Detective Inspector Harry Charlton finds himself invited to a reunion at Mereworth School at whic...

How, where and why was a man (a commercial traveller who turns out to be a polygamist) suddenly r...

'I feel the net drawing in around me even closer and closer. Dufydd has appeared suddenly in Sout...

In 1930, Guy Brangley, an unsuccessful playwright, stages his own disappearance in order to provo...

Work was mounting up, Detective Inspector Charlton did not feel too well and he could have done w...

Detective-Sergeant Martin christened him 'Whiskers', but nobody could be certain who he really wa...

It is 1940 and Mrs Mudge, the cleaning lady is busy tidying the Little Theatre in Lulverton, whic...

Subject-Murder (1945) is a detective novel by Clifford Witting based on his personal experience a...

Witting's second Inspector Charlton mystery, first published in 1937, is set in Paulsfield (clear...

Let X be the Murderer was published in 1947. It is a bleak November morning when Sergeant Martin,...

The scene is The Blue Boar in the High Street, Lulverton. The occasion: the stag party planned to...

John Rutherford, bookseller and sometime fiction writer, discovers the bludgeoned corpse of a pol...