Edward Richardson

Boredom can be a dangerous thing—especially for a man with millions at his disposal and a mind sharper than a scalpel. Meet Adrian Van Reypen Egerton Jones, known to his friends as Average Jones. Disillusioned with high society and yearning for...

In the mist-shrouded peaks of Aidenn Forest, an ancient horror has awakened to crash a wedding party.Antiquarian Alfred Bannerlee expects nothing more than a quiet walking tour through the remote Welsh countryside. But after a harrowing plunge into a...

What if you woke up to find yourself dead, only to discover you were the victim of a calculated murder?On Christmas Eve, wealthy businessman William Brenton retires to his room feeling indisposed, leaving a vibrant holiday party downstairs. He wakes...

A severed head in a motorcycle bag. A man transformed into a copper statue. A millionaire's missing will disguised as a dizzying crossword puzzle.In Lord Peter Views the Body, the unflappable, monocle-wearing aristocratic sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey...

From the fog-shrouded streets of 1870s Philadelphia to the stormy depths of the Magellan Straits, history is littered with ghosts—people who simply stepped off the face of the earth.In Mysteries of the Missing, author and narrator Edward Richardson...

Step into the treacherous shadows of the World War I era, where the fate of a nation hangs on a deciphered code and a split-second decision.In On Secret Service, author Edward Richardson masterfully unveils the classified exploits of America's most...

High on a snow-swept mountain sits Baldpate Inn, a glamorous summer resort now locked tight against the freezing winds of December. It is here that novelist William Magee seeks the ultimate solitude to write his masterpiece, armed with the only key to...

Wealthy aristocrat by day. Master safe-cracker and vigilante by night.In the glittering high-society circles of early twentieth-century New York, Jimmie Dale is known as a respectable, Harvard-educated millionaire, frequenting the ultra-exclusive St....

Step into the gaslit streets of Paris, where secrets are currency and the sharpest weapon is an impeccably dressed man's intellect. In The Confessions of Arsène Lupin, the world's most charming and audacious rogue pulls back the curtain on his most...

When a meticulously planned heist at a quiet lakeside villa goes disastrously wrong, a master thief finds himself caught in a lethal snare. Two of his most trusted men are arrested for murder, and the only key to saving them from the guillotine is a...

In this chilling collection of suspense and psychological torment, the lines between victim and villain blur, and the human mind becomes the most inescapable prison of all.The Escape of Mr Trimm follows a disgraced Wall Street titan who miraculously...

A dying millionaire's last request. A brutal assassination. And a sinister biological weapon poised to bring the world to its knees.Before his tragic murder, John Millinborn tasks his closest friend with finding his long-lost niece and heir....

Every massive fortune hides an equally massive crime... and someone in London knows exactly what it is.John Minute is a ruthless survivor. An ex-Rhodesian pioneer who built his multi-million-pound empire on a foundation of betrayal, stolen gold...

In the bustling warmth of a London A.B.C. tea shop, a mild-mannered man with pale eyes and trembling fingers sits in the corner, idly tying complicated knots into a piece of string. To the untrained eye, he is a mere eccentric. But to the frustrated...

A shocking murder. A scandalous trial. A verdict that changes everything... but guarantees nothing.Rachel Minchin's marriage to her volatile husband was a gilded cage, until she finds him slumped in his study, dead from a bullet to the heart....

Edward Royle thought he knew everything about his best friend, Sir Digby Kemsley, and the woman he loved, Phrida Shand. But one midnight summons to a South Kensington flat changes everything.When Royle discovers an impostor wearing his friend's face...

A bullet fired in a crowded room with no sound. A safe cracked without leaving a single trace. A deadly disease unleashed by a phantom killer.Before the modern CSI laboratory, there was Professor Craig Kennedy. Armed with test tubes, rudimentary lie...

When the ruthless and universally despised Wall Street titan Sigsbee Manderson is found dead on the grounds of his English estate, a bullet through his eye, the financial markets crash—but no one sheds a tear.Enter Philip Trent, a brilliant artist and...