Peregrine Jay, owner of the Dolphin Theatre, is putting on a magnificent production of Macbeth, the play that, superstition says, always brings bad luck. But one night the claymore swings and the dummy's head is more than real: murder behind the...
Twenty-five years ago, in one of Rex Stout’s most famous mystery novels, Too Many Cooks, Nero Wolfe was aided in the solution of a murder by a twenty- year-old Negro. Now, in A Right to Die, Stout’s latest full-length novel, this same Negro is a...
Nero Wolfe is back in all his orchid-growing, gourmandizing glory! In The Bloodied Ivy and two previous bestsellers. Robert Goldsborough re-creates Stouts sedentary supersleuth and his energetic aide. Archie Goodwin, so convincingly that even the...
Police Captain Bartholdi sometimes indulged himself in a harmless fantasy. His thoughts, he would imagine, were irresponsible imps that wriggled out of his head and scampered around with an abandon that was often embarrassing. A woman had been...
What could make Nero Wolfe so determined to solve a crime that he would be willing to work entirely without fee or client? What would it take to put him, for the first time, at a loss for words? What would make him so angry about a case that he...
Short stories by Agatha Christie have been published in many collections, lots of them duplicating each other. For example, The Harlequin Tea Set contains almost all the same stories as While the Light Lasts. But a little sorting out has revealed...
MURDER MOST FOUL
The young man he saw running—slowly now, with panting breath—was one whose name or face Cy did not know. But he was one of the outfielders who had been sent to get a lost ball. He was now gasping out words like,...
DONALD LAM is home from the wars and up to his neck in the hard-hitting, swift-moving murder mystery Give ’Em the Ax.
The voices were low and to Bertha Cool’s trained ear — never-ending. She’d tell that Elsie Brand a thing or two about...