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"Tim Ludlow's English bride, Sybil, brings trouble in her trousseau. Housing shortages end in housing problems with a gambler's murder, the history of Sybil's father, and the curiosity of their New Jersey coast neighbors, a one-man reception committee, and a last minute mellerdrammer touch. Spoof and sparkle, equals some spontaneous combustion." – Kirkus
| Автор | Jack Iams |
‘Fans of MARTINA COLE will love this’ Katerina DiamondA gripping new series from million-copy bestseller Mel Sherratt.‘I love all Mel Sherratt’s books’ IAN RANKIN‘Twists and turns and delivers a satisfying shot of tension’ RACHEL ABBOTTA killer is on the loose, attacking people in places they feel most safe: their workplaces, their homes. It’s up to DS Grace Allendale to stop the murders, and prove herself to her new team.All clues lead to local crime family the Steeles, but that’s where things...
| Автор | Mel Sherratt |
In BEVOR ER BRAUCHT (ein Mackenzie White Mysterie – Buch 5) findet sich Special Agentin Mackenzie White in einem Fall wieder, den sie so noch nie erlebt hatte: Das Opfer ist weder Mann noch Frau – sondern ein Paar. Das dritte Paar das in diesem Monat Zuhause Tod aufgefunden wurde. Während Mackenzie und das FBI herauszufinden versuchen, wer glücklich verheiratete Paare tot sehen will, führt sie die Suche in eine verstörene Welt und Subkultur. Sie lernt schnell, das nicht alles so perfekt...
| Автор | Emma Knight |
FACE OF DEATH (A Zoe Prime Mystery—Book 1) is the debut in a new FBI thriller series by Stella Gold. FBI Special Agent Zoe Prime suffers from a rare condition which also gives her a unique talent—she views the world through a lens of numbers. The numbers torment her, make her unable to relate to people, and give her a failed romantic life—yet they also allow her to see patterns that no other FBI agent can see. Zoe keeps her condition a secret, ashamed, in fear her colleagues may find out. ...
| Автор | Морган Райс |
They All Ran Away—<P>Except Malcolm Hunter—the busiest body in town… And Evelyn, his lady—trapped by her dishonest millions and a taste for men alive… And lovely Ferne—a girl unfaitheful unto death, who coveted life…<P> Barney pursued them. He chased them through a labyrinth of horrors into the borrowed arms of a woman with a wrongway heart. For Barney’s task was to smash a killer’s grip on justice, and break a crime that meant murder for sale!
| Автор | Edward Ronns |
A number of baffling cases confront the renowned Vidocq, chief of the famed Surete Nationale, and his loyal staff of reformed criminals that hot summer of 1823. There is the murder of the famous Parisian jeweler, and the murder of Maya, the Spanish whore, shot with the same gun – and systematic looting of treasures from the great chateaux by The Black Devil, and more. With a heady, rich nineteenth century atmosphere, this mystery is a keeper!
| Автор | Vincent McConnor |
Chester Drum flies to Spain's Costa del Sol to investigate kidnapping and murder among the expatriate set, who drink always, work never, and love only themselves.
| Автор | Marlowe Stephen |
WKRX, 96 Rocks, is the modern workplace in Corporate America where management, empowered by non-compete agreements, holds the future of their employees in the palm of their hands and can crush them at any time. The employees sit back and worry about losing their jobs on a daily basis and wonder how they will earn a living in their chosen profession since they will be deprived of a living over the next 3 years due to their non-compete agreement. <br><br>Now Private Detective Ozzie...
| Автор | Ron Ph.D Hummer |
'The thing is this, Mr Dawson: I died some years back. Now I want you to sort it out for me.'<br><br>Immensely wealthy Roddy Baxendale believes he is also Jack Rankin, a businessman who died and was cremated eight years ago, He hires investigator Charles Dawson to uncover what has been happening to him. Dawson cannot believe his fantastic claim but as he digs deeper and deeper he finds more and more evidence that shows Baxendale is also the supposedly dead Rankin. Was...
| Автор | Rafe Kronos |
"The Second Ghost Story Megapack" selects 25 more choice haunts for your reading pleasure. Included this time are:<P> THE SIGNAL-MAN, by Charles Dickens<BR> THE SOUL OF THE GREAT BELL, by Lafcadio Hearn<BR> PRESENT AT A HANGING, by Ambrose Bierce<BR> CANON ALBERIC’S SCRAP-BOOK by M. R. James<BR> THE MASS OF SHADOWS, by Anatole France<BR> THE SILENT WTHE MAN WHO WENT TOO FAR, by E.F. Benson<BR> THE THING AT NOLAN, by Ambrose Bierce<BR> ...
| Автор | M.R. James |
Hours of great reading await, with ghostly tales from some of the 19th and 20th century's most renowned authors. Here is the lineup: <P> AT CHRIGHTON ABBEY, by Mary Elizabeth Braddon<BR> THE HAUNTED MILL, by Jerome K. Jerome<BR> THE GHOST CLUB, by John Kendrick Bangs<BR> THE SHADOWS OF THE DEAD, by Louis Becke<BR> THE ROOM IN THE TOWER, by E. F. Benson<BR> THE HAUNTED AND THE HAUNTERS, by Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton<BR> THE MIDDLE BEDROOM, by...
| Автор | Джером К. Джером |
"Without Absolution" is the first collection from science-fiction and fantasy writer Amy Sterling Casil. It contains nine stories and four poems in which a new disease causes birth defects; a father clones himself; and a lonely man uploads the personalities of his former wife and his mother, creating a horrifying «motherwife».
| Автор | Amy Sterling Casil |
The Third Ghost Story Megapack selects 26 more choice hauntings for your reading pleasure. Included this time are: <P> THE DEAD AND THE COUNTESS, by Gertrude Atherton<BR> THE CEDAR CLOSET, by Lafcadio Hearn<BR> THE WRAITH OF BARNJUM, by F. Anstey<BR> THE JOLLY CORNER, by Henry James<BR> THE ROLL-CALL OF THE REEF, by A. T. Quiller-Couch<BR> THE BOWMEN, by Arthur Machen<BR> OMAN, By Leopold Kompert<BR> THE MIDDLE TOE OF THE RIGHT FOOT, by...
| Автор | Мэри Брэддон |
This volume collects 52 of G.K. Chesterton's Father's Brown stories, including the rare story, «The Donnington Affair,» which was omitted from the collections published during the author's lifetime. Also included are an «Introduction to Father Brown» and an «About the Author» section. <P> "For anyone who reads detective fiction at all, G.K. Chesterton and his creation Father Brown are such an important, established part of the furniture as almost to go unnoticed....
| Автор | G.K. Chesterton |
This volume is a treasure-trove of rare 19th-century macabre stories for lovers of classic fantasy and horror. From ghosts of mind and spirit to paranormal experiences, from exotic Arabian Nights adventures to Deals with the Devil, each story in this volume is sure to delight the discerning reader of classic fantasy and horror. Included are: <P> THE GRAY LADY, by Mary E. Lee<BR> THE EBONY FRAME, by Edith Nesbit<BR> THE DOOM, by Benedict<BR> THE CURSE OF THE...
| Автор | Эдит Несбит |
300 years in the future, biotechnology has altered the shape and substance of what it means to be a man. Only the 250-year-old «Dragon Man» can give Sara an understanding of what «e-mortality» might mean–for herself and for the entire human world.
| Автор | Brian Stableford |
A rampaging wife of a Manhattan socialite plunges with her car into the East River – and it is only weeks afterward that a sleugh decides to do something about a recurring corpse… A Detective McKee mystery, from the author of Dead Man Control and McKee of Centre Street.
| Автор | Helen Reilly |
The 1970s, small town Amerca. A woman reporter whom no one takes seriously…a Manson-style cult living on the edge…a hippie love child born in a drug-fueled orgy – to this Satan's brew, add a deadly monster on the loose, then stir. The result? One of the great lost horror novels of the 1970s! This is the Secret Master of Horror's first horror book – a rare delicacy, certain to thrill fans of Dean Koontz and Stephen King!
| Автор | Brian McNaughton |
This mammoth compilation of Raffles works presents 26 short stories – all the tales from the original 3 collections, «The Amateur Cracksman,» «The Black Mask,» and «A Thief in the Night» – plus the novel «Mr. Justice Raffles.» Also included are 20 additional, related stories by E.W. Hornung and John Kendrick Bangs (including the adventures of Raffles' grandson), plus introductions, book covers, and notes. Whether you're an established fan of the «amateur cracksman» or a newcomer to...
| Автор | E.W. Hornung |
"The Werewolf Megapack" collects 22 classic and modern tales of shape-shifters (and not just wolves!) – including works by Jay Lake, Jack Williamson, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, John Gregory Betancourt, Rudyard Kipling, Saki, and many more. Included are: <P> LEOPARD, by Jay Lake<BR> GABRIEL-ERNEST, by Saki<BR> SYMPATHY FOR WOLVES, by John Gregory Betancourt<BR> THE DRONE, by Abraham Merritt<BR> THE WERE-WOLF, by Clemence Housman<BR> AND BOB’S YOUR UNCLE,...
| Автор | Александр Дюма |
Editor Duane Parsons has assembled a treasure-trove of rare macabre stories for lovers of classic fantasy and horror. From ghosts of mind and spirit to exotic paranormal tales, each story in this volume has never before appeared in an anthology. Included are: <P> The Silent Man, by Henry Fothergill Chorley<BR> The Strange Ormonds, by Leitch Ritchie<BR> The Mysterious Wedding: A Danish Story, by Heinrich Steffans<BR> The Burial by Fire, by Louisa Medina...
| Автор | Lafcadio Hearn |
Earl Derr Biggers (1884-1933) is best remembered as the creator of Chinese detective Charlie Chan.Biggers had always been interested in mystery fiction, but his interest in Hawaii clearly stems from a 1919 vacation in Honolulu. While there, he read a newspaper article on a Chinese detective named Chang Apana. Apana would become the model for Charlie Chan in Biggers' 1925 novel, «The House Without a Key,» and there quickly followed five more Charlie Chan novels. Fifty Candles – first...
| Автор | Earl Derr Biggers |
The Craig Kennedy Scientific Detective Megapack collects 25 novels and stories. 14 are Craig Kennedy tales, plus there is 1 additional story from the same author and 10 by contemporaries of Arthur B. Reeve. They all share the same spirit of detection. <P> Included are: <P> INTRODUCTION: ABOUT ARTHUR B. REEVE AND HIS CRAIG KENNEDY STORIES<BR> THE SILENT BULLET, by Arthur B. Reeve<BR> THE WAR TERROR, by Arthur B. Reeve<BR> THE TREASURE-TRAIN, by Arthur B....
| Автор | Brander Matthews |