Title: Detective Book Club [series]
Description: Part of the Detective Book Club Mystery Omnibus series from publisher Walter Black, this is from August 1948 and contains the following. 1) Anthony Gilbert, The Missing Widow, 2) Frank Gruber, The Scarlet Feather, 3) Richard & Frances Lockridge, I Want To Go Home.

THE MISSING WIDOW:  (From Goodreads) Detective Arthur Crook is browsing the newspaper on the morning of 14 April 1947, when an advertisement jumps out at him. ‘Rest and Refreshment: to a lady seeking the above and able to pay for it, is offered a unique opportunity for complete seclusion in a delightful country house’ Disastrously, Mrs. Emily Watson has read the same ad, and soon Crook becomes embroiled in the disappearance of a rich widow preyed upon by her unscrupulous nephew. And, for once, the super sleuth almost comes a cropper . . .

THE SCARLET FEATHER (also published as The Gamecock Murders): one of Gruber's Johnny Fletcher series, Fletcher, a bookseller, gets involved in the Chicago cock-fighting scene.

I WANT TO GO HOME: A Captain Heimrich mystery.  WWII is over, and widow/Navy veteran Jane Phillips has decided to return to the Westchester County home of the great-aunt who raised her.  Someone, however, seems to be taking a lot of trouble to make sure she doesn't get there.  From Happinessisabook dot com, "By the time she reaches New York her great-aunt is dead and Captain Heimrich is beginning to believe a young man’s claim that his grandmother was poisoned. Jane’s story is so incredible that she is viewed with suspicion by her remaining relatives and the police. Just why someone was trying to keep her away from her aunt and what exactly happened to her aunt give Heimrich a lot to think about."
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories