From a classic novella with a puzzle that the reader solves together with its characters, to a crime thriller full of unexpected plot twists, this collection...

Sir Henry's rest on his estate was unceremoniously interrupted by Inspector Masters, who decided to involve the great Old Man in the case of the Brace family...

Sir Henry's business trip. This time he decided to go to Tangier, to take a break from mysteries and locked rooms. However, it is not meant to be. Police Chi...

Sir Henry Merrivale is on horseback again. This time we will have to investigate a case in which the victim, at first glance, tried to rob himself, and as a ...

The story is told from the perspective of Dr. Luke Croxley. He talks about the development of a romance between his friend's wife, Rita Wainwright, and a you...

Anonymous letters, rumors, gossip. What else could disturb the calm life of the English village of Stoke Druid, where everyone knows each other? Maybe a fant...

Former actress Margery Vane returns to her homeland. More than twenty years ago, right on stage, during the play “Romeo and Juliet,” her husband died. Now th...

When trying to apprehend a shoplifter, an employee was killed. And the next day the policeman who was investigating the case was killed. Moreover, he was kil...

Works that we grew up with, and works that are completely unfamiliar to us. Everything that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle himself wrote about the great detective fr...

Hillerman, author of the Joe Leaphorn mysteries, and Herbert, editor of The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing, trace this short-story genre fr...

Sir Henry Merrivale attacks America! Invitation from old friend G.M. Fred Manning, who promised to arrange a great mystery for him, turned into an investigat...

Major Holden, returning to London after a forced absence, finds himself at the center of a mysterious story related to the death of Margot, the wife of his b...