Fortune's mannerisms and speech put him into the same class as  Lord Peter Wimsey  but the stories are much darker, and often involve  murderous obsession, police corruption, financial skulduggery, child abuse and miscarriages of justice. Bailey is a much neglected...

Editeur : Rare Treasure Editions
Parution : 2026-01-13
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''Mr Fortune's Trials'' includes  six curious, gruesome and ingenious crimes which Reggie investigates through minute, scientific detection.

Editeur : Rare Treasure Editions
Parution : 2026-01-13
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This collection of six puzzling stories introduced the world to Reggie Fortune, a remarkable detective whose rotund frame conceals a razor-sharp mind and a fighting spirit. A true champion of the oppressed, Fortune will never let a murderer escape justice—whether his...

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Parution : 2026-01-13
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''Mr Fortune, Please'' includes  six ingenious, bizarre and murderous crimes which Reggie investigates through minute and forensic, scientific detection.

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Back to Victoria by J. Jefferson Farjeon is a classic mystery novel that showcases the author’s distinctive talent for blending suspense, psychological depth, and atmospheric storytelling. Known as one of the masters of Golden Age crime fiction, Farjeon creates a...

Editeur : Asimis Books
Parution : 2026-01-12
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Step into the foggy gas-lit streets of Victorian London and enter the thrilling world of the world's most famous detective. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the quintessential collection that first cemented the legend of Sherlock Holmes and his stalwart companion,...

Editeur : Cactus
Parution : 2026-01-11
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A Locked Room.A Brutal Murder.A Code That Unlocks a Past Steeped in Blood. When a cryptic warning arrives at 221B Baker Street, Sherlock Holmes knows a game is afoot. But the stakes are far higher than he anticipates. The message leads him to Birlstone Manor, where the...

Editeur : Cactus
Parution : 2026-01-11
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The Detective is Back.The Game, it Seems, Was Never Over. After the devastating plunge at Reichenbach Falls, the world of crime believed itself safe from the one mind it truly feared. But in the gas-lit alleys of London, a new, impossible puzzle emerges: a series of...

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Parution : 2026-01-11
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Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead on the mist-shrouded moor, his face twisted in pure terror, and the footprints of a gigantic hound nearby are the only clue. An ancient family curse whispers of a spectral beast, hell-bent on extinguishing the Baskerville line. With...

Editeur : Cactus
Parution : 2026-01-11
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A Stolen Fortune.A Bloody Pact.A Trail of Murder That Leads From the Thames to the Tropics. When Miss Mary Morstan arrives at 221B Baker Street, she presents Sherlock Holmes with a perfect, elegant puzzle: for six years, she has received a single, priceless pearl from...

Editeur : Cactus
Parution : 2026-01-11
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In this essential collection, Arthur Conan Doyle sharpens the very tools of detective fiction. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is not merely a series of cases; it is a curated exhibition of the genre's finest mechanics, each story a puzzle box demanding the keenest of...

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Parution : 2026-01-11
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The banks of the Didder on a sunny summer afternoon when the trout are rising seem an unlikely place for a murderer to strike. But when the body of a local landowner is discovered it soon becomes apparent that there are a number of people with good reason to dislike...

Editeur : Rare Treasure Editions
Parution : 2026-01-07
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Ronald Hudson, travel writer and adventurer, visits Philip Tolefree with an anonymous letter written in cypher, which he hopes the sleuth can decode. But Tolefree is uneasy. What are Hudson's motives? Is his writer-persona a facade for espionage - or something even more...

Editeur : Rare Treasure Editions
Parution : 2025-12-28
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''Number Nineteen: Ben's Last Case'' is the final adventure of J. Jefferson Farjeon's Cockney tramp, Ben, where he witnesses a murder on a park bench and gets entangled in a thrilling, humorous mystery at Number 19, Billiter Road, continuing his series known for its...

Editeur : Rare Treasure Editions
Parution : 2025-12-28
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All is not well in the English town of Castle-Dinas, a strange un-English-looking, tumbled hill-town, which seemed to have jutted up out of the Middle Ages. Concerned about the brooding atmosphere surrounding his fiancee Katherine and her family, Jardine is persuaded by...

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Parution : 2025-12-28
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The story takes place on Jowle Street in London, where many of the houses are empty. Ben, a homeless man with a rich sense of humor and "naïve philosophies," has taken up residence in one of the untenanted properties, No. 29. He is a reluctant sleuth, often confused by...

Editeur : Rare Treasure Editions
Parution : 2025-12-28
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''Ben on the Job'' by J. Jefferson Farjeon is a humorous, thrilling mystery featuring Ben the tramp, an unlikely Cockney detective, who stumbles upon a murder on a London bridge, gets framed, and then finds himself entangled in a dangerous plot involving an...

Editeur : Rare Treasure Editions
Parution : 2025-12-28
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At the heart of this story is the eponymous man with the squeaky voice, a mysterious figure who appears at a small town, seemingly out of thin air. His peculiar voice and enigmatic presence arouse suspicion among the townspeople, especially when a series of strange...

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When Broadall the merchant banker fails to appear at his office in Cumberland Court, his confidential clerk calls on Philip Tolefree to investigate the disappearance with the minimum of publicity. Breaking into Broadall's London residence, Tolefree finds that there is a...

Editeur : Rare Treasure Editions
Parution : 2025-12-28
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''The Corpse in the Green Pyjamas'' is a classic 1935 mystery novel by R.A.J. Walling, featuring his recurring detective  Philip Tolefree, about a baffling case where a corpse appears and disappears, challenging Tolefree to unravel hidden truths and impossible...

Editeur : Rare Treasure Editions
Parution : 2025-12-28
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