Inspector Frost is called in when a body is found stabbed in Bolter's Court in the City of London. The young man found bending over the corpse would seem the obvious suspect - and the revelation that the man is none other than the famous American millionaire Mckinley M. Macmillan causes a sensation in the press. But the fact that the victim was not shot, but stabbed with an antique dagger is just one of several details that leads Frost to suspect that all may not be as it seems...O...

Mrs. De Morville of The Elms, Aldersford, was shot in broad daylight on an open lawn overlooked by fourteen windows, with four people in the house and a gardener on the other side of the hedge. There was no sign of the murderer. This is the puzzle that Inspector Frost must solve, with the able assistance of his godson Detective Billy Smith. The local police think the death was probably an accident - but Frost knows that the only way to get at the truth will be a careful sifting of the evid...

Lady Brassingham's niece Lady Dorothy Poynings has gone missing from the school at Poynings Hall, where she is headmistress. Miss Dampier, the school's senior assistant, is doing her best to keep the matter quiet, but the pupils (and, more importantly, their parents) are begninning to suspect some scandal. Inspector Frost is called in to discover the young woman's whereabouts. As Lady Dorothy's predicament becomes clear, however, it appears that Lady Brassingham may well be the only person...

Inspector Frost and Sergeant Billy Smith are dispatched to the tiny Cornish village of Crevenna, where the body of a holiday-maker has been discovered stabbed on the beach. Was this a random attempt at armed robbery? Or was there a more personal motive? Was the victim a stranger, or was there a connection with some native of Crevenna? To discover the truth, Frost and Smith must get under the skin of village life. No-one is above suspicion - from the bright young things up at the manor to t...

Inspector Frost and his son-in-law, Detective-Sergeant Billy Smith, are called in to investigate the murder of Henry Whitbourne of Bellhampton Hall. The obvious suspect is Whitbourne's older brother, John. But while Billy is convinced of John's guilt, Frost is less certain. Working together with Superintendent Thomas of Dolminster, Frost soon uncovers evidence of a villainous conspiracy and it will take all his patience and professional dexterity to bring the culprits to justice.Or...

Taking a holiday with his wife at the Wrecker's Head at Polpen on the Cornish coast, Inspector Frost is keen to leave anything resembling criminal investigation behind him in London. True, Lady Bohun, whose country house is located not a dozen miles from Polpen, has had her diamonds stolen recently - but since the diamonds were stolen from the family's London home, Frost is happy to leave that particular investigation to his son-in-law, Sergeant Billy Smith. But, as the proverb says, the b...

When Inspector Frost and Detective-Sergeant Billy Smith are sent to look into the fire that destroyed Waverdale, the country house lately purchased by self-made millionaire Edward Oldroyd, the pair initially suspect a possible insurance scam. Yet there are complications - not least the fact that the famous Corleone Emeralds also appear to have gone missing from the house on the night of the fire. The mystery deepens further when Frost and Billy discover the charred remains of a human body ...

On a stormy night in June, nine guests assemble at the home of wealthy Greek financier, Mr. Cupolis - nine guests who have heavy investments in their host's financial schemes. They soon learn that Cupolis is bankrupt and that their investments are lost. So when their host is found dead in suspicious circumstances, Superintendent Cobham finds no difficulty in amassing at least nine suspects with a vengeful desire for the man's demise. But whose hand committed the crime?First publish...

"You’ll see the papers tomorrow, so you’ll know that Lord Serbridge has been killed—murdered..."First, Colin Sleet, a hack journalist, commits suicide. Then, Timothy Serbridge, the baby son of Sleet's employer, is kidnapped. Penny Pengold, the Serbridges' governess, is ordered to invite the brilliant amateur detective Simon Brade to Olachan House, the family's remote Scottish estate, in order to help discover the missing child's whereabouts. Thankfully, the kidnapping turns out to ...

John Rutherford, bookseller and sometime fiction writer, discovers the bludgeoned corpse of a policeman one evening while taking a stroll in a rainstorm. The policeman's overturned bicycle is what first catches Rutherford's eye. Then he sees Officer Johnson's body sprawled on the sodden ground of Phantom Coppice. Rutherford takes Johnson's bike and pedals to rural Paulsfield police station, two miles away, to report the crime. There he finds Sgt. Martin who initiates calls to a doctor, a p...

"Farrar and I had the good fortune to be acquainted with Entwhistle and to like him. We had the bad fortune to be an hour too late to prevent him from being killed."Tolefree, the discreet City detective, is called on by Mr. Entwhistle to travel to France and spy on a woman at a certain hotel. Tolefree is initially reluctant to take on such seedy work until he receives Entwhistle's assurances that this has less to do with the woman than the men who wish to make her acquaintance. Hav...

Lord Greenwood is most perturbed when his son Bill Chance strikes up a relationship with the actress Millicent Vane. When the troubled peer commissions Philip Tolefree to provide him with proof that Miss Vane is a woman with a scandalous past, Tolefree worries that this savours too much of the sordid intrigue of the divorce court. But when a hunch leads Tolefree and his associate Farrar to pay a late night visit to the rich playboy Howard Killick, the case takes an altogether more interest...