Автор: Basil Thomson

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First World War espionage was a fascinating and dangerous affair, spawning widespread paranoia in its clandestine wake. The hysteria of the age, stoked by those within the British establishment who s …

The D.D.I. recognized him and smiled. ‘That was a great case you brought us. You’ll be interested to hear that it is a case of mur-r-der!’ For eight years Basil Thomson headed the famous C.I.D., New …

In the hall he found the body of his maidservant, Helen Dunn, aged about fifty, lying on the floor near the telephone. She had bled profusely from a wound in the head and her body was cold. Richardso …

‘The late Miss Clynes, sir? How dreadful. It must have been very sudden.’ ‘It was.’ Naomi Clynes was found dead, her head in the gas-oven. She left a suicide note, but Richardson, newly promoted to t …

He flung open a drawer and took from it a heavy dagger in a sheath with blood-stains upon it. On the blade were engraved the words, ‘Blut und Ehre!’ Frank Everett was a rising young press attaché at …

‘I’m writing to you about the death of Mr. Dearborn. You bet the murderer’s laughing up his sleeve now that he’s got away with it.’ An inquest is held in South Devon on the death of a man apparently …

‘There’s one thing which I daresay you noticed—that pair of slippers half kicked under the bath were of men’s size.’ ‘Yes, I noticed that, too, and they were sprinkled with blood.’ A man went calmly …

‘What are you looking for, sir?’ he said. ‘Bloodstains.’ Scotland Yard is concerned with the murderer, or murderers, of the mysterious Bernard Pitt. The dead man is discovered with a false identity, …

None of the other guests could explain what she was doing in Crooked Lane during the night… Beautiful Margaret Gask, guest at Scudamore Hall, was shot to death on the driveway of the estate. The mink …

THE INGRAINED love of personal liberty inherent in the British people and their distrust in giving additional power to their governments made Great Britain one of the slowest countries in the world t …

In ‘The Fijians: A Study of the Decay of Custom, ‘ Basil Thomson meticulously examines the intricate tapestry of Fijian society in the late 19th century, as it grapples with the dual tides of colonia …

In ‘Savage Island: An Account of a Sojourn in Niu√© and Tonga, ‘ Basil Thomson offers an insightful exploration of the islands of Niu√© and Tonga through a unique lens of adventure and ethnographic o …

MY READERS WILL be divided between those who think that I have not told enough, that I have told too much and that I had better have told nothing at all. I bow my head to them all. The list of those …

Dans cette affaire tardive, Richardson, maintenant haut responsable du Yard, prend un siège arrière alors qu’une petite équipe de détectives commence une enquête sur le cas d’un homme assassiné non i …

A rich but curmudgeonly old man dies suddenly, and there is evidence of murder. But what was he doing in the night, in a seldom visited part-ruined chapel in his country estate of Carfax Abbey? Who w …

In ‘Savage Island: An Account of a Sojourn in Niué and Tonga, ‘ Basil Thomson presents a captivating narrative that intricately weaves personal observation with rich historical context. Employing a v …

A BIG Sunbeam touring car was crawling along the concrete road of one of the new building estates bordering on Ealing. Its occupants were gazing at the fronts of the houses on either side of the road …

ON A DEPRESSING November afternoon, when the street lights scarce sufficed to pierce the wet mist, a young policeman stood at his post in Baker Street at the point where Crawford Street joins the mai …

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