Another in the original courtroom novels that inaugurated the legal thriller genre finds Mason tracing the origins of two mysterious checks sent to him by a woman he has never heard of, who has run away with her daughter's...
This novel opens with the death of playboy stockbroker, Alvin Benson, who is found in his brownstone mansion with a bullet through his head. First on the scene is Philo Vance, amateur detective, who is at once intrigued by the absence of Alvin's...
Die berühmte Schauspielerin Jane Wilkinson bittet den Privatdetektiv Hercule Poirot um einen Rat: Sie will ihren Mann, den exzentrischen Lord Edgware, loswerden - so oder so.
Poirot interessiert indessen der menschliche Hintergrund dieser...