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"The 25th issue of Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine features new and classic mystery tales!<P> FEATURES:<p> <li>From Watson’s Notebooks, by John H Watson, M D</li> <li>Ask Mrs Hudson, by (Mrs) Martha Hudson</li> <p> NON FICTION:<p> <ul> <li>Screen of the Crime: Sherlock Gnomes, by Kim Newman</li> <li>The Adventure of the Dancing Men, by Stan Trybulski</li> <li>True Believers: Looking at Conan...
| Автор | Артур Конан Дойл |
"Buff" Orpington arrived in picturesque Quanomet to find the little Cape Cod town in ferment. A stupendous pageant of American history was being staged, and the inhabitants of Quanomet had time and thought for nothing else. But all was not as it should be in the small community. There had been more curious incidents than could be attributed to the usual petty jealousies and maneuverings for the best parts and positions. Quanomet was, in fact, in its modest way about to make history, and...
| Автор | Phoebe Atwood Taylor |
Midwife Kelly Evans is in danger she’s the only person to hear a dying man’s last words and someone thinks she knows more than she should… When a hostage situation traps Kelly within the killer’s grasp, millionaire Nick Spencer knows he’ll do anything to save her – even if costs him his life.
| Автор | Cassie Miles |
Eight years ago, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, three men lost everything. Now it’s time to reclaim what’s theirs…Mack Rivet lost his job and the love of his life, but his passionate reunion with Lily forces him to confront what really happened and the son he never knew existed…
| Автор | Rita Herron |
From the Edgar Award-winning author of They Buried a Man comes a novel of strangling horror! <P> "As a thriller or serious novel, powerful and rewarding." – Anthony Boucher, New York Times<P> Mildred B. Davis is an American novelist whose books generally fall into the suspense/mystery genre. Katherine (Davis) Roome, her daughter, and a published author herself, helped Mildred break a 30-year publishing silence by working with her to turn some previously unpublished manuscripts...
| Автор | Mildred Davis |
Still reeling from the loss of his beloved but enigmatic mother, Tommy Kiernan is convinced her death is not an accident. He suspects the roots of this tragedy started twenty years ago—in the village in Brittany where his mother lived during the second World War. Leaving behind his college classes and new-found love, he travels to France to unearth her story and unmask a murderer. <P> With the help of storyteller and sometime fisherman Padrig Le Bras, Tommy digs into the past, conjuring...
| Автор | Peter James Quirk |
"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> In December of 1946 Harry Stephen Keeler wrote a huge novel he called THE ACE OF SPADES MURDER. No publisher would tackle a novel so big so he split it up, eventually making five new novels from it. THE CASE OF THE JEWELED...
| Автор | Harry Stephen Keeler |
Deadline sends Mac to a small town on a tight deadline to save a boy from execution for a brutal murder. Mac makes a beautiful job of it despite the townsfolk's violent hostility. <P> #13 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...
| Автор | Thomas B. Dewey |
SWAT cop Mitch Bradford is investigating a cold case.Emily Wentworth’s always claimed her son is still out there and every instinct tells Mitch to believe her. When new evidence reveals an elaborate conspiracy, forcing Emily into a deadly spotlight, Mitch will have to make the ultimate sacrifice if he’s to bring her little boy home.
| Автор | Robin Perini |
She played a dangerous game – with love, men, and money! A Wildside Crime Classic by the author of The Star Trap and The Captain Must Die! <p> "Bob Colby was more than just a 'one-hit wonder.' He wrote several other respected novels in the 1950s and '60s, including The Deadly Desire and The Secret of the Second Door (both Gold Medal, 1959) and dozens of short stories for Alfred Hitchcock and Mike Shayne… Do me a favor: hunt down one of his novels and give it a try." –...
| Автор | Robert Colby |
The killers came for his money – of they would have his woman's life! A Wildside Crime Classic by the author of The Star Trap and The Captain Must Die! <p> "Bob Colby was more than just a 'one-hit wonder.' He wrote several other respected novels in the 1950s and '60s, including The Deadly Desire and The Secret of the Second Door (both Gold Medal, 1959) and dozens of short stories for Alfred Hitchcock and Mike Shayne… Do me a favor: hunt down one of his novels and...
| Автор | Robert Colby |
After serving nearly 20 years in prison on a murder conviction, Jesse Damon has been released, a home detention monitor strapped to his ankle. Determined to make it and mindful of his parole restrictions, he struggles with life outside prison. He finds a basement apartment, a job on the overnight shift at a steel fabrication plant and a few people who treat him like anybody else. Especially Kelly, a woman who works in the shipping department. He seems to be making it. Until Mitch, forklift...
| Автор | KM Rockwood |
This volume is the second of a set of three showcasing the work of Frédéric Boutet, the other two volumes being The Antisocial Man and Other Strange Stories, and Claude Mercoeur's Reflection and Other Strange Stories. Viewed as an ensemble, these collections illustrate the range and development of Boutet's early work, and provide a few representative samples of its later evolution. Although several stories by Boutet were translated into English in the 1920s, especially in America, they...
| Автор | Frédéric Boutet |
Former schoolmaster Collin Melrose is found dead, but why is he sitting in the wrong chair? And did Lily Klimpton kill herself after her lover’s death, or did she die at the hands of another? In Found Dead, Sherlock Holmes and John Watson return to unravel two mysterious tales by the devious Lyn McConchie. Local squire’s daughter Miss Bibiana Paget befriends the ailing Collin Melrose, who lives near her family’s estate. Melrose does not have long to live, so Miss Bibi isn’t shocked when she...
| Автор | Lyn McConchie |
To escape an arranged marriage, princess Shara Najran fled the Australian Outback. Her plan: Expose her fiancé's plot against the king.But Shara hadn't counted on rugged ranger Tom McCullough. Tom knew he was no Prince Charming. Still, one taste of Shara's soft lips and he was in over his head. He could never let her marry a man who would hurt her. Yet the dark secrets in his past ensured she could never marry him….
| Автор | Valerie Parv |
