British Mystery Multipack Volume 4

Fans of British Mysteries are in for a treat with Volume 4 of British Mystery Multipacks. 


Our biggest selection yet! Fourteen mystery classics from maestros of mystery Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle, Sax Rohmer, Kate Chopin and A. E. W. Mason. 


THE SECRET ADVERSARY by Agatha Christie 


Jobless and penniless, Thomas Beresford and Prudence "Tuppence" Cowley place an ad in the paper marketing themselves as adventurers, leading to an encounter that starts their career as spies for an unnamed British intelligence agency. 


TALES OF CHINATOWN by Sax Rohmer 


All ten stories are presented here: 


THE DAUGHTER OF HUANG CHOW 

KERRY’S KID 

THE PIGTAIL OF HI WING HO 

THE HOUSE OF GOLDEN JOSS 

MAN WITH THE SHAVEN SKULL 

THE WHITE HAT 

TCHERIAPIN 

THE DANCE OF THE VEILS 

THE HAND OF THE MANDARIN QUONG 

THE KEY OF THE TEMPLE OF HEAVEN 


AT THE VILLA ROSE by A. E. W. Mason 


A heinous crime has been committed at the Villa Rose in Aix-les-Bains, France. A wealthy woman has been savagely murdered and the young Englishwoman who was her companion has disappeared. Authorities suspect that the Englishwoman played a role in the crime, but her fiancé, Harry Wethermill, is unconvinced and hires a private French detective in an attempt to prove her innocence. 


From the author of The Four Feathers. 


“A real page turner - One of the best 'fair play' detective novels of all time.” 


AN EGYPTIAN CIGARETTE by Kate Chopin 


This short but haunting short story is included as a divertissement. It is a superb example of fin de siecle despair and a favorite of mystery anthologies. 


A STUDY IN SCARLET by Arthur Conan Doyle 


The first Sherlock Holmes story! 


Dr. Watson, a military surgeon lately returned from the Afghan War, needs a flat-mate and a diversion. Holmes needs a foil. And thus a great collaboration begins. Watson and Holmes move to a now-famous address, 221B Baker Street, where Watson is introduced to Holmes's eccentricities as well as his ability to deduce information about his fellow beings. Somewhat shaken by Holmes's egotism, Watson is nonetheless dazzled by his seemingly magical recall skills. Then murder. Facing a deserted house, a twisted corpse with no wounds, a mysterious phrase drawn in blood on the wall, and the buffoons of Scotland Yard--Lestrade and Gregson--Holmes measures, observes, picks up a pinch of this and a pinch of that, and generally baffles his faithful Watson. Later, Holmes explains: "In solving a problem of this sort, the grand thing is to be able to reason backward.... There are few people who, if you told them a result, would be able to evolve from their own inner consciousness what the steps were which led up to that result." Holmes is in that elite group.