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A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.When Andrew Marsh dies he leaves behind a charming and ingenious problem for Poirot. In his will he has left his niece all of his wealth. But only for one year. After that it will all be given to charity and she will be left penniless. Unless they solve the mystery Mr Marsh has left behind…
| Автор | Агата Кристи |
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.When Ebenezer Halliday’s daughter’s body is found stuffed underneath a train seat, the wealthy American industrialist hires Hercule Poirot to locate the murderer and over one hundred thousand dollars’ worth of stolen jewels.
| Автор | Агата Кристи |
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.After a close encounter with death, a materialistic man becomes entranced by strange music. Torn between the freedom he craves and the money he loves his behaviour becomes erratic. He attempts to track down the man without legs who plays the music…
| Автор | Агата Кристи |
One man stood in the way of the happiness of Kirk Douglas and lovely Dana Warren. That man was Ricardo Sanchez, her husband and dancing partner, who refused to give her a divorce. Otherwise life was pleasant for Kirk – until someone banked $100,000 in his name and a strange girl was killed in his apartment.<P> Lieutenant Max Gold of Homicide tried to crack the case fast with Kirk as his chief suspect, but ran into trouble after Candy Livingston, queen of the smart-set, made a play for...
| Автор | Octavus Roy Cohen |
When «The Town Crier,» the semi-weekly newspaper for which Ted Wilford writes and Nelson Morgan takes pictures during their college vacations, decides to bring the statewide baseball tournament to Forestdale, Ted and Nelson need about ten hands and a forty-eight hour day to handle it all. Ted is in general charge of all the complicated scheduling and housing arrangements, while Nelson is an official scorer. Suddenly, in spite of the apparently smooth progress of the tournament, they begin to...
| Автор | Norvin Pallas |
Weirdbook #36 presents another great assortment of stories and poems in the Weird Tales tradition: fantasy, horror, sword & sorcery, and the just plain unclassifiable find a home here! Included are:<P> Burn on the Bayou, by L.F. Falconer<BR> The Mumbler, by Gillian French<BR> Cleric at Sentinel Hill, by Franklyn Searight<BR> Whores and Criminals, by Dean Macallister<BR> The Quiet on the Water, by C. C. Adams<BR> The Haggard Brothers Go to Town, by...
| Автор | Darrell Schweitzer |
#3 in the Singer Batts series, by Thomas B. Dewey.<P> Thomas B. Dewey wrote four novels featuring Singer Batts, bibliophile and hotel owner. Singer prefers the company of his books and an occasional foray into the Lonely Hearts Club world. But he keeps getting embroiled in murders!<P> The Boston Herald called the first book «well paced and lively,» and The Saturday Review called it, «lively, lurid, and outspoken.» Author Dorothy Hughes said: «It's murder and mayhem and hold...
| Автор | Thomas B. Dewey |
It's tough being a damn'd Yankee reporter in Southern City, but life just gets worse when the nude bodies of two women – one white, one black – are found dead in Cattail Swamp with their heads cut off and swapped. Of course the only way to identify them is to have the bodies on display so every person in Southern City can see them. With such an organized ritual, how can ace reporter Tommy Skirmont ever hope to solve the mystery and keep his job?
| Автор | Harry Stephen Keeler |
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.In this supernatural tale by the Queen of Crime, a nun has memories of a past-life in an ancient civilisation and believes she can harness natural psychic powers…
| Автор | Агата Кристи |
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.An ageing country squire, heavily insured and whose estate is in financial ruin is thought to have committed suicide. Hercule Poirot investigates under the guise of a representative of the company who insured the victim in order to uncover the identity of the real murderer.
| Автор | Агата Кристи |
He never should have gotten into it in the first place. But when you need money, sometimes you do things you wouldn't ordinarily think of doing. Nothing illegal, nothing like blackmail, something just a shade this side. At least that was the way Barney Calhoun had it figured. It looked like the easiest ten thousand bucks he'd ever make. And she was lovely, though in the end she led him to murder…<P> An ex-cop turned private eye ought to know all the answers on how to commit the...
| Автор | Richard Deming |
DON’T LOOK BEHIND YOU! <P> A madman has marked you for death. <P> He follows you in the woods. He climbs the tree outside your window. He knocks on your door at midnight. <P> He lusts for you. His raging desire will not rest until his lovely knife finds your delicious body. He has killed before. <P> He will kill again, and it will be you. <P> He takes the form of someone you know well. He lures you to a deserted building. He reveals himself. You are...
| Автор | Samuel Rogers |
The Kingdom of Killain – that's the Duarte, a big-city hotel at the crossroads of the world. The grifters, tough lads, girls on the make – all learn to stay away from Hotel Duarte because Johnny Killain's in charge there. That's his turf – a flick of his fist makes broken guys and dolls. So Johnny patrolled the dark corridors in peace…until the night he rounded a bend and looked murder square in the eye. The blonde lay on the bed in 609, her face a puffed, blue, strangled horror....
| Автор | Dan Marlowe |
It wasn’t his case…his girl…or his problem…but Johnny Liddell had a personal interest in this little caper. <P> He didn’t ask to be the Feds’ “receiver” on a pass of inside info on the smuggling racket, but he was. He didn’t ask to have a couple of hoods beat the living daylights out of him to get the info back, but they did. As a matter of fact, for the first time in his life, Johnny Liddell wasn’t asking for trouble. <P> But when a lovely doll invited him to see her later, and...
| Автор | Frank Kane |
The first in the classic series featuring Chief Inspector Damiot of the Paris police.<P> "Chief Inspector Damiot of the Paris police, recuperating from a bullet wound, seeks sun and rest in Courville, his boyhood village in Provence. But Courville is lately in a ferment about the unsolved murders of two young girls–one a promiscuous villager, the other still unidentified. And there are also rumors of a monster seen at the supposedly-empty Chateau De Mohrt. Intrigued, Damiot soon...
| Автор | Vincent McConnor |
Washington—the Potomac—Chesapeake Bay—against the background of a beautiful and gracious city, a sleepy river, a tranquil bay, Captain Hugh North, against the most terrific odds he has ever encountered, fights his greatest battle. Here, in this list of the men and women who crowd these exciting pages, are his allies and his enemies, all participants in the mighty game of life and death. Here are murderers—and friends. Can you tell which they are? Watch them carefully—they have mystery and...
| Автор | Van Wyck Mason |
Trouble struck the schooner Griselda at 9:40 on an April evening. It was not the fault of the weather or the sea or the soundness of her hull. The trouble was human. A woman. Her name was Julia Parks, though in the beginning she insisted it was Lambert. <P> It was hard to blame Howard Crane for bringing her aboard, because Julia always got what she wanted. What she wanted in this case was money. Keith Lambert’s—her ex-husband’s—money. That there were others too who wanted it was one of...
| Автор | George Harmon Coxe |