This anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together 15 tales from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form, including newly discovered stories by Dorothy L. Sayers and Edmund Crispin that have never previously been published....

John Lafcadio’s ambition to be known as the greatest painter since Rembrandt was not to be thwarted by a matter as trifling as his own death. A set of twelve sealed paintings is the bequest he leaves to his widow – together with the instruction that she unveil one canvas each year before a carefully selected audience....

Agatha Christie called her \"a shining light\". Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the \"true queen\" of the classic murder mystery? Private detective Albert Campion sets out to plumb the secrets of Saltey, an ancient hamlet on the Essex marshes....

Agatha Christie called her \"a shining light\". Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the \"true queen\" of the classic murder mystery? In a masterpiece of storytelling, Margery Allingham sends her elegant and engaging detective Albert Campion into the eccentric Palinode household, where there have been two suspicious deaths....

Agatha Christie called her \"a shining light\". Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the \"true queen\" of the classic murder mystery? Timothy Kinnit needs the help of private detective Albert Campion....

Agatha Christie called her ‘a shining light’. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the \"true queen\" of the classic murder mystery? Celebrated detective Albert Campion awakes in hospital accused of attacking a police officer and suffering from acute amnesia....

Agatha Christie called her \"a shining light\". Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the \"true queen\" of the classic murder mystery? Judge Crowdy Lobbett is a man of justice, an upstanding pillar of American society. And now he\"s a man in deadly peril, tailed across the Atlantic by the ruthless Simister gang....

Agatha Christie called her \"a shining light\". Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the \"true queen\" of the classic murder mystery? Fact catches up with fiction when the secret of telepathic communication is discovered....

Agatha Christie called her \"a shining light\". Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the \"true queen\" of the classic murder mystery? Scandal, secrets and suspicions abound when one of the directors at the prestigious publishing house of Barnabas is found dead, locked in the company\"s strongroom....

Agatha Christie called her \"a shining light\". Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the \"true queen\" of the classic murder mystery? A fog is creeping through the weary streets of London - so too are whispers that the Tiger is back in town, undetected by the law, untroubled by morals....

Agatha Christie called her ‘a shining light’. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the \"true queen\" of the classic murder mystery? The tranquility of Cambridge is punctured when Cousin Andrew of the illustrious Faraday family disappears without a trace....

Agatha Christie called her \"a shining light\". Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the \"true queen\" of the classic murder mystery? Private detective Albert Campion is summoned to the village of Kepesake to investigate a particularly distasteful death. The body turns out to be that of Pig Peters, freshly killed five months after his own funeral....

Agatha Christie called her ‘a shining light’. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the \"true queen\" of the classic murder mystery? A baker’s dozen of cases, each putting Albert Campion through his paces....

When song-and-dance star Jimmy Sutane falls victim to a string of malicious practical jokes, there’s only one man who can get to the bottom of the apparent vendetta against the music hall darling – Albert Campion. Soon, however, the backstage pranks escalate and an ageing starlet is killed....

Finding himself the victim of a botched kidnapping attempt, Val Gyrth suspects that he might be in a spot of trouble. Unexpected news to him – but not to the mysterious Mr Campion, who reveals that the ancient Chalice entrusted to Val’s family is being targeted by a ruthless ring of thieves....