Raymond Knight Read

When life goes really badly wrong, we all shake our fists at the heavens or simply cry out in desperation

Professor George Wellbelove and his wife, Dorothy return to the Isle of Wight for her niece's wedding. A happy joyous occasion, if it wasn't for the unwanted, ominous guests. If the daylight hours don't present the Professor with enough concerns, the hours of darkness and the Time Tunnel prove to be even more challenging.

Welcome to the third volume of locked-room mysteries in the Professor George Wellbelove Investigates series. Further new and never-before-told mysteries are presented for your delectation. Tales that are puzzles as much as captivating stories. We have the classical murders made to look like suicide, murders that simply defy logic, crimes that in the normal world, one just wouldn't believe could happen and even $2M of jewellery that vanish into thin air. As a wonderful and memorable backdrop, the series of stories is set in the majestic, spired city of Cambridge, England. In the course of their duties, the long-suffering Chief Inspector Peter Meadows and his assistant, Sergeant Roger Carter attend the scenes of the crime and make their reports. To the Chief Inspector's eye, many appear simple open-and-shut cases which he is happy to close without further investigation. That is, until his friend and colleague, Professor George Wellbelove, university lecturer in Forensic Science, gets involved. The Professor's great ability to think outside the box, bestows on him the gift to spot small, innocuous clues that lesser mortals miss - including the Chief Inspector. Each story has its own personality and some pay homage to the great crime writers such as Agatha Christie, Edgar Allan Poe, John Dickson Carr and more modern writers like Stephen Leather in their writing style and plot development. Eighteen fresh stories, most unique, in this much-loved sub-genre of detective fiction, to seriously challenge the reader's little grey cells. So continue the journey into the world of locked-room mysteries - where the unlikely and improbable are, in fact, just reality.

A dead body alone in a locked office. The office window open to a rear garden covered in fresh snow....no footprints - sounds like a familiar locked-room mystery? That is, until Professor George Wellbelove and Chief Inspector Peter Meadows find out that the late Patrick Devlin had a dark and sinister past in Northern Ireland....and that opens a whole new can of worms.

To be chased by a known enemy is terrifying. But, to be chased by an unidentified enemy and for an unspecified crime, is even more terrifying. This is the crisis facing Adam and Lucy Gardiner from Boston. In desperation, they flee to friends in Canada, hoping to resolve the dilemma in order that they may return home. But the menacing force, far greater than they could have imagined, follows them over the border......................