One of a number of real life cases from an era when juries listened with rapt attention to evidence of exact times, distances, estimates of speed and even in so

John Hall was born in Leeds and working for 25 years as an analytical chemist before embarking on a career as a writer. His stimulating Sherlock Holmes novels a

First published in 1948, when it was the best-selling mystery of the year in the author’s native Australia, Murder in the Telephone Exchange stars feisty youn

First published in 1948, when it was the best-selling mystery of the year in the author’s native Australia, Murder in the Telephone Exchange stars feisty youn

This spy thriller opens with a secret telegram written in codes and is immediately followed by a sequence of mysterious events that set the tone for the entiret