Henry Wade ist das Pseudonym von Sir Henry Lancelot Aubrey-Fletcher, dem 6. Baronet. Wade konzentrierte sich in seinem Schreiben auf das Genre der Kriminalliteratur. Sein Stil zeichnete sich durch ausgeklügelte Handlungsstränge und eine spannende Atmosphäre aus. Seine Werke wurden für ihren logischen Aufbau und unerwartete Wendungen geschätzt.
The narrative centers around the allure of the San Podino Gold Company, which attracted numerous investors due to an overly optimistic prospectus. However, the reality turned out to be disappointing, as the mine produced nothing but "Fool's Gold," leaving shareholders in a precarious financial situation. This tale explores themes of deception and the pitfalls of blind investment.
The mysterious disappearance of two prominent London businessmen sets off a gripping investigation. Cousins James and Charles Morden, who operate a struggling shipping company in Liverpool post-Great War, face mounting suspicion amid financial irregularities. The plot thickens when James's body is discovered on the banks of the Mersey, raising questions about foul play and the truth behind their vanishing. This tale weaves elements of intrigue and family dynamics against a backdrop of economic turmoil.
The body of a woman is found in a corner of Hampstead Heath. She's been strangled, and it's clear from her appearance that she was a prostitute. The detectives seem faced with a hopeless lack of evidence. They have a suspect and several contradictory witnesses, but no proof and little information to go on. With ingenuity and tireless patience Inspector Poole of Scotland Yard finds out that the dead woman was not always a low-grade prostitute but had sunk to hopeless poverty from a very different life.
Inspector Rudge does not encounter many cases of murder in the sleepy seaside town of Whynmouth. But when an old sailor lands a rowing boat containing a fresh corpse with a stab wound to the chest, the Inspector's investigation immediately comes up against several obstacles. The vicar, whose boat the body was found in, is clearly withholding information, and the victim's niece has disappeared. There is clearly more to this case than meets the eye - even the identity of the victim is called into doubt. Inspector Rudge begins to wonder just how many people have contributed to this extraordinary crime and whether he will ever unravel it. . . In 1931 Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, and 10 other crime writers from the newly formed Detection Club collaborated in publishing a unique crime novel. In a literary game of consequences, each author would write one chapter, leaving G.K. Chesterton to write a typically paradoxical prologue and Anthony Berkeley to tie up all the loose ends. In addition, all of the authors provided their own solutions in sealed envelopes, all of which appeared at the end of the book, with Agatha Christie's ingenious conclusion acknowledged at the time to be 'enough to make the book worth buying on its own'. The authors of this novel are G.K. Chesterton, Canon Victor Whitechurch, G.D.H. Cole and Margaret Cole, Henry Wade, Agatha Christie, John Rhode, Milward Kennedy, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ronald Knox, Freeman Wills Crofts, Edgar Jepson, Clemence Dane and Anthony Berkeley. ©1931, 2011 The Detection Club (P)2017 HarperCollins Publishers
A wealthy banker, Sir Garth Fratten, dies suddenly from an aneurysm on the Duke of York's Steps. His doctor is satisfied that a mild shock such as being jostled would be enough to cause Sir Garth's death. It all seems so straightforward, and there is no inquest.But Fratten's daughter Inez is not satisfied. She places an advertisement in the London newspapers that comes to the attention of Scotland Yard, and Inspector John Poole is assigned to make enquiries.Poole's investigation leads him into a world of high finance where things are not as they seem; a sordid world in which rich young men make fools of themselves over chorus girls.
