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English Country House Murders: Tales of Perfidious Albion EPUB



Nothing could seem more civilized, more orderly and sedate than a weekend at one of Great Britain's country estates. Yet these staid, conservative houses play host to a wider variety of murders than do the mean streets of America's darkest cities.



Contents:

   The adventure of the Abbey Grange / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

   A marriage tragedy / Wilkie Collins

   Lord Chizelrigg's missing fortune / Robert Barr

   The Fordwych Castle mystery / Emmuska, Barroness Orczy

   The blue scarab / R. Austin Freeman

   The doom of the Darnaways / G.K. Chesterton

   The shadow on the glass / Agatha Christie

   The queen's square / Dorothy L. Sayers

   Death on the air / Ngaio Marsh

   The same to us / Margery Allingham

   The hunt ball / Freeman Wills Crofts

   The incautious burglar / John Dickson Carr

   The long shot / Nicholas Blake

   Jeeves and the stolen Venus / P.G. Wodehouse

   Death in the sun / Michael Innes

   An unlocked window / Ethel Lina White

   The wood-for-the-trees / Philip MacDonald

   The man on the roof / Christianna Brand

   The death of Amy Robsart / Cyril Hare

   Fen Hall / Ruth Rendell

   A very desirable residence / P.D. James

   The Worcester enigma / James Miles



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