Mid90s

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extre...

Near the right temple was a hole, and down the forehead and along the nose was dried blood. 'Shot...

'If you don't think I'm taking a liberty in saying so, my opinion is that he was knocked down fir...

I am going to commit a murder. I offer no apology for the curtness of the statement. An individua...

It wasn't I who discovered the body. I want to make that perfectly clear, if only for the benefit...

'Murder is easy. It's child's play to commit murder and get away with it.' Unpleasant uncle Huber...

'At first it may seem an astounding coincidence that two members of a family should have consider...

As Travers's finger touched the dead hand, he felt the warmth, and wondered if the man were still...

What was I to be this time? A Commandant again of a Prisoner of War Camp? Was I to get a sedentar...

Old Hunt slithered in the most amazing way and then fell to the floor. He lay between the seats, ...

I never did like missing people. Far too often we've found them dead.When that cheerful soul, Dor...

The curtain had been drawn back and there was the bed. Wharton and a stranger were standing by it...

'Anything doing?''Maybe,' he said guardedly, and then as a kind of afterthought: 'Just slipping a...

Between the acting of a dreadful thing, and the first motion...Ludovic Travers sees it happen. He...

Constantine the Great and Christianity

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extre...

'George Wharton said he hoped I'd have a nice murder for you.'Ludovic Travers and his wife choose...

However thorough your search was, I'm convinced the murderer, or the burglar-call him what you wi...

'Famous Spiritualist Dead . . . Gun Found in Flat'In The Case of the Happy Medium Ludovic Travers...

'Let us know when you're dead!' Ludovic Travers had known it was a publicity stunt, all that busi...

There was no mess: just a dark stain one could see on the waistcoat. What was horrible was the co...

'You needn't look impatient, sir. He'll be finished with you long before dinner.¿ Who has murdere...

'It's about a murder. . . . Here. Five Oaks, they call it. . . . A man, he's murdered. . . . Oh, ...

'Murder's my job, not parish politics.'Ludovic Travers, the unofficial expert of Scotland Yard, p...

Travers turned to Wharton. 'I ask you, George, as a man of the world-do schoolmasters and mistres...

We've got to have a body.That's what what detective Ludovic Travers says, after being contacted b...

He was deader than last year's hit-song. At the side of the skull was where the bullet had done i...

Constantine the Great and Christianity

The tea had brought a pleasant warmth and Travers snuggled down in bed. Once more he was busy wit...

The murderer was clever and the planning was perfect. There was apparently nothing that had been ...

Palmer saw him out, and gave that little deprecatory cough.'If you'll pardon me, sir, is it anoth...

Travers looked down at the thing that sprawled. The head gave a last movement, and there was a fa...

Ideographic Modernism offers a critical account of the ideograph (Chinese writing as imagined in ...

Isn't it a tremendous coincidence that his murderer should also have had large front teeth? Ludov...

'And that's not all. Somers is dead too … He poisoned himself … in the lounge!' Whe...

'It's terrible. It's a body . . . the head cut off . . . and the hands.'Who is-or was-the headles...

'It was some sort of sudden death?' Travers made a face. 'It certainly was sudden. I'll say it's ...

'Is he bad, sir?''Worse than that,' I said. 'In fact, he's dead.'1943. Ludovic Travers, consultin...

'I have an idea that a certain man is going to commit murder. He told me so-in so many words.'If ...

I was thinking of offering Godfrey Prial some sort of partnership. I'm pretty sure now of at leas...

'Send someone here quick. There's been a murder!'Mr Lewton is dead. Stabbed through the back, no ...

'I judge him to have been dead just about twenty-four hours. Suicide, almost certainly.'Ludovic T...

Travers looked down at the face. On the collar was a red patch and a long streak. Across the thro...

I liked him. When I heard of his death I was quite upset.Henry Baldlow is a nervous man. An appar...

An attendant had come in with the cage. He stooped and held the rope taut. The cage door was open...

'And that's not all. Somers is dead too … He poisoned himself … in the lounge!' The...

It was Murder Eve, and I was the last person in Sandbeach to suspect it.Ludovic Travers certainly...