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  • Silence After Dinner

    by Clifford Witting ...
    It was a far cry from Communist China to the peaceful village on the South Downs, but to be a self-confessed murderer, keeping his agonized diary, it could buy no peace. But then who was the writer of the diary? 'I feel the net drawing in around me even closer and closer. Dufydd has appeared suddenly in Southmouth. He will never forgive. I remember his last words to me. 'Remember to come back, man ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Villainous Saltpetre

    by Clifford Witting ...
    In 1930, Guy Brangley, an unsuccessful playwright, stages his own disappearance in order to provoke publicity. Twenty-five years later his body was recovered from the sea, three days after he was last seen by anyone. Was this the tragic result of yet another publicity stunt? Or had Brangley been pushed from the battlements of his home, Pengawnen Castle? Villaneous Saltpetre is one of Clifford ... Read more

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  • A Bullet for Rhino. Inspector Harry Charlton Mysteries. Illustrated

    by Clifford Witting ...
    A Bullet for Rhino. Inspector Harry Charlton Mysteries. Illustrated In A Bullet for Rhino, Clifford Witting delivers a fast-paced and gripping mystery that takes Inspector Harry Charlton beyond the usual confines of small English villages and into the darker side of urban life. The story begins when an infamous figure known as "Rhino," a crime boss with a reputation for ruthlessness, is found ... Read more

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  • Let X Be The Murderer

    by Clifford Witting ...
    Let X be the Murderer was published in 1947. It is a bleak November morning when Sergeant Martin, Inspector Charlton s stalwart sidekick, receives an agitated phone call from Sir Victor Wallingham claiming that a ghost attempted to strangle him in the night. When Inspector Charlton follows this up, he is blocked at every turn, but even so, when the following night does actually end with the ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Midsummer Murder

    by Clifford Witting ...
    Witting's second Inspector Charlton mystery, first published in 1937, is set in Paulsfield (clearly a fictional Petersfield in Hampshire). It is a market day and there is much noise and bustle. A bull decides it is time to liberate itself and goes on the rampage. As this is happening, a cleaner working on the statue in the middle of the square is shot dead, straight through the head. Inspector ... Read more

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  • Murder in Blue

    by Clifford Witting ...
    John Rutherford, bookseller and sometime fiction writer, discovers the bludgeoned corpse of a policeman one evening while taking a stroll in a rainstorm. The policeman's overturned bicycle is what first catches Rutherford's eye. Then he sees Officer Johnson's body sprawled on the sodden ground of Phantom Coppice. Rutherford takes Johnson's bike and pedals to rural Paulsfield police station, two ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Catt Out of the Bag

    by Clifford Witting ...
    How, where and why did a man disappear from a group of carol singers on that cold December night in Paulsfield? It hardly seemed likely that he had absconded with the collecting box. But the more that Inspector Charlton found out about the missing person, the less certain he became that he would find him alive... Catt Out of the Bag appeared first in 1939, one of sixteen novels that the author ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Dead on Time

    by Clifford Witting ...
    The scene is The Blue Boar in the High Street, Lulverton. The occasion: the stag party planned to celebrate Sergeant Bert Martin's retirement after thirty years' service. 'It was good while it lasted,' said Bert, putting down his empty tankard with a reflective sigh. 'Bein' in the Force, I mean. Lookin' back over the long vista of the years...' But Bert had still until midnight before Bradfield ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Measure for Murder. Inspector Harry Charlton Mysteries. Illustrated

    by Clifford Witting ...
    Measure for Murder by Clifford Witting is a classic British mystery set in a small English village, where an amateur theater production takes a deadly turn. As the townspeople prepare for their annual play, underlying tensions and hidden animosities begin to surface among the cast and crew. When one of the actors is murdered onstage during a rehearsal, what seemed to be a harmless production is ... Read more

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  • A Bullet For Rhino

    by Clifford Witting ...
    Detective Inspector Harry Charlton finds himself invited to a reunion at Mereworth School at which a particularly unpleasant, but very famous and accomplished old boy, Colonel Bernard Garstang -VC, DSO and MC... aka 'Rhino' will be present. The Colonel is attending this event in order to persuade his daughter Diana and his ex-wife Muriel that Diana should accompany him to live in Port Douglas, ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • The Case of The Busy Bees

    by Clifford Witting ...
    Work was mounting up, Detective Inspector Charlton did not feel too well and he could have done without Mr Otto Bajornsen. Yet had not this untidy, smiling man come on his fact-finding trip to Downshire, the affair of the Busy Bees might have had a very different conclusion. Even as he sat talking in Charlton's office in Lulverton, the wheels were being set in motion and Mr Theophilus Mildwater, ... Read more

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  • The Case of the Michaelmas Goose

    by Clifford Witting ...
    Detective-Sergeant Martin christened him 'Whiskers', but nobody could be certain who he really was. That was not the only question that confronted Inspector Charlton of the C.I.D. How, for instance, did young Courtenay Harbord die? And why? Who was Number 106 and in what way did Mr. Ninian McCullough upset the apple-cart? The fourth Duke of Redbourn had built Etchworth Tower on the summit of High ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD