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Plots and Gunpowder
John Robert Stuart Pringle was born in London in 1897 and became a leading writer of detective thrillers debuting in 1927. His early novels, including numerous Sexton Blake stories, were issued under the name of Donald Stuart. But after his first novel as Gerald Verner, The Embankment Murder (1933) Verner became his adopted name, although he continued to write occasionally as Stuart, and as Derwent Steele and Nigel Vane. He has written several plays the best known being Towards Zero adapted from the novel of the same title by Agatha Christie. Following his death in 1980, Verner's fiction slipped out of print, but the last decade has seen an astonishing revival of his books on both sides of t...
Dene of the Secret Service
Bound for Liverpool to board his Japanese ship, OKI MARU, a korean seamani, is found murdered and his identity assumed by the killer. Then, after the ship sails, it disappears - presumed lost in a storm. The owner of a remote country house in Wales is pressured into selling it.
The River Men
Twenty-seven robberies, fifteen cargo broaches, and seven cases of murder: not in the past fifty years has there been such an outbreak of thieving and crime on the Thames; and in no single instance has the culprit been brought to justice, or his identity discovered. A new criminal organization with a mystery man at its head is playing the London river police for fools - and the latest officer on the case has been murdered, his body weighted and sunk in the river. Such is the challenge facing Inspector Terry Ward...
The Chained Man
When a band of stranded Christmas travellers is forced to spend the night in an isolated local pub called The Chained Man, the last thing they expect is murder in their midst... Lattimer Shrive puts his amazing powers of detection and deduction to work to solve three seemingly inexplicable cases... And a real murder on national radio proves surprisingly tricky to solve. These five detective stories by Gerald Verner will baffle and entertain in equal measure.
They Walk in Darkness
A locked room mystery by Gerald Verner from 1947. It's about Satanism and its effects on a little English village. Introduced by John Pelan.
Mr. Budd Investigates
The canvas, seemingly daubs of red and green paint, showed, on closer inspection, a woman, her crimson lips twisted in a devilish leer. The man who had purchased the painting was found in his lodgings - stabbed to death - his painting stolen. While investigating the case, Superintendent Budd stumbles onto another murder in progress.
The Snark Was a Boojum
Begun in 1957, the first two parts of this mystery novel concerning a situation right out of The Hunting of the Snark lay fallow in the papers of Gerald Verner, who died not long after. Then, in 2015, at the instigation of Gavin O'Keefe, who designed the cover, Chris Verner, the son of the author, completed the story. It's an intriguing mystery that takes place in 1935 and features a murderer who seems to be bent on killing as many victims as were killed in the classic book by Lewis Carroll. The unforgettable detective Simon Gale makes his third (and last) appearance.
The Evil of Li-Sin
Get ready to meet the Yellow Peril all over again! Here are two novellas by Gerald Verner, writing as Nigel Vane, featuring the most despicable and wily Celestial yet: Li-Sin. In addition to "The Menace of Li-Sin" and "The Vengeance of Li-Sin," which are introduced by pulpfiend John Pelan, the son of the author, Chris Verner, provides an Afterword and a complete Verner bibliography. This is a time capsule you must swallow!
The House of the Goat
Investigating the murder of a shabby man who had asked directions to the home of Lord Lancroft before being found brutally stabbed, Superintendent Budd has only one clue. Inside the man's jacket is a piece of paper, on which is written the Lord's name and address, and the words 'The House of the Goat'... And when an ancient mummy is stolen in the search for a mysterious ring, nothing is as it seems... Two stories of mystery and cunning from the pen of Gerald Verner.
