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Nine dark tales of crime, crazies, and crawlspaces—bet you can’t read just one!
| Автор | Lonni Lees |
Detour if you dare into the dark alleys and twisted cul-de-sacs of the human heart. Brush shoulders with men whose eyes are as hard and cold as bullets—murderers, grifters, and hapless goofballs, who prey on the innocent and unsuspecting, often at their own peril. Against your better judgment, get up close and intimate with sizzling kiss-and-kill babes, and live to tell about it…or not! Eight hard-edged tales of criminals, killers, and their delectable molls.
| Автор | Arlette Lees |
Mad love and murder – in a race fixed by fate! A classic novel by William P. McGivern, originally published in the famous pulp magazine Mammoth Mystery…
| Автор | William P. Mcgivern |
Shadowy forces gather an unholy harvestMalicious whispers have long swirled around Stonecliff, Eleri James's family estate–especially the eerie bog called The Devil's Eye. But the bodies recently discovered on the property are no rumor. Twelve men pulled from the ooze, their throats slit, their flesh corrupted. Suspicion has perched on Eleri's shoulder with the croak of a single syllable: witch. Now her only hope of evading prison is a man who could destroy her, body and soul.Kyle...
| Автор | Dawn Brown |
When a corpse is found with its heart removed, the media is quick to resurrect the name of one of Scotland’s most infamous murderers. But when the chief suspect claims he is being framed, it’s up to Brodie McLennan to find who is really responsible – and fast…Evil has arrived in Edinburgh. When a man's corpse is found with its heart expertly removed, the gruesome keepsake prompts police and the media to resurrect the name of one of the country's most infamous killers – Romeo.This twisted modus...
| Автор | Grace Monroe |
‘Curious Incident’ meets ‘Catcher in the Rye’ in this crime-noir debut.The police said Nancy OD’d and she was a tramp. But she wasn’t; she was my friend. I didn’t see her Virgin Mary statue in her room, and I said some guy killed her and took it. Mr. Winkley was in the hallway meowing. The Colonel knew all about crimes. He said, Okay Willy we’ll conduct an investigation… There were a lot of suspects in that hotel.When a young woman in her locked room is found dead with junk in her veins, three...
| Автор | Kevin Bergeron |
Fear is contagious…The No.1 bestselling book from Mark Edwards and Louise Voss.A terrifying enigma – with the power to destroy…Twenty years ago, Kate Maddox was a volunteer at a research centre where scientists hunted for a cure for the common cold virus. That summer, Kate fell in love with a handsome young doctor, Stephen, but her stay ended in his tragic death and Kate fled to a new life in the US.Now Kate is back in England and on the run with her young son, this time from her vile husband....
| Автор | Mark Edwards |
A double murder <P> And the killer – whoever he was – showed signs of getting rattled. Wade Paris knew he had to get him fast, before he could strike again. <P> So step by step, he closed in on the unknown killer – putting on the pressure. <P> Then the killer broke and went for Wade. And the trouble was – Wade still didn’t know who was the killer!
| Автор | Ben Benson |
The scene of this story is a fascinating one: the Connecticut workshop of the country's foremost stained-glass window artist. This eccentric man, Frederick Ullathorne, has fled New York to escape reporters, friends, scandal and interruptions of all kinds while he finishes his life work, a magnificent rose window for St. John's Cathedral. This is harshly interrupted early one morning when bones are found in the furnace of the workshop cellar…
| Автор | Armstrong Margaret |
Can Ted solve the mystery involving a car run off the road with a missing canister with microfilm in it? #8 in the Ted Wilford series.
| Автор | Norvin Pallas |
"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 |