Appleby Talks Again: 18 Detective Stories

From a British mystery author “in a class by himself among detective story writers,” eighteen classic crime stories, perfect for astute armchair detectives (The Times Literary Supplement).

Scandal is at stake for London’s fashionable society when Edwardian playwright Richard Dangerfield’s sordid diary falls into the hands of a blackmailer. Though Dangerfield is long dead, those who consorted with him are all very much alive and at the respectable old age where they’d hoped such stories would...