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The Otises are a practical American family. They don't believe in “The Canterville Ghost”. They don't believe in ghosts ... until they move to Canterville Chase, an old English country estate inhabited by the ghost of Sir Simon de Canterville. The family is amused by Sir Simon's failed attempts...

'I turned on the light, but there was nobody there. Then I saw something in the corner that made my blood turn cold. Scudder was lying on his back. There was a long knife through his heart, pinning him to the floor.' Soon Richard Hannay is running for his...

A man runs away in the night from prison. Police pursue him desperately. Police want to catch him. Police want to shoot him. But he continues the running away all the way. Presently police are confused because they find truth... Jennifer Basset tells us the complete story of “The President's Murderer”. Acompañado por un...

The room was on the fourth floor, and the door was locked - with the key on the inside. The windows were closed and fastened - on the inside. The chimney was too narrow for a cat to get through. So how did the murderer escape? And whose were...

Peter Viney relates us how a man that wakes up in a beautiful room in a strange house. The door is locked. He is in "The Locked Room". Who is he and why is he there? Who is the person in black clothes? Slowly the man remembers.

A wild, wet place in the south-west of England. A place where it is easy to get lost, and to fall into the soft green earth which can pull the strongest man down to his death. A man is running for his life. Behind him comes an enormous dog...

On a beautiful summer evening in the quiet town of Marlow, a young woman is walking home from church. She passes a man who is looking at the engine of his car. He turns round, smiles at her . . . and throws acid into her face. Then her...

The Leander pearls were stolen nineteen years ago. The thief was caught, but the pearls were never found, and there is still a $25,000 reward for anyone who finds them. Then somebody comes to private detective Carmady with a story about a guy who knows where the pearls are...

Clare West collects and edits the present antology of murder: “Crime Never Pays”. The unlawful, intentional killing of a human being - a terrible crime. But murder stories are always fascinating. Who did it? And how? Or why? And was it murder, or just only an accident? Who will...

Peter Cooper presents us to Robert Scott, Chief Superintendent of Police at Scotland Yard, the pólice headquarters in London. In “The Munich Connection” relate that one day of December the pone rings. It’s Detective John Lane from Wembley, an old friend of Scott’s. ‘But tisis the business…’, Lane tells him....