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Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, G.K. Chesterton and nine other writers from the legendary Detection Club collaborate in this fiendishly clever but forgotten crime novel first published 80 years ago.Inspector Rudge does not encounter many cases of murder in the sleepy seaside town of Whynmouth. But when an old sailor lands a rowing boat containing a fresh corpse with a stab wound to the chest, the Inspector's investigation immediately comes up against several obstacles. The vicar, whose boat the body was found in, is clearly withholding information, and the victim's niece has disappeared. There is clearly more to this case than meets the…

Ох, как время-то бежит! Не успели оглянуться, а мальчонке второй годик пошел. Сколько хлопот доставил он родителям, будучи еще совсем крошкой! (Надеемся Исповедь маленького негодника — первую книгу о нашем младенце — прочитали все.) А теперь он научился ходить, высказывать свои пожелания, стал более наблюдательным… Маленький негодник в полной мере пользуется преимуществами своего роста, так что родителям, дедушкам и бабушкам, а также домашнему коту приходится туго. Однако эти шалости — вовсе не признак злого характера. Мальчик лишь хочет, чтобы ему уделяли больше внимания и заботы.

Сотрудница британского посольства в Риме Харриет Чейли приезжает в Англию, узнав о смерти младшего брата Дикки — учёного-филолога. Встретившись с домовладельцем брата и врачом, поставившим диагноз «воспаление лёгких», как причину смерти — сестра начинает собственное расследование..

During a boring dinner party at a Fedborough mansion with some stuffy acquaintances, the mummified torso of a woman turns up in the cellar, and Jude and her reluctant neighbor, Carole, find themselves playing detective in another puzzling whodunit.

Welcome to Fethering! The race is on to find a killer when Jude stumbles across a body at the bookies in this quirky, cozy, British village mystery. Jude has never been averse to a bit of a flutter; her friend Carole, on the other hand, thinks that the local betting shop is a den of iniquity. But when Jude stumbles upon the body of fellow customer Tadeusz Jankowski after placing a bet, the odds of finding his killer don't look good. No one seems to know much about Polish immigrant Tadek, and even his sister doesn't know why he moved to Fethering in the first place. As they question the local residents, Carole finds an unexpected friend in…

Carole Seddon's son is about to be married. But as plans for the big day get underway, Stephen's future parents-in-law, Marie and Harold, seem desperate to keep the affair as discreet as possible. Then, after a quiet engagement party, Harold disappears . . . only to be found dead the next day, in a burnt out car in Epping Forest. While the family try to deal with their grief, Carole discovers they are concealing secrets that can be traced back thirty years, to the murder of Marie's best friend. Now the girl's killer has been released from prison and is back in his old stomping ground, near Fethering. As Carole enlists the help of her…