As originally published in “The Shadow Magazine,” January 15, 1935.
Bringing with it the inscrutable mystery and timelessness of its desert home, the Blue Sphinx, motionless on its pedestal, broods over the crime perils hovering above the...
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Steeplechase jockeys, like all other professional sportsmen, have to find a second career for themselves as the years go by. Jonah Dereham, retiring from the saddle at thirty-two, chose to become a bloodstock agent and spent his life travelling...
Nolan, the reformed thief, has finally gotten his life in order. He has a restaurant and a beautiful lady friend. Then Coleman Comfort shows up and makes things clear immediately. He and his son have kidnapped Nolan’s girlfriend, and if Nolan does...
Автор: Чайлд Линкольн , Престон Дуглас
Серия: Пендергаст #20
Язык: английский
Год: 2021
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A fabulous heist: On the evening of November 24, 1971, D. B. Cooper hijacked Flight 305 — Portland to Seattle — with a fake bomb, collected a ransom of $200,000, and then parachuted from the rear of the plane, disappearing into the night... and...
Автор: Картер Николас , Хэгберг Дэвид
Серия: Killmaster #209
Язык: английский
Год: 1986
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Colonel Arkadi Ganin. A man of many identities — and one motive: to kill Agent N3.
Ganin had been on a lot of assignments in his distinguished career, but none compared to this one. It was the sort of thing he liked most. This time there would...
THE FOUR SIGNETS was originally published in the January 1, 1935 issue of The Shadow Magazine.
The Four Signets hold some hidden message which spreads the path of crime and death in their wake. Millions at stake — to be distributed by four...
At first it seemed as though only The Madman Theory could explain the brutal shotgun slaying which lay in wait for the friendly group of back-packing hikers.
But Inspector Omar Collins, lean, gloomy-eyed, black-haired, was a painstaking man.
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These complimentary pieces have been sufficiently censured by a great authority, but no very candid judge either of Milton or his panegyrists. He, however, must have a heart sadly indifferent to the glory of his country, who is not gratified by the...
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The End of the Night is a journey into a world of fear and violence carried to their logical extreme — murder.
Not the kind of murder that society understands, the murder that comes from passion, or hatred, or love, but the murder that shakes...