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 Time II The Earl, the Warder and the Wayward Heiress III The Fifteenth-Century Crozier IV The Yellow Dog V Room 53 VI The Secret of the Barbican VII The Silhouette VIII Blind Gap Moor IX St. Morkil’s Isle X Extra-Judicial XI The Second Capsule XII The Way to Jericho XIII Patent No. 33 XIV The Selchester Missal XV The Murder in the Mayor’s Parlour