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Alice Tilton
Full Series List in Order
A Leonidas Witherall Mystery
1 - Beginning With a Bash (1937)2 - The Cut Direct (1938)
3 - Cold Steal (1939)
4 - The Left Leg (1940)
5 - The Hollow Chest (1941)
6 - File for Record (1943)
7 - Dead Ernest (1944)
8 - The Iron Clew (1947)
Book List in Order: 8 titles
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Beginning With a Bash
- 1937
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The sign said COME IN AND BROWSE -- IT’S WARM INSIDE. Martin Jones made the mistake of his life when he joined the others inside the bookstore. One of them, Professor John North, would soon be dead. And Martin is going to be the prime suspect. Luck...
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The Left Leg
- 1940
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“Surely, under whatever pseudonym, Mrs. Taylor is the mystery equivalent of Buster Keaton.” ―Dilys Winn
It has been a hard day for Leonidas Witherall. Someone had set him up to be mistaken for a burglar, and the police are now hot on his... -
The Hollow Chest
- 1941
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It's Egg Day in Dalton (a New England town near Boston) and Leonidas Witherall, "the man who looks like Shakespeare", returns home from shepherding some students on an Egg Day outing to find his house ransacked, his safe open, and a beaut...
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Dead Ernest
- 1944
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Leonidas Witherall, offbeat detective, is haunted by neighbors, strangers, blondes and a most unlikely corpse.
One of its more colorful residents, Leonidas Witherall inhabits the fictional Boston suburb of Dalton and is the proprietor of a pre... -
The Iron Clew
- 1947
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This time the mysterious arrival and subsequent disappearance of a brown paper package sets Witherall off on a furious chase around Dalton and environs, only briefly interrupted by the discovery of the corpse of banker Fenwick Balderston, bashed i...