Miles Burton: 6 books

Literary Thoughts edition presents Death in the Tunnel by Miles Burton ------ "Death in the Tunnel" is a mystery novel written in 1936 by Cecil John Charles Street (1884–1964) under his pseudonym Miles Burton: Sir Wilfred Saxonby travels alone in the 5 o'clock train from Cannon Street,...

Literary Thoughts edition presents Death in the Tunnel by Miles Burton ------ "Death in the Tunnel" is a mystery novel written in 1936 by Cecil John Charles Street (1884–1964) under his pseudonym Miles Burton: Sir Wilfred Saxonby travels alone in the 5 o'clock train from Cannon Street,...

"Death in the Tunnel" is a mystery novel written in 1936 by Cecil John Charles Street (1884–1964) under his pseudonym Miles Burton: Sir Wilfred Saxonby travels alone in the 5 o'clock train from Cannon Street, in a locked compartment. The train slows and stops inside a tunnel; and by the...

Mrs. Bale finished scrubbing out the wash-house of her cottage and, after looking round approvingly, emptied the pail. Then she returned to the kitchen, where the flowers which had been left during the course of the day lay in a bowl. It was the afternoon of Saturday, October 9th, and Mrs. Bale was alone,...

'They're terrible mistrustful of strangers in these parts.' Samuel Whitehead, landlord of the Rose and Crown, is a stranger in the lonely East Anglian village of High Eldersham. When the newcomer is stabbed to death in his pub, and Scotland Yard is called to the scene, it seems that the veil...

On a dark November evening, Sir Wilfred Saxonby is travelling alone in the 5 o'clock train from Cannon Street, in a locked compartment. The train slows and stops inside a tunnel; and by the time it emerges again minutes later, Sir Wilfred has been shot dead, his heart pierced by a single bullet. Suicide...