Leys Physical Training College was famous for its excellent discipline and Miss Lucy Pym was pleased and flattered to be invited to give a psychology lecture there. But she had to admit that the health and vibrant beauty of the students made her...
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At Ravensthorpe-a lonely country house inherited by Maurice Chacewater-a masked ball is in progress amid scenes of great gaiety, celebrating the honor of his sister’s coming of age. What each guest was to wear had been kept a secret and all who...
Автор: Cleverly Barbara
Серия: Joe Sandilands #12
Язык: английский
Год: 2014
Статус: Закончена
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One morning before dawn in the stables of her country estate, Lady Truelove meets a violent death in an encounter with a dangerous horse. Classified as “death by misadventure,” this appears a gruesome accident. But Scotland Yard Detective Joe...
The woman stretched both her hands out and the priest gave her the cup.
“The wine of ecstasy gives joy to your body and soul.”
She raised the cup to her lips. Her head tipped back until the last drop must have been drained. Suddenly she...
Investigating a haunted house, Merlini finds a fresh murder
"Wanted To Rent: Haunted House, preferably in rundown condition. Must be adequately supplied with interesting ghost."
Ross Harte knows that only the Great Merlini could be behind...
When maidens...
It was preposterously inconvenient. The outer door was locked as usual, yet there she lay — on Nero Wolfe’s carpet, in Nero Wolfe’s office, strangled by Nero Wolfe’s own...
What a bounty Katherine Hall Page gives her readers here. The Body in the Cast is as full of treasures as a Christmas stocking. First, of course, there's Page's lovely sleuth, the transplanted New York caterer Faith Fairchild, a minister's wife,...
When Mrs Bradleys grandson finds an old diary in her rented cottage it attracts the interest of this most unconventional of detectives, for the books now deceased owner was once suspected of the murders of both her aunt and...
A half million pounds in gold has disappeared from an armored train outside London. The railroad and the banks are in an uproar, and finally they must turn to Sherlock Holmes for help. What begins as a deceptively simple case transforms into a...