A Red badge mystery

will happen next… The catch was supposed to be halibut, but what Father Bredder reeled in was a corpse in a scuba suit. The police called it accidental drowning… The catch was, both air tanks were full… Father Bredder decided to unravel the mystery on his own, and suddenly he himself was the prime suspect… The catch was, he was also to be the next victim. Named “A Red Badge Novel of Suspense” alongside Agatha Christie, Michael Innes, and Hugh Pentecost, The Father Bredder Mysteries, written by Leonard Wibberley under the pen name Leonard Holton, inspired a television show starring George Kennedy. The Father Bredder Mystery Series by Leonard Holton The Complete Series Coming Soon To Kindle Also available in Boxed Sets for Books 1-3 and Books 4-6. The Saint Maker A Pact with Satan Secret of the Doubting Saint Deliver Us from Wolves Flowers by Request Out of the Depths A Touch of Jonah A Problem in Angels The Mirror of Hell The Devil to Play A Corner of Paradise

Fiftieth in the long-running mystery series with Dr Launcelot Priestley. >In the Norfolk Broads one of identical twin brothers drowns in a boating trip tragedy. From the second the survivor plans to step quietly into the shoes (and wealth) of his unfortunate sibling, events take a decidedly dangerous turn. >It emerges that far from being the respectable citizen everyone thought, his brother was involved in some extremely dubious enterprises. The survivor attempts to hide himself away at a rest home where his brother had stayed the previous year - but this proves unsuccessful in shielding him from danger. >The suspicions of the doctor who runs the home give Superintendent Waghorn the first clue he needs to begin to unravel the case – as well as providing the `two graphs' of the title – and with Priestley's help he manages to track the criminal.

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."

Murder comes to a quiet town... Even if her neighbors had believed Molly Pulliam's incoherent story of something hiding behind the lilac bush, it would have made no real difference in the end. Eventually she would have opened the door to her deadly visitor. Her murder rocked the quiet valley community. Unlike an occasional stabbing in a bar in downtown Albuquerque, this tragedy came frighteningly close to home. The Sheriff's officers, however, had no reason to question the very small boy who was visiting his cousin Eve Quinn, and it would have helped him if they had. Eve, a slender fair-haired girl, was too preoccupied with getting over a disastrous engagement to wonder what the mysterious treasure was that Ambrose wanted her to get for him in the toolshed, or why the usually indeflectible little boy wouldn't go into the shed himself. And so the killer, driven by his twisted hate, was free to knock on another door, to greet another victim. This is the beginning of an absorbing novel of secrets new as well as almost forgotten, and of murder hiding behind a familiar face.

In this collection of essays, John Barnie explores the exciting thinking about the new nature as it appears to a non-scientist. In No Hiding Place the author outlines some of the intellectual restructuring which Neo-Darwinism insists that we make. Also included are essays on a number of poets - including R. S. Thomas, A. R. Ammons (USA) and Harry Martinson (Sweden) - who in various ways have responded to the pressures of the new thinking about nature on our lives.

> It all began when Sir John Appleby, retired Chief Commissioner of Metropolitan Police, was visiting Allington Park, a partially restored estate dating back to Charles First. While exploring a specially built gazebo with the owner, Sir John noticed a bundle of stuff in a corner of the room. Stooping to examine it, he said grimly: "It's a man and I think he's dead." So begins this amusing if tragic divertissement of repeated death by misadventure or perhaps otherwise. An old castle, a gay village charity fete, a unique assembly of human oddments among the characters - these and a legendary lost treasure add up to what, in Sir John's words, "that chap in Baker Street called a two-pipe mystery."

Once you cross its threshold, Harrow will never let you go. Claiming his inheritance, a young man unlocks long-buried secrets of an occultist’s dark mansion, awakening a nest of hungry ghosts in this spine-tingling supernatural horror novel of the house of infinite hauntings. For fans of haunted houses and ghost stories.

Ghosts of the past. When lovely actress Sue Wales moved into the big mansion in Connecticut, every lengthening shadow, every ripple of water, every whisper of wind in the giant elms, reminded her of her sister, Paula. Here Paula had come as a bride, wed to a man she passionately loved, though many others feared and hated him. And here Paula's corpse was found, victim of an evil that no one dared name. Now Sue was following in her sister's footsteps, footsteps that led through a labyrinth of terror to the yawning abyss of the grave.

Forty-fifth in the long-running mystery series with Dr Launcelot Priestley. > The author, whose mysterious death is investigated in this book, was a certain Mr. Nigel Ebbfleet, who after years of writing without success produced a “best seller” and then astonished his publisher by announcing that he had quite decided never to write another line and was retiring to a country cottage to live a quiet life. His subsequent murder might lead some readers to suspect the publisher; but Jimmy Waghorn and Dr. Priestley, proof against such hasty assumptions, reached a very curious conclusion.

Humphrey Paxton, the son of one of Britain's leading atomic boffins, has taken to carrying a shotgun to 'shoot plotters and blackmailers and spies'. His new tutor, the plodding Mr Thewless, suggests that Humphrey might be overdoing it somewhat. But when a man is found shot dead at a cinema, Mr Thewless is plunged into a nightmare world of lies, kidnapping and murder - and grave matters of national security.

No Sactuary When she bought the old farm near the tiny rural town of Peaceable Corners, bright and beautiful Kate Wade was seeking a temporary refuge. She was fleeing the memory of the recent tragic death of her husband and the cruel rigors of city life--hoping for a serene spot where she could heal her shattered spirit. -- Instead she found new terrors to face. Close relatives grown suddenly strange...a bitter and powerful man laying claim to her embattled heart..a woman found gruesomely slain on her property...and an unseen killer reaping a harvest of death who moved closer...ever closer.

Forty-ninth in the long-running mystery series with Dr Launcelot Priestley. >Two corpses are found in the garden of the house of an eccentric inventor Gabriel Hockliffe. Note: The same author under his Miles Burton pen name published a different book under the same title in 1941 (U.S. title Death Visits Downspring).