Book Review: Josh Lanyon’s Mystery at the Masquerade
It’s a masquerade party with a ghost hunt at the end that ends in murder, and Ellery Page is knee deep with competing love interests.
It’s a masquerade party with a ghost hunt at the end that ends in murder, and Ellery Page is knee deep with competing love interests.
McGee heads to New York at the request of one his former war buddies to help his sister. For Nina – a career girl living alone in Manhattan – offers Travis McGee companionship and the first loose thread in the elaborate fabric of a gigantic swindle.
An omnibus of thirteen very short stories in the Commander George Gideon police procedural series set in the 1960s and revolving around a compassionate police commander.
It’s Mrs Todd’s frustration over her cook leaving without a word and several articles in a sensationalist newspaper that causes Hercule Poirot to link all these “coincidences” together.
An anthology of eight short stories that terrify with the snick of a lock. The squeak of door hinges. The creak of a floorboard.
The approaching steps that might be of a lover or an enemy.
A frightened ballerina and a panicked Sussex village sets the Toff off as he pursues the trail of a Russian bad guy who inspires fear everywhere he goes.
A working cruise rapidly turns deadly for the Langslow-Blake group when their ship breaks down in the Bermuda Triangle just after a passenger — the mortal enemy of a group of writers — jumps overboard.
Multiple secrets are revealed as the police, Mr Clement, and Miss Marple all investigate who killed the man in the vicarage study.
It’s an embittered dispute at an Oxford college that requires the Visitor, Peter Wimsey, to decide the matter. Only, there’s the small matter of the Warden disappearing and inexplicable accidents that result in death that finds Peter and Harriet Wimsey staying on longer to solve the mysteries.