Cornelia Lackland's tyranical rule over her step-granddaughters, Carol and Jenny, is the talk of Minsterbridge. Their grandmother's control over the family fortune means that she has absolute say in Carol and Jenny's affairs - that is if they do not wish to be cut off without a penny. When Cornelia recovers from a long illness only to be poisoned the very night before she was due to change her will, the attentions of Scotland Yard, in the form of Chief Inspector Dan Pardoe, turn naturally to the lady's granddaughters. But Pardoe soon finds that affairs at Lacklands are more complex than they at first appear... Originally published in 1938, this novel, which introduces Dorothy Bowers' series detective Dan Pardoe, is a classic British murder mystery from the golden age of crime fiction.

Having been acquitted of murdering his sister-in-law, Professor Matthew Weir still lives in the shadow of a crime he is adamant he didn’t commit. A few years after this narrow escape from the hangman’s noose, Weir’s home in the Cotswold village of Steeple Cloudy is blighted by further tragedy when his wife is found dead—the victim of a deliberate poisoning. Chief Inspector Dan Pardoe of the Yard is determined not to let prejudice against Weir mar the objectivity of his investigation. But if Weir didn’t murder his wife, who did? And what could have been their motive? Originally published in 1939, this is a classic murder mystery from the golden age of detective fiction.

The victim left sketches, painted watercolors, and made clay models of his murderer's name. In spite of this, Inspector Dan Pardoe of Scotland Yard is at a loss to identify the killer. A Golden Age detective novel by a writer compared to Dorothy L. Sayers, first published in 1940.

Emma Betony is an elderly lady reluctantly coming to terms with the fact that the rest of her life is to be spent in inaction at Toplady Homes—a serviced London establishment for retired gentlewomen. Salvation appears to arrive in the form of an impassioned plea for help from an old pupil, Grace Aram, who now runs Makeways, a girls school and private nursing home in the west country. When Emma arrives at Makeways, however, it is to discover a community haunted by a malignant force that threatens to call up anew the ghosts of her own past. And when tragedy strikes, Emma finds she must face her own demons if she is to bring a murderer to justice.