It was rumoured that Hollywood stars would go down on their knees for the privilege of being photographed by the good-looking, brilliantly talented and ultra-fashionable portrait photographer Leslie Searle. But what was such a gifted creature...
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When the Australian Mystery Writers' Society invited me to their crime-writing festival aboard the Ghan, the famous train between Darwin and Adelaide, I was hoping for some inspiration for my second book. Fiction, this time: I needed a break from...
The Affair Next...
Автор: Куин (Квин) Эллери
Серия: Ellery Queen Detective #10
Язык: английский
Год: 1935
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Ellery Queen is asked by a lawyer friend to help protect the interests of a pretty young heiress. They meet her, along with an unpleasant physician who is a friend of her family, as she disembarks in New York from an ocean liner arriving from...
Как правило, издают и печатают редакцию 1955 года, но ранняя редакция существенно отличается и во многом превосходит позднюю. Впрочем,...
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A Thief in the Night. Further adventures of A. J. Raffles, Cricketer and Cracksman
A Thief in the Night. Further adventures of A. J. Raffles, Cricketer and...
Detective Inspector Purbright of the Flaxborough police force is used to a life of quietude in a small market town, yet he knows that behind the outward respectability of typical English communities a darker underbelly of greed, crime and...
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Автор: Aird Catherine
Серия: Inspector Sloan CID Mystery #10
Язык: английский
Год: 1982
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“Found drowned, my foot,” said the pathologist two minutes after looking at the body. The unidentified young man pulled from the salt water near the little fishing village of Edsway hadn’t drowned after all. And he hadn’t been a bather...
Автор: Конан Дойл Артур
Серия: Sherlock Holmes short story collections #2
Язык: английский
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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes are overshadowed by the event with which they close—the meeting of the great detective and Moriarty, the Napoleon of Crime. Their struggle, seemingly to the death, was to leave many readers desolate at the loss of...