“Gas!” Parry Percival said under his breath. Martyn, who thought the Doctor was doing well, glanced indignantly at Parry and was astonished to see that he looked frightened. “ ‘—therefore,’ ” the Doctor was saying arrogantly,...
Формат:
только полные версии
Peering into the early morning dark as his train neared its destination, Alleyn glimpsed a horrifying tableau. A lighted window masked by a spring blind. A woman falling against the blind and releasing it. Farther back in the room, a man in a...
A bit snobbish and a trifle high-strung, Sybil Foster prides herself on owning the finest estate in Upper Quintern and hiring the best gardener. In fact, she is rapturous over the new asparagus beds when a visit from her unwelcome stepson sends...
It was April in Rome, and gathered together in the church of San Tommaso in Pallario was the kind of varied group of people that can only meet on a tour. They were there under the aegis of one Sebastian Mailer, who had promised them a most...
Christmas time in an isolated country house and, following a flaming row in the kitchen, there's murder inside. When a much disliked visiting servant disappears without trace after playing Santa Claus, foul play is at once suspected — and foul...
В «золотой век» классического детектива среди обилия детективных сюжетов новозеландская писательница Эдит Найо Марш предлагает...
![Смерть и танцующий лакей [Death and the Dancing Footman]](https://www.rulit.me/data/programs/images/smert-i-tancuyushchij-lakej-death-and-the-dancing-footman_179742.jpg)
Роман несет много признаков качественного детектива: мелкие, как бы не относящиеся к делу улики; сбалансированное соотношение...
![На каждом шагу констебли [Clutch of Constables]](https://www.rulit.me/data/programs/images/na-kazhdom-shagu-konstebli-clutch-of-constables_200706.jpg)
Знаменитый инспектор Скотленд-Ярда Родерик Аллейн отправляется по служебным делам в Америку, а его жена Трой - в путешествие по Темзе.
...
Among the guests at the Plume of Feathers on the memorable evening of the murder were a West End matinée idol, a successful portrait painter, an Oxford-educated farmer’s daughter, a radical organizer and assorted rustics and villagers. Each...
When Lord Pasern Bagott takes up with the hot music of Breezy Bellair and his Boys, his disapproving wife Cecile has more than usual to be unhappy about. The band's devastatingly handsome but roguish accordionist, Carlos Rivera, has taken a rather...