E. X. Ferrars Boeken

Lester Ballard's death is a mysterious affair, not least because of the strange attire he is found dead in. Ruth Seabright, governess to Lester's son, is completely baffled. She finds the body but cannot find her charge, nor can she work out who has been searching through her room.

Why, on a wet and stormy night, did the not only old, but very ill novelist Dan Braile decide to take a walk? The problems really begin when he doesn't come back. Most of his family wouldn't be sorry to see him disappear. Added to that are claims he'd made about someone trying to poison him.

There is a certain insistence about the ring of a doorbell that few can resist. So it was that September Sunday morning with Marabelle. It was her sister, the immaculate and self-centered Susan, who had come to command a favor. Marabelle thought afterwards that if only she had not gone to the door, it would have saved a lot of trouble. And perhaps it might have saved a life . . . or two . . . or three.

13 hervorragende Kriminal-Stories aus dem führenden Kriminal-Magazin der Welt. 1: Ruth Rendell berichtet von einem Mann, der eine Frau nicht mehr liebte... 2: Robert Edward Eckels weiß, wie süß das Gefühl der Rache ist... 3: Robert Cittadino hat sich einen überaus interessanten Briefwechsel ausgedacht... 4: Robert L. Fish kennt einen alten Trick, der fast immer zum Erfolg führt... 5: Patrick Scaffetti beschreibt eine Frau, die das Golfspiel nicht lernen wollte... Edward Wellen zeigt einen Fabrikanten, der keinen stillen Teilhaber wollte... Godfrey erzählt von einem Mädchen, das keinen Mord begangen hatte... Williamsons Held wollte gern einmal Vizepräsident sein. Elys Millionär glaubt, daß man für Geld alles kaufen kann... Sonora Morrow bringt Ausschnitte aus einem lesenswerten alten Tagebuch... Ferrars' Mörder ist ein Gentleman mit einem Faible für Rosen... Mary McMullens Sekretärin kann sich mit ihrer plötzlichen Entlassung nicht abfinden... Frank Sisk beschäftigt sich mit einem Farmer, der drei Grabtafeln sorgfältig vorbereitet... 13 Stories-13 Volltreffer.

Kriminalroman.

John Lestarke-Toye was sitting upright in his chair with his hands clasped on his little paunch, smiling, bland and genial as always. He was also quite, quite dead. On the purple carpet, surrounded by broken and disturbed furniture, was a great splash of blood. There was no medical explanation to suggest that John had died of other than natural causes. And no amount of reasoning could explain the condition of the room in which he was found. So Toby Dyke and his friend, George, set out to solve the mystery of a corpse without a murder and a murder without a corpse...

Hrsg. von George Hardinge, enthält Beiträge von Simon Brett, Elizabeth Ferrars und Antonia Fraser. 185 Seiten.