The 4th story of amateur detective journalist Charles Venables, set in an eastern Balkan country Iconia. Charles is sent to investigate murder and intrigue in the court of the strong-willed and bad-tempered Queen Hanna.
Christopher St John Sprigg Boeken
Christopher St. John Sprigg, beter bekend als Christopher Caudwell, was een Britse marxistische schrijver, denker en dichter. Zijn werk omvat een marxistische analyse van een breed scala aan onderwerpen, van poëzie en filosofie tot natuurkunde. Caudwell probeerde deze gebieden vanuit een marxistisch perspectief te herdenken, wat zijn literaire productie diepgaand vormgaf. Zijn belangrijkste werken, waaronder het uitgebreide gedicht 'Illusion and Reality' dat poëzie analyseert, werden postuum gepubliceerd. Zijn diepe inzichten en revolutionaire benadering spreken nog steeds lezers aan die geïnteresseerd zijn in sociale kritiek en literatuurtheorie.
A 1930s classic crime novel set in London featuring the amateur detective Richard Venables. A set of unusual characters residing at a residential hotel are under suspicion when the proprietress is murdered.
London 1938 and war is brewing with Russia. It’s brewing primarily due to the agenda of Lord Carpenter, proprietor of the leading newspaper The Mercury, a man determined to bring forward what he sees as an inevitable conflict. As he prepares to publish his coup de grace, a lead story that will make that conflict unavoidable, he locks his employees in the building so that his paper can publish an exclusive in the late edition without his competitors scooping him. And then, as so many future murder victims do in these novels, he isolates himself in his quarters with orders not to be disturbed. Guess what happens to him? He really shouldn’t have kept that extremely sharp dagger on display on his wall…
When an aeroplane crashes, and its pilot is killed, Edwin Marriott is not convinced that it was accidental. In due course, naturally, he is proved right!
A classic English crime novel originally published in 1934. A murder in the village of Great Hake baffles the local police, as everyone appears to have perfect alibis.... This book is the first of four featuring journalist (and amateur sleuth) Charles Venables.