Against all expectations, Krispos had won the crown of Videssos. But how long could he hope to keep head and crown together? Civil war erupted under Petronas, who had a very personal score to settle with Krispos. And even as rebel troops took the...
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Videssos was beset by enemies abroad and had fallen into decadence at home. But on his first night in the imperial capital, The Empire's health mattered less to Krispos than finding a dry place to sleep.
Driven by crushing taxes from the farm...
Jeremy Solter is a teenager growing up in the late 21st century. During the school year, his family lives in Southern California - but during the summer the whole family lives and works in the city of Polisso, on the frontier of the Roman Empire....
Автор: Bruccoli Matthew J. , Banks Carolyn
Серия: The New Black Mask
Язык: английский
Год: 1987
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Featuring the best from the modern masters of detective, intrigue, suspense, and mystery...
Roger the Chapman Mystery #14
Things aren’t going too well at home for Roger the Chapman and his wife, Adela.
Their fourth child has died only days after being born and Roger fails to conceal his feelings of relief at having one less mouth...
Автор: Куин (Квин) Эллери
Серия: Ellery Queen Detective #23
Язык: английский
Год: 1952
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Armed men invade the Queen apartment. At their head is Abel Bendigo, brother of one of the world’s most powerful men, King Bendigo of Bodigen Arms, industrial monster whose tentacles embrace the planet. Someone is threatening to kill King Bendigo,...
The Nicholas Shelby Mystery #5
Elizabeth’s reign is reaching its winter and England’s old adversaries are fading. But in a world on the brink of change, showing any weakness can be fatal…
1598. Nicholas Shelby, unorthodox physician and...
Could one man alone turn aside its terrible power, that had wiped out man’s mightiest heritage and left him only a future — the hope of death in the...
Erle Stanley Gardner — creator of Perry Mason — was the bestselling author of detective fiction of all time. Many of his best early short novels originally appeared in the famous Black Mask magazine alongside Dashiell Hammett and Raymond...
Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine. Vol. 39, No. 6, June,...