The Lake District Murder (British Library Crime Classics) (35 page)

Inspector Meredith? Well, that is hardly correct. Superintendent Meredith would meet the case better—a co-worker with Thompson at Carlisle headquarters! A well-merited promotion!

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MR BAZALGETTE’S AGENT

Leonard Merrick

With an Introduction by Mike Ashley

When Miriam Lea falls on hard times, an advertisement for private agents catches her eye, and within weeks she finds herself in Mr Bazalgette’s employ as a private detective in pursuit of an audacious fraudster. What follows is a journey through some of the great cities of Europe – and eventually to South Africa – as Miss Lea attempts to find her man. Miriam Lea is only the third ever professional female detective to appear in a work of crime fiction. Originally published in 1888,
Mr Bazalgette’s Agent
presents a determined and resourceful heroine who grapples with some very modern dilemmas of female virtue and vice.

ISBN 978 0 7123 5702 9

144 pages

Also available as an ebook (978 0 7123 6307 5)

THE SANTA KLAUS MURDER

Mavis Doriel Hay

Aunt Mildred declared that no good could come of the Melbury family’s Christmas gatherings at their country residence Flaxmere. So when Sir Osmond Melbury, the family patriarch, is discovered – by a guest dressed as Santa Klaus – with a bullet in his head on Christmas Day, the festivities are plunged into chaos. Nearly every member of the party stands to reap some sort of benefit from Sir Osmond’s death, but Santa Klaus, the one person who seems to have had every opportunity to fire the shot, has no apparent motive. In the midst of mistrust, suspicion and hatred, it emerges that there was not one Santa Klaus, but two.
The Santa Klaus Murder
is a classic country-house mystery that is now being made available to readers for the first time since its original publication in 1936.

ISBN 978 0 7123 5712 8

288 pages

Also available as an ebook (978 0 7123 6313 6)

Table of Contents

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Introduction

I. The Body in the Car

II. Meredith Gets Going

III. The Puzzle of the Hose-Pipe

IV. Clue at the Bank?

V. Motive?

VI. Sensational Verdict

VII. The Parked Petrol Lorry

VIII. Prince and Bettle Explain

IX. Investigations at the Lothwaite

X. Discoveries at the Depot

XI. Problem Number Two

XII. Fraud?

XIII. Meredith Sets his Scheme in Motion

XIV. The Quart in the Pint Pot!

XV. The Inspector of Weights and Measures

XVI. The Bee’s Head Brewery

XVII. The Muslin Bag

XVIII. Meredith Goes to Earth

XIX. Pipes

XX. “The Admiral”

XXI. Reconstruction of the Crime

XXII. Circumstantial Evidence

XXIII. The Last Round-Up

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