Colonel Hugh North’s wildest andmost baffling assignment leads to Zanzibar Intrigue! The Hugh North series is “high powered . . . unflagging entertainment!” (The New York Times).
"Zack und wech!" Kurzkrimi: Nur zufällig zum Geburtstag seiner Oma im Ruhrgebiet (von daher auch der teilw. gesprochene Dialekt), trifft Architekt Theo auf seine Vergangenheit – und auf ein tödliches Missverständnis. Er kann sich gerade noch so aus der Affäre ziehen …
I had just begun taking off my jacket when the door quietly opened and two men slipped swiftly into the room. <P> One was Frankie. The other I was seeing for te first time and not liking what I saw. Both were armed. Frankie had changed his his toy for a mansized .38, which he held in his gloved right hand.<P> No one spoke a word. The stranger tilted his gun toward the center of my face. Frankie swung his at the girl on the bed, planted his feet solidly, and fired five times into...
A 2-book collection of hilarious and bestselling romantic novels, YOU HAD ME AT HELLO and HOW WE MET.YOU HAD ME AT HELLO:What happens when the one that got away comes back? Find out in the #1 bestseller from Mhairi McFarlane.Rachel and Ben. Ben and Rachel. It was them against the world. Until it all fell apart. It’s been a decade since they last spoke, but when Rachel bumps into Ben one rainy day, theyears melt away. They’d been partners in crime and the best of friends. But life has moved on:...
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.When Hercule Poirot receives an alarming and strained telephone call, several words are whispered desperately, it’s life or death and table with the yellow irises. In this dark short story Poirot finds himself in the plush luxuriant restaurant Jardin des Cygnes, nervous to stop an impending murder and find the person behind the voice on the phone. Bumping into an old acquaintance, Poirot is invited to...
Young Y. Cheung is in a pickle! In order to receive a $100,000 inheritance from his grandfather’s estate, he must get his name mentioned in 1000 U.S. newspapers, “in an honorable fashion” before midnight of the day before the estate is settled. On top of that, his family doesn’t consider his one-of-a-kind profession, business detective, “honorable”. How Y. Cheung uses his inscrutable wiles to gain happiness and the inheritance is a tale only Harry Stephen Keeler could spin. <P> "It...
One of Keeler's best, this is the second half of the notorious Marceau case, where a strangler baby dangling from an autogyro may have done the deed. Written in 1935 at the peak of Keeler's powers. <P> Xenius Jones, Chief Inspector of Scotland Yard, gave the exact date he would reveal the details of the infamous André Marceau murder. Then Alec Snide, an American reporter, broke the case before he did! But Jones insists that Snide is 100% wrong—and he’s got the 4-dimensional...
Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by<br>Mary Roberts Rinehart<br><br>Table Of Contents<br>The After House<br>THE AMAZING INTERLUDE<br>BAB: A SUB-DEB<br>The Bat<br>THE BREAKING POINT<br>THE CASE of JENNIE BRICE<br>THE CIRCULAR STAIRCASE<br>THE CONFESSION<br>DANGEROUS DAYS<br>K<br>KINGS, QUEENS AND PAWNS<br>LONG LIVE THE KING<br>LOVE STORIES<br>THE MAN IN LOWER...
Als Lea Storm mit ihrem Schottischen Hirschhund Talisker am südlichen Berliner Stadtrand ihre nächtliche Jogging-Runde beginnt, ahnt sie nicht, dass ihr beschauliches Leben in wenigen Minuten komplett auf den Kopf gestellt wird. An einer Weggabelung findet sie eine Leiche – und traut ihren Augen kaum: Es handelt sich um ihren ungeliebten Nachbarn Wolfgang Hantschke. Neben ihm entdeckt Lea ein zweites Mordopfer: eine Prostituierte mit durchschnittener Kehle. Kriminalhauptkommissar Martin...