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Ernest Dudley
The case of Mrs Lorrimer promised to be one of Doctor Morelle's most mysterious problems. She had telephoned begging him to attend her immediately, claiming her life was in imminent…
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Locked Room Murder When Brian Cartwright received a written death threat, he took it seriously-in his not unblemished past he had made some bitter enemies. So he called in the…
A pretty girl and a drunken producer are involved in a motor accident–a fruitful source for blackmail. Dr. Morelle, the famous criminologist finds himself plunged into one of the strangest…
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Larry Curtis transforms the mousy Mitsi into a glamorous Parisian star and launches her in London where she faces the dazzling world of Mayfair, restaurants and night-club life. There she…
Jimmy Strange was a mysterious young man who’d turn up when he was least expected; wherever there was trouble, he’d appear from behind some dark corner. No one knew much…
‘What type of skulduggery is the Master Mind contemplating this time?’. That was the question put to Jimmy Strange by his long-suffering girlfriend Sandra. But the answer always depended on…
When a high-ranking diplomat is being blackmailed, government agent Mike Hammond is given his orders: Find this blackmailer, and he’s all yours. You’re judge and jury and…executioner. This gripping mystery…
ERNEST DUDLEY is an English author known to millions of crime fiction addicts for his weekly _Armchair Detective_ roadio broadcasts, and also for the Doctor Morelle series of stories (and…
Here is a collection of the strange adventures of Doctor Morelle, that most sardonic of characters, and his gentle, timorous assistant Miss Frayle, in a sequence of fifteen gripping episodes-fifteen…
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The Case of the Escaped Wolf Spiders "I must speak with the Doctor urgently -" the voice trailed away, and then returned with compelling intensity. "It's a matter of life…
Here is another collection of the strange adventures of Doctor Morelle, that most sardonic of detective characters, in a sequence of eight intriguing episodes from the Doctor's casebook. The Doctor…
Ian Laking is pathologically jealous of his beautiful wife, and obsessed with murder. His only hope lies in being treated by Dr. Morelle, the well-known psychiatrist and criminologist. Laking suspects…
Ernest Dudley, creator of that superb pair of sleuths, Dr. Morelle and Miss Frayle, here introduces another vivid character, Nat Craig, whose methods as London’s foremost private investigator are utterly…
This second book of Ernest Dudley’s stories about his London-based private eye, Nat Craig, and his lovely French secretary, Simone, features a varied collection of the detective’s eccentric clients: young…
On the plane from New York to London, Dr. Morelle chances to meet Edwin Gale, a smooth-tongued swindler. Inexplicably, Gale finds himself drawn to the famous psychiatrist-detective, and so begins…
In a wild, bleak corner of the Kent Coast, a derelict harbour rots beneath the tides. Here the Doll, a film-struck waif, and her lover, ex-movie star Tod Hafferty, play…
In Castlebay, North Wales, Dick Merrill is on trial, accused of murdering his wife by administering a lethal dose of arsenic. Merrill, good-looking and attractive, is fatally in love with…
Ernest Dudley Parsons
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either…
Ernest Dudley,Gerald Verner
In the tradition of the old Ace Doubles (flip the book over to read the second title), here’s the thirteenth Wildside Mystery Double: THE AMAZING MARTIN BRETT: CLASSIC CRIME STORIES…
Dudley Ernest Littlewood
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the public…
Ernest F Elmhurst
The World Hoax by Ernest F. Elmhurst is a controversial book that challenges some of the most deeply ingrained beliefs of modern society. The author argues that many of the…
