Basil Thomson: 13 books
Richardson Scores Again
An Inspector Richardson Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
In the hall he found the body of his maidservant, Helen Dunn, aged about fifty, lying on the floor near the telephone. She had bled profusely from a wound in the head and her body was cold.
Richardson’s second case begins with a murder and robbery at a quiet house in Laburnum Road, and goes...
Odd People
Hunting Spies in the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
First World War espionage was a fascinating and dangerous affair, spawning widespread paranoia in its clandestine wake. The hysteria of the age, stoked by those within the British establishment who sought to manipulate popular panic, meant there was no shortage of suspects. Exaggerated claims were...
Richardson’s First Case
An Inspector Richardson Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
The D.D.I. recognized him and smiled. “That was a great case you brought us. You’ll be interested to hear that it is a case of mur-r-der!”
For eight years Basil Thomson headed the famous C.I.D., New Scotland Yard. He knew the Yard inside out. Now in this tale of mystery and detection...
The Case of Naomi Clynes
An Inspector Richardson Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
“The late Miss Clynes, sir? How dreadful. It must have been very sudden.”
“It was.”
Naomi Clynes was found dead, her head in the gas-oven. She left a suicide note, but Richardson, newly promoted to the rank of Inspector in the C.I.D., soon has cause to think this is a case of murder....
Who Killed Stella Pomeroy?
An Inspector Richardson Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
“There’s one thing which I daresay you noticed—that pair of slippers half kicked under the bath were of men’s size.”
“Yes, I noticed that, too, and they were sprinkled with blood.”
A man went calmly about his work while his wife lay dead in the house. After he is arrested and...
A Murder is Arranged
An Inspector Richardson Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
None of the other guests could explain what she was doing in Crooked Lane during the night…
Beautiful Margaret Gask, guest at Scudamore Hall, was shot to death on the driveway of the estate. The mink coat that she should have been wearing turned out to be the first clue Scotland Yard had...
The Milliner’s Hat Mystery
An Inspector Richardson Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
“What are you looking for, sir?” he said.
“Bloodstains.”
Scotland Yard is concerned with the murderer, or murderers, of the mysterious Bernard Pitt. The dead man is discovered with a false identity, courtesy of the many forged papers and documents found with him.
The trail leads...
The Dartmoor Enigma
An Inspector Richardson Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
“I’m writing to you about the death of Mr. Dearborn. You bet the murderer’s laughing up his sleeve now that he’s got away with it.”
An inquest is held in South Devon on the death of a man apparently killed in a motor accident on Dartmoor: the verdict is “Death from misadventure.”...
by Basil Thomson
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
This volume does not pretend to be an exhaustive monograph on the Fijians. Their physical characteristics and their language, which have no bearing upon the state of transition from customary law to modern competition, are omitted, since they may be studied in the pages of Williams, Waterhouse and...
The Case of the Dead Diplomat
An Inspector Richardson Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
He flung open a drawer and took from it a heavy dagger in a sheath with blood-stains upon it. On the blade were engraved the words, “Blut und Ehre!”
Frank Everett was a rising young press attaché at the British Embassy in Paris - until he was found dead in his Rue St. Georges apartment,...
The Discovery of the Solomon Islands by Alvaro de Mendaña in 1568
Translated from the Original Spanish Manuscripts. Volumes I-II
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Four narratives, edited with introduction and notes, two of them by or attributed to Mendaña's companions, Hernando Gallego and Pedro Sarmiento. This and the following volume (Second Series 8) have continuous pagination. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1901.
by Basil C. Thomson
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
NIUÉ, more commonly known as Savage Island, lies 1,000 miles N.N.E. of New Zealand, and 300 miles S.S.E. of Samoa, in the loneliest spot in that part of the Pacific. Its iron-bound coasts tempt no vessels to call for supplies. At rare intervals great four-masted timber-ships pass in the offing; more...
Ancestor Worship Among the Fijians
(From Cannibalism to Christianity)
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
Like other primitive peoples, the Fijians deified their ancestors. The father ruled the family. Each member of it turned to him for the ordering of his daily life. No scheme entered the head of the young man that did not depend upon the consent or prohibition of the head of his family. Suddenly the...