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The House of Disappearance

J. Jefferson Farjeon

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‘Compelling… much mystery’ New York TimesThe much-revered crime writer J. Jefferson Farjeon’s country house murder mystery back in print for the first time in almost a century‘J. Jefferson Farjeon is quite unsurpassed for creepy skill in mysterious adventures’ Dorothy L. Sayers
An inspector and four uniformed constables arrive one morning, unannounced, at Greystones, the imposing and remote country house of the Elderly family. Inspector Biggs brushes past the immaculate and outraged butler and demands to see John Elderly, head of the family. Behind the dark oak library door is the scene of a struggle; overturned and disarranged furniture, the telephone receiver is off the hook…
Where has the master gone? Who has cut the telephone wires and disabled the motor-cars? What is the inspector holding back from the assembled guests and country house staff?

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Joseph Jefferson Farjeon was born into a literary family in Hampstead, north west London in 1883. He was a prolific crime writer, writing over sixty novels over the course of thirty years, many published by William Collins & Sons and featuring in their hugely popular Collins Crime Club. Dorothy L. Sayers said of his work, ‘every word is entertaining.’ His best-known novel Number 17, was made into a film by Alfred Hitchcock. He died in 1955.

PRAISE FOR J. JEFFERSON FARJEON

Uninvited Guests
‘An ingenious country house mystery… absorbing’
New York Times

The Master Criminal
‘A Sherlock Holmes novel of the first degree’
New York Post

The ‘Z’ Murders
‘A classic serial killer mystery’
Martin Edwards

Mystery in White
‘The perfect book for a winter's evening, a cosy chair and an open fire’
The Daily Mail

Thirteen Guests
‘A country house mystery story firmly in the tradition of the “Golden Age of murder”… lively entertainment as well as a teasingly constructed mystery’
Martin Edwards

No 17
‘Works its way up by delicate graduations of horror to a climatic explosion of gun-play, diamonds and false identities, leaving the criminals safe in the hands of Scotland Yard’
New York Times

Language: English

Pages: 285

Format: Kindle Edition

Release: January 01, 1927

The House of Disappearance

J. Jefferson Farjeon

0/5 ( ratings)

‘Compelling… much mystery’ New York TimesThe much-revered crime writer J. Jefferson Farjeon’s country house murder mystery back in print for the first time in almost a century‘J. Jefferson Farjeon is quite unsurpassed for creepy skill in mysterious adventures’ Dorothy L. Sayers
An inspector and four uniformed constables arrive one morning, unannounced, at Greystones, the imposing and remote country house of the Elderly family. Inspector Biggs brushes past the immaculate and outraged butler and demands to see John Elderly, head of the family. Behind the dark oak library door is the scene of a struggle; overturned and disarranged furniture, the telephone receiver is off the hook…
Where has the master gone? Who has cut the telephone wires and disabled the motor-cars? What is the inspector holding back from the assembled guests and country house staff?

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Joseph Jefferson Farjeon was born into a literary family in Hampstead, north west London in 1883. He was a prolific crime writer, writing over sixty novels over the course of thirty years, many published by William Collins & Sons and featuring in their hugely popular Collins Crime Club. Dorothy L. Sayers said of his work, ‘every word is entertaining.’ His best-known novel Number 17, was made into a film by Alfred Hitchcock. He died in 1955.

PRAISE FOR J. JEFFERSON FARJEON

Uninvited Guests
‘An ingenious country house mystery… absorbing’
New York Times

The Master Criminal
‘A Sherlock Holmes novel of the first degree’
New York Post

The ‘Z’ Murders
‘A classic serial killer mystery’
Martin Edwards

Mystery in White
‘The perfect book for a winter's evening, a cosy chair and an open fire’
The Daily Mail

Thirteen Guests
‘A country house mystery story firmly in the tradition of the “Golden Age of murder”… lively entertainment as well as a teasingly constructed mystery’
Martin Edwards

No 17
‘Works its way up by delicate graduations of horror to a climatic explosion of gun-play, diamonds and false identities, leaving the criminals safe in the hands of Scotland Yard’
New York Times

Language: English

Pages: 285

Format: Kindle Edition

Release: January 01, 1927

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