Confess to Dr. Morelle

Confess to Dr. Morelle
Author: Ernest Dudley
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2015-02-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1479402540

A pretty girl and a drunken producer are involved in a dramatic motor accident on the road from Lyons to Paris -- a fruitful source for black­mail. The first sinister consequence occurs at a party where, among the actresses and producers, Dr. Morelle is present with his secretary. Miss Frayle. The famous criminologist finds himself plunged into one of the strangest cases of his career as he takes to the airwaves to unmask a murderer before he can kill again! A classic British mystery by the BBC's "Armchair Detective."

Dr. Morelle and Destiny

Dr. Morelle and Destiny
Author: Ernest Dudley
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2003-09-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0809533111

ERNEST DUDLEY is an English author known to millions of crime fiction addicts for his weekly Armchair Detective radio broadcasts, and also for the Doctor Morelle series of stories (and radio plays) in which the shrewd detective-psychiatrist solved countless mysteries with the aid of his assistant, Miss Frayle. Dudley has revealed that Dr. Morelle has his genesis in a coal cellar in Bristol in 1940, where the author (who already worked for the BBC Variety Department) sat out German air-raids. "The character of Dr. Morelle," Mr Dudley has remarked, "was finally evolved from my memories of the silent film star Erich von Stroheim - who incidentally nearly played the part years later in a film version - and whom Hollywood used to bill as 'The Man You Love to Hate.' In order to point up the self-opinionated biting sarcasm of Dr Morelle, I gave him as a foil a pretty feather brained secretary, Miss Frayle. And so, Dr Morelle was let loose on millions of unsuspecting listeners, the first fictional character, I think, whom people hated so much they simply had to tune in and listen to him."

Alibi and Dr. Morelle

Alibi and Dr. Morelle
Author: Ernest Dudley
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Total Pages: 166
Release: 1959-01-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1587156342

At the time that Ted Patrick is planning to pull off his biggest house-breaking job, Dr. Morelle, aided as ever by Miss Frayle, sets up an off-beat criminological experiment, which is destined to have unexpected results. The success of Ted Patrick's coup, achieved with the inside help of a pretty blonde, Myra Campbell, is marred by the killing of a village policeman. Patrick gets away with the loot but runs into trouble when his cleverly planned alibi crumbles dramatically. In a last desperate effort to keep himself in the clear, he deliberately becomes involved in Dr. Morelle's strange scheme. At first it seems that Ted Patrick's luck will hold, but he reckons without Dr. Morelle . . . and without Myra Campbell herself!

Dr. Morelle and the Drummer Girl

Dr. Morelle and the Drummer Girl
Author: Ernest Dudley
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1592240933

ERNEST DUDLEY is an English author known to millions of crime fiction addicts for his weekly Armchair Detective radio broadcasts, and also for the Doctor Morelle series of stories (and radio plays) in which the shrewd detective-psychiatrist solved countless mysteries with the aid of his assistant, Miss Frayle. Dudley has revealed that Dr. Morelle has his genesis in a coal cellar in Bristol in 1940, where the author (who already worked for the BBC Variety Department) sat out German air-raids. "The character of Dr. Morelle," Mr Dudley has remarked, "was finally evolved from my memories of the silent film star Erich von Stroheim - who incidentally nearly played the part years later in a film version - and whom Hollywood used to bill as 'The Man You Love to Hate.' In order to point up the self-opinionated biting sarcasm of Dr Morelle, I gave him as a foil a pretty feather brained secretary, Miss Frayle. And so, Dr Morelle was let loose on millions of unsuspecting listeners, the first fictional character, I think, whom people hated so much they simply had to tune in and listen to him."

The Mind of Dr. Morelle

The Mind of Dr. Morelle
Author: Ernest Dudley
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Total Pages: 82
Release: 2013-07-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1479409596

On the plane from New York to London, Dr. Morelle chances to meet Edwin Gale, a smooth-tongued swindler. Inexplicably, Gale finds himself drawn to the famous psychiatrist-detective, and so begins one of Dr. Morelle's most intriguing cases. Back in London, the Doctor encounters Edwin Gale again, and, as a result, finds himself involved in the dark machinations of Dolores del Robia, who's as evil as she is lovely. When Dolores is found strangled to death, Dr. Morelle must investigate a maelstrom of violence to unmask the murderer... Another classic crime tale in this popular and long-running series!

Meet Dr. Morelle

Meet Dr. Morelle
Author: Ernest Dudley
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2003-09-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0809531682

Here is a collection of the strange adventures of Doctor Morelle, that most sardonic of characters, and his gentle, timorous assistant Miss Frayle, in a sequence of fifteen gripping episodes-fifteen dynamically hair-raising chapters from the Doctor's case-book. Meet Doctor Morelle throws some interesting sidelights on what is probably the most sensational partnership ever conceived in the field of crime. "Ernest Dudley's creations appear to be doing not a little to fill the blank caused by the extinction of Gonan Doyle's famous medical partners." -Western Mail

Menace for Dr. Morelle

Menace for Dr. Morelle
Author: Ernest Dudley
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2003-09-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0809533308

ERNEST DUDLEY who is known to millions of crime fiction addicts for his weekly 'Armchair Detective' broadcasts, is also author of the famous Doctor Morelle radio series and stories. Doctor Morelle (accompanied inevitably by his assistant, Miss Frayle) has solved scores of strange mysteries and curious crimes during his bizarre and sensational career, but none more intriguing or sinister than his latest adventure. This is Ernest Dudley's first full-length mystery novel featuring the saturnine and sardonic Doctor and the timorous, fluttering Miss Frayle. As followers of this oddly-assorted couple's investigations of murder and mayhem will expect, the shocks and thrills will be adroitly mingled with plenty of comedy and amusing situations. In Menace for Doctor Morelle Ernest Dudley has written a fast-moving whodunit, rushing the reader along with chills following laughs right up to the smashing surprise climax with the identity of the murderer revealed. Fans of Ernest Dudley and his unique sleuth, Doctor Morelle (not forgetting the inimitable Miss Frayle ) will once again delight in a mystery murder, plus comedy entertainment. "Ernest Dudley's creations appear to be doing not a little to fill the blank caused by the extinction of Conan Doyle's famous medical partners." --Western Mail

Dr. Morelle Meets Murder

Dr. Morelle Meets Murder
Author: Ernest Dudley
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2012-09-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1434448096

Here is another collection of the strange adventures of Doctor Morelle, that most sardonic of detectives, in a sequence of eight intriguing episodes from the Doctor’s casebook. The Doctor meets both brutal and cunning murders and murderers, ranging from a man battered to death with a heavy brass object to a woman poisoned with cyanide. Morelle investigates in his inimitable, cerebral, and biting style. He is aided--or sometimes handicapped--by his gentle, timorous assistant, Miss Frayle--who in this volume finally tells gets her backbone up and tells her employer that ?enough is enough!? Finding a new secretary--or keeping the old one--proves to be one of the most difficult mysteries that Dr. Morelle has ever had to solve! Great classic British crime stories.