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Murder on the Blackboard
Murder mystery featuring Hildegarde Withers. First published 1932.
Nine times nine
Before he became a famous mystery novel and sci fi critic, Anthony Boucher wrote this locked room mystery under the penname H. H. Holmes. Voted by critics as the ninth best locked room novel of all time, it concerns an ultra-Catholic family, one member of whom was investigating a religious cult. Though most of the investigation is handled by a young journalist and the stalwart cops, the impossible murder is solved by Boucher's continuing character Sister Ursula, a nun who grew up wanting to be a policewoman. Sister Ursula unmasks the criminal using her religious knowledge. The novel in one way is a tribute to John Dickson Carr whose Hollow Man and its analysis of locked room possibilities are frequently referenced. Besides frequently quoting Shakespeare, devout Catholic Boucher contrives scenes to make Catholic customs and beliefs less mysterious to non-Catholics.
Trial by fury
Review from Amazon dot com: "Sixty-year-old Constance Lawley takes on temp housekeeping jobs as a way of keeping busy. She likes people and enjoys helping them. Her job involves running households in which someone is recovering from injury or illness. Her latest assignment is working for a charming old couple with a grandson who’s not quite normal. It looks like one of her easiest and most pleasant job — until she walks into the living room after grocery shopping and finds four dead bodies. It’s a massacre — and another person will soon be murdered too."
Assassinio nell'abbazia
The White Priory Murders is a mystery novel by the American writer John Dickson Carr (1906-1977), who published it under the name of Carter Dickson. It is a locked room mystery and features his series detective, Sir Henry Merrivale, assisted by Scotland Yard Inspector Humphrey Masters. Marcia Tait is a Hollywood star who has come to England to make a historical film. She is found beaten to death in the Queen's Mirror pavilion, the 17th-century trysting place of King Charles II and Lady Castlemain. The problem is particularly puzzling because the pavilion is surrounded by newfallen snow, with only one set of footprints leading to it and none leading away. The suspects include a man who thought he was marrying her - and her husband, whose marriage was unknown to all. Sir Henry Merrivale lends a hand to Inspector Masters in the investigation, but is too late to stop the second murder before Merrivale solves the case.
The witch's house
Two professors go missing from their California university. Dissatisfied with the efforts of the police, the devoted wife of one and the neurotic daughter of the other conduct their own investigation. A suave young man joins their search...for reasons of his own.
Wodehouse on crime
edited and with a preface by D.R. Bensen; foreword by Isaac Asimov. Contents: Strychnine in the soup -- The crime wave at Blandings -- Ukridge starts a bank account -- The purity of the turf -- The smile that wins -- The purification of Rodney Spelvin -- Without the option -- The romance of a bulb-squeezer -- Aunt Agatha takes the count -- The fiery wooing of Mordred -- Ukridge's accident syndicate -- Indiscretions of Archie.(Excerpt)
Murder in the Madhouse
The orderlies do not need a straitjacket for Bill Crane. He is not violent, although he does have a bad habit of making embarrassing deductions about the doctors. This sarcastic, hard-drinking man has deluded himself into thinking he is Edgar Allan Poe’s great detective, C. Auguste Dupin. For this, he has been put away in a stately mental hospital on the Hudson. But Crane is not as delusional as he appears. Though he may not be Dupin, he certainly is a detective—one of the greatest, and occasionally drunkest, of them all. Sent undercover to investigate the theft of an inmate’s fortune, Crane finds the institution not as comfortable as he had hoped. When his fellow patients start dying, he must solve the murders, or risk losing his sanity after all.
Wall of eyes
A blind woman totally dependent on her family becomes the intended victim of a murder plot