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The seventh volume in the Chesapeake Crimes series presents an impressive set of tales by new and wellestablished authors. Included this time are:<P> INTRODUCTION, by Dana Cameron<BR> THE DAME AND THADDEUS BIRDWHISTLE, by Karen Cantwell<BR> SECRETS TO THE GRAVE, by K.M. Rockwood<BR> THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT THE ESCAPE ROOM, by Leone Ciporin<BR> THE DOGOODER, by Adam Meyer<BR> THE PROBLEM WITH OPENENDED INVITATIONS, by Cathy Wiley<BR> MUGGINS, by...
| Автор | Donna Andrews |
Ost-England im Jahre 1690: Zu seinem grenzenlosen Missfallen muss Sir Matthew Fell im Park seines Anwesens Castringham Hall in Suffolk in den Vollmondnächten immer wieder eine unheimliche Frau aus dem Dorf beobachten, die sich an einem gewaltigen Eschenbaum zu schaffen macht. Wie er nur zu gut weiß, steht die Frau im Ruf, eine mächtige und sehr gefährliche Hexe zu sein…
| Автор | M.R. James |
Kurz vor Weihnachten 1889: Die junge Maisie Llewelyn erhält von der Millionärin Mrs. West eine Einladung nach Wolverden Hall in Kent, einem der schönsten und besterhaltenen Herrenhäuser der elisabethanischen Zeit. Manch düsteres Geheimnis aus vergangenen Jahrhunderten haben sich die Gebäude auf dem weitläufigen Gelände noch immer erhalten
| Автор | Allen Grant |
Linnet Ridgeway has led a charmed life. Blessed with beauty, enormous wealth and a devoted husband, she has everything anyone could wish for. But as the happy couple set out on an idyllic honeymoon cruise on the Nile, storm clouds are gathering… Linnet's former friend, Jacqueline de Bellefort, follows her and Simon wherever they go and Linnet senses she is in danger. At first her fears seem groundless. But an attempt is made first on her life and then on her husband's....
| Автор | Agatha Christie |
The latest enthralling case in Tess Gerritsen's New York Times bestselling Rizzoli Isles series, the blockbuster books behind the smash hit TNT series.Boston Detective Jane Rizzoli is on the case of a big game hunter found dead in his apartment, alone with the body of a beautiful white snow leopard he had recently been commissioned to procure and stuff for a high-profile museum in the area. Medical examiner Maura Isles connects the case to a number of seemingly unrelated deaths where...
| Автор | Тесс Герритсен |
John Leith is an easy-going Edinburgh accountant, a widower with a young son, and a long-standing relationship with an attractive woman which neither wants to turn into marriage.Suddenly his life is disturbed when he is attacked in his office, his flat searched and vandalised, and his sister’s home broken into. John can discern no reason for the incidents but as the violence against him steps up he begins to feel like a tethered goat and is drawn willy-nilly into the activities of his uncle’s...
| Автор | Margaret McKinlay |
Ben the tramp, with his usual genius for trouble, runs into danger when he finds a dead body and decides to help out.Ben knew that whenever his thumbs were itching, something ‘orrible’ was about to happen. Sure enough, on one foggy afternoon of itchy thumbs, the hapless Ben is implicated in criminal activity by the police – the kind of mistake it isn’t easy to explain. Doing a runner, Ben hides in the basement of a deserted house, where he discovers the body of a well-dressed man, shot through...
| Автор | J. Farjeon Jefferson |
In the opening paragraph of the novel a murderer describes the process of picking up an unknown girl in a club prior to strangling her, and admits to disposing of nine others in similar manner. The murderer then returns to Crestcote House, a gothic mansion which has been turned into a peaceful retreat for ‘artists of recognised stature’.The community comprises an eccentric composer, a reclusive iron-worker, a beautiful sculptress, a discontented novelist, and three assorted painters, one female,...
| Автор | Philip Loraine |
London 1858: Charles Elveston, ein junger Arzt, wird auf seinem Nachhauseritt auf ein hinter einer hohen Mauer gelegenes Herrenhaus aufmerksam, vor dem äußerst merkwürdige Dinge vorgehen. Die Frage lässt ihn nicht mehr los, warum die neuen Besitzer stets komplett in weiß gekleidet das Grundstück verlassen. Er wittert ein Geheimnis und liegt damit goldrichtig, wie sich schon bald herausstellt…
| Автор | Mary Fortune |
Professor Gilroy ist ein Naturwissenschaftler, wie er im Buche steht: nüchtern und sachbestimmt. Bis ihn sein befreundeter Kollege Wilson mit der eigenartigen Miss Penclosa bekannt macht, die übersinnliche Kräfte zu besitzen scheint. Auf einen Rationalisten wie Gilroy sollte so etwas ja wohl keine Wirkung ausüben. Er nimmt als Versuchsperson an Hypnosesitzungen teil – was sich als fataler Fehler erweist…
| Автор | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
The Girl in the Mirror is a moving and gripping story of a young woman who tries to piece together her past and uncovers a dreadful family secret that has been buried and forgotten.When Mandy learns her much-loved Grandpa is dying, she is devasted and returns to the house where she spent so many wonderful summers as a child. But the childhood visits ended abruptly and those happy days are now long gone. Having lost touch with the rest of her family, Mandy returns as a virtual stranger to her...
| Автор | Cathy Glass |
Rowan Morley, big and beautiful, made quite a splash when she went overboard from a pleasure launch into the Thames. Fortunately help was at hand, but Rowan’s rescuers were bewildered when she insisted on denying the existence of what seemed to them a clearly murderous attack.Even when she was whisked away to an Oxfordshire village to act as housekeeper to two hapless males, Rowan remained a focus of mystery. Meanwhile Aran Hunter, art restorer, chafed at his inability to protect her; Frederick...
| Автор | Vivien Armstrong |
Writer Will Adams’ peaceful life is interrupted by the sudden and not entirely welcome arrival on his doorstep of his young niece, Marisa, and her best friend Nick.Marisa has learned from her parents, film director Jack Adams and his actress wife, Ruth, that Jack is not her real father and she is determined to find the man who is. Reluctantly Will agrees to help her but a shock awaits him: it looks as if Marisa’s biological father is Scott Hartman, a fabulously wealthy recluse who has not been...
| Автор | Philip Loraine |
Lydia Ackland was nearly blind when she fell downstairs and was killed. Her grandchildren have always accepted the official verdict – accident. Besides, they have their own problems: beautiful Kate is ending a love-affair; her brother Daniel is painfully crippled.But then that letter comes to light. Only days before her death, somebody wrote and warned their grandmother that she was ‘opening a disastrous Pandora’s Box’ and should ‘let sleeping, and perhaps dangerous, dogs lie’. The letter goads...
| Автор | Philip Loraine |
Die Gruselkabinett Hörspiel Box 11 beinhaltet die Geschichten: «Northanger Abbey» von Jane Austen, «Das Haus des Richters» von Bram Stoker und «Die Maske des roten Todes» von Edgar Allan Poe.
| Автор | Эдгар По |
Kinder berichten von einem unheimlichen Clown mit drei Augen, der nachts durch die Straßen von Rheinburg streifen soll. Doch niemand glaubt ihnen. Als Bens kleine Schwester Sarah überfallen wird, steckt das TEAM UNDERCOVER schon mitten in ihrem neuesten Fall! Aber wie geht man gegen etwas vor, das aus einem Albtraum zu kommen scheint?
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Diesmal muß Pater Brown ein entzückendes Mädchen vor zwei ebenso unangenehmen wie aufdringlichen Verehrern schützen – und zwar auf Bitten eines dritten Kavaliers: Liebeszeilen wechseln sich mit Drohbriefen ab. Einer der Konkurrenten verschwindet; zurück bleibt eine Blutlache. Kann Pater Brown anhand der Indizien das Geschehen rekonstruieren?
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Three crime novels featuring PI Kate Brannigan from Sunday Times No.1 bestselling author Val McDermid.DEAD BEAT: Kate Brannigan is a female private detective set to do for Manchester what V.I. Warshawski has done for Chicago. As a favour to her rock journalist boyfriend, Kate agrees to track down a missing song-writer Moira Pollock, a search that takes her into some of the seediest parts of Leeds and Bradford. But little does she realise that finding Moira is only a prelude to murder…KICK BACK:...
| Автор | Val McDermid |
Commemorating 75 years since the Empress of Crime’s first book, the first volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries.A MAN LAY DEADSir Hubert Handesley's extravagant weekend house-parties are deservedly famous for his exciting Murder Game. But when the lights go up this time, there is a real corpse with a real dagger in the back. All seven suspects have skilful alibis – so Chief Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn has to figure out the...
| Автор | Ngaio Marsh |
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.Jane Cleveland is in desperate need of a job, when she sees an advert for a woman of her description is needed to impersonate a grand duchess she cannot believe her luck. The royal retainers tell Jane that the job will be dangerous because attempts have been made on the Grand Duchess Pauline’s life, but this only serves to make the job appeal to her even more. Jane’s disguise initially goes according to...
| Автор | Агата Кристи |
Digging for the truth can be fatal…20 years ago, Britain was rocked by the strange disappearance of Claude Gilbert, after the beaten corpse of his wife was discovered hidden in the garden. Worst of all, scratches found on her makeshift coffin signal that the unthinkable took place – Nancy was buried alive.Conspiracy theories say hotshot barrister and handsome TV presenter Gilbert murdered his wife and then killed himself, but with no body ever found, the mystery has remained unsolved. Until...
| Автор | Neil White |
London 1923: Philipp Devigne ist nicht wenig erstaunt, von seiner reichen Tante ein altes viktorianisches Haus im Londoner Nobel-Stadtteil Chelsea zu erben. Über dem Kamin im Speisezimmer hängt in dem ansonsten erlesen möblierten Haus ein billiger Druck in einem aufwändigen Ebenholzrahmen. Wie sich herausstellt, hat es damit eine unheimliche Bewandtnis…?
| Автор | Эдит Несбит |
Das elfjährige Mädchen Mary Rose verschwindet auf einem kleinen Eiland, das inmitten eines schottischen Sees gelegen ist, spurlos und taucht erst drei Wochen später wieder auf. Allerdings weiß sie nicht, dass sie drei Wochen verschwunden war, geschweige denn, dass sie sich erinnert, wo sie in dieser Zeit gewesen ist…
| Автор | James Matthew Barrie |
In der Nobelvilla eines holländischen Kunstsammlers werden der Öffentlichkeit Kunstschätze von unbezahlbarem Wert präsentiert. Das Glanzstück der Ausstellung ist der übermannsgroße Renaissancespiegel des florentinischen Meisters Benvenuto Cellini.
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |