The 4th story of amateur detective journalist Charles Venables, set in an eastern Balkan country Iconia. Charles is sent to investigate murder and intrigue in the court of the strong-willed and bad-tempered Queen Hanna.
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Christopher St. John Sprigg, connu sous le nom de Christopher Caudwell, était un écrivain, penseur et poète marxiste britannique. Son œuvre s'engage dans une analyse marxiste d'un large éventail de sujets, de la poésie et de la philosophie à la physique. Caudwell chercha à repenser ces domaines à travers le prisme marxiste, ce qui façonna profondément sa production littéraire. Ses œuvres majeures, y compris le long poème 'Illusion and Reality' qui analyse la poésie, furent publiées à titre posthume. Ses aperçus profonds et sa perspective révolutionnaire continuent de résonner auprès des lecteurs intéressés par la critique sociale et la théorie littéraire.
A 1930s classic crime novel set in London featuring the amateur detective Richard Venables. A set of unusual characters residing at a residential hotel are under suspicion when the proprietress is murdered.
London 1938 and war is brewing with Russia. It’s brewing primarily due to the agenda of Lord Carpenter, proprietor of the leading newspaper The Mercury, a man determined to bring forward what he sees as an inevitable conflict. As he prepares to publish his coup de grace, a lead story that will make that conflict unavoidable, he locks his employees in the building so that his paper can publish an exclusive in the late edition without his competitors scooping him. And then, as so many future murder victims do in these novels, he isolates himself in his quarters with orders not to be disturbed. Guess what happens to him? He really shouldn’t have kept that extremely sharp dagger on display on his wall…
When an aeroplane crashes, and its pilot is killed, Edwin Marriott is not convinced that it was accidental. In due course, naturally, he is proved right!
A classic English crime novel originally published in 1934. A murder in the village of Great Hake baffles the local police, as everyone appears to have perfect alibis.... This book is the first of four featuring journalist (and amateur sleuth) Charles Venables.