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  • The Case of the Dead Diplomat

    An Inspector Richardson Mystery

    by Basil Thomson ...
    He flung open a drawer and took from it a heavy dagger in a sheath with blood-stains upon it. On the blade were engraved the words, "Blut und Ehre!"Frank Everett was a rising young press attaché at the British Embassy in Paris - until he was found dead in his Rue St. Georges apartment, a knife wound to the throat. Was it a political assassination, a crime passionnel, or possibly even suicide?The ... Read more

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  • The Dartmoor Enigma

    An Inspector Richardson Mystery

    by Basil Thomson ...
    "I'm writing to you about the death of Mr. Dearborn. You bet the murderer's laughing up his sleeve now that he's got away with it."An inquest is held in South Devon on the death of a man apparently killed in a motor accident on Dartmoor: the verdict is "Death from misadventure." But soon afterwards Scotland Yard and the Devon Chief Constable receive anonymous letters alleging that the verdict was ... Read more

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  • Richardson's First Case

    An Inspector Richardson Mystery

    by Basil Thomson ...
    The D.D.I. recognized him and smiled. "That was a great case you brought us. You'll be interested to hear that it is a case of mur-r-der!"For eight years Basil Thomson headed the famous C.I.D., New Scotland Yard. He knew the Yard inside out. Now in this tale of mystery and detection we are taken behind the scenes. We are shown the greatest detection machine in the world in motion, and see how the ... Read more

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  • The Case of Naomi Clynes

    An Inspector Richardson Mystery

    by Basil Thomson ...
    "The late Miss Clynes, sir? How dreadful. It must have been very sudden.""It was."Naomi Clynes was found dead, her head in the gas-oven. She left a suicide note, but Richardson, newly promoted to the rank of Inspector in the C.I.D., soon has cause to think this is a case of murder. With scarcely a clue beyond a postmark and a postage stamp, treasured by the deceased, he succeeds in bringing home ... Read more

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  • Who Killed Stella Pomeroy?

    An Inspector Richardson Mystery

    by Basil Thomson ...
    "There's one thing which I daresay you noticed—that pair of slippers half kicked under the bath were of men's size.""Yes, I noticed that, too, and they were sprinkled with blood."A man went calmly about his work while his wife lay dead in the house. After he is arrested and accused of the murder, doubt is cast regarding his guilt. Richardson is assigned the case.Richardson delves into the murdered ... Read more

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  • A Murder is Arranged

    An Inspector Richardson Mystery

    by Basil Thomson ...
    None of the other guests could explain what she was doing in Crooked Lane during the night…Beautiful Margaret Gask, guest at Scudamore Hall, was shot to death on the driveway of the estate. The mink coat that she should have been wearing turned out to be the first clue Scotland Yard had to work on. Then a man she knew, a receiver of stolen goods, turns up dead. Soon more shady characters are drawn ... Read more

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  • The Milliner's Hat Mystery

    An Inspector Richardson Mystery

    by Basil Thomson ...
    "What are you looking for, sir?" he said."Bloodstains."Scotland Yard is concerned with the murderer, or murderers, of the mysterious Bernard Pitt. The dead man is discovered with a false identity, courtesy of the many forged papers and documents found with him.The trail leads to France, where we discover why a French milliner chose to ride in a laundry basket, why the two American men are so ... Read more

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  • South Sea Yarns

    by Basil Thomson ...
    In the great bure of Raiyawa there was a story-telling. The lying-places filled three sides of the house—mats spread upon grass four feet wide,—and between each lying-place was a narrow strip of bare earth sprinkled with wood-ashes, on which three logs, nose to nose, were smouldering. A thin curl of blue smoke wreathed upwards from each to the conical roof, where they met and filtered through the ... Read more

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  • The Fijians: A Study of the Decay of Custom

    by Basil Thomson ...
    The present population of the globe is believed to be about fifteen hundred millions, of which seven hundred millions are nominally progressive and eight hundred millions are stagnant under the law of custom. It is difficult to choose terms that even approach scientific accuracy in these generalizations, for, as Mr. H.G. Wells has remarked, if we use the word "civilized" the London "Hooligan" and ... Read more

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  • Richardson Scores Again

    An Inspector Richardson Mystery

    by Basil Thomson ...
    In the hall he found the body of his maidservant, Helen Dunn, aged about fifty, lying on the floor near the telephone. She had bled profusely from a wound in the head and her body was cold.Richardson's second case begins with a murder and robbery at a quiet house in Laburnum Road, and goes on to include an escaped parrot and a seemingly perfect crime which threatened a scandal to shock all England ... Read more

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  • Savage Island: An Account of a Sojourn in Niué and Tonga (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. A Colonial Travelogue of Niue, Tonga, and South Pacific Customs in the Missionary Era

    Savage Island: An Account of a Sojourn in Niué and Tonga is a vivid early twentieth-century travel narrative that combines ethnographic description, colonial memoir, and anecdotal reportage. Thomson records landscapes, customs, political structures, missionary influence, and everyday encounters in Niue and Tonga with a prose style at once observant, ironic, and unmistakably imperial. Situated ... Read more

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  • Richardsons first case

    by Basil Thomson ...
    ON A DEPRESSING November afternoon, when the street lights scarce sufficed to pierce the wet mist, a young policeman stood at his post in Baker Street at the point where Crawford Street joins the main thoroughfare. Moisture dripped from his helmet and glistened on his waterproof cape; the stream of traffic had splashed him with mud to the knees. People have been heard to wonder what passes through ... Read more

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