автор: Ronald Knox

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The insurance firm investigator, Miles Bredon, must determine whether suicide or murder is the cause of the gas poisoning death in an inn of a man who has recently concluded a complex insurance polic …

Ronald Knox was one of the most influential British convert-writers of the 20th century. Of his many works, The Belief of Catholics is his best-known book and his premiere piece of apologetics. While …

A unique anthology for crime aficionados — six ‘perfect murder’ stories written by the most accomplished crime writers of the 1930s, designed to fox real-life Scotland Yard Superintendent Cornish, wh …

When private investigator Miles Bredon and his wife, Angela, arrive for a weekend at the Hallifords’ country house, they find themselves part of a singularly ill-assorted house party. Waking one morn …

The Hon. Vernon Lethaby is a flamboyant, headline-seeking exhibitionist with extravagant tastes and an allowance that barely covers his racing debts. In an unlikely partnership with middle-aged Canad …

At first sight the case looks simple enough to private investigator Miles Bredon. Two cousins on a boat trip on the River Thames: Derek with a 50, 000 reason for surviving the next two months until h …

After Colin Reiver is acquitted of responsibility for killing a child in a car accident he sets out on a sea cruise in the hope that it might ease local feeling and the voice of his own conscience.Bu …

In a gas-lit inn in the countryside a man lies dead. The police, of course, investigate — and so do Miles Bredon and his wife, in the interests of the Indescribable Insurance Company, with which the …

When four friends stumble across the body of a fellow club member during a game of golf they suspect murder. The police aren’t so sure, and when it looks as though the official verdict will be suicid …

Six “perfect murders” by Margery Allingham, Dorothy L. Sayers, and other Golden Age Mystery authors of the Detection Club—plus an essay by Agatha Christie.   Founded in England …

It’s “great fun” when a baker’s dozen of Golden Age authors collaborate on a whodunit—including Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, and G. K. Chesterton (The G …

The business of death has given insurance investigator Miles Bredon a unique outlook on life in this witty Golden Age mystery.   Jephthah Mottram has been given some bad news from his doctor. Th …