Richard Gordon's acceptance at St Swithin's medical school was no surprise - he had been to public school, played first XV rugby, and his father was 'a St Swithin's man'. But it is a shock to discover that he actually has to work.

Scandal hits the staid publishing house of Barnabas when one of the directors is found dead in the strong-room. Suspicion immediately falls on his wife's lover, the junior partner in the firm. But how does an unpublished Restoration comedy come to feature in the tragedy? And what of the odd disappearance of another director twenty years before?

Campion is welcomed back from his three-year stint with the war office by a suspicious suicide case -- classic British crime writing at its best.

When Albert Campion is called by the fiancee of an old college friend to investigate the disappearance of her uncle, he little expects the mysterious spate of death and dangers that follows among the bizarre inhabitants of Socrates Close, Cambridge. He and Stanislaus Oates must tread carefully, and battle some family dynamics, to solve the case.

A British claim to a tiny Balkan state leads Campion on a race against time in the village of Pontisbright -- classic British crime writing at its best.

Meg Elginbrodde has believed herself to be a widow for five years. Yet since she announced her intention to remarry she has been recieving some very odd communications: photographs of her husband, Martin, looking very much alive. Why? Amateur detective Albert Campion tries to uncover the truth.