English country house murders Book

Nothing could seem more civilized, more orderly and sedate than a weekend at one of Great Britain's country estates. Yet these staid, conservative houses play host to a wider variety of murders than do the mean streets of America's darkest cities. Contents: The adventure of the Abbey Grange / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- A marriage tragedy / Wilkie Collins -- Lord Chizelrigg's missing fortune / Robert Barr -- The Fordwych Castle mystery / Emmuska, Barroness Orczy -- The blue scarab / R. Austin Freeman -- The doom of the Darnaways / G.K. Chesterton -- The shadow on the glass / Agatha Christie -- The queen's square / Dorothy L. Sayers -- Death on the air / Ngaio Marsh -- The same to us / Margery Allingham -- The hunt ball / Freeman Wills Crofts -- The incautious burglar / John Dickson Carr -- The long shot / Nicholas Blake -- Jeeves and the stolen Venus / P.G. Wodehouse -- Death in the sun / Michael Innes -- An unlocked window / Ethel Lina White -- The wood-for-the-trees / Philip MacDonald -- The man on the roof / Christianna Brand -- The death of Amy Robsart / Cyril Hare -- Fen Hall / Ruth Rendell -- A very desirable residence / P.D. James -- The Worcester enigma / James Miles.