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Doc investigates as ships cursed with an Evil Eye, including Pat’s schooner transporting gold from Hidalgo, go missing in the Caribbean in an act of piracy on the high seas that threatens to plunge the United States into war!
| Автор | Kenneth Robeson |
Captain Walker, chief of the United States Secret Service, pursued a life of crime as a youth, before refoming. Now he tackles the Service's most difficult cases.
| Автор | Melville Davisson Post |
Marlowe befriends a down on his luck war veteran with the scars to prove it. Then he finds out that Terry Lennox has a very wealthy nymphomaniac wife, who he's divorced and re-married and who ends up dead. and now Lennox is on the lam and the cops and a crazy gangster are after Marlowe.
| Автор | Raymond Chandler |
It is very difficult to classify THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY. It is possible to say that it is a gripping adventure story of murderous criminals and brilliant policemen; but it was to be expected that the author of the Father Brown stories should tell a detective story like no-one else. On this level, therefore, THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY succeeds superbly; if nothing else, it is a magnificent tour-de-force of suspense-writing.<P> However, the reader will soon discover that it is much more...
| Автор | G.K. Chesterton |
On a French golf course, a millionaire is found stabbed in the back…An urgent cry for help brings Poirot to France. But he arrives too late to save his client, whose brutally stabbed body now lies face downwards in a shallow grave on a golf course.But why is the dead man wearing his son’s overcoat? And who was the impassioned love-letter in the pocket for? Before Poirot can answer these questions, the case is turned upside down by the discovery of a second, identically murdered corpse…
| Автор | Agatha Christie |
"The Murder on the Links" takes place in northern France, giving Poirot a hostile competitor from the Paris Sûreté. Poirot's long memory for past or similar crimes proves useful in resolving the crimes. Reviews when it was published compared Mrs Christie favourably to Arthur Conan Doyle in his Sherlock Holmes mysteries. Remarking on Poirot, still a new character, one reviewer said he was «a pleasant contrast to most of his lurid competitors; and one even suspects a touch of satire in him.»
| Автор | Agatha Christie |
The Murder on the Links is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, first published in the US by Dodd, Mead & Co in the same year and in the UK by The Bodley Head in May 1923. It features Hercule Poirot and Arthur Hastings. The story takes place in northern France, giving Poirot a hostile competitor from the Paris Sûreté. Poirot's long memory for past or similar crimes proves useful in resolving the crimes. The book is notable for a subplot in which Hastings falls in love, a...
| Автор | Agatha Christie |
A weekend shooting party ends with the host shot in his study. With Poirot ill, Hastings must investigate on his behalf.<P> Search your favorite ebook store for «Wildside Press Agatha Christie» to see our complete series of Hercule Poirot novel and short story reprints, which include:<P> <B>NOVELS</B><BR> The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Special Edition—includes the novel The Secret Adversary)<BR> The Murder on the Links (Bonus Edition—includes «The...
| Автор | Agatha Christie |
Not ships, but nations are the prey of the sinister Oriental mastermind, Tom Too. Only Doc and friends can save the world from his lethal legions.
| Автор | Kenneth Robeson |
Doc Savage develops a process that can bring a dead person back to life, but the elements are so rare that it can only be done once. After much deliberation, Doc decides to resurrect the wisest man in history, Solomon. But, through the vilest of trickery, the mummy of the wickedest pharaoh to ever rule Egypt is brought back to life instead. Rather than go along with his benefactors, the Pharaoh forces them to help him rebuild his lost empire.
| Автор | Kenneth Robeson |
The last Philip Marlowe mystery novel completed by Chandler, set in a resort town on the coast of California. Marlowe is to follow a woman named Eleanor King, newly arrived in Los Angeles. Whether this is her real name is only one of the mysteries in store for Marlowe.
| Автор | Raymond Chandler |
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.Major Hastings and Hercule Poirot are not interested in the case of the Spanish Chest, so obviously has it been reported in the papers that it seems an entirely closed book. But, when Hastings persuades Poirot to attend a rather fabulous party given by Lady Chatterton there is someone sequestered upstairs waiting for the pair’s help. She’s so sure that there has been some great mistake and is desperate...
| Автор | Агата Кристи |
Gaston Leroux (1868-1927) was an influential mystery and detective author, contributing a great deal to the golden age of mystery fiction. First published serially in France from 1907-1908, «The Mystery of the Yellow Room,» is widely considered the greatest of the «locked room mysteries» of the twentieth century. Joseph Rouletabille, a journalist and novelist, is thrust into a complicated murder investigation, a murder that occurred in a locked room where it was seemingly impossible for any...
| Автор | Гастон Леру |
The lights of the Paris Opera House dim and a lovely singer holds the audience spellbound with her enchanting voice. Two men are rivals for her love: one of them the beloved friend of her childhood — and the other the terrifying «opera ghost» who haunts the theater and wields a strange power over the performer.This thrilling novel and its many adaptations have beguiled the imaginations of countless audiences throughout the twentieth century. A gripping tale of longing passion, fear,...
| Автор | Гастон Леру |
"The Picture of Dorian Gray" is the only published novel by Oscar Wilde. It appeared as the lead story in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. The magazine's editors feared the story was indecent as submitted, so they censored roughly 500 words, without Wilde's knowledge, before publication. Even so, the story was greeted with outrage by British reviewers, some of whom suggested that Wilde should be prosecuted on moral grounds, leading Wilde to defend the...
| Автор | Oscar Wilde |
"The Spider Strain" by Johnston McCulley. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to...
| Автор | Johnston McCulley |
Judge Crowdy Lobbett has found evidence pointing to the identity of the criminal mastermind behind the deadly Simister gang. After four attempts on his life, he ends up seeking the help of the enigmatic and unorthodox amateur sleuth, Albert Campion. After Campion bundles Lobbett off to a country house in Mystery Mile, deep in the Suffolk countryside, all manner of adventures ensue.
| Автор | Margery Allingham |
An eery story of a fiendish murder and a midget psychic investigator—by the author of «Invaders From the Dark» and «The Devil's Pool»! Originally published in the classic pulp magazine Weird Tales, this volume includes an introduction by former WT editor John Gregory Betancourt.
| Автор | Greye La Spina |
It seemed that a good many people wanted to find out the identity of Ralph Johnston’s wife. Among them was the woman’s own husband…
| Автор | Roy Huggins |
The heir to Martina Cole’s crown with a story of murder, the underworld, violence and treachery.The Butlers are the kings of the East End.Vinny and Roy Butler are the apple of their mum’s eye and although Queenie knows they can play dirty, when it comes to family they look after business and make her proud. Nothing and no one can bring the Butler’s down.But Vinny seems to have crossed the wrong person and his cards are marked. And with the brothers joined at the hip, Roy may just be in the...
| Автор | Kimberley Chambers |
The heir to Martina Cole’s crown with a story of murder, the underworld, violence and treachery.The Butlers are the kings of the East End.Vinny and Roy Butler are the apple of their mum’s eye and although Queenie knows they can play dirty, when it comes to family they look after business and make her proud. Nothing and no one can bring the Butler’s down.But Vinny seems to have crossed the wrong person and his cards are marked. And with the brothers joined at the hip, Roy may just be in the...
| Автор | Kimberley Chambers |
“The Wisdom of Father Brown” is a 1928 collection of mystery short stories by English writer G. K. Chesteron. Set in the early twentieth century, each of the stories centres around the cunning investigations of Father Brown, a catholic priest-cum-detective who uses his incredible intuition to solve a variety of perplexing mysteries. The stories include: “The Absence of Mr Glass”, “The Paradise of Thieves”, “The Duel of Dr Hirsch”, “The Man in the Passage”, “The Mistake of the Machine”, “The Head...
| Автор | G. K. Chesterton, Gilbert Chesterton и др. |