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The next time you visit Olympia, take a good look around and see if you think it would be possible to murder someone in the middle of the crowd there without being seen.The new Comet was fully expected to be the sensation of the annual Motor Show at Olympia. Suddenly, in the middle of the dense crowd of eager spectators, an elderly man lurched forward and collapsed in a dead faint. But Nahum Pershore had not fainted. He was dead, and it was his death that was to provide the real sensation of the...
| Автор | John Rhode |
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.A poor widow contemplates marrying the wrong man – all for the sake of her beloved dog… A wonderful little story by the Queen of Crime for dog lovers everywhere.
| Автор | Агата Кристи |
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.Edward Palgrove gets more than he bargained for when he buys a basket of fruit and a second-hand car…
| Автор | Агата Кристи |
A wealthy Greek businessman is found dead at his London home…The Leonides were one big happy family living in a sprawling, ramshackle mansion. That was until the head of the household, Aristide, was murdered with a fatal barbiturate injection.Suspicion naturally falls on the old man’s young widow, fifty years his junior. But the murderer has reckoned without the tenacity of Charles Hayward, fiance of the late millionare’s granddaughter…
| Автор | Агата Кристи |
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.About to elope to South Africa with her lover, a wife receives the news that her husband's financial empire is collapsing. Should she carry through with it or return to help her husband, or will the story have an unexpected twist?
| Автор | Агата Кристи |
The brand new Ryder & Loveday novel from global bestseller Faith Martin!Readers love the Ryder & Loveday series:‘Insanely brilliant’‘I absolutely loved this book’‘Faith Martin, you've triumphed again. Brilliant!’‘If you haven't yet read Miss Martin you have a treat in store’The Ryder and Loveday SeriesBook 1: A FATAL OBSESSIONBook 2: A FATAL MISTAKEBook 3: A FATAL FLAW
| Автор | Faith Martin |
« Un chef-d’œuvre de thriller et de mystère. Blake Pierce est parvenu à créer des caractères avec un côté psychologique tellement bien décrit, que nous avons l’impression de pouvoir pénétrer dans leur esprit, suivre le cheminement de leurs pensées et nous réjouir de leurs réussites. Plein de rebondissements, ce livre vous tiendra en haleine jusqu’à la dernière page. » –Critiques de livres et de films, Roberto Mattos (re Une fois partie) VOIE SANS ISSUE (Un mystère Chloé Fine) est le...
| Автор | Блейк Пирс |
"Having grown up on the streets of South Jamaica, Queens, Fox wrote this first novel in 2013 while incarcerated at the Orleans Correctional Facility. After moving to rap music as a pal of artist 50 Cent, in 2014 the author unfortunately was gunned down by a killer in a black ski mask. Here, Teen DeMarco Jones finds himself in a correctional center to do a bid for 18 months. By luck he breaks out and returns to the streets and starts dealing."–Library Journal"[A] paean to hip-hop life in...
| Автор | Mazaradi Fox |
A dark, chilling psychological thriller from the number one bestselling author of the Emperor series. Blackwater was published as part of the Quick Reads initiative on World Book Day 2006.How do you know when you're in too deep?Davey has always lived in the shadow of his older brother, a smiling sociopath who will stop at nothing to protect himself and his family. But when the shadowy figure of Denis Tanter comes into Davey's life, how far will the bond of brotherhood reach?
| Автор | Conn Iggulden |
Der Wettbewerb geht in die zweite Runde und fordert die unsterblichen Kandidaten härter denn je – denn: Manche der Aufgaben wurden sabotiert und wie wir wissen, wird es un-an-stän-dig!
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Jacob Barrstein and his friend James Eaton have a $1000 bet going. James claims that a group of 21st Century people cannot last a week without smartphones, computers, tablets, GPS's etc., while Jacob aims to prove him wrong. They organize a camping trip with 12 people up in the Angeles National Forest Mountains, allowing no electronic devices. When they suffer severe hardship and are stranded on the mountain with no way out, Jacob goes for help on foot and never...
| Автор | Alice Zogg |
Kurt Nobel, known as "The Real Estate King," invites a mixture of odd guests to his mansion on the Isle of Ease for a week of snorkeling, scuba diving, deep-sea fishing, and general fun in the sun. The occasion is to celebrate the millionaire's recent marriage to his new young wife, singer Barbie.<br><br>But all is not pure pleasure and merriment on the tropical island. One person plans an intriguing way to commit murder, and may get away with it, if not for...
| Автор | Alice Zogg |
Among the world’s great fictional villains Professor James Moriarty stands alone. Doctor Fu Manchu, Hannibal Lecter, Count Dracula, Iago, Voldemort, Darth Vader, Bill Sikes, Inspector Javert, and the Wicked Witch of the West all have their fans, all have their place in popular fiction. But for every one who can tell you whose life Iago made miserable, fifty honor that Professor James Moriarty was the particular nemesis of Sherlock Holmes. But just how evil was he? These stories by Michael...
| Автор | Michael Kurland |
In 1972, during the chaotic days of the miner's strike and the three-day week, Bridget 'Brix' Shipley moves to Plunge Hill to start her new job as a medical secretary at the local hospital. As she writes to Maurice, her younger brother, sick at home, it becomes clear that not all is well at Plunge Hill. There are frequent power cuts and she has to work by candlelight. While she'd hoped this might inspire some blitz spirit and solidarity between her, the other secretaries and...
| Автор | J.M. McVulpin |
In one wonderful moment Ruby, Jack and Noah realise that the city is theirs.<br /><br />That government was like a dead hand around your throat. Handouts for the old. A city nobody could afford to live in. Zero hour contracts. Somehow though they seemed impregnable. Ruby, Noah and Jack are the leaders of an unlikely opposition group that is chipping away at their power. Then in a few short days they receive support from powerful backers and sweep it all away.<br /><br />A...
| Автор | Andrew Jennings |
London 1932: Der Anwalt Thomas Keston hat, nachdem er ferne Länder unter anderem Ägypten bereist hat, nach Abschluss seines Studiums in London eine bescheidene Kammer bezogen und hält sich mit dem Verfassen von Artikeln für diverse Fachzeitschriften mehr schlecht als recht über Wasser. Eines Abends hat er ein unheimliches Erlebnis, das eine ganze Kette von Ereignissen nach sich zieht…
| Автор | Charles Webster Leadbeater |
In den verschneiten Karpaten in den 1880er Jahren: Auf einem einsamen Felsen erhob sich einst das alte, halbverfallene Schloss Tartakow, von dem der Volksmund mancherlei unheimliche Sagen zu berichten wusste. Immer wieder fühlten sich junge Männer davon angezogen und wagten es, das alte Gemäuer zu betreten, um hinter sein Geheimnis zu kommen....
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
He was a white, suburban bachelor. A total square. Lived with his mother. Worked for an insurance company. She was a black, tough, streetwise cop. Then somebody stole a quarter million dollars worth of rare comic books. And then people started getting murdered. Lindsey and Plum were like oil and water, but they had to work together, like it or not! Joe Gores, author of Hammett and other novels, said: «Lupoff writes with intelligence, humor, wisdom, and a zest for life. He had a lot of fun...
| Автор | Richard A. Lupoff |
The commemorative brass plate in the abandoned Derbyshire village church showed Sir Humphrey and Lady Sybil de Latours standing together. At the side of the man is a lion, and beside Sybil a fanged dog. <P> Strangely, the face of Sybil has been obliterated, despite the clear detail elsewhere. But young artist Sally Fenton takes a rubbing nonetheless, to sell to tourists from the shop that she and her paramour, Andrew Thomas, share. She hangs it in their bedroom, but at night the...
| Автор | Brian Ball |
Zombies are relentless, ravenous creatures, and their insatiable appetite for living flesh has given author Mark McLaughlin plenty of food for thought. In BEACH BLANKET ZOMBIE, you will sit down to a feast of zombie stories – seventeen in all.<P>Zombies can rise from the dead for countless reasons. Any horror-movie enthusiastic can tell you that. Sure, a zombie's bite can turn its victim into one of the living dead. But that's not all. In films, corpses have been turned into...
| Автор | Mark McLaughlin |