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"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>When the Cedarville bank is robbed of a gold shipment, Sheriff Bucyrus Duckhouse of Willis Creek was just where he wants to be – waiting at the end of the Smoky Ridge Tunnel where any minute the robbers have just got to...
| Автор | Harry Stephen Keeler |
Gail Brevard is faced with one of the most difficult decisions of her career when a key witness, Clinton Bolt, goes on the lam to Mexico. A seemingly unrelated arson death and an unexpected kidnapping are just a few of the issues Gail and her partner, Conrad Osterlitz, must unravel while preparing for a trial which could mean millions for their client and substantial fees for their firm.<P> A whirlwind trip to the fabled resort town of San Miguel de Allende and a mad dash back across the...
| Автор | Mary Wickizer Burgess |
VIOLENCE… INTRIGUE… DEATH… A grotesque, diabolical old doctor with a terrifying hypodermic needle that packs a special wallop… A barrel-shaped man of mystery with dark glasses and darker motives, involving the fate of nations… A beautiful brunette with soft, creamy skin and a lovely pearl-handled revolver, out to «get her man» in an unlovely way… You'll meet them all in A SHOT OF MURDER, a tale of mystery and mayhem which begins in Paris and ends in a strange mountain sanitorium where weird...
| Автор | Jack Iams |
Tom Cavanaugh never quarreled about the means involved, just so long as the end was worth grabbing for. He was about to get fired when he blackmailed his boss into making him district sales manager.<P> Helen Mathews was no lily-white, either. She was rich, beautiful, and as coldly calculating and cruel as a jungle animal. When she learned her husband might kill her for her money, she wasn't frightened. All she wanted was revenge.<P> She let Cavanaugh sample her lush body and...
| Автор | Richard Deming |
Eight years ago, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, three men lost everything. Now it's time to reclaim what is theirs….In order to bring justice back to New Orleans, FBI agent Ray Storm must once again turn to Molly Hennessey for help. This time, though, convincing the gorgeous attorney to believe in him is going to take more than just one night of seduction.
| Автор | Mallory Kane |
An exotic wildlife preserve is a dream come true for conservation biologist Daniela Flores.Until she finds out her ex-husband is leading the research team. World-famous shark expert Sean Carmichael has only grown more ruggedly appealing in the time they were apart…the passion between them more intense than ever.But how could Daniela forgive Sean for betraying her when she needed him most? Sean had come to the remote Farallon Islands
| Автор | Jill Sorenson |
In the first place, Grandfather Rastin never should have bought that house in Wiston. It happened several years ago, when he was only about seventy-eight, but even so he was old enough to know better. He admits that himself. <P> In the second place, he should have asked his tenants for references. <P> He did buy the house, and he didn't ask for references, and that's where the trouble started… <P> Lloyd Biggle, Jr. (1923-2002) is most famous as a science-fiction...
| Автор | Lloyd Biggle jr. |
When Roger first looked up at the tree house, he thought he saw something moving at the window. No one should be there – the tree house belonged to the Mayfairs. It was in the deep woods that surrounded their new house in the country. Still, strange things happened each time Roger and his sister, Anabelle, tried to explore the tree house. Once Roger heard mysterious noises. Another time they found odd-shaped footprints. What was the secret the tree house was hiding?
| Автор | Carol Beach York |
Casey Denver, soldier of fortune, is back from helping Castro win his revolution, and he knows a secret. A Group of Batista bandits are hiding out with four million dollars stolen from the Cuban treasury. Casey wants that four million, and three beautiful women are willing to help him get it. Diane – uninhibited and untamed, who doesn't want money but definitely wants a man…any man. Magdalena – calculating but far from cold, who also wants a man…the one who ends up with the four million...
| Автор | Richard Deming |
Charlie Chan, visiting San Francisco to make a speech, finds himself swept into one of his most puzzling – and dangerous – cases! A cult known as the Golden Horde is running a spiritual retreat, helping the disturbed and the depressed find inner peace. Benny Chan, who worked for the Golden Horde, is dead … but the priceless treasure he carried has been recovered. Benny's sister is searching for the truth, and Chan agrees to help her. Ancient scrolls, shadowy villains, and an ancient...
| Автор | Michael Collins |
Pat Campbell is back – the big man, six-foot six to be exact, with the big heart – in a story brimming with action and suspense… Clients were more than paying customers to Pat Campbell. they were friends – whose problems remained his problems even after they themselves ceased to care… Wark Andross – for one – was certainly beyond earthly cares now. Wark was a man whom people loved without regard for his millions. It was entirely fitting, therefore, that the press should memorialize his untimely...
| Автор | Eli Colter |
Grant Pierce and Sky Milano. They were a formidable team, the homicide detective and the forensic chemist.Once Grant had wanted their partnership to be more, but they'd tried romance–and failed. Murder brought them together. A homicide in which the sole suspect was a man sitting on death row. The confounding case landed their careers on the line, while their irrepressible attraction made confronting the past inescapable…and becomming lovers unavoidable.
| Автор | Maggie Price |
Although Gaston Danville was one of the earliest contributors to the French magazine, Mercure de France, considered a voice for the symbolist movement, he regarded himself as one of a new generation of Naturalists, interested in applying the relatively new insights of contemporary psychology to the analysis of human behavior. Danville's short fiction was unique, obsessed with the supposed psychologies of psychology and murder, and the analogies between them. He called his stories «Tales of...
| Автор | Gaston Danville |
If only Japan could lay her hands on the Thirteenth Coin of Confuscius, which was floating around somewhere in the United States, she could thwart a certain Chinese ambition. The Japanese Secret Service in New York had a clue and immediately a Japanese Secret Service Agent boarded the Chicago Flyer and never took his eyes of a white passenter with a short gray beard. It was the passenger's raincoat that the Secret Agent had his eyes on, and at the first opportunity he grabbed it and...
| Автор | Harry Stephen Keeler |