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In this second of Dubois's Dr. Church novels, adventurer Wilfred Bruce meets Dr. Church, who wants to hire Bruce to help him penetrate a secluded Chinese monastic society to obtain the occult secret for immortality. Dr. Church demonstrates to Bruce that he and his black cat have magical powers. He learned of the Chinese society from a disgraced Oxford don who spent many years in China and from an old Buddhist priest.

When Jackson Thatchers, the wealthy property developer, is found dead in his office, a revolver at his side and a bullet wound to the head, the time of death is placed a midnight. Remarkably, his driver left him off at his home an hour later where he consumed a scotch and several sandwiches. Something is obviously amiss. Numerous complications lead from the murder of Jackson Thatchers and the search for his will. The hint of an old family scandal, and a former secretary of the murdered man whose motives are none too clear, and the mystery only deepens. Beaumont DuBois has put together an intriguing puzzle with plenty of twists and turns in . . . The Property!

When an elderly pawnbroker is murdered in the London parish of Paddington, a young, down on his luck writer is accused of the crime. But then it's found the pawnbroker had had in his possession an extraordinary South African diamond worth over eighty thousand pounds a diamond that's now missing. It falls to Melky Rubenstein to unravel the mystery and prove the young man's innocence. But what is the significance of the Spanish manuscript? What part do the Chinese medical students play? And what about the mysterious Mr. Mori Yada? Find the answers in The Yellow Diamond!

Une cérémonie de mariage réunit tous les protagonistes du célèbre Mystère de la chambre jaune. Dans Le Parfum de la Dame en Noir Joseph Rouletabille, le journaliste youg détourné, est une fois de plus opposé à son ennemi juré Frédéric Larsan. Le mystérieux crime commis dans la tour carrée met à nouveau directement au défi le lecteur de trouver la bonne solution - bien que pour ce faire teste même le pouvoir de logique et de déduction de Rouletabille.

Mr Carlson is a law abiding, settled, homebody who has nothing to hide until the appearance of the shadowy Lewison, a gambler and blackmailer with an incredible story. It appears that Carlson is in fact a runaway prisoner, convicted of fraud and Lewison is about to spill the beans, unless he receives a large bribe in return for his silence. But Carlson protests his innocence, and resolves to shut Lewison up once and for all. Will he do it? And if he does, will he get away with it? London 1930s

In 'The Blonde Lady', when an antique desk is stolen from Monsieur Gerbois a mathematics teacher, it turns out that Arsène Lupin is behind the theft. Later, both Lupin and Gerbois realise that a lottery ticket, left in the desk, is the winning ticket. This is just the beginning of Lupin's antics as he proceeds to ensure that he obtains half of the winnings as well as to elude the local police chief Ganimard with a mysterious blond lady who acts as his accomplice. After a second theft of a Blue Diamond involving a murder, and again, implicating an unknown blonde woman, Ganimard, frustrated by the elusive Lupin, appeals to Herlock Sholmes to help him catch the master thief once and for all. The battle then commences and it is very much a case of who can outfox who! 'The Jewish Lamp', opens with another appeal to Herlock Sholmes for help by the owners of a Jewish lamp which has been stolen. The case has all the hallmarks of Lupin and Sholmes is eager to get involved. Outraged by Lupin's audacity at attempting to warm him off, Sholmes heads off for Paris once again to do battle with the master thief.

Primrosa, a collector "possessed by an insatiable acquisitiveness" and a singular ignorance of his possessions, and whose exasperating facetious "conversation is a sort of everlasting crossword puzzle," disappears after a hit and run accident, while his house is burgled and a cryptic note left. His cousin and executor, anxious to establish survivorship, calls in Dr. Waterberry, whose understanding of the significance of a fragment of pottery leads to the excavation of a Kentish barrow and the discovery of Primrosa therein, and whose discovery of a connection between the Billington Jewel Robbery and Primrosa leads to the discovery of his murderer. The reader hesitates between two suspects before Dr. Waterberry solves the conundrum in a most satisfying manner.

In this the third of Beaumont Dubois's Dr. Church novels, Church applies his almost hypnotic persuasion to convince an out of luck Australian, formerly from England, named Gilbert Pennethorne to assist Church unwittingly in an evil scheme. Church takes advantage of Pennethorne's intense desire for revenge against a former boss in Australia who stole information about the location of a gold field that would have made Pennethorne immensely wealthy. Using that information the boss made himself rich, living a high life in London, while Pennethorne remained penniless. Church contrives a plan and a device for Pennethorne to commit the perfect murder of the wealthy thief. Unknowingly, Pennethorne thus becomes a party to another one of Church's insidious schemes.

In this exceptional mystery, Dr. Waterberry is brought in to untangle the secrecy surrounding the death of John Gillam, a man not known for insanity and thoughts of suicide. John Gillam was a gambler. He faced financial ruin and was the victim of a sinister blackmail attempt. He is now dead. In this exceptional mystery, Dr. Waterberry is brought in to untangle the secrecy surrounding the death of John Gillam.

Rival members of the underworld, jealous of "Lone Wolf" Matthieu Papillion's success as a jewel thief, threaten to reveal his true identity unless he surrenders his independence and joins their "pack." Instead, Papillion determines to quit his life of crime, only to find the way blocked by the dauntless Lucienne Solange.

Steven Burnside is a criminologist and scientific detective who uses a wide variety of gadgets of his own invention, including an "electric mind reader," a viewphone, a pocket bomb made of a super-powerful explosive, and a "pocket wireless telephone," to fight against crime. He was also an expert in hypnosis. He was athletic, an exceptional fighter and extremely brave and level headed. He is described by one character as, "the greatest master in criminology the world has ever known. He is a magician, a scientist, the Pierpont Morgan of his profession." Burnside investigated the mystery of the box and brought down Lord Professor Ashleigh, a mad scientist who has created a suit which renders the wearer invisible when charged with electricity.

On the surface, the crime seems simple. A bank's secure safe is robbed. One of the two men who holds the key must be guilty. One key-holder is the bank's owner who lives above the bank with his family, the other is the bank's trusted manager-a man like a son to the owner. What if neither is guilty? How did this safe, with every security measure known and employed at the time, get robbed? Leave it to Monsieur Jean Bapteste of the Surete, a policeman of many disguises and much guile to uncover the devastating truth of deceit, betrayal, lies, murder and sordid family histories that lead to the crime."

"Those who anticipated the discovery of a crime, were unhappily not deceived. The commissary was convinced of this as soon as he crossed the threshold. Everything in the first room pointed with a sad eloquence to the recent presence of a malefactor. The furniture was knocked about, and a chest of drawers and two large trunks had been forced and broken open."

This is a true story of a criminal mastermind in 1898, named, Felix Gryde, who conducts his nefarious criminal work theft, kidnapping, ransom, assassination, fraud and he never gets caught. The history of famous detectives, imaginary and otherwise, has frequently been written, but the history of a famous "perfect" criminal-never. This is a bold statement, but a true one all the same. The most notorious of rascals know that sooner or later they will be found out, and therefore they plan their lives accordingly. But they are always found out in the end. And yet there must be many colossal rascals who have lived and died apparently in the odour of sanctity. Such a character would be quite new to fiction, and herein I propose to attempt the history of the Sherlock Holmes of malefactors. Given a rascal with the intellect of the famous creation in question, and detection would be reduced to a vanishing point. It is the intention of this writer to set down here some of the amazing adventures that befell Felix Gryde in the course of his remarkable career. Beaumont Dubois

Things as They Are; or The Adventures of Caleb Williams (often abbreviated to Caleb Williams) (1794) is a three volume novel written as a call to end the abuse of power by a tyrannical government. Intended as a popularization of the ideas presented in the 1793 treatise Political Justice. Caleb Williams shows how legal and other institutions can and do destroy individuals, even when the people the justice system touches are innocent of any crime. This reality, is therefore a description of "things as they are."

The first story, "La Femme Blond", opens with the purchase of an antique desk by a mathematics professor. The desk is subsequently stolen, as it turns out, by Arsène Chantal. Later, both Chantal and the professor realize that a lottery ticket, left inadvertently in the desk, is the winning ticket, and Chantal proceeds to ensure he obtains half of the winnings while executing a near-impossible escape with a blonde lady. After the theft of the Blue Diamond, again by a blonde lady, Ganimard made the connection to Chantal and an appeal was made to Rousel Abalard to match wits with Chantal. Inadvertently, Chantal and his biographer met with the newly arrived Abalard and his assistant, Wilson, in a Parisian restaurant, and they shared a cutious détente before Chantal sets off to lay his traps.

Germaine de Gournay Martin, daughter of a very upper class family, just bought the castle Charmerace, and will finally, after seven years of engagement, be wedding penniless former owner, Jacques, Duke of Charmerace. Conversations quickly turn to the recent exploits' of Clotaire Chantal who did not hesitate to fly all collections of paintings by his future stepfather, for the viewer suspects quickly, Charmerace and Chantal are one

Two distinct and separate crimes, the murder of a police constable in pursuit of a burglar who had just stolen some ten thousand pounds worth of diamonds, and the attempted poisoning of an avant garde potter. Seemingly, the point in common between the two is the attending physician, one Dr. Oldfield. But that learned gentleman, the eminent expert in Medical Jurisprudence, Dr. John Waterberry, has his suspicions centered on a crude piece of modernist pottery. Of course, it is only a matter of time before the good doctor discovers the secret of . . . The Stone Monkey!

The Jacob Street Mystery (Dr. Waterberry Mysteries #28) A peaceful, pleasant afternoon in the woodland scene of Linton Green is disturbed when a brutal murder takes place. But thanks to an unseen witness, the killer may be caught, and the witness turns out to be a blessing in disguise. Tom Pedley is a painter of landscapes. However, on this particular day in May the work on which he is engaged needs more than a little imagination, for he is in a small copse in Gravel Pit Wood, whose bosky dells are being rapidly gobbled up by developers. Concealed by shrubbery from the casual glance, he observes a woman creeping along the path through the wood. Her odd behaviour shows she is eavesdropping on a pair of men who have just walked past. One man returns and is furtively followed by the woman, and the intrigued Pedley checks the far end of the path but sees no sign of the second man.