The Best of Robert Bloch

5 best books like The Best of Robert Bloch (Robert Bloch): Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays, Murder in Black Tie, The Prisoner's Key, The Egyptian Antiquities Murder, Androcles and the Lion

Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays

Author

Luigi Pirandello

Pirandello (1867-1936) is the founding architect of twentieth-century drama, brilliantly innovatory in his forms and themes, and in the combined energy, imagination and visual colours of his theatre.This volume of plays, translated from the Italian by Mark Musa, opens with Six Characters in Search...

Murder in Black Tie

Author

Sara Rosett

Top hats and tails. Mink and murder . . .
November, 1923. An invitation to a house party at the estate of Parkview Hall is a welcome respite for Olive Belgrave, a newly minted working girl who’s become the solver of high society’s trickiest problems.
But when the sumptuous black tie event...

The Prisoner's Key

Author

C.J. Archer

India's study into the language of spells is interrupted by the arrest of her teacher for an unpaid debt. Before Matt can repay it for him, the powerful magician escapes from his prison cell. To make matters worse, the moneylender is murdered and the magician is implicated.

Convinced of his...

The Egyptian Antiquities Murder

Author

Sara Rosett

An opulent London townhouse, a mummy curse . . . . . . and a plucky lady detective. It’s October, 1923, and Olive Belgrave has a new case. Her client, Lady Agnes doesn’t believe in curses, and she hires Olive to prove her Egyptologist uncle wasn’t the victim of a malevolent mummy. Olive investigates...

Androcles and the Lion

Author	George Bernard Shaw
ISBN	0140450130

Androcles and the Lion is a 1912 play written by George Bernard Shaw. Androcles and the Lion is Shaw's retelling of the tale of Androcles, a slave who is saved by the requited mercy of a lion. In the play, Shaw makes Androcles out to be one of many Christians being led to the Colosseum for torture. Characters...