Arthur J. Rees Books in Order

Disappointed by his uncle’s modest fruit shop, Val abandons his planned life in Auckland for a travelling theatrical company. His letters recount the troupe’s mishaps, dubious encounters, and unpredictable adventures through small towns in New Zealand.

A murder in respectable Hampstead exposes the secrets beneath a distinguished household’s public life. As investigators question witnesses and reconstruct motives, reputation, class, and circumstantial evidence complicate their efforts to discover what happened.

A puzzling death at a country house draws investigators into the secrets of the Sussex countryside. Physical clues and shifting suspicions reveal concealed histories, testing the difference between respectable appearances and the motives behind a violent crime.

After announcing his claim to a noble title and disinheriting his daughter, Robert Turold is found shot in a locked room. A Scotland Yard detective investigates family secrets while the missing daughter becomes a focus of suspicion.

Robert Lynngarth returns to England after years of isolation on a remote island. When his father vanishes and a bell sounds from a supposedly haunted tower, an investigation draws together family secrets, superstition, and his unexplained departure.

On holiday in Norfolk during the First World War, detective Grant Colwyn notices a distressed hotel guest. When the young man disappears and someone matching his description is accused of murder, Colwyn becomes involved in the investigation.

A dinner party at an old country house is interrupted by a scream and a gunshot upstairs. As detectives investigate, suspicion moves among the household, and misleading clues complicate the search for the person responsible.