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A bank embezzlement, an invisible witness, a hidden room filled with Civil War material about the Underground Railroad, and other intriguing ingredients make this tenth Ted Wilford mystery a fine addition to the series.
| Автор | Norvin Pallas |
From classic novels like «The Ghost Pirates» and «The House on the Borderland» to short stories to even a pair of poems, «The William Hope Hodgson Megapack» presents 35 classic works. Included are: <P> A NOTE ABOUT HODGSON, by Darrell Schweitzer<BR> NOTES ON HODGSON, by H. P. Lovecraft<BR> THE MYSTERY OF THE DERELICT<BR> A TROPICAL HORROR<BR> OUT OF THE STORM<BR> THE FINDING OF THE «GRAIKEN»<BR> ELOI ELOI LAMA SABACHTHANI<BR> THE TERROR OF...
| Автор | Уильям Ходжсон |
"The Thin Man" is set in New York City in December 1932, in the last days of Prohibition. The main characters are a former private detective, Nick Charles and Nora, his clever young wife. Nick, son of a Greek immigrant, has given up his career since marrying Nora, a wealthy socialite and he spends most of his time cheerfully getting drunk in hotel rooms and speakeasies. Nick and Nora have no children but they own a female Schnauzer named Asta. (In the film adaptation, Asta is a male...
| Автор | Dashiell Hammett |
June Mallory was seeking a victim. There was something hard and calculating in her eyes as her gaze swept over the crowded tables of the Silent Parrot night club.<P> She was very well known at the club—these last few weeks she had been a constant visitor. Yet she loathed the place. It looked cheap and nasty. Everywhere the paintwork was faded and drab; there were damp patches on the walls, and in many places the distemper was flaking so that it was the ruination of a dress if one stood...
| Автор | Norman Firth |
The students are Starhurst are excited about Mrs. Crandall's plans to purchase a piece of property at Moon Lake for a girls' camp. Five girls, including Louise and Jean Dana, earn the privilege of accompanying Mrs. Crandall to the proposed site on a weekend outing. Much to the Danas' dismay, Lettie Briggs makes the trip as well since Mrs. Crandall has promised her parents to look after Lettie while they are away.<P> The trip proves to be exciting, because the house located...
| Автор | Carolyn Keene |
He was a Don Juan—a Latin lover with a special flair for attracting luscious women…and lethal killers! A Father Shanley/Stanley Golden Mystery.
| Автор | Jack Webb |
She was a red-headed widow…mourner or murderess? A classic mystery, originally published in 1954!
| Автор | Scott Michel |
When a famous author turns up dead, it's up to Asey Mayo to find the killer. First in the series.
| Автор | Phoebe Atwood Taylor |
On October 2. 1936. the SS Orient Princess, a vessel of some 8,000 tons, put into Valparaiso carrying a cargo of timber and crude rubber from the Dutch East Indies. Immediately upon arrival, her captain, one Willem van Groot, was met by two members of the local police and Professor Thomas Wilmerson of Miskatonic University, the latter having flown to Chile in response to an urgent radio message sent by van Groot four days before the Orient Princess reached port.<P> Captain van Groot took...
| Автор | John Glasby |
Signor Valentini stepped from his car, regally adjusted his fur-collared coat, bowed to the cheering crowd, and strode to the portals of his luxury hotel which he was about to open officially. He glanced at its architectural majesty with great pride. It was here he hoped to spend his declining years. He intended to make people speak of the hotel, not as the Superba, but as ‘Valentini’s.<P> With solemn dignity, Valentini inserted the golden key in the lock of the outer shutter, turned it,...
| Автор | Norman Firth |
"Art Taylor is the author of The Boy Detective & The Summer of ’74 and Other Tales of Suspense and the novel in stories On the Road with Del & Louise. His work has earned the Edgar, Agatha, Anthony, Derringer, and Macavity Awards. He is an associate professor of English at George Mason University. www.arttaylorwriter.com <P>Restoration"« by Art Taylor was originally published in Issue One of Crime Syndicate Magazine.» It was selected by Barb Goffman, one of the most acclaimed...
| Автор | Art Taylor |
Ripped from the pages of the October, 1937 issue of Secret Agent "X" magazines comes this sensational novel, The Assassins' League! When a wealthy arms manufacturer and a powerful gang lord both kill themselves – when each had the world by the tail – Secret Agent X looks into the suicides. What is the baffling, contradictory cause of their enigmatic deaths? Worse yet, through the course of his investigation, X's amazing disguises fail him at every turn. A strange, beautiful girl posses...
| Автор | Brant House |
The disappearance of a package containing rare plant cuttings leads to a series of mysterious events which Ted must solve.
| Автор | Norvin Pallas |
In Hong Kong, a company has developed a fuel additive that increases mileage markedly. All the world powers want it. But when the formula is stolen from the company safe, only Hugh North can find it—if he lives long enough!
| Автор | F. van Wyck Mason |
A junior partner with extravagant tastes. A senior partner who stands in his way. A bust of Julius Caesar heavy enough to crush anyone's skull. You do the math!
| Автор | Herbert L. McNary |
She was two women: one who gave her body willingly…the other kept a promise to a man who had died months before!
| Автор | Richard Telfair |
Third in the Bulldog Drummond series, by «Sapper» (H. C. McNeile).
| Автор | Sapper |
This volume assembles no less than 40 stories set in H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. Ranging from Lovecraft's own tales (including classics such as the novel At the Mountains of Madness, «The Shadow Over Innsmouth,» and «The Colour Out of Space») to works by his friends and contemporaries (Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, Frank Belknap Long, and Robert Bloch), to later followers (Henry Kuttner, Lin Carter, Brian McNaughton), and contemporary afficianados (Brian Stableford, Mark...
| Автор | Lin Carter |
This volume assembles 15 complete novels by Mildred A. Wirt (writing as Mildred Benson). A rival to the Nancy Drew series (and created by one of the primary Nancy Drew writers), Penny is a plucky girl reporter whose nose for trouble always leads to a new mystery. Included in this volume are:<P> DANGER AT THE DRAWBRIDGE<BR> BEHIND THE GREEN DOOR<BR> CLUE OF THE SILKEN LADDER<BR> THE SECRET PACT<BR> THE CLOCK STRIKES THIRTEEN<BR> THE WISHING WELL<BR>...
| Автор | Mildred A. Wirt |
When Earl Derr Biggers created Chinese detective Charlie Chan, he had no idea he had created a media sensation. Novels, movies, TV series, radio programs, comic books—Charlie spawned a whole industry. Now all 6 novels are collected in one ebook, along with 16 more novels and short stories by Biggers (many of them mysteries). In this volume are: <p> THE HOUSE WITHOUT A KEY<BR> THE CHINESE PARROT<BR> BEHIND THAT CURTAIN<BR> THE BLACK CAMEL<BR> CHARLIE CHAN...
| Автор | Earl Derr Biggers |
One crooked financier—one million dollars in diamonds—the desperate search for both!
| Автор | James Michael Ullman |
He was free now. But his wife was gone. Somewhere the con men were using her as bait–to force him back into their criminal syndicate. And in his violent search through the flea-bitten jungle of hoods and vice dolls he met the beautiful nymphomaniac who swore to help him. Then he learned her awful price– He had to yield to her naked savagery or be framed for a brutal killing!
| Автор | Stuart Friedman |
Almost everyone likes dogs, even those who prefer cats as pets. So it's not surprising that writers have devoted a great deal of verbiage indeed to describe their ongoing love affair with the canine breed. You'll find herein all kinds of tales focusing on dogs: science fiction stories, mysteries, horror tales, westerns, memoirs, humorous accounts, and first-person doggie narratives. There are well-known pieces by writers such as Jack London, James Oliver Curwood, Washington Irving,...
| Автор | Группа авторов |