Indeed, he read very little except detective stories, which he devoured at a rate of one a day. Ronald Knox, The Motive
It’s the Christmas pantomime season and the Henri de Benyat theatre company is performing Dick Whittington at the Pavilion in Burlington-on-Sea. The “Principle Boy” in this case is played Norma de Grey, an actress who is far from popular with the rest of the cast. So when she is poisoned on stage during a performance, there’s …
Continue reading Who Killed Dick Whittington? by E. and M. A. Radford (1947)
Colonel Donoughmore is not popular with his fellow anglers at the Tremarden Arms in Cornwall, so when he is late returning from a day of fly fishing no one is really bothered. And when he is found “Dead as Cornish Laamb. He were found in river the mornin’.”, the local police aren’t too concerned either. …