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Amaranth Club, The

When Scotland Yard learns that there is a select London gambling club into which certain celebrities are seen to enter but are never seen again, it is confronted with a problem that leaves nothing to be desired in the way of mystery. An impoverished British noblewoman, a secret German agent and a stolen naval document combine to add new complications to the situation, and the reader is launched on a tale that clearly justifies the reputation which Mr. Fletcher holds as a writer of detective fiction.

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Annexation Society, The

"Plot to Steal England's Art Treasures" was the headline which appeared recently in the English newspaper. Around this theme J. S. Fletcher has woven a characteristically fascinating tale of adventure, of a band of crooks who murder rather than sacrifice the invaluable treasures, and of Jimmie Trickett, who in his search for the robber of the Tsar's Cross, falls in love with an innocent accomplice of "The Annexation Society." The action moves swiftly from London to Paris in the thrilling hunt for clues ranging all the way from a stuffed goose to the mysterious house of the murderers.

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Barenstein Mystery, The

What was behind the story of the sword-cane that was used to kill Marcus Barenstein, and who was the murderer? Lieutenant Lauderdale had called on him to take him to task for an infamous proposal made to his fiancée, Millicent Oxenham, whose father was threatened with ruin by Barenstein. When the valet entered the room, later, he found the famous financier lying dead before the great fireplace, evidently murdered by the sword-cane belonging to Lauderdale. This is the beginning. There follows in rapid succession a series of unforeseen events, deepening the mystery, which is finally unravelled in a most unexpected manner. All who love mystery tales will want to read this exciting story of suspense and a stolen fortune -- it is Fletcher at his best.

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Cartwright Gardens Murder Case

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Chestermarke Instinct, The

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Ebony Box, The

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False Scent, The

In this quite original detective story, J. S. Fletcher has utilized the fact that a great traffic in stolen antiques goes on between England and America.  This thievery is so thoroughly organized that even our best-known and experienced collectors have become indirectly the receivers of stolen goods.  Mr. Fletcher traces a particularly thrilling robbery to its source through his Scotland Yard men who may seem, he writes, "the worst muddlers one has ever encountered, but they get there!"  A character study of the thief, running all through the book, is quite sufficient to make it notable among the novels of Mr. Fletcher.

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Golden Spur, The

Mr. Fletcher has long been a writer of romances as well as detective stories. Usually he keeps the two types of fiction distinct, but in some of his best detective yarns he has brought in the element of romance with striking effect. In "The Golden Spur," a castle in North Ireland, a secret room and a Princess in distress, contrast vividly with the dry efficiency of Scotland Yard and provides in Mr. Fletcher's skillful hands, a glittering foil to the very modern methods of the alert chief of the C.I.D. Everything that the most hardened lover of mystery requires is here in this book in generous measure -- the exciting opening, the problem, the clue, the murder, the solution, all in J. S. Fletcher's most alluring style.

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Markenmore Mystery, The

Who killed Guy Markenmore -- and why? That is what Blck, the famous London detective, wondered as he viewed the body of the inheritor of the Markenmore estate. What had Mrs. Braxfield to do with it, Mrs. Braxfield so peculiarly skilled in the handling of death-dealing weapons? That was what the inhabitants of the little village wondered as they sat over their ale pots and made dark surmises about the tragedy. It is what you, too, will wonder as you read this latest thrilling Fletcher story.

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Middle Temple Murder, The

A rattling good detective story -- Frank Spargo is a young newspaper man, sub-editor of the London Watchman, who undertakes the investigation of an unknown man's murder as good "copy" for his paper. Once into it he finds it concerns a number of people with whom he is acquainted and in whom he is interested, among them the father of the girl he loves. One clue leads to another, until he is taken far into the past of the dead man, whose enemies prove to have never forgotten their grudge. But it is not until the last page that the actual villain is disclosed.

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Mill of Many Windows, The

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Murder at Wrides Park, The

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Murder in Four Degrees

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Murder of the Secret Agent

Here is the most thrilling case ever handled by Chaney and Camberwell, private inquiry agents of London.  It opens with the inexplicable disappearance of a retired London jeweler.  A few days later he is found dead -- murdered -- and robbed of jewels insured for 100,000.  There is no clue.  Then a distinguished and lovely woman enters the case and disappears.  Immediately afterwards another London jeweler vanishes -- and is found murdered.  The name of a well-known American millionaire suddenly becomes involved.  Now for the first time there are certain clues -- nothing definite, yet ideas that are worth investigating -- and Chaney and Camberwell are at once on the track of one of the grimmest, boldest and shrewdest schemes in criminal history.

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Orange Yellow Diamond, The

Lauriston came to pawn a ring; he stayed to talk to Zillah, the pawnbroker's pretty granddaughter.  That's how Lauriston came to be implicated in the murder of the old pawnbroker and the daring theft that accompanied it.  Only after a chase that led all through London, following clues that doubled back from the mines of Kimberley, was Lauriston cleared.  And did they get the real criminal after all?  The astute reader will puzzle his brains a bit before he can answer that.  Anyway, here is a tale which all of Mr. Fletcher's enthusiastic followers -- and all others -- will enjoy to the end.

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Rayner Slade Amalgamation, The

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Scarhaven Keep

Given an ancient, quiet sea-coast village for a setting, Mr. Fletcher can weave a fascinating yarn of crime which quite transforms the locality. The castle of Scarhaven Keep commanded a magnificent view of the North Sea and the Scottish border, and it was on the Keep tower, enjoying the unusual prospect, that Bassett Oliver, famous actor, was last seen. The mystery of his disappearance is as deep as the events leading to its solution are exciting. There is no lack of action in this story; a chase through the wild dark ravines of the coast, the fight and the fire on the yacht, and the rescue by the government cutter, indicate the movement. And there's an unusually pretty love story too, with an unusually pretty and independent girl at one end of it.

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South Foreland Murder, The

The scene of this latest Fletcher mystery moves from a quiet village on the southern coast of England to the sophisticated casinos of Monte Carlo. Shortly after a certain Mr. Rennard received into his keeping the family jewels of the Princess Kavatzk, he was murdered. Gone too, was his middle-aged neighbor's pretty wife and her lover. Thereafter the efforts of the police to track down the murderer are paralleled by the abandoned husband's investigations, and when the end comes, the forces of the law arrive too late to thwart a private reckoning. With each new book J. S. Fletcher's remarkable power of sustained suspense becomes more acute, more breath-taking. That is why, perhaps, in this new addition to his long list of books, he has reached a pinnacle in the art of mystery telling.

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Wolves & the Lamb, The

"Three hundred thousand pounds!" Young Richard Shrewsbury inherited his father's fortune, but on reaching London he found that the family solicitor had just died. In his place the genial, smiling partner and his fascinating secretary were eager to help Richard, and in a short time affairs were gliding along smoothly for the young man. But when the charming secretary has to decide wheter she will wear to the theatre a valuable diamond necklace or its exact imitation, her woman's vanity prevails. From this moment the threads of Mr. Fletcher's mystery story all begin to come together and solve the most puzzling transactions of finance and law prompted by the greedy cleverness of Fletcher's most interesting characters.

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