Why crime? Why exists this fascination with crime and why, above all, exists this fascination with crime on the part of female writers? Bestselling novelist Elizabeth George poses this question in her Introduction, answers it with her customary...
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Hillerman, author of the Joe Leaphorn mysteries, and Herbert, editor of The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing, trace this short-story genre from its beginnings in the hands of Edgar Allen Poe through its development by the likes of...
Автор: Garfield Brian
Серия: Paul Benjamin #1
Язык: английский
Год: 1972
Статус: Закончена
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Paul Benjamin, a successful accountant in New York City, is enjoying a three-martini lunch when his home is broken into by a gang of drug addicts. For just a handful of money, they savagely beat Paul's wife and daughter, leaving his wife dead and...
The Judas Window by John Dickson Carr (writing as Carter Dickson).
One of the five best locked room mysteries, as selected by 14 established mystery authors and critics (All But Impossible!, 1981. ed. E. Hoch).
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Close to a motorway service station, the body of a young woman is discovered. She appears to have no family, no friends, no one to identify her.
DI Anna Travis is brought onto the team of investigators by DCS James Langton, who already suspects...
The most chilling novel yet from Yrsa Sigurdardóttir, an international bestseller at the height of her powers.
‘Mummy dead.’ The child’s pure treble was uncomfortably clear. It was the last thing...
The...