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Hugh Everton was intent on nothing more than quietly drinking in the second-rate hotel he found himself in on England's south coast—and then in walked his old flame Lucy and her new husband and ex-Judge, Gregory Bath. Entreated by Lucy to join her party for an evening back at the Bath residence, Hugh is powerless to resist, but when the night ends with the judge's inexplicable murder he is pitched back into a world of chaos and crime—a world he had tried to escape for good.

Sarah has been receiving threatening anonymous letters seemingly from a former lover. Just one day after revealing this information to her co-worker Nancy, Sarah is shot and found in her bedroom by one of her past flames, Donald. Desperate to clear any evidence of Donald's presence at the scene for her own infatuations, Nancy finds herself as the key suspect when she is discovered in the apartment. As the real killer uses the situation to their advantage, Bennett crafts a tense and nuanced story through flashbacks to Sarah's life and loves.

Four men had arranged to fly to Dublin. When their aeroplane descended as a fireball into the Irish Sea, only three of them were on board. With the identities of the passengers lost beneath the waves, a tense and perplexing investigation begins to determine the living from the dead, with scarce evidence to follow beyond a few snippets of overheard conversation and one family’s patchy account of the three days prior to the flight.

A short story from the British Library Crime Classic collection The Edinburgh Mystery. Published in 1955, this is a domestic tale which sees a family member commit the ultimate crime when they’ve had enough of their miserly aunt’s frugal ways.

Der Besuch eines Büchersammlers in der Baker Street erweist sich als Auftakt eines spannenden Falls im Spätsommer des Jahres 1888. In einem parallelen Fall wird Holmes gebeten, Inspektor MacDonald bei den Ermittlungen im Außenministerium zu unterstützen. Während es Holmes zunächst nicht gelingt, die richtigen Fäden zu verknüpfen, zieht ein Unheil herauf, das für den berühmten Detektiv eine schwere Niederlage bereithält.

Ostern - Das Fest der Auferstehung. Für Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson bleibt jedoch keine Zeit für ein gemütliches Beisammensein, denn ein Klient sucht sie in der Baker Street auf. Dieser betraut sie mit der Suche nach einem ganz besonderen Osterei. Einem goldenen Osterei. Das allererste, jemals geschaffene Fabergé-Ei ist spurlos verschwunden. Einzige Spur: Drei Zettel mit seltsam verfassten Gedichten...