The Hand In The Dark. E-book. Formato Mobipocket Arthur J. Rees   -  Classic Detective, 2018  - 

For the twentieth time Miss Meredith asked herself why her nephew had fallen in love with this unknown girl, Violet, from London, who loathed the country. From Miss Heredith's point of view, a girl who smoked and talked slang lacked any sense of the dignity of the high position to which she had been called. She was in every way unfitted to become mother of the next male Heredith -- if, indeed, she consented to bear an heir at all. It was Miss Heredith's constant regret that Phil had not married some nice girl of the county, in his own station of life, instead of a London girl. And now she was unwilling to wear the ancestral pearls, and was leaving them in her jewel box there in her room . . . Such thoughts were immediately dashed from her mind, however -- and she nearly tumbled, descending the staircase in her hurry. Vincent, at the table with the other guests, had risen at the sound of her hurrying feet. 'Oh, Vincent, I was just coming for you -- something terrible must have happened ' Miss Meredith began, in a broken, sobbing voice. 'I was going upstairs to my room -- when I heard the scream, and then the shot. They must have come from Violet's room'

The Moon Rock. E-book. Formato Mobipocket Arthur J. Rees   -  Classic Detective, 2018  - 

"The Moon Rock" (1922) is Australian mystery writer Arthur J. Rees' locked-room conundrum. In fact, the room -- the murder scene -- not only is locked from the inside, but also two hundred feet up the cold wall of Flint House. And the house looms on the edge of a cliff in Cornwall. Slip, and a falling body would strike the pale Moon Rock and its legend of doomed love. "A lonely, weird place," Scotland Yard's Det. Barrant sums it up, and that's even before he finds out what happened. The deceased is Robert Turold, a bitter and silent man obsessed with proving his noble linage and claim to a great estate. At last, he succeeds -- only to be found dead in the locked room, shot in the chest. Suicide? Barrant suspects not. The house is full of suspects: servants, relatives, a lovely daughter with a ruinous secret. Rees knew all the conventions of a mystery novel -- he wrote more than twenty -- and how to set the table with plenty of red herrings. But the question is more than who-done-it. Tension builds, too, on the identity of the Moon Rock's next victim. The one word to describe "The Moon Rock" is, literally: Cliffhanger.

The Shrieking Pit. E-book. Formato Mobipocket Arthur J. Rees   -  Classic Detective, 2018  - 

Sherlock Holmes get out of town because Grant Colwyn is here to stay! In The Shrieking Pit the reader is introduced to the renowned American detective Grant Colwyn. The story begins when this internationally famous detective is dining in a hotel restaurant and is made aware of the strange behavior of a fellow guest. This strange behavior is brought to his attention by another guest, Sir Henry Durwood (a well known doctor and amateur paleontologist). His diagnosis is that the young man is suffering from a rare form of epilepsy and may soon present a danger to other hotel guests. The two men restrain the man and take him to his room. The following day the young man left the hotel early before anyone was up. The next day, in another neighboring town a murder is committed and this same man is the main (only) suspect. Although all the circumstantial evidence points to him as the murderer, Grant Colwyn believes in his innocence and sets out to prove it. Grant Colwyn goes about his work in a clear and precise manner without making the reader feel inferior with his “obvious deductions” and he is warmer and infinitely more likeable that the famous Sherlock Holmes.