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Based on a terrifying real-life incident, this tale of seduction, insanity, and murder is one of America's earliest novels. It unfolds in rural Pennsylvania of the 1760s, where a religious fanatic massacres several members of his family. Part thriller and part psychological drama, it explores the corruption of law and order within a small community. The American Gothic style of author Charles Brockden Brown combines intellectual and supernatural elements — a literary mode that...
| Автор | Charles Brockden Brown |
On the surface, everything appears normal and cheerful in this bustling suburb of neatly laid out homes and well-trimmed hedges. But nothing is really as it seems. For in this world of impostors, conspiracies combine with dark forces to veil a once-ordinary London neighborhood in a cloud of mystery and fear.A masterpiece of Gothic horror and suspense that inspired such writers as H. P. Lovecraft, The Three Impostors is Machen's famous collection of «weird tales» — a string of...
| Автор | Arthur Machen |
The original 1939 blurb for this story reads: «Molding corpses stalk darkness as fate cuts a grim, macabre jigsaw of death!» Today you would except a zombie story, as with the hit TV show «The Walking Dead,» but in the original pages of the pulp magazine Thrilling Mystery, you get the opposite – a classic crime story by one of the best pulp writers of the era. The dead may walk, but there is always a rational explanation, now matter how sensational the blurb.
| Автор | Joseph J. Millard |
Mike Spagliotti, the big-time racketeer, had enjoyed a successful life of crime, managing to evade police arrest. But that life had met a sudden and violent end, when he was found shot through the head in his New York hotel suite. He had seemingly died alone—with the doors of his suite locked. Two of his thugs were standing guard over him in the passage, as usual—and they swore they had heard nothing. The gun must have had a silencer. But the guards also swore they had let no one past. A...
| Автор | Norman Firth |
The first collection of Stan Wade short stories assembles five tales of this 1950s Los Angeles private detective! Included are:<P> A Wisp of Memory<BR> The Bad Sleep<BR> The Magnificent Score<BR> Double Injeopardy<BR> A Private Eye's Worst Day<P> Also features a new introduction by John Hegenberger.<P> The series has won The Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award (2016, for Spyfall).
| Автор | John Hegenberger |
Miss Emily Jackson and her brown Burmese cat Mandalay are staying in the beautiful and remote Fell District, but even there Mandalay rushes headlong into trouble! Mandalay finds an injured Pekingese dog named Ching Tao, who leads Miss Emily to the precipitous edge of Dead Fell… and the body of an unknown woman. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson arrive at Miss Emily’s request, and their investigation uncovers a family’s dark secrets. But before they finish, will they become the target of a ruthless...
| Автор | Lyn McConchie |
George Scithers published AMRA, a leading sword and sorcery fanzine, beginning in 1959. The term «swords and sorcery» first appeared there, and AMRA became a leading proponent of the subgenre. Several of the articles originally published in AMRA were later re-printed as part of two volumes about Conan the Barbarian, which Scithers co-edited with L. Sprague de Camp. Contributors to the magazine included all the leading fantasists of the day: Poul Anderson, L. Sprague de Camp, Fritz Leiber, and...
| Автор | George H. Scithers |
“Leave this affair alone, Martinson—Jean Hallison is dead!” and the mysterious caller rang off, leaving Inspector Jim Martinson with a headful of worries. Had Jean been savagely murdered, or was it a bluff to put him off the scent? But it was no bluff, and mystery piled on mystery. Where did the suave, grinning Montoni fit in? Accused of assaulting two women—yet at the time of the alleged attack, Jim himself had been watching him elsewhere. Could a man be in two places at once? And the playing...
| Автор | Norman Lazenby |
Tim Ryan was walking slowly past Cellini’s nightclub in Soho when the tinkle of glass and the crash of opening doors made him pause. In the darkish deserted street Ryan’s cigarette stub glowed. He took it from his mouth and shielded it with his cupped hand. Then he stepped back into a convenient doorway.<P> From a low basement door of the nightclub a man dashed into the street like a wild animal. As he passed under an adjacent lamp standard Ryan saw his coat was half-ripped from his back...
| Автор | Norman Lazenby |
A grieving Irish ex-pat starts a journey on the Camino de Santigo seeking redemption, but finds himself haunted by a past that refuses to be left behind Examines the haunting cyclical nature of guilt Inspired by a real-life abduction and murder of an American woman who walked the pilgrimage in 2015 The novel reads as accurately as a guidebook with detailed descriptions of places, artifacts, and culture. All the details in the book are geographically and historically accurate Author walked the...
| Автор | C.S. O'Cinneide |
In this engrossing murder mystery set in the Egypt of the 1900s, the Mamur Zapt finds himself under threat from a campaign to discredit Cairo’s senior policemen.Cairo in the 1900s. The Mamur Zapt, Head of Cairo's secret police, finds himself in a compromising position. The city’s senior policemen are the subject of a smear campaign, a stinging attack which raises uncomfortable questions about their integrity.The Mamur Zapt himself is suspected, but is he above suspicion? Owen’s investigation...
| Автор | Michael Pearce |
Paul and Steve are called upon to crack a case involving Carl Milbourne, the brother-in-law of wealthy financier Maurice Lonsdale. After the news that Carl has perished in a fatal car accident, rumours begin to stir that despite all odds, Carl is alive and well.When Maurice’s widowed Sister Margaret pleads for the crime-fighting duos help, Paul and Steve find themselves on a trail of deception stretching from London to Switzerland. Their lives are in grave danger as everything is done in an...
| Автор | Francis Durbridge |
Superintendent Dalziel falls for the recently bereaved Mrs Fielding’s ample charms, and has to be rescued from a litter of fresh corpses by Inspector Pascoe.Superintendent Andy Dalziel’s holiday runs into trouble when he gets marooned by flood water. Rescued and taken to nearby Lake House, he discovers all is not well: the owner has just died tragically and the family fortunes are in decline. He also finds himself drawn to attractive widow, Bonnie Fielding.But several more deaths are to follow....
| Автор | Reginald Hill |