Leonard R. Gribble Knihy

A collection of short stories, all with girls as the main characters.

Gribble's unique mystery, featuring the actual Arsenal squad of 1939, sends Inspector Anthony Slade into the world of professional football to investigate a case of deadly foul play on and off the pitch.

Who's for the zoo? asks teacher, everyone of course except Catherine Onslow. No one understands why until they play the zoo game.

It was a very strange sort of a party at Tudor Arches, twelve guests, each masked, each unknown to the other, and each with a dark secret. Their host, if anything, was even stranger, a mysterious figure who had been blackmailing his guests for years, but who had called the party to announce that he was getting out of the blackmail business and was restoring the incriminating evidence to his guests. But things take an even stranger turn when the host is poisoned within moments of revealing his plans. Thus begins one of the strangest cases in Inspector Anthony Slade's career at Scotland Yard's Criminal Investigation Department.

An Inspector Anthony Slade MysteryThe Malverne Diamonds, also known as “The Tears of Death” a necklace of matchless diamonds at least four of which dark and horrible histories. On the eve of their sale by Lady Malverne, the widow of Sir Julius Malverne, they are stolen under the nose of Inspector Anthony Slade. Yet what is the inspector to make of the fact that the cracksman is discovered unconscious before the open safe while the necklace is missing. Or about the body discovered in a automobile sunk in a lake on the Steyning Towers castle. He has plenty of suspects, and evidence, too, but perhaps too much for him to be comfortable with. Inspector Slade will have to use all his skills and intelligence to solve . . . The Case of the Malverne Diamonds!