It's never easy reviewing a classic; obviously it is good or it wouldn't be regarded as such, and if it has just been reprinted then its charm and relevance still exist for readers today. Since its publication in 1958, Robert Van Gulik's...
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Автор: Куин (Квин) Эллери , Брюер Джил
Серия: Mike McCall #1
Язык: английский
Год: 1969
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Who bludgeoned the co-ed and killed the dean?
To find out, McCall had to risk riots. Yippies and the dark mysteries of today’s student...
Автор: Куин (Квин) Эллери
Серия: Ellery Queen Detective #23
Язык: английский
Год: 1952
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Armed men invade the Queen apartment. At their head is Abel Bendigo, brother of one of the world’s most powerful men, King Bendigo of Bodigen Arms, industrial monster whose tentacles embrace the planet. Someone is threatening to kill King Bendigo,...
The untold story behind Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart."
Philadelphia, 1842: Poe's cat, Cattarina, becomes embroiled in a killer's affairs when she finds a clue to the crime - a glass eye. But it's only when her beloved "Eddy" takes an...
Looking for peace, she found a nightmare…
Fading movie star Christina Dawn has decided to start a new life, so she relocates from L.A. to a picturesque mountain town, hoping she'll find peace and tranquility there.
Meanwhile, a man who has...
Goodbye...
In Peking ("Pekin" in British usage) the crowds gather for the funeral of the Chinese Premier. Quiller reports it: "The British delegates formed a short line along the side of the catafalque as their leader placed the Queen's wreath carefully...
From the national bestselling author of Batter Off Dead, the newest Pennsylvania Dutch mystery!Mennonite innkeeper Magdalena Yoder is at the bank with her four-year- old son when three armed Amish men burst in and start shooting and-more...
The client had an extraordinary air of assurance about her — one could almost say a queenly air.
There was no doubt that she was in some sort of jam, which had started years before when she had won a beauty contest. The question was, why was...
The Continental Op made his debut in an October 1923 issue of Black Mask, making him one of the earliest hard-boiled private detective characters to appear in the pulp magazines of the early twentieth century. Short, thick-bodied, mulishly stubborn,...