The Crimson Rambler

by John Russell Fearn

The murder at Darnworth Manor was particularly baffling. Autocratic financier Warner Darnworth had been working alone in his study. The study door was locked on the inside, and the only window was of the non-opening variety. Yet Darnworth had been found slumped over his desk, shot through the head. No weapon was found, either in the room or anywhere else in the manor. To add to the problems of Chief Inspector Gossage and Sergeant Blair, every member of Darnworth's family had good reason to hate him.

264 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

About the author

A prolific author in various genres under his own name, John Francis Russell Fearn also used these pseudonyms: Astron del Martia, Brian Shaw, Conrad G. Holt, Dennis Clive, Frank Jones, Geoffrey Armstrong, Griff, Hugo Blayn, John Russell, K. Thomas Mark Denholm, Paul Lorraine, Polton Cross, Spike Gordon, Thornton Ayre, Vargo Statten, Volsted Gridban, Dom Passante, John Cotton, Ephriam Winiki, Lawrence F. Rose, Earl Titan, Ephraim Winiki.

John Russell Fearn was an extremely prolific and popular British writer, who began in the American pulps, then almost single-handedly drove the post-World War II boom in British publishing with a flood of science fiction, detective stories, westerns, and adventure fiction. He was so popular that one of his pseudonyms became the editor of Vargo Staten’s Science Fiction Magazine in the 1950’s! His work is noted for its vigor and wild imagination. He has always had a substantial cult following and has been popular in translation around the world.