Welcome to Moonstone Press
Moonstone Press reprints detective and crime novels (as well as humorous fiction) from the end of WWI to the early 1960s. We publish books that are well-written and entertaining, and reintroduce them to a wider audience.
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And A Bottle of Rum
Stretched across the road was the body of a policeman. On the way home one evening in the Romney Marsh, Bookseller Theodore Terhune and friend Julia are caught in heavy coastal fog. A passing lorry provides some guidance on the narrow country roads, but the night ends with intentional ...
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In Memory of Charles
Charles, according to all accounts, had clearly been boiling up to be murdered. Charles Courtley was a difficult man. Prone to violent outbursts and a bully to his wife and daughters, he had uprooted his unhappy family from London to a country house in remote East Anglia. Wealthy and in...
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A Case of Books
In the beginning was the Word— When Theodore Terhune’s wealthy client Arthur Harrison is found stabbed and his library ransacked, the police suspect the murderer was looking for a book. Harrison collected rare early printed books called incunabula, but as the provenance of such title...
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Five to Five
Much had been risked, and the murderer had escaped by such a rare combination of chances. When elderly, unpleasant Simon Ewing was bludgeoned in his maisonette, and a stranger was seen exiting the building by several of the residents. The murderer had entered—and escap...
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In Muffled Night
It was not at all a suitable house for a murder. Helen Bailey is the live-in housekeeper to the wealthy Murray family. Tall, dark-haired and beautiful, the enigmatic Helen has long ensured that life at ‘The Towers’ ran smoothly for autocratic patriarch James Murray...
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The Inspiration for ‘Five to Five’…..The Case of Oscar Slater
March 22, 2022
On the evening of December 21st, 1908 around 7pm, maidservant Helen Lambie was sent out to fetch the evening paper by her employer ...
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Bibliomysteries
September 3, 2021
One of the lovely thing about murder mysteries is that sub-genres abound that cater to every taste. Bibliomysteries are a category of crim...
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It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.
C.S. Lewis