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Overview: Patrick Quentin, Q. Patrick and Jonathan Stagge were pen names under which Hugh Callingham Wheeler (1912 – 1987), Richard Wilson Webb (1901 – 1966), Martha Mott Kelley (1906 – 2005) and Mary Louise White Aswell (1902 – 1984) wrote detective fiction. In some foreign countries their books have been published under the variant Quentin Patrick. Most of the stories were written by Webb and Wheeler in collaboration, or by Wheeler alone. Their most famous creation is the amateur sleuth Peter Duluth. In 1963, the story collection The Ordeal of Mrs. Snow was given a Special Edgar Award by the Mystery Writers of America.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
Cottage Sinister (1931) (as Q. Patrick)
In the town of Crosby-Stourton, the well-respected Miss Lubbock is being visited by her two daughters from London when the unbelievable happens. Within the same day, both young women are struck down by a rare poison. But why would anyone do such a vile thing?
With no other lawmen suited to the task, Scotland Yard sends Archibald “the Archdeacon” Inge, whose greatest deductive power lies in his absolute lack of imagination, allowing him to keep his entire focus on the facts. But when two more killings occur during his investigation, even the brilliant sleuth is baffled.
What Inge doesn’t know is that the motive behind the murders goes beyond anything resembling the facts
Murder at Cambridge (1933) aka Murder at the ‘Varsity (as Q. Patrick)
Hilary Fenton, an American student at Cambridge, is overawed by the traditions and history of the University and instantly besotted with a fellow student Camilla Lathrop. He also befriends fellow student, Julius Baumann, who is murdered just after having asked Hilary to post an ‘important’ letter for him. Another murder follows and someone tries to poison Camilla. Hilary must try to establish what in the past could link the murders and who the murderer could possibly be.
The Grindle Nightmare (1935) aka Darker Grows the Valley (as Q. Patrick)
The quiet New England village of Grindle was the last place in the world where murder might be expected. Vultures, traditional heralds of death inthe valley, had not roosted in Grindle Oak for more than a hundred years. But now they swarmed there, sinister omens of death to follow. For a murderer stalked the woods and fields of Grindle, a creature whose twisted mind took fiendish joy in despair and depravity. And soon the vicious signs began to appear—a dead monkey, savagely eviscerated… the mutilated body of a kitten…And then a man, drifting face down in the shallow waters of a pond, a man who had been killed by dragging his body behind a moving car…With it’s astounding climax, as horribly exciting as anything in all mystery fiction, The Grindle Nightmare is far more than “just another detective story.” Entirely apart from it’s gripping plot, it’s deft characterizations of a group of fear-ridden folk, it treats with uncanny insight of a strange malady—one that warps the mind and breeds inevitable doom as it runs it’s course.
The Follower (1950)
Mark Liddon’s debutante wife is in trouble, and he travels from Venezuela back home, then to Mexico, in the company of murderers, drug smugglers, gamblers and a variety of questionable people, to follow and save her. Is she worth it?
Suspicious Circumstances (1957)
Murder was breaking down the Hollywood star system–star by star.
There is Dietrich, there is Garbo…and there is Anny Rood of the Great Swooping Eyes and the Bone Structure–who for twenty years had held in her lily white palm the collective heart of America’s film-watcher’s. Anny, who has been able to get away with anything for all of her beautiful life….But who has finally gone too far. Because not even a "legend" can get away with murder.
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