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Compiled in one essential collection, the best books by Algernon Blackwood:<br><br>The Centaur<br><br>The Damned<br><br>The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories<br><br>The Extra Day<br><br>Four Weird Tales<br><br>The Garden of Survival<br><br>The Human Chord<br><br>The Man Whom The Trees Loved<br><br>A Prisoner In Fairyland<br><br>The Wendigo
| Автор | Algernon Blackwood |
Dan Weston is a simple, hard working family man. That quickly and violently changes when he is forced to watch the senseless murder of his wife and child at the hands of demons hiding in human form. As the man/demon responsible toys with Weston as if he were a simple pawn, Weston swears a vow of vengeance on all of the demon kind. With nothing left to lose, he immerses himself in the dangerous world of preternatural creatures.<br><br>On his quest to find some inner peace, Weston...
| Автор | Gavin Hughes |
Colonel Hugh North is sent to destroy a lost missile – and finds nothing but trouble in Burma! The Hugh North series is “high powered . . . unflagging entertainment!” (The New York Times).
| Автор | Van Wyck Mason |
Colonel Hugh North’s wildest andmost baffling assignment leads to Zanzibar Intrigue! The Hugh North series is “high powered . . . unflagging entertainment!” (The New York Times).
| Автор | Van Wyck Mason |
When a wealthy New Yorker with a young bride is shot in his Manhattan mansion, then a blackmailing valet perishes in Easthampton, only Lt. Valcour can unravel the mystery. <P> "A clever solution…[the] tale has more than usual amount of chipper chatter." – The Saturday Review
| Автор | Rufus King |
A blackmailer with religious mania and a decayed actor are murdered – one by land and one by sea. Despite the challenges, Lt. Valcour is not daunted by his latest case! <P> "The thrills and polished deducing are there in quantity." – The Saturday Review.
| Автор | Rufus King |
When the driver of the aging conversion van he just pulled over rabbits off into the brush, Texas State Trooper Dan Henning knows there must be something of value hidden in the vehicle.<br><br>A quick search turns up a mountain of cash poorly hidden behind the wall paneling. But someone's found money is someone else's lost money, and before long, an odd pair of alleged awning salesmen pays Henning's wife a visit. Now the trooper finds himself back in a Gulf...
| Автор | T.K. O'Neill |
Frank Ford is a survivor of 10 long years at the Metropole Bar, where he's babysitter and alcohol dealer to Zenith City's derelict class: the misfits, the losers, the crazies, the old fading lushes, and, of course, the budding young alcoholics unaware or indifferent to what lies ahead.<br> <br>We first see Frank in the aftermath of his little brother's funeral. Ray was an addict and a constant irritant. Forgotten, is how Frank wanted to remember Ray. The...
| Автор | T.K. O'Neill |
Hidden in the desolate woods on the Central California coast, lost to time and memory, is a WPA mural unlike any other created during the 1930s. This one was not simply fashioned from charcoal and paint; it was crafted out of undying evil–the evil of an ancient demonic army called Legion. When structural inspector Jack Hayden stumbles upon the mural in a ruined civic building, he tries to convince himself that it might add to the crumbling structure’s value. But that note of hopefulness is...
| Автор | Michael Mallory |
?My missing person did not hunt, fish, or engage in any type of sport that one would do in a Louisiana fishing village. And after a cursory look at what was called Pointe Nueve, I doubted a decent antique could be found to buy in the entire collection of rusty, metal-roofed buildings. At least I knew not to expect to find a body there. The alligators would have taken care of that weeks ago. OK, so I can be wrong once in a while…?<P>Louisiana antique dealer Marc DeVarney, a well-respected...
| Автор | Lloyd Biggle jr. |
Paris-based private investigator Pete Sawyer is hired to find out what happened to a girl who was kidnapped ten years before. When Pete starts digging, he finds more than expected – including a Neo Nazi movement!
| Автор | Marvin H. Albert |
The Sturm House has an atmosphere of the unpleasant. The shooting of Alice Tribeau only adds to the that impression for Lt. Valcour, as he arrives in the midst of a storm to begin his investigation. Wealthy socialite Mrs. Sturm claims the gun was fired by someone outside the house – but Valcour had other ideas… The second volume in the classic Lt. Valcour mystery series!
| Автор | Rufus King |
Colonel Hugh North's latest adventure brings him to the oil fields of Venezuela… The Hugh North series is «high powered…unflagging entertainment!» (The New York Times).
| Автор | Van Wyck Mason |
Down Shanghai's famous Bund swept the red tide of terror – until Captain North discovered the secret of the four copper coins, of the dying man who whispered, «Carol's doll,» and of the murderer whose goal was an empire!
| Автор | Van Wyck Mason |
In the distance Kelsey House stood framed against the sky, its windows gleaming brightly. There was an eerie glow to the scene, that seemed to come not so much from the moon, now rising, but from things themselves, as if she were seeing the very essence of them. But there was more to the scene than the house alone. Between where she stood and where the house stood, a group of ghostly figures danced what might have been a child’s game, or even a primitive rite of some sort. They twirled about in...
| Автор | V. J. Banis |
"I see two women struggling together by the lake. I see them fall into the water… The wind rustles the branches of the willows and it is the sound of gentle sobbing in the night… Someone screams…" Something dark and mysterious haunts the halls of stately Green Willows. Village gossip says it's the ghost of Jonathon Tremayne's wife, the beautiful and saintly Angela, who was treacherously murdered here. Pretty Mary Kirkpatrick, hired as governess to Jonathon’s only child, Elizabeth,...
| Автор | V. J. Banis |
In 1880s England, Dr. Caspian and his wife Bronwen both have genuine psychic abilities, which they keep secret. Even so, they've gained a reputation as investigators of so-called psychic phenomena, exposing a number of fraudulent mediums. In their latest adventure, they're consulted by prominent politician Joseph Hinde, whose beautiful daughter Laura has become strangely withdrawn. Her secret assignations have led him to suspect that she might be attending séances in an attempt to...
| Автор | John Burke |
Here is another collection of the strange adventures of Doctor Morelle, that most sardonic of detectives, in a sequence of eight intriguing episodes from the Doctor’s casebook. The Doctor meets both brutal and cunning murders and murderers, ranging from a man battered to death with a heavy brass object to a woman poisoned with cyanide. Morelle investigates in his inimitable, cerebral, and biting style. He is aided–or sometimes handicapped–by his gentle, timorous assistant, Miss Frayle–who in...
| Автор | Ernest Dudley |
What is the nature of the evil that terrorizes Dyrysgol? Detective Inspector Bernard Owen must investigate the disappearances of several inhabitants of a remote Welsh village. Local anger is directed towards Dyrysgol Castle and its enigmatic owner, Viscount Ravenwood, but Owen knows that fear and superstition can cloud the facts; he needs to make his own judgment. The nobleman is a strange and solitary man–but is he a murderer? When another man goes missing, and his car is found with great claw...
| Автор | Edmund Glasby |
Sherlock Holmes! That magical name conjures up all that is thrilling and exciting about the classic mystery short story. The Great Detective, created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is without doubt the most well-known and popular fictional character ever created–and with good reason. Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories are fascinating excursions into scientific detection with interesting, well-formed characters, offering intelligent, thoughtful mysteries that all men and women can relate to–and enjoy....
| Автор | Marvin Kaye |