by Tony Medawar
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2 Illegal diamond buying.
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GRAND GUIGNOL
1 Carr’s short story ‘The Murder in Number Four’.
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2 ‘The Fourth Suspect’.
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3 ‘The Shadow of the Goat’.
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4 Women’s Christian Temperance Union
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A KNOTTY PROBLEM
1 ‘Town and Around’ was a nightly magazine programme shown on New Zealand television in the late 1960s. For the broadcast, presenters from the programme played the interviewer and the front man.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
‘Hot Steel’ by Anthony Berkeley reprinted by permission of The Society of Authors as the Literary Representative of the Estate of Anthony Berkeley Cox.
‘The Murder at Warbeck Hall’ by Cyril Hare reprinted by permission of United Agents LLP on behalf of Sophia Jane Holroyd.
‘The House of the Poplars’ by Dorothy L. Sayers copyright © 2020 The Trustees of Anthony Fleming (deceased).
‘The Hampstead Murder’ by Christopher Bush copyright © Christopher Bush 1955, reprinted by permission of Giles Dalton.
‘The Scarecrow Murders’ by Joseph Commings copyright © the Catholic Diocese of St Petersburg, Florida, 1948.
‘The Incident of the Dog’s Ball’ by Agatha Christie copyright © Christie Archive Trust 2009. All rights reserved. Agatha Christie and Poirot are registered trade marks of Agatha Christie Limited in the UK and elsewhere.
‘The Riddle of the Black Spade’ by Stuart Palmer reprinted by permission of the author’s estate and the agents for the estate, JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc., 49 W 45th St Ste. 12N, New York, NY 10036.
‘The Torch at the Window’ by Josephine Bell copyright © the estate of Josephine Bell, reprinted with permission of Curtis Brown Group Ltd, London.
‘Grand Guignol’ by John Dickson Carr copyright © John Dickson Carr 1929.
‘A Knotty Problem’ by Ngaio Marsh copyright © Estate of Ngaio Marsh 2020.
‘The Orange Kid’ by Peter Cheyney copyright © Peter Cheyney 1938.
‘Mr Prendergast and the Orange’ by Nicholas Blake reprinted by permission of Peters Fraser & Dunlop (www.petersfraserdunlop.com) on behalf of the Estate of Nicholas Blake.
‘The Yellow Sphere’ by John Rhode copyright © Estate of John Rhode 1938.
‘The “Eat More Fruit” Murder’ by William A. R. Collins reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.
Every effort has been made to trace all owners of copyright. The editor and publishers apologise for any errors or omissions and would be grateful if notified of any corrections.
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J.J. Connington • Before Insulin
Leo Bruce • The Inverness Cape
Freeman Wills Crofts • Dark Waters
Georgette Heyer • Linckes’ Great Case
Nicholas Blake • Calling James Braithwaite
John Rhode • The Elusive Bullet
Cyril Hare • The Euthanasia of Hilary’s Aunt
Vincent Cornier • The Girdle of Dreams
Arthur Upfield • The Fool and the Perfect Murder
A.A. Milne • Bread Upon the Waters
Anthony Berkeley • The Man with the Twisted Thumb
Christianna Brand • The Rum Punch
Ernest Bramah • Blind Man’s Bluff
H.C. Bailey • Victoria Pumphrey
Roy Vickers • The Starting-Handle Murder
Agatha Christie • The Wife of the Kenite
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Christianna Brand • NO FACE
Peter Antony • Before and After
Helen Simpson • Hotel Evidence
Q. Patrick • Exit Before Midnight
Margery Allingham • Room to Let
Jonathan Latimer • A Joke’s a Joke
Agatha Christie • The Man Who Knew
S.S. Van Dine • The Almost Perfect Murder Case
Edmund Crispin • The Hours of Darkness
E.C.R. Lorac • Chance is a Great Thing
Clayton Rawson • The Mental Broadcast
Ethel Lina White • White Cap
John Rhode • Sixpennyworth
C.A. Alington • The Adventure of the Dorset Squire
Dorothy L. Sayers • The Locked Room
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