Though Professor Moriarty has perished at the Reichenbach Falls, Sherlock Holmes must still pit his wits against his old and deadly enemies - the malevolent blackmailer Charles Augustus Milverton, and the murderous Colonel Sebastian Moran... In this ...
Helping Interpol unmask the big wheel behind an international narcotics racket, Dr. Morelle himself becomes involved in a train smash, with unforeseen results. Meanwhile, Miss Frayle, his querulous and inimitable secretary, makes a flying dash acros...
ERNEST DUDLEY is an English author known to millions of crime fiction addicts for his weekly _Armchair Detective_ roadio broadcasts, and also for the Doctor Morelle series of stories (and radio plays) in which the shrewd detective-psychiatrist solved...
Radium is not a substance that can be quietly stolen, and no questions asked-especially in this age of atomic warfare. Inspector Faithfull and his mercurial sergeant, Somers, expected action when they were given the task of catching the thieves, but ...
Here is a collection of the strange adventures of Doctor Morelle, that most sardonic of characters, and his gentle, timorous assistant Miss Frayle, in a sequence of fifteen gripping episodes-fifteen dynamically hair-raising chapters from the Doctor's...
Along with a large cash legacy, Miss Alice Ames had inherited the Whistling Sands, an old house overlooking the Conway Estuary. And it was here she began married life with Wally Somers - alias Wally Sloane, wanted by the Sydney police. To Wally, Alic...
Miss Frayle, no longer employed by psychiatrist and detective Dr. Morelle, now works as secretary to Hugo Coltman, head of a drama school. Endeavouring to entice her back, Dr. Morelle accepts an invitation to lecture at the school, only to become ent...
A mysterious series of factory and warehouse fires is creating havoc - and the police investigation does not appear to be getting anywhere. So the GLOBE newspaper hires private eye Nat Craig to see what he can discover....
Mr. Walker, the Cockney rag and bone man, is always bumping into other people's troubles. But, when there is a death in his own sitting room, he finds himself the prime suspect in a murder investigation....
Max Mitchell and Dan Evans, two London playwrights, are seeking atmosphere and characters for a play. But when they travel to Wales for inspiration they find more than they bargained for. They arrive in Llanberis on a stormy night, and are forced to ...
Eighteenth-century London. Blind magistrate, Sir John Fielding, 'The Blind Beak' had instigated the Bow Street Runners to combat the hordes of criminals so rife throughout the city. Criminals such as Nick Rathburn, who fights his way out of Newgate G...
In a wild, bleak corner of the Kent Coast, a derelict harbour rots beneath the tides. Here the "Doll," a film-struck waif, and her lover, ex-movie star Tod Hafferty, play out their final, tragic, ill-fated, real-life roles. Sudden death strik...
Leatherface is the sobriquet earned by John Neville, the highwayman who haunted the Dover Road. The swashbuckling action of this novel is set against city taverns and roadside inns, and played out amongst rogues, the Bow Street Runners, cheats and ga...
This is a collection of stories about the strange adventures of Doctor Morelle. The sardonic detective's cases include a hotelier killed with a brass candlestick, a diamond robbery, and the shooting of zoologist Professor Raymond....
There are few cases of Dr Morelle, the famous criminal investigator, where his secretary Miss Frayle doesn't come to the forefront of the picture. It was the murder of her erstwhile employer that had introduced Miss Frayle to the Doctor, and murder w...
After a spate of time-wasting telephone calls, the Doctor had told Miss Frayle not to bother him with them; she must dismiss the callers and leave him to work on his thesis. But when the telephone rang again it was Professor Howard, clearly in the mi...
When Brian Cartwright receives a written death threat, he takes it seriously--in his not unblemished past he has made some bitter enemies. So he calls in the famous criminologist Dr. Morelle to protect him. The thre...
Doctor Morelle and Miss Frayle await the last train to London...at its approach, the village station attendant rushes to open the level crossing gates. Later, however, on the train, they learn that following a fatal crash, the station's level crossin...
Here, Dr Morelle expounds on seven puzzling cases in his inimitable manner. For 'The Case of the Man Who was too Clever', the doctor and his assistant Miss Frayle investigate the murder of an actress, whose dying screams are the clue to her death....
Jimmy Strange is a mysterious young man who turns up when he is least expected. Whenever and wherever there is trouble, he appears from behind some dark corner. No one knows much about him, though he is always a gentleman. He is never short of money...
"What type of skulduggery is the Master Mind contemplating this time?" That is the question put to Jimmy Strange by his long-suffering girlfriend, Sandra. But the answer always depends on which type of criminals Jimmy is pitting his wits against. Whe...
A high-level diplomat, about to assume a vital posting at the United Nations, is being blackmailed. But if he goes to the police and prosecutes, his career will be finished. Even though the press can only reveal him as Mr X, his well-known face will ...
In the tradition of the old Ace Doubles (flip the book over to read the second title), here's the thirteenth Wildside Mystery Double: THE AMAZING MARTIN BRETT: CLASSIC CRIME STORIES, by Ernest Dudley. The creator of the famous criminologist, Dr. More...
Ernest Dudley, creator of that superb pair of sleuths, Dr. Morelle and Miss Frayle, here introduces another vivid character, Nat Craig, whose methods as London’s foremost private investigator are utterly different from those of the famous doctor, y...
Cynthia Mason, a young heiress, lives with her violent stepfather, Samuel Kimber, who only holds control of her fortune while she remains unmarried. On announcing her engagement to Peter Lorrimer, a local writer, who is calling to take her away that ...
This second book of Ernest Dudley’s stories about his London-based private eye, Nat Craig, and his lovely French secretary, Simone, features a varied collection of the detective's eccentric clients: young, wealthy women getting themselves black...
The creator of the famous criminologist, Dr. Morelle, here gives us four stories of another brilliant detective, whom the newspapers have dubbed "The Amazing Martin Brett." Brett appears to be selfish and lazy, and his effort at solving crime...
On the plane from New York to London, Dr. Morelle chances to meet Edwin Gale, a smooth-tongued swindler. Inexplicably, Gale finds himself drawn to the famous psychiatrist-detective, and so begins one of Dr. Morelle's most intriguing cases. Back i...
In Castlebay, North Wales, Dick Merrill is on trial, accused of murdering his wife by administering a lethal dose of arsenic. Merrill, good-looking and attractive, is fatally in love with Margot Stone, who's herself already married. Philip Vane, a la...
From the BBC Sound Archive, an original 1957 radio crime drama series starring Cecil Parker and Sheila Sims. Harley Street psychiatrist Dr Morelle uses psychology, criminology and dogged persistence to solve crimes. Published for the very first time,...
A woman thinks her plot to murder her husband is foolproof - but it will set off ricocheting complications. When a stranger calls at an old inn during a vicious storm, the elderly resident and her manservant concoct a sinister plan. A travelling sale...
Rex Bader is a private investigator from earth who is called to Island Three at the LaGrange Point to solve the mystery of the missing professor and father of the entire LaGrange Point project. At the same time as the investigation, the cases of Wide...
Haughty psychiatrist Dr. Morelle returns in "The Case of the Voice in the Night."...
At the time that Ted Patrick is planning to pull off his biggest house-breaking job, Dr. Morelle, aided as ever by Miss Frayle, sets up an off-beat criminological experiment, which is destined to have unexpected results. The success of Ted Patrick's ...
This fourth mystery novel in which the noted psychiatrist-detective, Dr. Morelle, and his Secretary, Miss Frayle, set out to probe a murder, begins when beautiful Thelma Grayson called at Dr. Morelle's house in Harley Street, and vividly describes ho...
A pretty girl and a drunken producer are involved in a dramatic motor accident on the road from Lyons to Paris -- a fruitful source for blackmail. The first sinister consequence occurs at a party where, among the actresses and producers, Dr. Morell...
For many years, rumours concerning the activities of an international criminal gang with a chain of contacts in every large European city had been noted at Scotland Yard. Then the rumours assumed the shape of fantastic facts, as the exploits of the g...
ERNEST DUDLEY is an English author known to millions of crime fiction addicts for his weekly Armchair Detective radio broadcasts, and also for the Doctor Morelle series of stories (and radio plays) in which the shrewd detective-psychiatrist solved co...
Young, attractive and successful author, Doone Drummer, fails to turn up at the launch of her bestselling book. So her father seeks the assistance of the well-known criminologist Dr. Morelle to track her down....
Ian Laking is pathologically jealous of his beautiful wife, and obsessed with murder. His only hope lies in being treated by Dr. Morelle, the well-known psychiatrist and criminologist. Laking suspects his business associate, Duke Fenton, of being his...
Murray Selwyn, six-foot-two and athletic, was so convinced he had not long to live that when he came across a hold-up, a murder and masses of forged fivers, he was too worried about catching a chill to give them much attention. But when he met his p...
ERNEST DUDLEY who is known to millions of crime fiction addicts for his weekly 'Armchair Detective' broadcasts, is also author of the famous Doctor Morelle radio series and stories. Doctor Morelle (accompanied inevitably by his assistant, Miss Frayle...