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When Hubert Carson, the editorial manager of the Herald Newspaper in Auckland, is found dead in his office, the autopsy reveals that it was a blow on the head that killed him, a mild heart attack probably causing him to fall. Carson's fellow employee...
During a regional news broadcast on YA Channel, the announcer, Lance Temple, suddenly shocked all his listeners by saying that he was dying and that it was murder. Sure enough, Temple was found slumped over the controls with a knife in his back. When...
Ex-defence lawyer Duncan Mantell regularly visits Norfolk Island in his capacity as Australian government clerk. On one such visit he is approached by a man called Jack Ward, who supposedly knows him, although Duncan cannot place either his face or n...
When the senior partner of a law firm is found stabbed to death, it is thought that the crime must have been committed by some hooligan who wandered into the building. But when the accounts clerk is killed by having a notary seal dropped on his head,...
Piha is a small beach settlement in New Zealand. Some go there to fish, swim or sunbathe, others to plant cannabis seedlings or to follow 'alternative lifestyles'. In this peaceful setting, nobody expects to be pushed over the sides of the huge Lion ...
Two London typists see an advertisement for a painting seminar in the country and decide that it would be a novel way to spend their vacation. The school is for advanced students only and they know nothing about art, but they hope to conceal that fac...
When Hubert Clagg, the unpopular manager of Fairway Flats is found murdered, one of the tenants, 78 year-old Mrs. Emily Dibbett, found it necessary to call on the local vicar to let him know that she wasn't the murderer. The Reverend Jabal Jarrett w...