The Case of the Missing Minutes (1937) – Christopher Bush

The house of Highways, just outside the resort village of Seabreak, is home to Quentin Trowte and his granddaughter Jeanne. The servants live in a bungalow close by. Fearful of losing their positions, they ignore the screaming they hear every night, until at last they call in Ludovic Travers - via his sister Helen - to investigate.But on Travers' first night-time visit to the house, he finds Quentin dying of a stab wound.While Travers begins to uncover the truth about Highways, young Jeanne goes…

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The Beast Must Die (1938) – Nicholas Blake

"I am going to kill a man. I don't know his name, I don't know where he lives, I have no idea what he looks like. But I am going to find him and kill him…" - so begins mystery writer Frank Cairnes' diary. Already a widower, after his son dies in a hit-and-run accident, he devotes himself to the goal of murdering the man responsible. A chance discovery sets him on the right path, and he soon inveigles his way into his would-be…

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