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Mystery
It's "great fun" when a baker's dozen of Golden Age authors collaborate on a whodunit -- including Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, and G. K. Chesterton (The Guardian). Originally published in 1931, The Floating... See More
Foreign Languages
During the WWII bombing of London, Ronald Knox--a priest, radio personality, detective novelist, scholar, and Catholic convert--found himself the chaplain of a girls' school where students were being sheltered. When his... See More
Anthologies
Six "perfect murders" by Margery Allingham, Dorothy L. Sayers, and other Golden Age Mystery authors of the Detection Club -- plus an essay by Agatha Christie. Founded in England in the 1930s, the Detection Club brought... See More
Religion & Spirituality
"And people go round saying, 'At least Catholics know what they believe,'" sarcastically remarks Charles Ryder of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited. With The Belief of Catholics, Ronald Knox offers a stirring credo which... See More
At first sight the case looks simple enough to private investigator Miles Bredon. Two cousins on a boat trip on the River Thames: Derek with a £50,000 reason for surviving the next two months until he inherits a legacy... See More
Mystery
After Colin Reiver is acquitted of responsibility for killing a child in a car accident he sets out on a sea cruise in the hope that it might ease local feeling and the voice of his own conscience. But when a few days after... See More
In a gas-lit inn in the countryside a man lies dead. The police, of course, investigate - and so do Miles Bredon and his wife, in the interests of the Indescribable Insurance Company, with which the deceased man, Mr Mottram... See More
Biographies & Memoirs
James Britten gives an attractive picture of growing up in an Anglo-Catholic parish in the late nineteenth century; he is less eirenic describing the violent differences he found in other Anglican churches. For Britten, the... See More
Religion & Spirituality
In his own variation on C. S. Lewis's trilemma of "Lunatic, Liar, or Lord," Ronald Knox writes: "I do not believe that, human nature being what it is, the immediate impression made by the preaching of the Gospel could have... See More
Religion & Spirituality
The main theme of the twenty-one panegyrics collected in Captive Flames, as Ronald Knox writes in his Dedication to Arnold Lunn, is "something which does not alter with our shifting perspectives, does not grow old. The... See More
Religion & Spirituality
The first of Ronald Knox's three "Slow Motion" collections, The Mass in Slow Motion comprises fourteen sermons preached during World War II to the students of the Assumption Sisters at Aldenham Park. Modest yet arresting in... See More
Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
The insurance firm investigator, Miles Bredon, must determine whether suicide or murder is the cause of the gas poisoning death in an inn of a man who has recently concluded a complex insurance policy and changed his will. See More
Religion & Spirituality
An objection to miracles was one of the classic arguments against religion made from the eighteenth century onwards. God suspending the natural laws of creation - doing directly what he would generally accomplish by... See More
Religion & Spirituality
Fr. Ronald Knox's account of his conversion from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism in digital format. See More
Religion & Spirituality
In fairness to both sides, something must be remembered which is customarily forgotten, that the conflict between Nazism and the Church began before the Nazis came into power. In 1931, the Bavarian bishops issued a... See More
Mystery
When four friends stumble across the body of a fellow club member during a game of golf they suspect murder. The police aren't so sure, and when it looks as though the official verdict will be suicide the men are outraged... See More
Mystery
When private investigator Miles Bredon and his wife, Angela, arrive for a weekend at the Hallifords' country house, they find themselves part of a singularly ill-assorted house party. Waking one morning to the news that one... See More