Pennington Barclay, master of Greengrove, is murderously attacked in his library by something that disappears from a completely locked room. The entire household—including Barclay's beautiful young wife, and his nephew and heir apparent based on a newly discovered will—is ...

The burial vault was solidly built with walls eighteen inches thich, stone floors, and no vents or windows. The sturdy lock, sealed with Dr. Fell's own signet, showed no signs of tampering. "Come off it, sir!" said Inspector Crawford, with sudden loudness. "What could happen, among ...

The little town of Sparta, New York has been having a hellish winter. Certainly it's not the record snowfall or the Arctic temperatures that are making things hot. What's got the local police in a sweat is a series of seemingly unrelated but violent deaths that are visited upon the ...

Sanders' first impression was that he was looking at a waxworks or a group of stuffed figures. In a rich shell of a room, with mural paintings on either side of the fireplace, four dummies sat in various broken attitudes at a long refectory table. At the foot of the table was a handsome ...

HOSPITAL-CORNERED In their very first appearance, Jake Justus, Helene Brand, and John J. Malone track down a bed-making murderer. A 1930's comedy classic.