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This new edition, which is reproduced from a first printing of the book, is introduced by the author Martin Edwards, archivist of the Detection Club, and includes a never-before-published Preface by Agatha Christie, ‘Detective Writers in England’, in which she discusses her fellow writers in the Detection Club.Lord Comstock is a barbarous newspaper tycoon with enemies in high places. His murder in the study of his country houseposes a dilemma for the Home Secretary. In the hours before his...
| Автор | Агата Кристи |
Duelling, derring-do, and dastardly deeds are all in a day’s work for Liberty Lane, a new heroine for fans of Georgette Heyer and Sarah Waters’s Victorian novels.A public spat between two dancers at a London theatre has a dramatic conclusion that wasn’t in the script: one dead, the other arrested for murder. As far as the jury’s concerned, it’s an open-and-shut case, but Liberty Lane believes otherwise.Soon she’s leading her own investigation, in a desperate race against the hangman’s noose. And...
| Автор | Caro Peacock |
No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell delivers the twenty-third engrossing thriller in her high-stakes series starring medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta.Dr. Kay Scarpetta is working a suspicious death scene in Cambridge, Massachusetts when an emergency alert sounds on her phone. A video link lands in her text messages and seems to be from her computer genius niece Lucy. But how can it be? It’s clearly a surveillance film of Lucy taken almost twenty years ago.As Scarpetta...
| Автор | Patricia Cornwell |
A standalone mystery from the author of the Kelsey and Lambert novels.A number of people stood to benefit from Harry Mallinson’s death and Henry Mallinson was old and sick and very rich.His estranged elder son needed money for his business. His younger son did not want to see his father’s will changed. His pretty daughter-in-law needed money to lay of ghost from her past to rest. His godson was behind with instalments on a motorcycle. His nurse needed a few thousand to buy a son a small-holding...
| Автор | Emma Page |
A riveting psychological thriller, now a major ITV drama, from the Number One bestselling Queen of crime fiction Val McDermid.In the Peak District village of Scarsdale, thirteen-year-old girls didn’t just run away. So when Alison Carter vanished in the winter of ’63, everyone knew it was a murder.Catherine Heathcote remembers the case well. A child herself when Alison vanished, decades on she still recalls the sense of fear as parents kept their children close, terrified of strangers.Now a...
| Автор | Val McDermid |
Kindap and murder collide in Alex Barclay’s heart-stopping new thriller featuring FBI Agent Ren Bryce.The only way to reach the end is to turn back…When the body of FBI agent Jean Transom is found on the frozen slopes of Quandary Peak, the nearby town of Breckenridge, Colorado, becomes the focus of a major investigation.A quiet, dedicated agent on the surface, it soon becomes clear that there was another side to Jean Transom. And who better to uncover it than Special Agent Ren Bryce, an expert...
| Автор | Alex Barclay |
All she wanted was to get away. But now, she can’t escape… A pulse-pounding thriller that dives into the dark side of Mexico.A holiday in Mexico is just what Michelle Mason needs after her husband dies, leaving behind a scandal and a pile of debt.On the beach, she meets a handsome American ex-pat – the margaritas have kicked in and she decides: why not? But their date ends horribly when Daniel is attacked by intruders in her hotel room.When Daniel disappears, Michelle is drawn into Mexico's...
| Автор | Lisa Brackman |
1820s Britain: after the wars with France, when unemployment was high and soldiers could be paid off, when the government was desperately afraid of social unrest, any crime was drastically punished and thousands were hung. But one could petition the King and an investigation might ensue…The man in the dark cell in Newgate Prison was due to hang in a week. He had been found guilty of murdering the aristocrat whose portrait he was painting. He claimed to be innocent – but then the hangman had...
| Автор | Bernard Cornwell |
Bestsellerowa powieść z cyklu o major Kamieńskiej Caryca rosyjskiego kryminału powraca w nowej odsłonie Po odsiedzeniu wyroku kolonię karną opuszcza Paweł Saulak, mężczyzna, którego wiele wpływowych osób zamierza wykorzystać jako kartę przetargową w wyścigu o fotel prezydenta. Anastazja Kamieńska ma zapewnić niedawnemu więźniowi ochronę w drodze do Moskwy. Niedługo potem kobieta rozpoczyna śledztwo w sprawie serii zagadkowych zabójstw. Wkrótce okazuje się, że kolejne ofiary są sprawcami...
| Автор | Aleksandra Marinina |
The first two captivating Detective Patrick Hedstrom and Erica Falck psychological thrillers, available together for the first time.The Ice Princess, Camilla Lackberg’s stunning debut, sees writer Erica Falck return to her hometown of Fjällbacka after the funeral of her parents. She’s shocked to find a community on the brink of tragedy. A childhood friend’s body has been found in an icy bath, her wrists slashed – but was it really suicide?Meanwhile, local detective Patrik Hedström is following...
| Автор | Камилла Лэкберг |
The landmark first novel by acclaimed Cold War thriller writer Derek Lambert.Derek Lambert’s classic spy novel exposes the truth about the life of the Western community in post Stalin Moscow, and their existence in which tensions and hostility of the Soviet Union sometimes prove intolerable.An American working for the US embassy and the CIA, a young Englishman at the British Embassy gradually cracking under the strain of Moscow life, and a member of the Twilight Brigade. In an alien land their...
| Автор | Derek Lambert |
Инспектор уголовной полиции Сэм Бергер и его подчиненные врываются в заброшенный дом, где, по их предположению, маньяк держит похищенную пятнадцатилетнюю девочку. В доме никого нет, однако они находят затхлый подвал со следами крови и отметками ногтей на бетонном полу. Вопреки мнению начальства, инспектор уверен, что на счету преступника множество жертв, поэтому он параллельно проводит собственное расследование, порой нарушая закон. У Бергера есть свой тайный интерес в этом деле: каждый раз на...
| Автор | Арне Даль |
London, nowadays. The wife of a powerful and chatted banker dies but, a year after the death, the sons of the lady say they have seen the ghost wandering around the villa. It is a matter of fact? It's a nightmare? There is something murky in the affair? London, nowadays. The wife of a powerful and chatted banker dies but, a year after the death, the sons of the lady say they have seen the ghost wandering around the villa. It is a matter of fact? It's a nightmare? There is something murky in the...
| Автор | Elton Varfi |
Τι συνδέει μία σειρά δολοφονιών, που λαμβάνουν χώρα στη Μπολόνια και τα περίχωρά της; Πρόκειται για κατά συρροή δολοφόνο ή για κάτι άλλο; Ο Επιθεωρητής Τζαμάνι κι οι άνδρες του, έχουν αναλάβει να το ανακαλύψουν. What links a series of assassinations taking place in Bologna and its surroundings? Is it a serial killer or something else? Inspector Zamagni and his men have undertaken to discover it. Μία γυναίκα βρίσκεται νεκρή κι εικάζεται ότι μπορεί να πρόκειται για δολοφονία. Οι έρευνες...
| Автор | Federico Betti |
Mroczny kryminalny majstersztyk pióra carycy rosyjskiego kryminału W Moskwie w tajemniczych okolicznościach ginie młody milicjant, Sasza Barsukow. W trakcie śledztwa okazuje się, że Sasza spotykał się z Lerą. Dziewczyna mieszka z dziadkiem, który dziesięć lat temu zabił jej rodziców. Dopiero niedawno wyszedł z więzienia, a na domiar złego wydaje się zamieszany w sprawę morderstwa Barsukowa. Sprawę dodatkowo komplikuje fakt, że Lera nosi na palcu wystawny pierścionek z brylantem. Pierścionek...
| Автор | Aleksandra Marinina |
The seventh classic instalment in this genre-changing series of novels featuring Detective Inspector Martin Beck.On a quiet night a high-ranking police officer, Nyland, is slaughtered in his hospital bed, brutally massacred with a bayonet. It's not hard to find people with a motive to kill him; in fact the problem for Detective Inspector Martin Beck is how to narrow the list down to one suspect. But as he investigates Nyland's murder he must confront whether he is willing to risk his life for...
| Автор | Maj Sjowall |
In this special 20th anniversary edition, Lee Child introduces the Gold Dagger award-winning serial killer thriller that began the Number One bestselling crime series featuring clinical psychologist Dr Tony Hill, hero of TV’s much-loved Wire in the Blood.You always remember the first time. Isn’t that what they say about sex? How much more true it is of murder…Up till now, the only serial killers Tony Hill had encountered were safely behind bars. This one’s different – this one’s on the...
| Автор | Val McDermid |
To zabójstwo jest wyraźnym ostrzeżeniem dla tych, którzy lubią puszczać parę z ust: tylko milczenie może cię ocalić. Sierżant Kieran O’Regan tropił najgroźniejszych przestępców. Teraz nie żyje. Na cmentarzu znaleziono jego pozbawione głowy ciało z wetkniętym w gardło fletem… To makabryczne zabójstwo jest wyraźnym ostrzeżeniem dla potencjalnych informatorów: tylko milczenie może cię ocalić. O’Regan miał bowiem dostarczyć kluczowe dowody w śledztwie dotyczącym korupcji w policji. Dochodzenie było...
| Автор | Graham Masterton |
Makabryczne znalezisko bulwersuje całą Irlandię. Podczas prac budowlanych na farmie w pobliżu Cork robotnicy trafiają na kości jedenastu kobiet, które przeleżały pod ziemią kilkadziesiąt lat. Wcześniej ktoś z fachowością rzeźnika – albo chirurga – pozbawił je skóry i mięśni… za życia! Wszystko wskazuje na mord rytualny. Według komisarz Katie Maguire każda ofiara zasługuje przynajmniej na wyjaśnienie, jak i dlaczego została zamordowana, nawet jeśli nie ma już szans na znalezienie i ukaranie...
| Автор | Graham Masterton |
Stulecie kryminału. Tysiące możliwych scenariuszy. Osiemnaście mistrzowskich opowiadań. I tylko jeden temat: zbrodnia. W lipcu 1919 roku ogłoszono w Polsce dekret o powołaniu Policji i tym samym narodziła się polska kryminalistyka. Od ponad stu lat policjanci stanowią niekiedy jedyną pomoc w walce z niesprawiedliwością, ludzką podłością i złem. Jak wyglądała praca policji wtedy, sto lat temu? Z jakimi wyzwaniami funkcjonariusze policji mierzą się dziś? I jak może wyglądać tropienie...
| Автор | Marcel Woźniak |
Grizzled homicide detective Bernie “Burnout” Farrell heads the hunt for a serial killer who is murdering call girls around Times Square. Hoping to set up a stakeout, Farrell recruits tall, blonde, ambitious rookie cop Gladyss Chronou for the investigation. But Gladyss believes her mystical yoga practice can give her an intuitive edge in solving the crimes and sees mythological patterns in the suspects and events they’re investigating. Bernie thinks she’s...
| Автор | Arthur Nersesian |
‘Hill is an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift’ Frances Fyfield, Mail on SundayYears ago, young Tracey Pedley disappeared in the woods around Burrthorpe. The close-knit mining village had its own ideas about what happened, but the police pinned it on a known child-killer who subsequently committed suicide.Now Burrthorpe comes to police attention again. A man’s body is discovered down a mine shaft and it’s clear he has been murdered. Dalziel and...
| Автор | Reginald Hill |
‘So far out in front that he need not bother looking over his shoulder’ Sunday TelegraphDetective Superintendent Andy Dalziel investigates murder close to home in this first crime novel featuring the much-loved detective team of Dalziel and Pascoe.Home from the Rugby club after taking a nasty knock in a match, Sam Connon finds his wife more uncommunicative than usual. After passing out on his bed for a few hours, he comes downstairs to discover communication has been cut off forever – by a hole...
| Автор | Reginald Hill |
Republished for the first time since 1951, Beware of Johnny Washington is Francis Durbridge’s clever reworking of the very first Paul Temple radio serial using his new characters, the amiable Johnny Washington and newspaper columnist Verity Glyn. Includes as a bonus the first Paul Temple short story, ‘A Present for Paul’.When a gang of desperate criminals begins leaving calling cards inscribed ‘With the Compliments of Johnny Washington’, the real Johnny Washington is encouraged by an attractive...
| Автор | Francis Durbridge |