Michael Hardwick

Foreword Sherlock Holmes ! Ask anyone, anywhere, to tell 3^ou something about him, and the odds are that they will oblige you. His face is familiar to those who would not be able to identify a portrait of Shakespeare. Detection as an art was a mere child in his day, and has grown to manhood in...

Editor's Note In the process of sifting the material for a book such as this, one becomes aware inevitably of the amount of evidence there is in support of ghosts. (I use the word "ghosts" not only in its normally accepted meaning of the ethereal presentation of a dead person to the living, but...

1 Home For some reason, which eluded her, Marion did not turn off the tree-shaded pavement of Alexandra Road into the driveway of the house. She stopped and stood there in the humid heat, and surveyed her home. As always, she admired its almost prim colonial neatness: a benevolent colonel's...