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"Death from manual strangulation after a blow that slightly fractured the skull."
Ludovic Travers, private investigator, is approached by a slight acquaintance from his past, one Isabel Herne. She has seemingly fallen into the hands of a charming con-man, who has promised her the earth, including a very expensive racehorse. When the race-horse fails to materialize, and the man vanishes, she tasks Ludovic with finding the latter and, if possible,...
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Woman falls from window of flat. Doctor says killed instantly.
Well, thought Ludovic Travers as he set the newspaper aside, that finally put a period to a highly unsuccessful case. The woman, a Mrs. Strand, had seemed a bit deranged when she came to him for help in locating some missing friends, but he quest led to a dead end.
So Travers turns to the infinitely more challenging new mystery of the missing diamonds-£50,000 of them, stolen from an...
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Isn't it a tremendous coincidence that his murderer should also have had large front teeth?
Ludovic Travers has, received a good many queer requests and enquiries at the Broad Street Detective Agency, but a psychiatrist in fear of his life and in search of a bodyguard is something new. An appointment is, made for the following day, but Travers has barely completed a few discreet enquiries concerning his new client when he receives another call. This...
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I think murder is practically a certainty.
William Weddall was eccentric even in Ludovic Traver's wide experience. There was about him an aura of secrecy and subterfuge at odds with the quiet atmosphere of his estate. Hinchbrook Hall, show-place for his antiques and paintings. He had sent Travers to Paris on the seemingly pointless errand of mailing a letter. And Travers later saw him deliberately miss a boat.
Then William Weddall plunged from a...
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"No one could prove we had reason to suspect murder. We can afford to be thought fools. So we'll go on behaving as if such a thought never entered our minds."
"I'm sorry, gents. I thought for a moment I'd been coshed." An odd sort of way in which to thank two helpful strangers after a nasty accident in a City street, and one bound to provoke speculation, especially when the strangers happen to be Ludovic Travers and his senior operative, Mr. Hallows,...
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Providence, they say, is good to drunkards and children. Maybe there's a third category-the unorthodox detective.
A new case finds Ludovic Travers travelling to the respectable English Midlands town of Mainford. He is, commissioned to investigate the death, under compromising circumstances, of Harry Landlace, a man of civic virtue. There is the suggestion of a smear and as Travers attempts to clear Landlace's name, he uncovers something the dead man...
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It wasn't easy to forget the frightened hostility in her face and the shrill hysteria of her voice when she'd closed and bolted the door.
Who were the intruders who left bloodstains and a sapphire brooch in Paul Farrell's flat? And, since nothing was taken, why should that flat be burgled at all? That problem was only the beginning. What, for instance, had become of Farrell's wife? And of the girl adopted by the vicar's sister? And why should that...
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"He says it's something serious. Might be murder."
When the well-dressed Mrs. Wilson came into his office, her business seemed simple enough-although a little odd and mysterious for a woman of her bearing. She wanted Travers to find a missing man, who used to do a second-rate Houdini act in music halls. If Travers found her man, he was not to contact Mrs. Wilson but to advertise his find in the European edition of the New York Times.
As first one...
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I liked him. When I heard of his death, I was quite upset.
Henry Baldlow is a nervous man. An apparent invalid, he plans to emigrate for his health, yet claims to require a detective to guard his life in the interim. Ludovic Travers isn't initially convinced, but when, one of his operatives turns up dead, and then Baldlow himself, he takes charge. A series of visitors were, asked to call at specific times on the afternoon of Baldlow's death was, one...
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"You'll face two charges," I said. "One for murder and one for extortion."
Ludovic Travers remembered Brian Jedmont as a photographer whose ambition outran his sense of ethics. The Broad Street Detective Agency had stopped using his services in unfortunate circumstances, and Travers was accordingly surprised when one day Jedmont turned up at the office anxious to become a client on his own account. Specifically, he wanted Travers to investigate an...
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His head went sideways, like a hopping sparrow's on a lawn.
The man who saves Henry Clandon's life, during the campaign in Sicily visits him once in hospital, gives his name as David Seeway, makes vague and apparently pointless reference to somebody else called Archie Dibben and a country town called Bassingford, and then virtually disappears. Eight years later, Henry Clandon, now a director of a London publishing firm, sets out to try and find his...
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Between the acting of a dreadful thing, and the first motion...
Ludovic Travers sees it happen. He sees a strange young woman assault Clement Foorde, and all because he had expressed his dislike for a certain best-selling novel. Is it a publicity stunt? The matter escapes Travers's mind until he hears on the radio one night that the author of the novel in question has been, drowned. Everyone, including the police, thinks the affair to be no more than...
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I never did like missing people. Far too often, we've found them dead.
When that cheerful soul, Doris Bosford, asked Ludovic Travers of the Broad Street Detective Agency to trace her missing husband the case soon involved matters less innocent than a mere disappearance. Andrew Bosford had been a crooner, but investigation showed that his latest source of income seemed concerned with a smuggling racket that had its headquarters in France. With the...
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We've got to have a body.
That's what detective Ludovic Travers says, after being contacted by one Lord Tynworth. Tynworth's wife has vanished and his lordship wants her found, yet strangely doesn't seem especially keen on getting her back. When Travers walks into the case, he enters a hall of mirrors. In it are thoroughbred horses, their trainers, at least one man determined not to tell the truth...and a burnt corpse.
The missing woman is a former...
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That happened to be, the last that either of us, actually, saw of Alysia Rimmell, alive.
Ludovic Travers, associate of Scotland Yard, and the director of his own detective agency, is brought into a new case, and finds something very much wrong with an attempt at blackmail, an unsolved theft, and a murder... they all seem to link up. The more he studies them the more he is, convinced that the diamonds, from an elaborate pendant Russian Cross are the...
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He hadn't died from burns or asphyxiation. His skull had been smashed in. And not simply from a fall.
The good employer: yes, on the face of it, a fair description of Leonard Woode. Elderly, of independent means, cultured, considerate, his servants in his home would certainly endorse this view. Ludovic Travers struck up a chance acquaintanceship with Woode at an auction of valuable paintings, and when the old gentleman was taken ill, accompanied...
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He said he was deeply shocked to hear of Mr. Staffer's murder.
I rather doubted it.
Ludovic Travers had never come across a more ingenious fraud-three of them, in fact. All were perpetrated in only twenty-four hours. One was in Liverpool, the second and third in Southampton and London. The same two people posing as an American married couple, had purchased a diamond ring at each of three jewellery stores, paying for all three with beautifully forged...
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Enough words and enough speed and you can get away with murder.
There was something unique about the Case of the Treble Twist. It isn't often one gets a preview of a case or hovers round its fringes four years before it breaks, but that was just what happened here. The preview began the evening Ludovic Travers had a drink with Chief Inspector Jewle, and first heard the name of Harry Tibball, suspect involved in a series of big-scale robberies. Then...
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"I just wanted to ask you one question."
"Yes?"
"Why did you lie to us about that burglar?"
The Case of the Deadly Diamonds starts out as a small-scale caper for Ludovlc Travers, leading light of the Broad Street Detective Agency. The unspectacular sum of two hundred pounds had vanished mysteriously from a safe in the home of Paul Morren, an old-guard London jeweller.
But when Travers moves in to investigate for the Insurance company, the case...
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Whoever was driving that car was either drunk or mad.
The Case of the Flowery Corpse takes Ludovic Travers to the English rural idyll of Marstead in Suffolk, visiting his old friend Henry Morle. The quiet village seems hardly the place for mystery. Yet, following a car crash, a blackmail case emerges, and worse, not one, but two murders. There are multiple suspects, including a pair of twin doctors and a femme fatale, not to mention the looming presence...
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