A Nightingale mystery in large print

ix, 313 p. (large print) ; 22 cm

Biography of the persecuted genius who helped create the modern computer.

Charles Paris is appearing in a provincial production of 'Macbeth'. However, it's not long before he finds himself in the familiar role of private eye - when death strikes.

Merelda is a very pretty lady, and she's used that to her advantage in the past. But marriage to an older man is boring now. If only there was a way to get rid of him while keeping his money.

Murder in the academy

From the blog Crime Fiction Lover: "Between 1944 and 1977, Robert Bruce Montgomery wrote a string of novels under the name Edmund Crispin. Today he is considered to be one of the underappreciated masters of the Golden Age of crime fiction. His novels featuring eccentric Oxford professor Gervase Fen were always witty and literate, and Frequent Hearses is one of the picks of the bunch. In this, the seventh in the series, Fen visits a film studio to advise on the production of a biopic of poet Alexander Pope. It may be difficult to conceive of a Pope biopic being produced in 1950s London, but it does allow for some of Crispin’s trademark humour and literary knowledge to flourish. The novel’s title is from one of Pope’s poems about people dying left right and centre. While Fen is advising on the production, young starlet Gloria Scott throws herself to her death from Waterloo Bridge. Fen has no reason to suspect anything other than suicide, until it becomes clear that Gloria Scott was just a stage name, that she was pregnant and that someone has searched the young actress’ apartment and tampered with the corpse to remove any hints as to her real identity. A lecherous cameraman is then found poisoned, and tests confirm it was murder. But what, if anything, links the two deaths? Of course, Fen is the man to find out."

When Trixie Dolan accompanies her friend and rival Evangeline Sinclair to London, she's hoping they'll have a good time. Then a dead body turns up, followed by another one, and the police are suspecting everyone in the house - including Evangeline and Trixie. This is the first of the Evangeline and Trixie books.

This is a recent reissue/collection of a set of short stories Gardner sold to pulp magazines in the early 30's. From Google Books: "Paul Pry, one of Gardner’s least-known and strangest characters is showcased here. He picks ‘Mugs’ Magoo out of the gutter and forma a partnership which makes the big shots of the underworld look pathetic."

In Woods's 47th novel about the London barrister Antony Maitland, he and his wife Jenny are on holiday in a Yorkshire village. The residents are outraged by the strangulation deaths of three young women, cases in which Antony reluctantly involves himself at the request of the Maitlands' hostess, Emma Anstey. Her nephew Stephen is the solicitor for a friend, Peter Dutton, officially the prime suspect. Fiercely on the side of a local lad, however, the villagers threaten to lynch a newcomer, reclusive Mr. Wainwright, and Antony has to act quickly to save the scapegoat's life. [ ]

Alice Robertson is far too old and frail to navigate successfully the grand staircase of her ancestral home. But when her nephew returns to the house after an evening stroll, he sees that Aunt Alice must have attempted the descent one last time, with tragic results. No one, particularly not the astute Inspector Long, is likely to believe Alice was murdered. After all, who would want the sweet old lady dead? But rumors will fly, and the grapevine says that hidden in the mansion are valuable family heirlooms. Someone has discovered them, recognized their value, and killed to get them...

Publication Date: December 1, 1958 Three of Davis' most endearing and enduring characters return to delight and thrill mystery and suspense fans. This time, Jimmie Jarvis finds himself involved in a threatened paternity suit against a dapper little man named Teddy Adkins, whose wealthy family are old clients of Jarvis' law firm. At the same time, Jasper Tally is embroiled in the investigation into the strangulation of a woman -- crime which appears tied to several other unsolved mysteries. At the center of the two storm fronts, Mrs. Norris, the redoubtable housekeeper, must fend off the attentions of the dapper client and an unseen, sinister threat to her life.

ENGAGED TO A NIGHTMARE When Norda Allison sees her husband-to-be slap his young son, she immediately calls off the wedding. Now she is terrified. Her ex-fiancé has beat up her new boyfriend. Anonymous newspaper clippings are flooding her mailbox--articles graphically depicting what jilted men do to the women who leave them. Then Norda's life takes an even darker turn. It begins with a barking dog, a child's scream, a gunshot, and the discovery of a very dead body--and ends when Norda is arrested, charged with a brutal murder. Now only brilliant courtroom strategist Perry Mason stands between Norda and a sentence of certain death . . .

Madame Maigret telephones to alert her husband that a frightened young man has called at their home and will wait there to see Maigret at his midday meal. When Maigret returns home, he is annoyed to discover that his mysterious guest has left, and more disturbed that one of his prized revolvers has gone with him. Monsieur Maigret is dismayed - but hardly surprised - when a corpse turns up in a railway trunk, shot by his own gun. His search for the elusive and unidentified visitor sends Maigret across the channel to London to investigate one murder... and prevent another.

A Tecumseh Fox mystery

With the Nazis bombing London on a nightly basis, many families sent their children to the comparative safety of the countryside. When the Blitz ended, the families came for their kids, but no one ever came for Simon Thorn. His name appears on no evacuation list, and none of his belongings offer any clues to his origins. Now an adult, Simon is puzzled by an odd sense of familiarity when he walks down certain London streets. He remembers years of screaming nightmares that would terrify his bewildered foster parents. And he resolves to find out where he originally came from, even as everything he uncovers suggests that, really, he doesn’t want to know.

It was the middle of a sunny May morning when the old man, thin and shabby, suddenly collapsed on the driveway of Captain Merton Heimrich of the New York State police. He was Old Tom, self-appointed handyman for the community of Van Brunt, New York, and someone had shot him. The question was, why would anyone care enough about this harmless eccentric, this roving gardener, to want to kill him? Is there more to Old Tom than a look at his unkempt person and ramshackle living quarters would indicate? As Heimrich starts his investigation the killer coolly sets his sights on a new victim.

De moord op een jonge vrouw confronteert commissaris Maigret met een vroegere klasgenoot.

Things begin simply enough, with the discovery of a baby left in a pew of Roger Dowling’s church. Against his better judgement, the priest grants the mother’s request that he hide the child for a short time. But when a strange chain of events leads to brutal murder, the peace of Fox River, Illinois, is shattered anew, and it is once again up to Father Dowling to solve a complex and baffling crime. Full of the subtle touches and deft plotting that have brought Ralph McInerny’s mysteries such wide acclaim, The Basket Case marks a distinguished return for the celebrated Father.

Years ago Alden Leeds found a rich vein of gold in the Klondike. Now his greedy relatives fear he's planning to throw his fortune away on a gold-digging spouse, Emily Milicant. So to prevent the two from joining in holy matrimony, they commit their affluent kin to a sanitarium on a trumped-up charge. Then Leeds escapes, only to end up in the company of Emily's blackmailing brother, John, a manufacturer of fixed Dice, rolling bones that always come up seven. But when John is murdered--with Leeds's fingerprints found all over the apartment--Perry Mason must crack a baffling case before his client bumps from the nuthouse to the jailhouse.

> Anne Morice's latest crime novel takes the form of a classical detective story, ingenious, complex and witty. The setting is traditional, a large Victorian rectory in the Thames Valley, but the characters involved and subsequent sinister events are very far from the ordinary or the conventional. >A famous opera singer dies at the age of eighty-two; she has been ill for some time and there would appear to be no reason to suspect that her death is anything other than natural. But her will, signed on the day she died, causes both astonishment and considerable ill-feeling among her family, and then two more deaths occur at the Rectory. >Tessa Price, the actress-narrator of Anne Morice's previous novels, is an old friend of the family and finds herself involved in an investigation of her own while her husband is dealing with a case nearby for Scotland Yard. Tessa's imagination and powers of deduction are as brilliant as ever, but in the end she nevertheless has to acknowledge the more stolid help of a member of the local police.