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A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.After plans for a new submarine are stolen, Poirot is summoned by the head of the Ministry of Defence to find the traitor in their midst…
| Автор | Агата Кристи |
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.Parker Pyne is approached by a woman whose accumulation of wealth over her lifetime has been accompanied by a diminishing sense of happiness. He finds an unorthodox way of putting the interest back into her life…
| Автор | Агата Кристи |
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.A retired spy breaks his neck after a fall and dies. The death is no accident and Sir Henry wants Miss Marple’s help to analyse the evidence and find out which of the four suspects is guilty…
| Автор | Агата Кристи |
"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> You know the locale: Idiot's Valley USA; you know the circus: MacWhorter's Mammoth Traveling Circus; and you'll never forget the road: Ol' Twistibus! But this time Brock Lindo, the circus driver...
| Автор | Harry Stephen Keeler |
Farrel Ivins may be standing on the gallows with his neck in a noose, but he's not worried. He's taken a drug that makes it impossible to contemplate his future, and besides, he hasn't given his «final» speech yet. He knows that when the governor hears about the odd goings-on in Oxford Circus, Lake City, Chicago, and Chinatown Crescent, where the tong of the Lean Grey Rats rules, Farrel is bound to be saved. So begins the most Oriental of Harry Stephen Keeler's webwork...
| Автор | Hazel Goodwin Keeler |
The action of the story all takes place in New York, beneath the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge. There, in an odd little shop with an extensive underground connection, once used to help escaping slaves, old Mr. Crabbe conducts his peculiar and illicit business, greatly helped by Jeremiad «Miad» Blake. This business of old Crabbe's—and the results it brings about—propel the hero to extraordinary lengths. <P> "On the whole, a fairly entertaining narrative. New York in the period...
| Автор | George Agnew Chamberlain |
SILVERLOCK is one of the all-time great fantasy classics. In this richly picaresque story of a modern man's fruitful adventurings in legendary realms of gold, John Myers Myers has presented a glowing tapestry of real excitement and meaning. In essence, this is the tale of Silverlock's wanderings in the Commonwealth, the land of immortal heroes real and imagined, in search of his true destiny. In form, it is sheer headlong narrative, with occasional clangorous verses woven into its...
| Автор | John Myers Myers |
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.Fifteen years ago, Miss Marple’s niece, Mabel Denman was accused of murdering her husband. Mabel’s marriage had been an unhappy one, as Geoffrey had been abusive and violent. Can Miss Marple clear her niece’s name and reveal the true perpetrator?
| Автор | Агата Кристи |
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.Parker Pyne arranges for a mild-mannered clerk with a passion for suspense novels to do some real-life spy work. But fact can be stranger than fiction…
| Автор | Агата Кристи |
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.A smashed mirror convinces Hercule Poirot that the apparent suicide of a client is far too convenient an explanation for what is obviously a gruesome case of murder…
| Автор | Агата Кристи |
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.Agatha Christie’s first ever short story, originally titled ‘House of Beauty’, explores insanity, death and immortality in a brief tale about the effects of a macabre recurring dream on a man’s life…
| Автор | Агата Кристи |
Put death to the weird music of insanity. Take murder in the madhouse. Add a perfect wife about to lose her husband because his first wife may return from a living grave. Mix seven strangely assorted lives weaving dark patterns of political intrigue and violence – and let a young doctor, with a reputation to clear, uncover the sequence of events behind the too sudden madness of a beautiful woman. <P> Acclaimed as one of the «Ten Best» by the New York Times Book Review, here is an...
| Автор | Rosemary Kutak |
Wild, fantastic, yet overwhelmingly logical, this yarn could come only from Chicago's own Sherlock Holmes and that favorite of American mystery fans, Harry Stephen Keeler. Here he gives us a brand-new webwork of mysteries – a cracksman who uses not dynamite, but a violin; a second-hand safe with amazing secrets inside; a volcanic island in the Pacific; a fantastic kingdom in Europe; and a pair of lovers caught in the very center of this whirlwind of danger and detection. As usual, this...
| Автор | Harry Stephen Keeler |
Retired hitman and gangster, escaped convict, former Marine, outlaw biker, and French Foreign Legionnaire Tommy Atkins is hiding out in the Florida Everglades. When a chance encounter leads him to rescue beautiful freedom blogger Maria Elena from rape and murder, they find themselves on the run from a rogue ex-pat Cuban anti-revolutionary militia group, the U.S. Marshal Service, a CIA and FBI joint task force, an infamous Mexican hitman, and the Tampa and Las Vegas Mafia. Their only hope is to...
| Автор | Jim Johnson |
Everybody knows snitches get stitches. Or worse. <P> After years in prison on a murder conviction, Jesse's trying to make it on the street, but nothing comes easy. He's always broke and the police figure he's a natural suspect for almost anything, even without Aaron trying to set him up. <P> Jesse can't catch a break. His forklift at work is wrecked. His sometimes-girlfriend is furious with him. His basement apartment has a few feet of water in it. And...
| Автор | KM Rockwood |
When a report reaches the Town Crier office that a leopard is loose in the woods around Vanishing Lake, skepticism is the natural reaction. Is the animal really a leopard? If so, how did it get there? If not, what kind of wild animal is it? Or is the whole thing a hoax with a mysterious purpose behind it? Ted Wilford, working as usual for the bi-weekly newspaper during his summer vacation from college, and Nelson Morgan, the wizard with a camera, are sent to track down the truth behind this...
| Автор | Norvin Pallas |
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.Hercule Poirot is asked by Prince Paul of Maurania to solve the murder of Henry Reedburn, which has greatly distressed the Prince’s fiancée, the famous dancer Valerie Saintclair. The only other witnesses seem to be a family of four who were playing bridge near an open window when she staggered in, crying ‘Murder!’
| Автор | Агата Кристи |
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.Miss Lemon brings Hercule Poirot an intriguing letter from an old woman. When the lady dies suddenly five days later, Poirot suspects foul play…
| Автор | Агата Кристи |
Professor Mandrake Smith would be unrecognisable to his former colleagues now, but the shambling, drink-addled former Professor of Anthropology at Oxford is now barely surviving in Morecambe. Here he has many things to forget, although some don't want to forget him. Plagued by the nightmares of his past, both in Oxford and Papua New Guinea, he finds himself dragged into a morass of supernatural activity centered around the deposition of filleted corpses in the ancient rock-cut graves at St....
| Автор | Edmund Glasby |
Black Cat Mystery Magazine is a new journal devoted to the best in mystery short fiction. Crime? Noir? Cozy? Private eye? You'll find all genres present and accounted for – with new tales by the best writers of today! The third issue features the following:<br> Suburbia, by Michael Bracken<br> The Sorority House, by Eve Fisher<br> Tourist Season, by JM Taylor<br> Diversions, by John M. Floyd<br> The List, by Charlie Drees<br> Something Certain, by...
| Автор | John M. Floyd |
For L.A.’s most uncertain private investigator (and old movie buff) Dave Beauchamp, attending the Hollywood Celebrity Expo should have been Heaven. But it wasn’t, particularly when the show’s stars started turning up dead in highly unusual and personal ways. Before long, Dave finds himself struggling to make sense out of a bizarre case that appears rooted in an unsolved string of murders from the 1980s. Both grippingly suspenseful and laugh-out-loud funny, Dead and In Person! demonstrates that...
| Автор | Michael Mallory |
"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> Who are those six mysterious figures that are looming outside the owner's trailer of Angus MacWhorter's Mammoth Motorized Shows? And why would they want the copy of a pulp magazine that he bought for ten cents? The...
| Автор | Harry Stephen Keeler |
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.At dinner with the Bantrys, beautiful actress Jane Helier tells the story of a bizarre crime. A man is drugged after being lured to a bungalow under false pretences and then accused of burglary. Miss Helier is convinced of his innocence and the group are left to deduce the motive behind the burglary…
| Автор | Агата Кристи |
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.Sir Henry Clithering returns to Mary Mead to dine with his friends the Bantrys and suggests inviting Miss Marple. Over dinner they discuss the peculiar case of a superstitious woman who is told that a blue geranium will bring about her death. When she dies, her loyal husband is in the frame for her murder…
| Автор | Агата Кристи |