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It wasn't I who discovered the body. I want to make that perfectly clear, if only for the benefit of a couple of club acquaintances of mine. Ludovic Travers, special investigator for Scotland Yard, commits murder? No-but at the end of this novel you will understand why he might claim to have done so. Sir William Pelle has become a missing person, and Superintendent Wharton of the Yard is prioritizing his recovery. But when Pelle is found murdered,...

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...

Not everyone has a dream, but everyone who has a dream wants to know what it means! This book helps you get to the meaning in a way that has YOUR signature on it. Many dreams are personal and have their own signature, a language all its own. Find your signature and find out what your dreams are saying to you. This book is simple in nature but powerful in application. It is designed to take with you and refer to when you need it. To guide you into...

Jeremy wants to be a normal teenage boy, but he has several problems most fourteen-year-olds do not have. After his father's passing, he must run the farm on his own. Next, they closed his high school and he's being bused to a nearby town to attend high school there. The only thing his new school has going for it is his new friend Ashley. Unfortunately, her best friend doesn't seem to like him at all! Then things get even worse!While working in the...

As Travers's finger touched the dead hand, he felt the warmth, and wondered if the man were still alive. Then he saw the knife that stuck sideways in the ribs. It was three years after Ludovic Travers had acquired a painting by the famous contemporary French artist, Henri Larne, that a mysterious art dealer named Braque turned up, showed great interest in the picture, and invited Travers to visit him in Paris. But all Travers saw of Braque in Paris...

However thorough your search was, I'm convinced the murderer, or the burglar-call him what you will-is still in the house. Little Levington Hall, the site of the seasonal house party in Dancing Death, is owned by Martin Braishe, inventor of a lethal gas. Unfortunately for Braishe and his houseguests, their fancy-dress ball might more accurately be described as a fancy-death ball. After the formal festivities have taken place place, nine guests remain...

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...

"Have you heard the news, sir?" the waiter said. "I'm afraid I haven't. What is it?" "Plumley's dead, sir. Henry Plumley. We just got the news over the 'phone. Suicide they say it was. Anything else you want, sir?" Out-of-print for over nine decades and one of the rarest classic crime novels from the Golden Age of detective fiction, The Plumley Inheritance, first of the Ludovic Travers mysteries, is now available in a new edition by Dean Street Press. When...

Ludovic Travers and his wife choose to spend part of their honeymoon in the quiet town of Edensthorpe, one place, where they can be sure of peace and quiet, and where an eminent author and his famous wife might not be recognised. Unfortunately, for them, however, another fugitive has sought anonymity in the nearby village of Pettistone, a swindler named Brewse, who has just completed a prison sentence for fraud. Brewse has made an unfortunate choice...

"Famous Spiritualist Dead . . . Gun Found in Flat" In The Case of the Happy Medium Ludovic Travers is at the top of his considerable form. When Ludovic and his wife set out to attend a séance, they are in a mood of amiable scepticism. But the atmosphere swiftly changes when Travers is plunged headlong into a case where he, and Scotland Yard supremo George Wharton, must tussle with murder, suicide and traffickers in forbidden goods. There is action,...