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It seemed that a good many people wanted to find out the identity of Ralph Johnston’s wife. Among them was the woman’s own husband…
| Автор | Roy Huggins |
The heir to Martina Cole’s crown with a story of murder, the underworld, violence and treachery.The Butlers are the kings of the East End.Vinny and Roy Butler are the apple of their mum’s eye and although Queenie knows they can play dirty, when it comes to family they look after business and make her proud. Nothing and no one can bring the Butler’s down.But Vinny seems to have crossed the wrong person and his cards are marked. And with the brothers joined at the hip, Roy may just be in the...
| Автор | Kimberley Chambers |
The heir to Martina Cole’s crown with a story of murder, the underworld, violence and treachery.The Butlers are the kings of the East End.Vinny and Roy Butler are the apple of their mum’s eye and although Queenie knows they can play dirty, when it comes to family they look after business and make her proud. Nothing and no one can bring the Butler’s down.But Vinny seems to have crossed the wrong person and his cards are marked. And with the brothers joined at the hip, Roy may just be in the...
| Автор | Kimberley Chambers |
“The Wisdom of Father Brown” is a 1928 collection of mystery short stories by English writer G. K. Chesteron. Set in the early twentieth century, each of the stories centres around the cunning investigations of Father Brown, a catholic priest-cum-detective who uses his incredible intuition to solve a variety of perplexing mysteries. The stories include: “The Absence of Mr Glass”, “The Paradise of Thieves”, “The Duel of Dr Hirsch”, “The Man in the Passage”, “The Mistake of the Machine”, “The Head...
| Автор | G. K. Chesterton, Gilbert Chesterton и др. |
Father Brown is a fictional Roman Catholic priest and amateur detective who is featured in 53 short stories published between 1910 and 1936 written by English novelist G. K. Chesterton. Father Brown solves mysteries and crimes using his intuition and keen understanding of human nature.<P> Chesterton loosely based the character on the Rt Rev. Msgr. John O'Connor (1870–1952), a parish priest in Bradford, who was involved in Chesterton's conversion to Catholicism in 1922.<P> ...
| Автор | G.K. Chesterton |
He was in the wrong place and the wrong time – and became the witness to a murder. And the murderer knew who he was and where to find him. <P> So what can a poor guy who's usually on the wrong side of the law do?
| Автор | Mickey Spillane |
Curt Carmic had crashed in his private plane on an Everglades hunting trip. After a week of intensive searching, the Coast Guard had abandoned him as dead. That's why his wife wanted to hire Jim Norton – to find him, dead or alive. A Classic short story, originally published in 1957.
| Автор | Harry Whittington |
Героі сядзяць у Варшаве, да іх прыязджае капітан Капейкін, каб па загадзе генерала КДБ з засакрэчаным прозвішчам адшукаць беларускага паэта Цімура Хоміча.
| Автор | Андрэй Адамовіч |
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.When wealthy spinster Emily French is found murdered, suspicion falls to Leonard Vole, the man to whom she hastily bequeathed her riches before she died. Leonard assures the investigators that his wife, Romaine Heilger can provide them with an alibi. However, when questioned, Romaine informs the police that Vole returned home late that night covered in blood. During the trial, Ms French’s housekeeper,...
| Автор | Агата Кристи |
Agatha Christie’s classic short story collection, published to tie-in with a new BBC TV adaptation of the book’s most enduring and shocking thriller, The Witness for the Prosecution.1920s London. A murder, brutal and bloodthirsty, has stained the plush carpets of a handsome London townhouse. The victim is the glamorous and enormously rich Emily French. All the evidence points to Leonard Vole, a young chancer to whom the heiress left her vast fortune and who ruthlessly took her life. At least,...
| Автор | Агата Кристи |
This volume collects two classic works by Charlotte Perkins Gilman: «The Yellow Wallpaper» – a chilling tale of descent into madness – and «What Diantha Did,» an early feminist work. Also included is a rare, brief essay by Gilman on why she wrote «The Yellow Wallpaper.» Gilman (1860 – 1935) was a prominent American sociologist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction, and a lecturer for social reform. She was a utopian feminist during a time when her accomplishments were...
| Автор | Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
«Шедевр детектива и триллера. Блейк Пирс провел великолепную работу, полностью открыв нам внутренний мир героев. Он настолько хорошо составил психологические портреты, что читая книгу, ты чувствуешь себя окунувшимся в действия, ощущаешь страхи и искренне болеешь за успех. Эта книга, наполненная неожиданными поворотами, не отпустит вас до последней страницы».– Роберто Маттос, Обзоры книг и кино (о сюжете «Когда она ушла»). «ТИХИЙ СОСЕД» (Загадки Хлои Файн) – книга № 4 нового психологического...
| Автор | Блейк Пирс |
Флоренс Клэйборн лежит на полу без движения, в ожидании кого-то, кто окажет ей помощь, – и в ее памяти прокручиваются разные события и факты… Факт № 1: Когда-то сестра ее лучшей подруги Элси погибла от руки своего жениха Ронни Батлера. Факт № 2: Сразу же вслед за этим погиб и он сам. Факт № 3: И вот совсем недавно Флоренс узнала вдруг в пианисте Габриэле Прайсе живого и невредимого Ронни Батлера. А тот принялся строить козни, чтобы свести ее с ума или по крайней мере заставить всех...
| Автор | Джоанна Кэннон |
«Очень увлекательно. Я настоятельно рекомендую всем читателям, которые ценят отлично написанные детективы с неожиданными поворотами и продуманным сюжетом, пополнить этой книгой свою библиотеку. Вы не пожалеете. Отличный способ скоротать холодный уик-энд!»– Обзоры книг и фильмов, Роберто Маттос (об «Убийстве в поместье»)УБИЙСТВО В ПОМЕСТЬЕ (УЮТНЫЙ ДЕТЕКТИВ О ЛЕЙСИ ДОЙЛ—КНИГА 1) – дебютный роман из новой чудесной серии уютных детективов от Фионы Грейс.Тридцатидевятилетняя Лейси Дойл, недавно...
| Автор | Фиона Грейс |
XIX век, Эдинбург, Шотландия Джесси Локхарт пишет сестре, что стала женой врача. Ее пугает, что муж проводит доселе невиданные медицинские эксперименты на телах усопших. С каждым разом ее письма становятся все мрачнее. Джесси верит в призраков и проклятия, и ей кажется, что по ней плачет в лесу банши… Наши дни После ссоры с женихом Стелла покидает Лондон. В сельской Шотландии она устраивается на работу в поместье Джейми Манро, врача и писателя, которого очень боятся в поселке....
| Автор | Сара Пэйнтер |
For ten nerve-racking days, Mae Cole hadn’t stepped outside the hotel. If the pasty-faced man with the yellow teeth wasn’t watching her, it was someone else, because she was always conscious of eyes following her in the public rooms. She could not trust the staff either—the bellhops, the waiters, the busboys, chambermaids, switchboard operators, or the manager himself. The enemy had connections in high places and money to burn.
| Автор | Alan Ritner Anderson |
У разведчиков возникает необходимость бурения нескольких скважин на маленьком пятачке рядом с партией. Геолог скважины выставляет, следит, что бы они правильно бурились. В семейной паре началось выяснение отношений, и ранее все терпевший муж, к своему удивлению не встречает возражений на его законное право более частых любовных утех. А в поселке горняков рядом с партией, ночью делают подкоп под фундамент ювелирного магазина. На земле преступник оставляет отпечатки обуви, на стеллажах магазина –...
| Автор | Александр Воронецкий |
There's a corpse in the bathtub, wearing nothing but a pair of pince-nez spectacles. Enter Lord Peter Wimsey, the original gentleman sleuth. Urged to investigate by his mother, the Dowager Duchess of Denver, Lord Peter quickly ascertains that the sudden disappearance of a well-known financier is in some way connected to the body in the bathroom. But discovering exactly which way they're related leads the amateur detective on a merry chase. Written by a master of the detective story,...
| Автор | Dorothy L. Sayers |
Whose Body? is a 1923 mystery novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, in which she introduced the character of Lord Peter Wimsey. Thipps, an architect, finds a dead body wearing nothing but a pair of pince-nez in the bath of his London flat. Lord Peter Wimsey—a nobleman who has recently developed an interest in criminal investigation as a hobby—resolves to investigate the matter privately. Leading the official investigation is Inspector Sugg, who suggests that the body may be that of the famous financier...
| Автор | Dorothy L. Sayers |