A short story from British Library Crime Classic Deep Waters. This story recounts Sherlock Holmes’s very first case. Having previously treated his deduction skills as a hobby at...
The Eight-Mile Lock
A short story from British Library Crime Classic Deep Waters. Detective John Bell plans to have a well-earned rest when he is invited to holiday with his friends the Ridsdales,...
A Question of Timing
A short story from British Library Crime Classic Deep Waters. Narrated in the first person by Robert Beringer, a writer of sea stories, A Question of Timing describes how he...
Death in Captivity
A man is found dead in an escape tunnel in an Italian prisoner-of-war camp. Did he die in an accidental collapse – or was this murder? Captain Henry “Cuckoo” Goyles, master...
Points of Danger
East Anglia, 1861. Alone in a first-class carriage, the Swarbricks are robbed at gunpoint. But when the universally-admired Swarbrick fights back, the train robber takes more than...
The Wall
A story from Night in the Front Line, a collection of Second World War short stories. The Wall vividly captures the horror and reality of the Blitz with a first-hand recollection...
The Black Mountains
The Hall family live under the brooding shadow of the Black Mountains, in the mining town of Hillsbridge. Charlotte, James and their seven children are independent spirits, united...
Sister Bessie or Your Old Leech
A short story from British Library Crime Classic The Christmas Card Crime and Other Stories. Each year the Christmas card arrives from “Leech”, an unknown member of Timothy...
The Motive
A short story from British Library Crime Classic The Christmas Card Crime and Other Stories. “It’s not a scientific mind you need in the legal profession,” he insisted;...
Weekend at Thrackley
Jim Henderson is one of six guests summoned by the mysterious Edwin Carson, a collector of precious stones, to a weekend party at his country house, Thrackley. The house is gloomy...
