Ужасы и Мистика
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A rollicking good yarn that mixes detective fiction with Indiana Jones-style adventure.<br /> <br />When Professor Lloyd Marsden is found murdered in the Museum of Victoria, Special Detective Sam Diamond is assigned to catch the killer. Thrown into a world of obsessive collectors, strange poisons, funerary rites and ancient artefacts, Sam's photographic memory and cryptic crossword skills are invaluable tools in her investigation.<br /> <br />But when archaeologist...
| Автор | Lindy Cameron |
During World War II, due to a shortage of qualified pilots, Uncle Sam began a program of training thousands of military pilots. Among these were the Tuskegee Airmen, a unit of African-Americans eager to fly in combat. Fifty years later a Hollywood studio sets out to create a documentary about these brave airmen, featuring grizzled survivors of that long-ago era flying lovingly maintained vintage aircraft. And then…murder strikes on the movie set, and Hobart Lindsey, insurance...
| Автор | Richard A. Lupoff |
A 1928 DUESENBERG! Most of them were rich, most of them were beautiful, and now one of them was dead in an unexpected and particularly nasty way. Oh, and a perfectly maintained, priceless 1928 Duesenberg Phaeton, the royalty of collectible, classic automobiles, had disappeared. Where do you hide a totally recognizable Dusie? Insurance man Hobart Lindsey is back on the case…along with his sometime sparring partner and lover, homicide investigator Marvia Plum, Lindsey’s troubled mother, and a cast...
| Автор | Richard A. Lupoff |
WHEN A MAN’S PARTNER IS KILLED… So begins one of the most famous quotations in all of crime fiction. And just as the murder of Sam Spade's partner, Miles Archer, sets off the quest in the great Dashiell Hammett's greatest novel, so the murder of Hobart Lindsey's partner, Cletus Berry, sets off the quest in The Silver Chariot Killer, the sixth of Richard A. Lupoff's classic series of «Killer» mysteries. It's Christmas week in New York and Cletus Berry's body has been...
| Автор | Richard A. Lupoff |
Die berühmte Stadt hat auch Schattenseiten. Manchmal geschehen schlimme Dinge. „Salzburger Krimis“ enthält 3 spannende Kurzkrimis, geschrieben von Brigitte Lenz. Treten Sie ein in die spannende Welt von Kommissar Martin Buchholz und seiner Kollegin Sandra Steiner.
| Автор | Brigitte Lenz |
Мария покидает родную деревню и уезжает в большой город, где она устраивается медсестрой в местную больницу. Там она сталкивается с трудностями, которые проверяют ее на прочность.
| Автор | Лаврентий Крепак |
Prior to World War II, black actors were restricted to mainstream film roles as chauffeurs, maids, night club entertainers, and comic buffoons. But there was a second Hollywood, a BLACK Hollywood, where great producers and directors like Oscar Michaud created films with all-black casts for exhibition to black audiences. Some of the actors worked only in black productions. Others, like the talented Eddie Anderson, could play comic roles in white productions and serious roles in all-black films....
| Автор | Richard A. Lupoff |
Who WAS that gorgeous model? When a helicopter loses power and plunges into the icy waters of scenic Lake Tahoe, killing its only passenger, millionaire Albert Crocker Vansittart, what looks like a routine claim against a life insurance policy turns into a mystery for investigator Hobart Lindsey and his sometime collaborator Marvia Plum. The reason: half a century ago, the youthful Vansittart had come across a hardboiled mystery novel and become obsessed with the glamorous model who'd posed...
| Автор | Richard A. Lupoff |
Every wizard in Ethshar knew that if you needed something special, something difficult to find, that Gresh the Supplier was the man to see. He was expensive, but always delivered. So when the Wizards' Guild finally got fed up with the little green nuisances that called themselves «spriggans,» the Guild hired Gresh to fetch them the magic mirror that created the troublesome imps. The wizards thought finding it looked impossible. Gresh thought his methods would do the job. But no one had...
| Автор | Lawrence Watt-Evans |
Bob Bjorner is the last of the «red hot lefties» at radio station KRED in Berkeley, Calif. His paranoia makes him bring his personal lock to keep intruders out of the studio while he's on the air–but they get to him anyway! He opens his lunch, takes his first mouthful of sashimi, and falls over dead. Homicide detective Marvia Plum scrambles to the station in time to see broadcasters, engineers, and administrators trying to figure out what to do next. Bob Bjorner, Radio Red himself, is...
| Автор | Richard A. Lupoff |
Is it really over? Have Hobart Lindsey and Marvia Plum solved their last case? Lindsey, the mild-mannered bachelor insurance adjuster. Plum, the tough inner-city cop and single mom. You can hardly think of an odder couple, but somehow they were able to bring out the best in each other. Through a series of eight novels that carried them from California to Louisiana, from Denver to Chicago to New York to Rome, they explored the eccentricities of American pop culture, from comic books to race...
| Автор | Richard A. Lupoff |
Практика ленинградских студентов-историков на древней земле Крыма раскрывает тайны дохристианских культур. Крымские впечатления определят будущее талантливой молодежи.
| Автор | Людмила Лапина |
THEIR LAST BOW. A cache of stolen comic books had originally brought insurance man Hobart Lindsey and police officer Marvia Plum together. They were as different as different could be: he, a diffident suburban bachelor living with an emotionally damaged mother; she, a tough inner-city cop raising an at-risk child. Their tumultuous relationship endured for seven years, then seemingly ended as Marvia Plum abandoned her career to return to the arms of an old flame while Lindsey's duties...
| Автор | Richard A. Lupoff |
This new “Col. Primrose Mystery Novel” might have well been called «The New Mrs. Latham Mystery Novel,» because Mrs. Latham plays almost as important a part in it as the Colonel. The scene is Hawaii, and practically all of the action takes place in and around a house high up on the mountainside above Honolulu. It is the story of a black-sheep American, whose family had lived in Hawaii for generations, but who went to Japan and, sometime after Pearl Harbor, decided to come back and play traitor...
| Автор | Leslie Ford |
She was a dangerous female, beautiful, cold-blooded, predatory. The people she lived among were the very nicest sort. Yet, strange to say, it was she who was found dead. And she was only the first victim… <P> She was a dangerous female, beautiful, cold- blooded, predatory. The people she lived among were the very nicest sort. Yet, strange to say, it was she who was found dead. And she was only the first victim . . .<P> “A prime mystery . . . told with Leslie Ford’s usual skill.”...
| Автор | Leslie Ford |
The first two bodies were found in Lovers' Lane. The man was dead. His girlfriend, still alive, described the stick-up artist as of medium build, wearing glasses, mild-mannered, and courteous. If was a description that fit half the male population of Los Angeles. It was almost the only clue Joe Friday and Frank Smith had to catch the murderer. <P>Then the courteous killer struck again – and again! The last time Joe Friday was waiting for him with a gun. When the criminal escaped with...
| Автор | Richard Deming |
What goes together like tea & sympathy, rock & roll, or a skull & crossbones? Sex & crime. Nineteen members of Sisters in Crime living in the Carolinas serve up stories around the universal themes of lust, love, and longing, and the criminal consequences of thwarting these human desires. Some stories are laugh-out-loud funny, others are evilly dark, but each packs a delicious read. Whether set in an ice cream parlor or an equestrian center, from World War II Washington DC to the...
| Автор | Karen Pullen |
Renegade half-breed samurai Gonji Sabatake has left the survivors of devastated Vedun, certain that his unknown Enemies–with their mysterious agenda, their monsters and their sorcery–are gathering strength for yet another attack on him and his allies. Seeking the aid of misanthropic werewolf Simon Sardonis, Gonji treks into a 16th-century Spain wracked by eerie supernatural forces. Trapped by his adversaries, Gonji is held captive by fanatical power in the torture-dungeons of the Inquisition. He...
| Автор | T.C. Rypel |
It was perhaps natural, after a thousand years of celibacy, that the Immortal Jade Lady should petition the Moon Goddess for a lover. The trouble was that he was a mortal and she was a spirit–which made for certain difficulties. Then she had to fall in love with him! <P> Ju-hai had troubles enough without spirit entanglements. He had a powerful enemy, seeking to destroy his family to seize their lands. Somehow, Ju-hai had to rescue his father, illegally impressed to fight a distant war,...
| Автор | E. Hoffmann Price |
Two new short novels featuring attorney Gail Brevard. In THE PURPLE GLOVE MURDERS, Gail and her companion and law partner, Conrad «Connie» Osterlitz, are relaxing at their Southern California mountain hideaway when Gail hears of a nearby tragedy. Retired Justice Winston Craig, a friend of Gail's late father, has been discovered face down near his dock on exclusive Black Bear Lake. The judge's widow, Eva, asks for their help in finding the cause of his death. As Gail begins to uncover...
| Автор | Mary Wickizer Burgess |
Leslie Ford cordially invites you to spend the weekend at a murder-haunted mansion…<P> Escape the workaday world and come to this luxurious Newport, Rhode Island, playground. Watch the idle rich at their games. See a delightful young heiress falling in love. Observe high society’s most fascinating cad in action. See three lovely Paris-garbed ladies play hide-and-seek with a huge inheritance. Attend the lavish Saturday night dance of death… <P> "Some of Mrs. Ford's...
| Автор | Leslie Ford |
The Malice Domestic cozy anthology series returns with a new take on mysteries in the Agatha Christie tradition – 30 original tales with historical settings! Included are: <P> The Blackness Before Me, by Mindy Quigley<BR> Honest John Finds a Way, by Michael Dell<BR> Spirited Death, by Carole Nelson Douglas<BR> Home Front Homicide, by Liz Milliron<BR> The Unseen Opponent, by P. A. De Voe<BR> The Black Hand, by Peter W. J. Hayes<BR> The Trial of...
| Автор | Elaine Viets |