In his spirited Introduction to a topnotch collection of Great American Detective Stories, Anthony Boucher says: “The detective short story belongs to us. It started in America and it started off magnificently. In five stories, Edgar Allan Poe...
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When Colonel Phillips begins his final game of golf, his greatest problem in life is that he has begun to slice the ball. Playing with his lawyer and nephews, Phillips fights his way back into the game and is on the verge of victory when he keels...
Автор: Куин (Квин) Эллери
Серия: Ellery Queen Detective #14
Язык: английский
Год: 1938
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A STATEMENT TO THE PUBLIC
Since 1929 we have the exclusive privilege of publishing the detective stories of Ellery Queen in the United States. In our years publishing Queen’s thirteen books we have refrained from the usual and monotonously...
Автор: Symonds Tim
Серия: Sherlock Holmes (by Tim Symonds) #1
Язык: английский
Год: 2012
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In Sherlock Holmes and The Dead Boer at Scotney Castle the great consulting detective comes up against the rich and powerful Kipling League. Dr Watson recounts the extraordinary events which took place on a spacious early summer day in the Sussex...
NERO WOLFE, in this complete mystery novel, admired the knives displayed at the picnic until he found one in a corpse in the...
Автор: Symonds Tim
Серия: Sherlock Holmes (by Tim Symonds) #5
Язык: английский
Год: 2016
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It's the year 1906. Rumours abound that a deadly plot is hatching -- not in the fog-ridden back-alleys of London's Limehouse district or the sinister Devon moors of the Hound of the Baskervilles but in faraway Peking. Holmes's task -- discover...
Whether poor Stella had been a good girl or a bad one, what mattered most was the fact that she was now awfully...
Nero Wolfe has always considered murder slightly illegal, but in the three stories in this volume It becomes something far worse — a personal affront. He is in fact, “ruffled beyond the bounds of tolerance” — three times For usually murder...
Предлагаем вниманию читателей новеллы знаменитого американского писателя Эдгара Аллана По.
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On a silver dish the Christmas pudding reposed in all its glory.
A large football of a pudding, a piece of holly stuck in it like a triumphant flag
and glorious flames of blue and red rising round it.
There was a cheer and cries of...