Patricia Moyes

The staff of Style magazine in London are in the feverishly exciting period just before the latest Paris fashion news is to break. They have debated late into the night about which photographs to feature, but only one of them knows that the stakes are so high that an employee will be dead by morning… Inspector Henry Tibbett must act quickly to save the life of his niece, a beautiful Style model, who is in danger of becoming the next victim of a crime as ingenious as the creations of haute couture itself.

Inspector Tibbett joins his wife Emmy for the twentieth reunion of her Royal Air Force squad. It’s a bittersweet trip for Emmy: she loved her work with the RAF, and she was in love with one of the pilots, but their happiness ended abruptly when he killed himself, crashing his plane into the North Sea. At the reunion, Emmy is surprised to realise that she may have been the last person to see her former sweetheart alive. And she’s more than startled to discover that virtually everyone connected with that fatal flight had something to hide…

In the plush Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, law officers from many countries are assembled to discuss the control of drug smuggling. Among them is the intrepid Inspector Henry Tibbett, who is representing Britain and is using the occasion to combine business and a holiday with his wife, Emmy. It is a wonderful opportunity. That is until Tibbett finds himself unable to account for his whereabouts when an important official is found slumped across his desk, as cold and stiff as the dagger protruding from his back.

When the handsome actor Bob Meakin was cast in the latest Northburn Films movie, he couldn’t believe his lucky stars. But with the crew in position and the camera rolling, Meakin trips on more than his lines, falling directly beneath the wheels of an oncoming train. The producers claim this to be no more than an appalling accident, but subsequent events convince Inspector Henry Tibbett that murder was added to the script.

Inspector Henry Tibbett and his wife, Emmy, are enjoying a holiday on a friend's yacht, lazily sailing from one little English sea-town to the next. It should all be delicious indolence... except that Tibbett can't stop thinking about death. Well, one death in particular. The death of a local sailor. And he really can't stop thinking about it when it starts looking as though the drowned sailor is somehow connected to the robbery at a nearby manor house.

What could be more delightful than a long-forgotten relative who dies and leaves you a tidbit in his will? How about if that tidbit is in fact a charming country pub, and that pub is now yours&#8212lock, stock, and barrels of beer? Susan Gardiner is delighted, even when it becomes clear that the establishment has a line-up of regulars, not all of them as endearing as one might perhaps prefer. No, she doesn't love all her new customers, but she certainly didn't intend for one of them to be poisoned by a bad batch of mushrooms The outlook is dire for both Susan and the Blue Moon...until Inspector Henry Tibbett steps in. He and Emmy just want a spot of lunch, but they are, as ever, willing to take on more than they had bargained for. A special treat for foodies, Blue Moon is also a charming, immensely satisfying close to the Henry Tibbett series.

It's a slow day at Scotland Yard, so Inspector Henry Tibbett takes a busman's holiday, immersing himself in the world of puzzling puzzlers. The hijinks kick off with an amusing gift: Someone unnamed has sent Henry the beginnings of a crossword puzzle.Even more mysterious: The clues point to the group of mystery writers to whom Henry has pledged to give a presentation. Most mysterious of all: None of the writers are who they claim to be, and one is a murderer. Which one? For that you'll need to solve the puzzle. Six across and then down, down, down.

One of the oddities of Golden Age fiction was its fixation on the occult and the generally weird - ancient gypsy curses, haunted burial grounds &c. It therefore something of a relief to settle in with the refreshingly literal Ms. Moyes: When a title refers to a third dog, we are not talking about some metaphysical barking: There were three dogs and now one is missing. Up in arms about this is Emmy Tibbet's sister Jane, a stalwart of the animal-rights movement and a trial to the other locals, who are a lot more concerned with the fact that one of their number has recently been hauled off to prison for the minor crime of having killed someone while drunk. Happily, Henry Tibbets soon shows up to connect the two and restore order to the village....though not before being forced to dress in drag.

A bit of a delicious throwback, in many sense of the word. For starters, we have a weekend house party, that hallmark of Golden Age crime-fiction, and apparently still going strong in 1970, when this book was first published. The party is in honor of a certain Lady Balaclava, herself something of a hallmark of the Golden Age, and still, yes, going strong. Well, at least until midway through the festivities, when she keels over, having apparently been poisoned. The most obvious suspects are her Ladyship's daughters and their (suspiciously foreign) husbands: Leave it to Henry Tibbet to head off to the Continent, there to check on the daughters' alibis and, once again, establish his bona fides as Scotland Yard's most peripatetic detective.

Time Remembered is a play written by French playwright Jean Anouilh. The play is set in a fictional European country in the early 20th century and follows the story of a wealthy aristocrat named Prince Albert, who is haunted by the memory of his deceased wife, the Princess, and struggles to move on from her death. The Prince's life changes when a young woman named Isabelle arrives at his estate, claiming to be the reincarnation of the Princess. As the Prince and Isabelle grow closer, they are faced with the challenges of their societal positions and the memories of the past. The play explores themes of love, loss, memory, and the human experience. Time Remembered is a poignant and thought-provoking work that has been widely acclaimed for its poetic language and emotional depth.This is a new release of the original 1945 edition.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.