Dean Street Press: 169 books
Masterstroke
A Simon Bognor Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
After a boozy Oxford reunion, Bognor is distressed to learn one of his classmates is a killer. Nothing depresses Simon Bognor like a university reunion. Every pimply-faced boy he knew two decades prior has made something of himself, while Bognor languishes at the Board of Trade, muddling along in...
Eight Years in Cocaine Hell
The True Story of a Victorian Woman's Descent into Madness and Addiction
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
“To the sensitive (cocaine) is soothing, to the stupid it is enlivening, to the exhausted it gives strength and mental vigor. To the sufferers from pain it gives peace…” Dr. T.D. Crothers, 1899
“I never used any other drug but the clear cocaine and I believe that I am the only living...
by Elizabeth Fair
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
“I wonder what Mr. Heritage thought of his godson,” she said quickly. “Rather clumsy, but quite good manners,” Edith remarked. “And a well-shaped skull.” These were her own views, but she took it for granted that sensible people would agree with her. Sisters Edith...
The Case of the Kidnapped Colonel
A Ludovic Travers Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2018
The curtain had been drawn back and there was the bed. Wharton and a stranger were standing by it, and when Wharton moved to meet me, I saw on the bed the body of Penelope Craye.
“She’s dead,” I said.
Wharton merely nodded.
Once again, we meet our old friend Ludovic Travers—now...
Murder by Chance
A Golden Age Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The knife with the carved sheath inlaid with silver, had been driven up to its haft between the shoulders of Captain Geoffrey Hunt.Johannis Kudorfer, master mariner, is a fraudster and a rogue. But that suits Sam Hartford just fine, because he is a scoundrel himself. When Sam devises a scheme...
The Perfect Murder Case
A Ludovic Travers Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
I am going to commit a murder. I offer no apology for the curtness of the statement.
An individual taking the name ‘Marius’ boasts in a series of letters that he will commit the Perfect Murder, daring Scotland Yard detectives to catch him if they can. Ex-CID officer John Franklin and the...
Murder at Fenwold
A Ludovic Travers Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
“And that’s not all. Somers is dead too … He poisoned himself … in the lounge!”
When the wealthy Cosmo Revere is killed by a falling tree, ex-CID officer John Franklin and Ludovic Travers chance to be staying in the vicinity. After examining the scene Franklin determines it was no...
Dancing Death
A Ludovic Travers Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
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...
Cut Throat
A Ludovic Travers Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Travers looked down at the face. On the collar was a red patch and a long streak. Across the throat was a gash.
Two rival London newspaper tycoons are at daggers drawn. But when Sir William Griffith’s corpse turns up in a hamper, his throat cut from ear to ear, the enmity appears to turned...
The Case of the Chinese Gong
A Ludovic Travers Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
“Murder is easy. It’s child’s play to commit murder and get away with it.”
Unpleasant uncle Hubert is murdered while playing cards—and surrounded by any number of relatives who stand to gain by his death. An impossible crime, it seems, though it turns out three of his nephews were...
The Case of the Hanging Rope
A Ludovic Travers Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
“You needn’t look impatient, sir. He’ll be finished with you long before dinner.ˮ
Who has murdered the beautiful Sonia Vorge in her bridal bed? Why is the sinisterly looped rope hanging from the oak-beam? And what has the ghost of Montage Hall to do with it all? These are the problems...
The Case of the Tudor Queen
A Ludovic Travers Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
‘I judge him to have been dead just about twenty-four hours. Suicide, almost certainly.’
Ludovic Travers polished his eyeglasses. Inspector Wharton grunted—sure signs of impending mystery. And they were right.
The car took the wrong turning and landed them in double murder dressed...
The Case of the Bonfire Body
A Ludovic Travers Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
“It’s terrible. It’s a body . . . the head cut off . . . and the hands.”
Who is—or was—the headless, handless corpse, found discarded on a bonfire? This baffling case of identity leads to a dead doctor who, according to information received, committed murder himself and was in turn...
The Laughing Dog
An Inspector Knollis Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Madeleine Burke is prepared to swear that she was Dr. Challoner’s last patient on Tuesday evening, and that he was alive and in good spirits when she bade him good night.
While holidaying in Algiers, Hugh Challoner encounters the lightning-sketch artist Aubrey Highton. Highton is desirous...