Two gambling kingpins go to war — and Manville Moon is caught in the middle When an upstart gangster named Byron Wade threatens Louis Bagnell’s gambling empire, Bagnell attempts to hire Manville Moon, a detective whose loss of a leg has not...
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Автор: Stabler Edward A.
Серия: The River Trilogy #1
Язык: английский
Год: 2013
Статус: Закончена
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"…I fear I have been killed because of what happened today at Swains Lock." So begins the dried-out note that Vin Illick finds while scavenging planks from an abandoned shed near the old Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. It's signed by canal-hand Lee...
Автор: Hill Rayven T.
Серия: Jake and Annie Lincoln #8
Язык: английский
Год: 2015
Статус: Закончена
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After the gruesome murder of a school counselor, the victim’s overwrought husband hires private investigators Jake and Annie Lincoln to track down the young suspect wanted for the brutal murder. The senseless slaughter continues as the distraught...
Following the disastrous rule of Stephen (1135-1154), who could neither inspire loyalty to control his friends and family, nor successfully subdue his opposition, King Henry II (1154-1189) ascended to the throne. Seen as the founder of English...
Автор: Крэйг (Крейг) Джонатан , Деминг Ричард
Серия: Manhunt
Язык: английский
Год: 1955
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Manhunt. Volume 3, Number 2, February,...
On their annual camping trip in the southern Appalachians, Roger and Sue encounter Donald, a Vietnam vet with a peculiar and menacing way. After offering a generous pour of Scotch—and taking a few for himself—the odd stranger reveals a...
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree as far as Billy O’Connell’s concerned, so when his sister Kate gets involved with Jay Shaw, the son of a scummy small time criminal and Billy’s biggest enemy, there can only be one outcome,...
This latest gem from the British master concerns the wreckage wrought on a variety of Londoners by a womanizing con man who speaks in rhymes. Here, as in A Sight for Sore Eyes (1999), Rendell’s genius is to create characters so vivid they live...
"Alaska's finest mystery writer" (Anchorage Daily News) has given readers a hero to cheer for. Alaska state trooper Sergeant Liam Campbell is the representative of law and order in the fishing village of Newenham-yet struggles to keep his own...
Jack Lennox is broke and fleeing both himself and the wrath of his ex-wife. He is traveling on an interstate bus, and when the driver finds that he is riding on an expired ticket, he is put off at Del’s Oasis, a way stop in the middle of a great...