β Scribed by Brian Flynn
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
βAs you seem to be indicating a spot of murderβwellβletβs have the facts.β Major Daniel Wyatt gathers a group of six people together in the back room of a London restaurant. All are acquainted with AndrΓ© de Ravenac β a known blackmailer, but most probably also a serial murderer. He is currently threatening to destroy the life of a woman they all care for. Hence a plan is hatched to assassinate De Ravenac at a masked ball β and once all of the men agree, lots are drawn. Each is assigned a random role in the plan β as they are all of roughly the same build and will be wearing masks, nobody will know which of them is the man who carries out the fatal blow . . . The Orange Axe , the ninth Anthony Bathurst mystery, was originally published in 1931. This new edition includes an introduction by crime fiction historian Steve Barge. **
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
"Murder as a fine art, as a pure expression of sadism is almost unknown." Thus spoke Anthony Bathurst to his friend, Chief Inspector MacMorran, but he will soon come to regret the statement. Julian Skene arrives to ask his assistance in the case of the disappearance of Mark Kenriston. Kenriston w
"This man Merivale admits that he killed his wife. Makes no bones about it whatever. Confesses that he strangled her. But he says that he was fast asleep at the time that he was doing it. That all he did, he did in a dream." Chief Inspector MacMorran is up against the most extraordinary case of h
_The wedges are fixed for the Sussex Cuckoo. Hurry if you would be in time. Even then I fear that you may be too late. Terms as arranged. NEHEMIAH._ Thus reads an announcement in the _Times_ Agony Column, catching the eye of Anthony Lotherington Bathurst on the morning he visits botanist James Frith
I never thought it would fall to my lot to write what is popularly known as a βthrillerβ, but Lois insists that I am the right person to do it and when Lois sets her mind on anythingβ Young Cecilia Cameron takes up reins as narrator in one of Brian Flynnβs most diabolical and surprising mysteries
"The murderer must have crept stealthily behind Pearson and taken him all unawares-unsuspecting." Leonard Pearson was not a pleasant individual - a likely blackmailer - so it came as no surprise when he met a sticky end. Attacked from behind, his head smashed with a blunt instrument, the only tan
### Product Description _βDid you hear, during these last few days, any mention from your brother of an animal?β_ _Amazingly, she nodded! βYes . . . I heard him refer onceβto a spiked lion.β_ John Pender Blundell, a codebreaker in the Great War, is found dead in Bushey Park. He met his end, despite