"What happens," Bobby asked, "when a woman with an irresistible attraction for men, and the man with an irresistible attraction for women, meet? When glamour meets glamour . . . ?"

"Lummy," said the superintendent.

A seemingly innocent young woman has disappeared, presumably to elope with an unscrupulous lothario. Despite his wife Olive's urging, Met Commander Bobby Owen is originally reluctant to get involved in a seemingly personal matter. But he soon finds his professional whiskers twitching when he discovers the cad in the case is a former suspect in a knife murder. Before long Bobby discovers a new murder scene – plenty of blood, but strangely no corpse ...

So Many Doors, a classic golden age whodunit, is the twenty-sixth novel in the Bobby Owen Mystery series, originally published in 1949. This new edition features an introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans, and a selection of E.R. Punshon's prolific Guardian reviews of other golden...]]> Thu, 13 Oct 2016 00:30:17 +0300 https://www.bookfrom.net/e-r-punshon/592526-six_were_present_a_bobby_owen_mystery.html https://www.bookfrom.net/e-r-punshon/592526-six_were_present_a_bobby_owen_mystery.html
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That evening the down train from London deposited at the little country station of Ramsdon but a single passenger, a man of middle height, shabbily dressed, with broad shoulders and long arms and a most unusual breadth and depth of chest. Of his face one could see little, for it was covered by a thick growth of dark curly hair, beard, moustache and whiskers, all overgrown and ill-tended, and as he came with a somewhat slow and ungainly walk along the platform, the lad stationed at the gate to collect tickets grinned amusedly and called to one of the porters near.]]> Wed, 23 Jun 1999 11:05:45 +0300 https://www.bookfrom.net/e-r-punshon/604992-information_received_the_bobby_owen_mysteries.html https://www.bookfrom.net/e-r-punshon/604992-information_received_the_bobby_owen_mysteries.html
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