These twelve perfectly-plotted short stories admirably illustrate the verve and virtuosity of the most widely-read crime novelist in the English language.
Ranging with characteristic assurance from the light-hearted to the macabre, diverse mysteries are most ingeniously and plausibly contrived and convincingly unravelled, including how …
a Nursery Rhyme solved a murder …
the Shawl of a Thousand Flowers brought inspiration to a perspiring author …
a Diamond Necklace turned mouse into man …
Grand Opera betrayed a passion …
and why a Noble Lord vanished apparently without trace in …
The Listerdale Mystery