Bøger af Charles J Dutton

A John Bartley MysteryWhen the famous detective John Bartley is approached about looking into the case of two men convicted of a robbery, he is at first reluctant to involve himself in such a commonplace crime; that is until he discovers that the details of the evidence used to convict the men bears a striking resemblance to an obscure English case from the previous century in which two men were wrongly convicted on manufactured evidence. But upon commencing his investigation, he finds himself with not one, but two mysteries to solve, when the alleged victim of the robbery is found dead in his bedchamber. He must determine if the two cases are related while also discovering the identity of the murderer. His task is made more difficult by the fact that in the first case he is confronted with too much evidence while in the second there appears to be too little.

When the death of a well known physician during a dinner party is determined to have been due to some mysterious unknown poison, the natural assumption was that the host of the party had been the intended victim. After all, the doctor had moved to the seat of his host just before he died. And the host had complained to the chief of police himself about a series of anonymous and threatening notes he had received, so much so, that two policemen had been posted outside the house during the dinner. But why would either man have been a target? And how had the untraceable poison been delivered under the eyes of both the guests and the police? Unable to find answers to these questions the police chief turns to his old friend, Professor Harley Manners for help. But can even Dr. Manners, a specialist in abnormal psychology, discover the secrets behind the . . . Poison Unknown!