Duchlan Castle is a gloomy forbidding place in the Scottish Highlands Late one night the body of Mary Gregor sister of the laird of Duchlan is found in the castle She has been stabbed to death in her bedroom
- but the room is locked from within & the windows are barred The only tiny clue to the culprit is a silver fish's scale left on the floor next to Mary's body Inspector Dundas is dispatched to Duchlan to investigate the case The Gregor family & their servants are quick
- perhaps too quick
- to explain that Mary was a kind & charitable woman Dundas uncovers a more complex truth & the cruel character of the dead woman continues to pervade the house after her death Soon further deaths equally impossible occur & the atmosphere grows ever darker Superstitious locals believe that fish creatures from the nearby waters are responsible; but luckily for Inspector Dundas the gifted amateur sleuth Eustace Hailey is on the scene & unravels a more logical solution to this most fiendish of plots Anthony Wynne wrote some of the best locked-room mysteries from the golden age of British crime fiction This cunningly plotted novel
- one of Wynne's finest
- has never been reprinted since 1931 & is long overdue for rediscovery




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The SSU Command Squad is an expansion for Dust Tactics & with this squad you’ll gain a new level of control over your forces This unit is indispensable in overseeing your other forces Use their skills to reactivate units that you’ve already used bring previously destroyed vehicles back to the battlefield or bring in squads to reinforce your army Because of their powerful leadership abilities the SSU Command Squad is invaluable to any SSU commander An expansion for Dust Tactics

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Murder of Crows invites you to be the first player to spell "murder" – but thankfully you don&t have to use crow carcasses to do it Instead you&re spelling the word with letter cards from your hand Each player starts with five cards in hand & on a turn a player either (a) draws two cards or (b) draws one card & plays one card In addition to the Wild Crow card which can do just about anything cards come in five letters each with a special power that takes place when you play that card M – Misplace Take one card from a player&s murder – that is his collection of cards on the table – & add it to your hand U – Uncover All players reveal their hands & you take any one card & add it to your hand R – Reap Draw one additional card D – Drain Choose one letter All players discard one of those letters from play if possible E – Expel Everyone discards their hand & draws three new cards When an opponent&s card would affect you you can discard a card of matching crow power – as indicated in the top left corner of the card – to be immune from the action ...

The fifth fantastically quirky crime novel featuring amateur sleuth extraordinaire Kate Shackleton! 416 pages Brody Frances ...

Christmas Eve While the world sleeps snow falls gently from the sky presents await under the tree & murder is afoot In this collection of ten classic murder mysteries from the best crime writers in history death & mayhem take many festive forms from the inventive to the unexpected From a Santa Claus with a grudge to a cat who knows who killed its owner on Christmas Eve these are stories to enjoy
- & be mystified by
- in front of a roaring fire mince pie to hand

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You are the Captain aboard the Interplanetary Cosmic Express Cruise Line when it is discovered that the President of the Cosmic Express Lines has been murdered The Captain must examine the evidence interrogate the prime suspects & figure out who the Murderer is! Murder on the Cosmic Express is a social deduction game that takes less than 5 minutes to play Players 4-6 Playing time 5-10 mins Ages 8 ...

Murder on the Dance Floor brings a groovy twist to a game-night classic A ghastly murder has taken place & the killer is still at large It's your job to solve the murder & capture the culprit! ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Set during the London Blitz of 1940 Murder on the Home Front is a vibrant original crime drama This is a world where people live life in the moment It is also a world where criminals can use the blackout & devastation to hide their darkest activities As the Luftwaffe drop their bombs below people are literally getting away with murder Dr Lennox Collins (Patrick Kennedy) is a pathologist new to murder cases obsessed with pursuing the truth through all means available He is often at the cutting edge of new thinking in pathology from chemical tests to the controversial inclusion of the study of the psyche Molly Cooper (Tamzin Merchant) is not only the first secretary to a pathologist she is the first woman allowed into a very male world All Lennox knows is that she has a strong stomach 60 words a minute & a keen brain When together they discover a serial killer at large under cover of the Blitz Lennox has his work cut out convincing the police to have faith in his methods & theories Actors Holly Atkins Joey Batey Susie Blake John Bowe Richard Bremmer Patrick Kennedy & Tamzin Merchant Director Geoffrey Sax Certificate 15 years & over Year 2013 Screen 1781 Anamorphic Languages English Duration 1 hour & 31 minutes (approx) ...

When Poirot arrives in France following an urgent appeal for help he finds he is too late His client a South American millionaire has been stabbed to death & his body flung into a freshly dug open grave on the golf course adjoining the property Meanwhile the millionaire's wife is found bound & gagged in her room Her wrists are badly cut & she seems to be in shock but she agrees to speak to Poirot She tells him that they were attacked by thugs who tied her up & forced her husband to leave the house dressed only in his underwear before brutally killing him Poirot is not sure whether to believe her story Did she as the sole beneficiary of her millionaire husband's estate set the whole thing up? & if not who did kill M Renauld? The suspects include the mysterious Dulcie Duveen & Renauld's son Jack who had quarrelled violenty with his father As Poirot investigates the mystery begins to unfold
- but not before another murder occurs John Moffatt stars as Poirot with Jeremy Clyde as Captain Hastings Madeline Smith as Dulcie Duveen & Stephen Tompkinson as Jack 2 CDs 1 hr 30 mins
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A facsimile first edition hardback of Poirot's most famous book published to mark the 80th anniversary of his first appearance Just after midnight a snowdrift stopped the Orient Express in its tracks The luxurious train was surprisingly full for the time of the year But by the morning there was one passenger fewer An American lay dead in his compartment stabbed a dozen times his door locked from the inside With tension mounting detective Hercule Poirot comes up with not one but two solutions to the crime To mark the 80th anniversary of Hercule Poirot's first appearance & to celebrate his renewed fortunes as a primetime television star this launch title in a collection of facsimile first editions is the perfect way to experience Agatha Christie Reproducing the original typesetting & format of the first edition from the Christie family's own archive this book sports the original cover which has been painstakingly restored to its original glory ...