Classic Crime Stories

Of the many thousands of utterly ordinary-looking individuals who journeyed into the city from various suburban retreats every workday morning Limmis was, by a long way, the most ordinary and least likely to attract attention. He was the sort of young man whom no one would have ever troubled to look at twice. If you happened to look at Limmis once you knew—if you really happened to think about the thing at all—that you could see his like a hundred times in the next half mile of crowded street. He was inconspicuous, colourless, common—as common as peas or potatoes... I Against TimeII The Earl, the Warder and the Wayward HeiressIII The Fifteenth-Century CrozierIV The Yellow DogV Room 53VI The Secret of the BarbicanVII The SilhouetteVIII Blind Gap MoorIX St. Morkil’s IsleX Extra-JudicialXI The Second CapsuleXII The Way to JerichoXIII Patent No. 33XIV The Selchester MissalXV The Murder in the Mayor’s Parlour