It was first published in Strand Magazine in December 1893. It appears in book form as part of the collection The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Conan Doyle later ranked "The Final Problem" fourth on his personal list of the twelve best Holmes stories.

    - The fourth man- The case of the discontented soldier- The red signal- The girl in the train- Magnolia blossom- Jane in search of a job- In a glass darkly- The case of the middle-aged wife- The mystery of the blue jar- The manhood of Edward Robinson

    Tim Ekaterin has a lot of money. Unfortunately, it is other people's, and it is his job to invest it wisely, or get fired. And right now he's taken a big risk: using £5 million to stud a champion racing stallion. When the resulting foals have birth defects, Tim is worried and decides that there may be something else going on at the stables. His suspicions are confirmed when one of those helping with the horses is murdered. Now it's not just about money, but about life and death. Determined to get to the bottom of why anyone would do this, Tim puts himself in danger's path to discover the truth . . . Praise for Dick Francis: 'As a jockey, Dick Francis was unbeatable when he got into his stride. The same is true of his crime writing' Daily Mirror 'Dick Francis's fiction has a secret ingredient - his inimitable knack of grabbing the reader's attention on page one and holding it tight until the very end' Sunday Telegraph 'The narrative is brisk and gripping and the background researched with care . . . the entire story is a pleasure to relish' Scotsman 'Francis writing at his best' Evening Standard 'A regular winner . . . as smooth, swift and lean as ever' Sunday Express 'A super chiller and killer' New York Times Book Review

    A low-priced collection of five unabridged mysteries includes Miss Marple's first case, The Murder at the Vicarage, along with Sad Cypress; N or M?; Towards Zero; and Dead Man's Folly.

    Murder Must Advertise. Gaudy Night.

    Further adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson.

    Sherlock Holmes strives to destroy Professor Moriarty who is at the bottom of half the evil in London while the criminal genius vows the same for the detective.

    He watches as his partner and lover, Jenna, double agent, was efficiently gunned down by his own agency. There was nothing left for him but to quit the game, get out. Until, in one frantic moment on a crowded railroad platform in Rome, Havelock saw his Jenna--alive. From then on, he was marked for death by both U.S. and Russian assassins.

    News travels fast, gossip even faster, and one ugly incident has the power to set the entire community aflame. Forty years ago, the murder of a local white woman shook Itna Homa to its core and resulted in the conviction—based on circumstantial evidence—of a young black man. Now desegregation at the University of Mississippi is the talk of the town, and fear and prejudice once again threaten to tear friends and families apart.   For middle-aged housewife Allie McCall, the civil rights movement offers a welcome opportunity to reconsider her own life. She is open to the new ideas about race, class, and gender that are sweeping the country, and eager to see them gain greater acceptance in her hometown. Shocking her husband, Tate, and confounding the local political establishment, Allie enters the race for town constable against a long-serving and bigoted incumbent. As a voice for progressive reform, Allie hopes to encourage her like-minded neighbors to speak up. But her quest has another, more personal component—it was Allie’s mother who was killed all those years ago, and Elgie Hale, the man accused of the crime, has recently escaped from prison. Allie will risk everything—her marriage, her safety, her principles—to track down Hale and determine his guilt or innocence once and for all.

    His bookie calls him Mr. Burroughs. His friends call him Digger. He changes his name more often than his underwear. Makes his job easier. Insurance snoop. Six-foot-two of muscle and brains, well oiled by generous helpings of Finlandia vodka.Now he's running roughshod over the smartset. Is the sudden death of a doctor's wife accident or murder? With a million-dollar insurance claim pending, Digger better find out.He'll start his snoop as a party crasher at a Hollywood funeral, where the only one who doesn't mind is the corpse. But then everybody else is a suspect!

    

    

    Cap'n Joshua becomes very secretive at Christmas time and the ship's crew is consumed with curiosity to find out why.

    When, on their way to a picnic, they help a weary motorcyclist who gives Michelle a small present in return, they never imagine that it will lead to their becoming involved in an adventure which takes them up and down Britain and even abroad, as they try to link together the pieces of a puzzling mystery involving silver lockets which seem to interestmore than one gang of crooks. The cousins' quiet holiday is drastically transformed as they find themselves caught in a web of dangerous and often horrifying situations, face the evil schemes of a murderous gang and encounter the terrible Tigress. As new faces constantly appear in the mystery, the cousins desperately try to work out what is going on, while facing perils greater than they have ever experienced in their lives.

    While riding a cable car in the Alps, Miss Mallard witnesses a robbery at the retreat of the famed Madame Merganser.

    There is nothing in today's mystery library that quite compares to George C.Chesbro's work."--"Mostly Murder.