence's brother and the head of Southern Paranormal Investigations gone, Cadence, Aiden, and...

A Trapped Private Eye. A Christmas Crime. Little Hope For Rescue.A woman trapped in the darkness.Private Eye Bettie English sees darkness. She feels something covering her. Bettie tries to move.Can Bettie...

A rare rose blooms between the weeds, an innocent on the run. The abandoned city no longer abandoned, the untamed tamed. The truth will be revealed and a curse broken. 

A University Christmas Social. Two Men In Love. A Gay Romance Story Needing To Be Corrected.When Alex Blue tells the truth behind how he met his husband at a university party, he retells a sweet, adorable,...

I should never have touched her. I didn't know she's my best friend's little sister. When I found out... well... My life went off the rails, and we didn't see each other again.Now three years later, we're...

Sam McIntosh knows he doesn't need to be in the closet with his friends, but his family is another matter entirely. He keeps his sex life under wraps and never lets on to anyone that he enjoys any gender....

A Trapped Worker. A Chance To Escape. An Incoming Wreck.Rulers imprison people in the far future.Mia Scott watches the border of the Imperium. She supposedly protects it. Mila sees a mysterious incoming...

What happens in Vegas shouldn't stay in Vegas… It's spring break, and a group of teachers from Half Moon Bay Middle School are planning to cut loose. History teacher Meg Phillips hadn't planned on being...

A Bride for all Eternity. Ember Richard's wedding may have been arranged, but it might just be a childhood fantasy come true. Everything falls apart when Nathaniel gets called away to war—on her wedding...

Jack's paranormal investigations have rocketed him to internet fame, even though he thinks the whole thing is a joke.His wife Amy—not nearly so skeptical—tries to be supportive, at his side for every...

What's worse than a man who hates Christmas?  A Christmas-hating man who won't let me borrow his reindeer. Living in a Christmas-obsessed town while being a self proclaimed Christmas enthusiast means...