The Female Detective
10 best books like The Female Detective (Andrew Forrester): Quick Curtain, Thirteen Guests, Death of an Airman, Death on the Riviera, Verdict of Twelve, Wagner the Werewolf, Vendetta or the Story of One Forgotten, The Lancashire Witches, Diana of the Crossways, A Group of Noble Dames
| Author | Alan Melville |
| ISBN | 0712357890 |
'Don't talk bunk!' said Mr Douglas. 'You can't carry on with the show with a man dying on stage. Drop the curtain!'
When Douglas B. Douglas—leading light of the London theatre—premieres his new musical extravaganza, Blue Music, he is sure the packed house will be dazzled by the performance....
| Author | J. Jefferson Farjeon |
| ISBN | 1464204896 |
On a fine autumn weekend, Lord Aveling hosts a hunting party at his country house, Bragley Court. Among the guests are an actress, a journalist, an artist, and a mystery novelist. The unlucky thirteenth is John Foss, injured at the local train station and brought to the house to recuperate – but John...
| Author | Christopher St. John Sprigg |
| ISBN | 0712356150 |
Death of an Airman is an enjoyable and unorthodox whodunit from a writer whose short life was as remarkable as that of any of his fictional creations. When an aeroplane crashes, and its pilot is killed, Edwin Marriott, the Bishop of Cootamundra in Australia, is on hand. In England on leave, the Bishop...
| Author | John Bude |
| ISBN | 1464205698 |
When a counterfeit currency racket comes to light on the French Riviera, Detective Inspector Meredith is sent speeding southwards out of the London murk to the warmth and glitter of the Mediterranean. Along with Inspector Blampignon, an amiable policeman from Nice, Meredith must trace the whereabouts...
| Author | Raymond Postgate |
| ISBN | 0897331982 |
This was a delightful read. It's hard not to use the word "delightful" when describing this old fashioned British courtroom drama. Verdict of Twelve is a republication of a book originally released in 1940. It starts with the backstory of the twelve jurors selected for a murder trial, describes the...
| Author | George W.M. Reynolds |
| ISBN | 1840225300 |
Only one of the following 19 things does NOT happen in WAGNER, THE WEHR-WOLF - can you guess which one?
1. A Christian Italian in Turkey renounces his faith and becomes a Muslim to win the heart of a beautiful woman!
2. A werewolf battles a giant python!
3. Skeletons in a closet - LITERAL skeletons!
4....
| Author | Marie Corelli |
| ISBN | 1564599388 |
What a great story. Wouldn't recommend this book to anyone going through marital problems but would recommend it to anyone else. Fabio and Nina are a young couple with a daughter living in Italy in the 1860s. Fabio gets cholera and dies...or at least they thought so. He is placed in the family above ground...
| Author | William Harrison Ainsworth |
| ISBN | 1592240631 |
Ainsworth's last masterpiece, The Lancashire Witches proved a best-seller in its day and influenced many contemporary authors. The Lancashire Witches begins in the 16th century, in Lancashire, England. When a Cistercian monk, Borlace Alvetham, is falsely accused of witchcraft and condemned...
| Author | George Meredith |
| ISBN | 0814328946 |
Peter Ackroyd's "Dan Leno" includes a lot of scenes in the Reading Room of the British Library - I don't know how much historical liberty has to be taken to find a morning where Karl Marx, Oscar Wilde and George Gissing were all sitting there at the same time. Anyway, it was either that book or his "Chatterton"...
| Author | Thomas Hardy |
| ISBN | 1406924660 |
(I wonder if Agatha Christie read this book. It certainly reminded me of one of her books - a group of people swap mystery stories one evening?) Hardy gets his people together to swap stories about notable women. I like this method a lot, it gives a theme and continuity to the stories - something I miss in...
| Author | Louisa May Alcott |
| ISBN | 0553377957 |
This chilling tale of lust, deception and greed, first published anonymously in 1877, allowed Alcott the chance to exercise "the lurid style" she believed was her "natural ambition". A novel of psychological complexity that touches on the controversial subjects of sexuality and drug use, A Modern...
| Author | William Morris |
| ISBN | 0345032616 |
At about the 2/3 mark I started to reconsider what this was about. It is clearly in the vein of a chivalrous romance, its events and adventures unspooling as though from a storyteller's tongue, all sort of strung together and barely contained by the basic frame of Osberne's courtly romance with Elfhild...
| Author | Charles Warren Adams |
| ISBN | 0712358595 |
Can you name the first detective novel ever published? For years, many believed it to be Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone, published in 1868. Others speculated it might be Émile Gaboriau’s first Monsieur Lecoq novel, L’Affaire Lerouge. Actually, the first modern detective novel predates...
The Wheels of Chance: A Bicycling Idyll
| Author | H.G. Wells |
| ISBN | 1406502359 |
A tale of social uneasiness, a comedy of ill-manners, H.G. Wells’s fourth published novel is a long-forgotten little shiner, set in the Golden Age of the bicycling craze, sweeping Victorian England with the fervour of the late-nineties Furby. The insecure hero, a piddling draper with cringeing...
| Author | Freeman Wills Crofts |
| ISBN | 1464203792 |
‘Mr Wills Crofts is deservedly a first favourite with all who want a real puzzle’ – Times Literary Supplement
‘He always manages to give us something that really keeps us guessing’ – Daily Mirror
George Surridge, director of the Birmington Zoo, is a man with many worries: his marriage...
Lady Molly of Scotland Yard
| Author | Emmuska Orczy |
| ISBN | 1419129090 |
There was a comment recently on a Lord Peter discussion group about "the Lady Molly stories", or Lady Molly of Scotland Yard. I'd never heard of them, so I did a search, and was surprised to find that they were written by the same author as The Scarlet Pimpernel, Baroness Orczy. A few minutes later I had the...
Alternate Cover Edition for 9781463556990.
Only Sir Edward had the motive, the opportunity, and a garden full of the identical roses sent to each victim before their death.
The first victim was Sir Edward’s ex-mistress, a woman who threw him over for a younger man. After receiving...
