Ужасы и Мистика
14439 кн.
You do not always have to go looking for a guardian angel. He may be looking for you—but perhaps for somebody else's benefit! Rhadampsicus and Nodalictha were on their honeymoon, and consequently they were sentimental. To be sure, it would not have been easy for humans to imagine sentiment as existing between them. Humans would hardly associate tenderness with glances cast from sets of sixteen eyes mounted on jointed eye stalks, nor link langorous thrills with a coy mingling of positronic...
| Автор | Murray Leinster |
Dorothy, rope-dancer and palmist, arrives at the Château de Roborey with her circus, she’s already observed strange excavations at the grounds. Fate drags her and her motley crew of war orphans into a quest for long-lost ancestral treasure, but a new-found nemesis is close on her trail.<P> Maurice Leblanc, most famous for his Arsène Lupin stories, here switches to a new protagonist, but fans of his other work will find her strangely recognisable. Indeed, the mystery presented here is...
| Автор | Морис Леблан |
Kirrin Island belonged to George: it was her very own, and she felt aggrieved when her father ‘borrowed’ it for one of his experiments. And to make matters worse, he built a mysterious tower in the ruins of the old castle.<P> The Five couldn’t really understand Uncle Quentin’s wish to be left quite alone, and as it turned out, it was a good thing that George took matters into her own hands one night—otherwise there would have been no more adventures on Kirrin Island, and Timmy...
| Автор | Enid blyton |
The Third Golden Age of Mystery and Crime MEGAPACK® focuses on acclaimed mystery novelist David Alexander, who also produced a significant body of short fiction. Included in this volume are 20 stories and an essay:<P> COFFEE AND—<BR> AND ON THE THIRD DAY<BR> THE OTHER ONES<BR> DIE LIKE A DOG<BR> FIRST CASE<BR> MAMA’S BOY<BR> SCARECROW<BR> UNCLE TOM<BR> SURPRISE! SURPRISE!<BR> MAMA’S BOY<BR> THE GENTLEST OF THE...
| Автор | David Alexander |
The Gyrth family has guarded the Gyrth Chalice for hundreds of years. Its antiquity, its beauty, the legends that were connected with it, all combined to make it unique. No thief could hope to dispose of it in the ordinary way. And no ordinary thief would dream of trying. Kept in a windowless chapel, and protected by a fearsome curse, the Chalice should be impervious to thievery. But this is 1930, and crooks have all the advantages of the modern world.<P> The victim of a botched...
| Автор | Margery Allingham |
On their peaceful camping and cycling tour of the English countryside, the Five come across Richard Kent – the son of one of the richest men in the country! When Dick is mistaken for him and kidnapped, by Rooky, a dangerous criminal who had been a bodyguard in the Kent household, the children know they have two leads: Owl's Dene on Owl's Hill, and a Black Bently – KMF 102. The children's search for Dick leads them on a moonlit bicycle ride to the eerie mansion: Owl's Dene....
| Автор | Enid blyton |
Julian, Dick, George, Anne and Timmy are planning to go camping in a moor with the absent-minded and insect-loving Mr Luffy, a teacher. When they arrive at camp they find that their camping site is close to a farm, and that several old train tracks run under the moors, some of them are unused. They soon make friends with a boy named Jock, who lives at the farm with his mother and stepfather, the farm owners. While exploring the moor, the Five find a railway yard and a tunnel that are apparently...
| Автор | Enid blyton |
Sure, you can root for Sherlock Holmes or Charlie Chan or Hugh Drummond. But I'll take a good old-fashioned rogue over the lot of 'em any day. Boston Blackie, A.J. Raffles, the Lone Wolf, Thubway Tham, Mr. Clackworthy, Arsene Lupin – they all hold a curious fascination, dabbling as they do in crime and punishment! So take a walk on the seamy side of the Victorian era. (And yes, we are cheating with the dates a little bit. But we wanted to include a few latter-day rogues whose...
| Автор | Морис Леблан |
Приветствую вас. В этом сборнике сложены мои байки. Да, это не первая их публикация. Но в виду некоторых обстоятельств иначе нельзя. Так вот, в ближних городах от столицы имеются странные и довольно жуткие места. Первым местом действия станет дачный посёлок. В далёкие совковые времена. Там же случится ещё несколько историй.
| Автор | Мiронъ А. Мохнатый |
В этом сборнике собраны рассказы разных лет – и очень разной тематики. Здесь на соседних страницах уживаются и экспедиции на другие планеты, и средневековые балы с мрачными замками, и бытовуха современного нам человека, и психические отклонения… Надеюсь, вы с удовольствием прочтете эту книгу! Книга содержит нецензурную брань.
| Автор | Марьяна Куприянова |