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...
The eight-year-old boy had vanished from the car and – as if by slick, sick magic – had been replaced by a note on the steering wheel… ‘You don’t love him’…
At the height of summer a dark shadow falls across Exmoor. Children are...
Vintner Lucie Montgomery—The Merlot Murders (2006), The Chardonnay Charade (2007)—is getting ready for the harvest at her vineyard near Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains. When she attends a lecture at Mount Vernon, she learns about the wines...
As originally published in “The Shadow Magazine,” September 1, 1934.
A crook calls upon The Shadow to plan crime — and issues a challenge to the master of...
There was the heat of money. There w as the heat of wanting. There was the heat of the Bahamas and Golden Coast of Florida after the season had ended. Texas money had gone to the Bahamas by pleasure boat for a dirty purpose. Enough unrecorded cash...
The surviving Nihilists have condemned the Russian General Trebassof to death for the crimes he and his troops committed against the revolution. Three attempts on his life have failed, but the Czar is determined to keep him alive. The Czar assigns...