A very sick young man dies shortly after midnight on his 21st birthday - time enough to inherit a fortune just before dying. But that was only the first death...

A young woman appears to be haunted and persecuted by herself - in the form of a double, known as a doppelganger...

Sir Frederic Bruce was killed when he got too close to solving an old series of disappearances. It was up to Charlie Chan to reveal the truth about what really happened.

Sir Wilfrid was alone in the railroad carriage, and the weapon was on the scene. But Inspector Arnold didn't like the way the pieces of the puzzle fit together...

If Pam North hadn’t decided that the vacant apartment upstairs in their building would be a good place to hold a party, it’s quite possible that the body of a murder victim wouldn’t have been discovered for a long time...

The voyage of the fishing trawler Ocean had been an unlucky trip

British laws about taxes and estates are not generally thought of in terms of murder - but somebody seems to be eliminating lawyers working on a complicated tax case. It's another of Sarah Caudwell's romps through the legal profession.

Police Constable Richardson was in the right place at the right time to help his superiors solve a tricky murder case. This early police procedural sees the meteoric rise of a young policeman's career.

Inspector Cockrill had hoped the tour of Europe would be a relaxing vacation. Murder - and a local police force looking for a scapegoat - made it a tour to remember in all the wrong ways.

Originally serialized in 1862-63, Julian Symons and many others consider it to be the first detective novel, as it leads the reader through an insurance investigator's efforts to discover the truth about the evil Baron R., suspected wife-killer.