Tread Softly (Brian Flynn)

Anthony Bathurst investigates a murder committed in a dream.

Fear and Trembling (Brian Flynn)

David Somerset, an analytical and manufacturing chemist, has a secret worth one million pounds. Enough to kill for?

The Fortescue Candle (Brian Flynn)

Home Secretaries are sometimes voted out; they occasionally resign – but few are murdered.

Strange Ending (E.R. Punshon)

Punshon promises a criminal “fine dining” experience … and serves brown Windsor soup.

Music Tells All (E.R. Punshon)

Theme and limited variations in this Much Middle-ing Punshon.

The Case of the Purple Calf (Brian Flynn)

Anthony Bathurst versus the ladder of death!

The Longer Bodies (Gladys Mitchell)

“I have heard of your work… More: I have read your books. Utter rubbish. How do you do?”

Antidote to Venom (Freeman Wills Crofts)

Crofts tries to combine the inverted detective story with Christian evangelism. Let there be carnage.

Live Flesh (Ruth Rendell)

Live Flesh is one of Rendell's "dark" novels about dysfunctional people. Victor Jenner is a serial rapist and a violent psychopath.

To Fear a Painted Devil (Ruth Rendell)

Ruth Rendell in waspish mood.