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6 y separately published work icon The Shrieking Pit, Being the Mystery of the Golden Anchor Inn Arthur J. Rees , ( trans. Unknown with title L'Ancre d'Or ) Paris : Éditions des Loisirs , 1946 Z1376637 1919 single work novel crime detective The sea mist drifts over a sleepy little English hamlet. There is silence. A small inn, a few houses, and there over in the distance, the remnants of an ancient forest. And a pit. But there is something else. A white clad lady, the victim of some horror in an age long past, laments her fate as she arises shrieking from the pit. If you only hear her, you may live to tell the tale. But...if you see her... The Shrieking Pit is a classic tale of theft, murder and intrigue in the traditions of...well just about every English crime writer you can imagine, but it also marks the beginning of a few traditions of its own (Publisher website, Chimaera edition)
2 y separately published work icon Truth To Tell Alice Grant Rosman , ( trans. Miriam Don with title Mieux vaut la verite ) Paris : Éditions des Loisirs , 1939 Z870586 1937 single work novel
6 y separately published work icon The Shadow of Larose Arthur Gask , ( trans. Robert Saint-Prix with title Crime en Australie ) Paris : Éditions des Loisirs , 1932 Z996520 1930 single work novel detective

'On the lonely stretch of road between Whyalla and Iron Knob a man was murdered and robbed of £1,850. Upon that fiction Mr. Arthur Gask has built up one of his best detective stories, under the title 'The Shadow of Larose.''

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'Lonely Road: Scene of Mysterious Murder', Advertiser, 12 May 1920, p.16.
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