Henry Carter Hull

This mystery ratchets up the suspense as a governess tries to save her teenage charge from a deadly fate   "No one can take a mother's place."   But Sarah Trent is determined to try. She has just been engaged as governess to seventeen-year-old Lucilla Hildred, whose mother and stepfather were killed in a car accident. Lucilla's father died in the war, and his younger brother, Maurice, has been missing since 1918.   Uncle Maurice's disappearance...

The British governess-turned-sleuth cracks the case in four puzzling mysteries from the are sure to delight readers of Agatha Christie, Ellis Peters, and Dorothy L. Sayers.

Three mysteries featuring governess-turned-sleuth Miss Silver, who "has her place in detective fiction as surely as Lord Peter Wimsey or Hercule Poirot" ( Manchester Evening News ). Retired governess Maud Silver is about as unlikely a sleuth that Scotland Yard has ever seen -- but her unassuming manner only helps her unravel their most mystifying cases in "some of the best examples of the British country-house murder mystery" ( Alfred Hitchcock's...

The widow of a missing British spy is thrust into mortal danger in this suspenseful tale by the author of the Miss Silver Mysteries   A year after a body presumed to be that of her missing husband turns up, someone breaks into Meg O'Hara's flat and leaves her a shocking message. Is it a horrible trick? Or is Robin O'Hara still alive? The British intelligence agent vanished the same day Meg asked for a divorce. With the appearance of more cryptic...

A woman shipwrecked on a desert island, and believed dead for two decades, returns to civilization-as heiress to an enormous fortune   Austin Muir has just landed on a seemingly uninhabited South Seas island when he meets a remarkable young woman. Valentine claims to have lived there for twenty years. She has no memory of the shipwreck of the Avronia because she was just a baby at the time. All she knows is that she was rescued and raised by Edward...

A Foreign Office agent assumes a dead man's identity to infiltrate an international ring of thieves, blackmailers, and murderers   Peter Talbot is in Brussels tailing a dangerous con man when the opportunity of a lifetime falls in his lap. His quarry dies, leaving behind a suitcase filled with money, coded messages, a passport, and a cryptic letter about a woman named Maud Millicent Simpson.   Reborn as Spike Reilly-a.k.a. James Peter Reilly-a.k.a....

The heiress to a vast fortune is targeted in this page-turning novel from the author of the Miss Silver Mysteries   Ann Vernon is lunching at the Luxe when she overhears two people talking about someone who must be gotten out of the way. She has no idea that she's that very someone! Against the advice of her boyfriend, Charles Anstruther, whose marriage proposal she's just rejected, Ann accepts a position as secretary to an elderly woman. She accompanies...

A former soldier who's been unwittingly living another man's life is given the chance to turn back the clock   Anton Blum is the strongest man in Konigswald. But the German peasant is mute; he hasn't spoken a word since he was wounded in action nearly a decade earlier. On a stormy night, he is recruited by British officers to help remove a tree that has fallen across the road. A flash of lightning strikes, and Anton is struck in the head by a branch....

A courageous heroine risks her life to save the man she loves   Jervis Weare is in a predicament. According to Ambrose Weare's will, his grandson must marry within three months or the vast estate goes to his great-niece: Jervis's fiancée Rosamund Carew. But the deceiving society beauty has just dumped Jervis, which leaves him scrambling to find another bride.   Nan Forsyth has secretly loved Jervis for ten years. He has no inkling that Nan once...

A blackmailing businessman turns up dead in this gripping mystery from the creator of the beloved Miss Silver   Lucas Dale always gets what he wants. And this time he wants another man's fiancée: Susan Lenox. Never mind that she's engaged to Bill Carrick, an up-and-coming architect without a farthing to his name. Cathleen O'Hara, Dale's mousy social secretary, serves as the unwitting instrument of his plan, and a nasty blackmail scheme is set in...