The Red Seal by Natalie Sumner Lincoln

A whodunit from the 1920's.

Twin sisters Helen and Barbara McIntyre give evidence against a burglar who suddenly dies in court, at first seemingly from a heart attack. They discover that the burglar was disguised in court and they recognize him as Helen's fiancée after removing his disguise.

After an autopsy, the burglar is found to have died from poisoning. Was it suicide or murder? The sisters think it was the latter and try to find out who the murderer was. Suspicion shift from the one suspect to the next and a mysterious white envelope with a red wax seal appears and is passed from one person to the other.

What is the content of this envelope, and what role does it play in the whole mystery?

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Murder in the Gunroom by H. Beam Piper

The Lane Fleming collection of early pistols and revolvers was one of the best in the country. When Fleming was found dead on the floor of his locked gunroom, a revolver in his hand, the coroner's verdict was "death by accident." But Gladys Fleming had her doubts. Enough at any rate to engage Colonel Jefferson Davis Rand--better known just as Jeff--private detective and a pistol-collector himself, to catalogue, appraise, and negotiate the sale of her late husband's collection.

There were a number of people who had wanted the collection. The question was: had anyone wanted it badly enough to kill Fleming? And if so, how had he done it? This is a mystery that will keep your nerves on a hair trigger even if you don't know the difference between a cased pair of Paterson .34's and a Texas .40 with a ramming-lever.

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Murder at Bridge by Anne Austin

"Suddenly Dundee stooped and stared with eyes that were widened with excitement and a certain amount of horror. Then he rose, and, standing far to one side, picked up the fat volume which lay on the shelf. As he had expected, a bullet whizzed noiselessly across the room and buried itself in the plaster of the wall opposite--a bullet which would have ploughed through his own heart if he had obeyed his first impulse and gone directly to the shelf to obey the instructions in the note."

A whodunit from the 1930's. Special Investigator Bonnie Dundee has to investigate a case of murder on actress Nita Selim during a game of bridge. Not only does he have to work through a number of suspects, but he also needs to find the murder weapon, a gun equipped with a silencer. The lovely Penny Crain, who also works for the District Attorney, complicates matters even more. When all roads seem to lead nowhere, Bonnie Dundee also has to deal with an attempt on his own life...

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