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A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.Inspector Japp summons Poirot to a London house where Guy Fawkes’ Night fireworks appear to have drowned out the noise of a young widow shooting herself through her left temple. But the pistol is in her right hand and the police are convinced that this must be a case of murder…
| Автор | Агата Кристи |
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.A man confides in a friend that he has a fear of gypsies stemming from childhood nightmares. When he sees a gypsy in a red scarf he becomes unhinged. Encapsulated in fear he doesn’t listen to her warnings…
| Автор | Агата Кристи |
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.Locked out of her apartment, a woman tries to gain entry from the flat downstairs – where she discovers a dead body. Fortunately, a Belgian detective is renting a flat in the same building…
| Автор | Агата Кристи |
When Con Satterlee picked up the half-intoxicated blonde in the Bamboo Bar, Griselda was annoyed. When he walked out with the blonde, leaving Griselda flat, she was furious. She was frightened, too, returning alone to the isolated, ramshackle beach cottage. And this was to have been their second honeymoon!<P> Con came back rattling a handful of shells which he said he had taken from the blonde’s revolver. But the blonde didn’t come back. The police found her corpse the next morning. And...
| Автор | Dorothy B. Hughes |
If he proved the girl was innocent, then Renner himself would be arrested as the killer! <P> TAKE A STEP TO MURDER <P> Only a short time ago Renner had told the harsh truth to Tamara. <P> "Look," he had said, «I'm forty thousand dollars short on this deal and you can help me. I know this Kelcey Anders who isn't quite normal, understand? With him girls are a disease. Here's what I want you to do: let him rough you up a little, let him try to rape you...
| Автор | Day Keene |
Dead Man Overboard! Delilah Dickinson's literary travel agency is a hit! But the latest package tour, a leisurely steamboat trip down Huckleberry Finn's Mississippi, delivered one dead passenger. As it turns out, Ben Webster made a few enemies before he expired by trying to slug a roulette dealer. Delilah knows the steamship's no-nonsense head of security definitely is dirty and low-down and just plain old mean. . .but could he be a murderer? Pretty soon her list of suspects is...
| Автор | Livia J Washburn |
Twenty stories of horror, the supernatural, and ghostly hauntings. These tales show the way in which the Gothic form has been transposed to a new, alien environment–Australia! The outback, the desert, the bush are imbued with strange forces and beings that European explorers and fossickers must fathom and overcome. The colonists struggle to cope with the harsh landscape and climate, and are frequently claimed by it. The land itself seems almost a malignant force that exacts a terrible revenge on...
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A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.Movie star Mary Marvell consults with Hercule Poirot after receiving threatening letters that warn her to return her diamond, the famous ‘Western Star’, to its rightful owner. But who does own the diamond, and is it even the genuine article?
| Автор | Агата Кристи |
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.In one of Agatha Christie’s earliest short stories, a plucky young actress must rely on her wits to thwart the machinations of a dark-hearted blackmailer…
| Автор | Агата Кристи |
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.A lawyer, a doctor and a clergyman are discussing the details of a peculiar case of a woman suffering from a multiple personality disorder. Remarkably, in an impossible feat of strength she strangled herself to death. A stranger who knew the woman overhears their conversation and reveals a disturbing truth…
| Автор | Агата Кристи |
When Mac tries to help a friend collect an unpaid bill, he gets more than he bargained for…including a corpse! #15 in the Mac detective series. <P> "Mac is one of our best private eyes." – San Francisco Chronicle <P> "Thomas B. Dewey is one of detective fiction's severely underrated writers!" – Bill Pronzini <P> "Mac has been called one of the most believable and humane PI's in crime fiction. He is reluctant to use either his gun or his fists, but...
| Автор | Thomas B. Dewey |
The Grill is the club most difficult of access in the world. To be placed on its rolls distinguishes the new member as greatly as though he had received a vacant Garter or had been caricatured in "Vanity Fair."<br><br>Men who belong to the Grill Club never mention that fact. If you were to ask one of them which clubs he frequents, he will name all save that particular one. He is afraid if he told you he belonged to the Grill, that it would sound like...
| Автор | Richard Harding Davis |
Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by<br>Mary Roberts Rinehart<br><br>Table Of Contents<br>The After House<br>THE AMAZING INTERLUDE<br>BAB: A SUB-DEB<br>The Bat<br>THE BREAKING POINT<br>THE CASE of JENNIE BRICE<br>THE CIRCULAR STAIRCASE<br>THE CONFESSION<br>DANGEROUS DAYS<br>K<br>KINGS, QUEENS AND PAWNS<br>LONG LIVE THE KING<br>LOVE STORIES<br>THE MAN IN LOWER...
| Автор | Mary Roberts Rinehart |
In «The Final Problem,» the tale that preceded this collection, the world's most famous detective had a seemingly fatal encounter with his nemesis, Professor Moriarty. When Sherlock Holmes's devoted fans refused to allow Arthur Conan Doyle to kill their beloved sleuth, the author complied with more stories. This compilation features all thirteen tales, which originally appeared in The Strand Magazine. Holmes returns in «The Adventure of the Empty House,» in which he explains his...
| Автор | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
On the plane from New York to London, Dr. Morelle chances to meet Edwin Gale, a smooth-tongued swindler. Inexplicably, Gale finds himself drawn to the famous psychiatrist-detective, and so begins one of Dr. Morelle's most intriguing cases. Back in London, the Doctor encounters Edwin Gale again, and, as a result, finds himself involved in the dark machinations of Dolores del Robia, who's as evil as she is lovely. When Dolores is found strangled to death, Dr. Morelle must investigate a...
| Автор | Ernest Dudley |
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.An unlikely couple find themselves drawn together by their mutual fascination for a sinister little stone idol high on a shelf in the British Museum…
| Автор | Агата Кристи |
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.In one of the few Poirot short stories without Captain Hastings, the Belgian detective must face up to solving a mystery without his trusty companion.
| Автор | Агата Кристи |
Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine returns with its ninth issue, presenting the best in modern and classic mystery fiction! Included this time are the usual columns by Lenny Picker and Mrs Hudson, plus the following stories: <P> BONEYARD, by Marc Bilgrey<BR> BULLY FOR YOU, by Carla Coupe<BR> THE HEREAFTER PARTY, by Paullette Gaudet<BR> THE HOT STOVE LEAGUE, by Janice Law<BR> THE COIN AND THE CHEMIST, by Nijo Philip<BR> THE CASE OF VAMBERRY THE WINE...
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It came originally from the merciless, frost-bound wilderness of the night side of Mercury, the hellish planet nearest to the Sun. But when space explorer Harry Dagenham brings a long-dead, petrified snake–or something–back to Earth from Mercury, he discovers–quite suddenly–that the rock-hard creature is not quite so inert as it first appears! Here are six extraordinary stories from the golden age of the pulps: «Something from Mercury,» «The World That Dissolved,» «Pre-Natal,» «Beyond Zero,»...
| Автор | John Russell Fearn |
Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine returns with its January/February 2014 issue, presenting the best in modern and classic mystery fiction! Included this time are the usual columns by Lenny Picker and Mrs Hudson, plus the following stories: <P> A Scandal in BO Media, by Hal Charles<br> Challenger's Titanic Challenge, by Gary Lovisi<br> We Hate the Taste of Jellyfish, by Jay Carey<br> The Disappearance of the Vatican Emissary, by Jack Grochot<br> Last Man...
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Life in Louisiana just got complicated… A Louisiana family finds a damaged young girl near their home and takes her in as one of their own. But little do they know that the young girl has a secret, one so devastating that it has the power to destroy them all. Riddled with twists and turns, Treacherous: The Beginning will have the reader guessing until the very end. What’s the secret? What does it mean to those who have grown to love her? Curses, voodoo, and other forms of mayhem come from...
| Автор | Enjil, Washington |
"My guiltiest pleasure is Harry Stephen Keeler. He may been the greatest bad writer America has ever produced. Or perhaps the worst great writer. I do not know. There are few faults you can accuse him of that he is not guilty of. But I love him." – Neil Gaiman<P> Noah Quindry is worried. An arsonist is striking the towns that his travelling circus visits and it may be one of his employees! On top of that, some madman – perhaps the arsonist? – is stealing instances of the letter...
| Автор | Harry Stephen Keeler |