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In 1961 in a small Michigan town the bones of a young woman are found under the burnt-out shell of an old county courthouse, the only clue to her identity a pendant with an inscription in Italian from Dante’s Inferno. High-school junior Alex Chappell finds himself drawn into the mystery of her death and the search for her killer, a search that will lead him into the town’s dark past and its deadly connection to the ancient Metapontum hoard. THE METAPONTUM HOARD is a complex, sometimes humorous, historical murder mystery spanning two millennia, involving buried treasure, buried corpses, ...

Someone is killing off the only people who can read the clues to an old murder hidden within Jonathan Aldrich's new play. In a small New Hampshire town, Aldrich, an eccentric, once-famous author, dies and bequeaths his estate to seven individuals, with the condition that they each attend the posthumous opening of Whodunit, an old-fashioned murder mystery. At least, that's what the residents of Harpers Crossing are led to believe. When the executor of the Aldrich estate is murdered, Attorney Matthew Harper, a descendent of the town's founder, is assigned the duty of carrying out the terms of...

Chief Inspector Angus Balfour had expected that his enforced vacation near a remote seaside village would be a nuisance but little more. Ordered by his superiors to abscond to Scotland to avoid having to testify for the defense in a notorious murder trial, Balfour finds himself in an ancient mansion where people mysteriously disappear, messages are written in blood on walls, and a vengeful ghost appears to be haunting the attic.

It’s 1921 and a serial killer is stalking the moors of Devonshire. Somewhere within Moreleigh Hall is the Lost Room where, it is said, a madwoman was walled up alive four centuries ago. When at last she died the room was sealed and its location within Moreleigh forgotten. But when the tortured, disfigured bodies of young women begin turning up in the countryside around Harrowfield the villagers are convinced that the evil still existing within the room was reaching out once again. Inspector Angus Balfour is dispatched by Scotland Yard to investigate. What he finds in his search for 'The ...