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Lucy Holmes has been happily married for six months. Her husband is expected home from a business trip to Philadelphia when she receives the following cryptic telegram: "Come at once. Your husband found dead in his room this morning. Doctors say heart disease. Please telegraph." Foul play is suspected, but the search for means and motive is not such a straightforward process.

An artist, Mr Ruxton, is seeking an ideal model for a planned sculpture of Antigone. He travels to the Beech Grove estate in search of his model and encounters Miss Hurd, who is employed at the house. He is overwhelmed by her beauty and feels compelled to pursue her. However, he quickly finds that he has a rival for the lady's affections, a man of great wealth and power. Miss Hurd takes flight, but Ruxton is unable to forget her. When he later sees her again on a streetcar in New York he finds himself drawn into a mysterious web of tragedy and evil.

Dive into the intriguing tale of The Forsaken Inn, narrated from the unique viewpoint of Mrs. Truax, an innkeeper during the tumultuous times of the American and French Revolutions. This engrossing locked-room mystery will leave you on the edge of your seat as it unravels the puzzling case of a young couple who stayed at the inn one fateful night. Years later, the brides body is discovered in a hidden room of the inn, despite many witnesses who saw her leave with her husband. How could this be possible? Unearth the truth as the story unfolds through Mrs. Truaxs diary entries, correspondences, ...

In the hallowed halls of Grace Church, I became a married man. My bride, Miss Georgian Hazen, exuded an aura of contentment, seemingly delighted by her decision and the grandeur of our wedding. As we navigated the aisle together, her demeanor took a sudden shift. Her grip on my arm tightened, her expression strained, her happiness seemingly evaporated. I might have dismissed it as nerves, but something in her eyes told me otherwise... ...As the congratulations poured in, one particular whisper in her ear seemed to exacerbate her discomfort... ...She was with me as I signed our names in the ...

Delve into this intricately woven, character-centric mystery where Detective Gryce is drawn into a strange crime scene by an enigmatic message. A man has been savagely murdered yet gently placed on the study floor of his own quiet brownstone house in an upscale New York City neighbourhood. The only potential witnesses - a deaf and mute butler, driven to insanity by the incident, and a caged bird singing an essential yet bewildering clue. Along with the formidable Miss Amelia Butterworth, Gryce must unravel a motive that crosses generations and the intense passions that have kept it alive ...

A young lawyer is summoned to draw up the will of an elderly and infirm woman. She directs that all her property be bequeathed to her sister. At the end of the consultation, the woman dies. When the heir goes missing, it is suspected that the woman's death was not due to natural causes. Further investigation reveals that the woman and her sister were trapped in a reclusive lifestyle by a promise exacted by their uncaring and overbearing father. Each woman had a lover whom she wished to marry, but the unions were frustrated by the demands of the father.