Murder at Teatime

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Taken from the pages of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, the stories in this suspense-filled collection contain all of the wonderfully delicious elements of the "cozy"--bodies in the library, old English manors, red herrings, suspicious butlers, and much more.Contents:The name on the wrapper / Margery Allingham --The necklace of pearls / Dorothy L. Sayers --The crime of Miss Oyster Brown / Peter Lovesey --Strychnine in the soup / P.G. Wodehouse --Murder at Rokeby house / C.M. Chan --The borgia heirloom / Julian Symons --Dr. Hyde, detective, and the white pillars murder / G.K. Chesterton --Policeman's holiday / Michael Innes --The ministering angel / E.C. Bentley --Home is where the heart is / Nell Lamburn --The wicked ghost / Christianna Brand --The gallowglass / David Braly --Fen Hall / Ruth Rendell.