The indomitable Simon Templar, better known as “the Saint,” is in Covers for a boat race when he is accosted by a damsel in distress (his favorite kind of damsel). Arabella Tatenor’s husband, Charles, is killed when his boat the Candecour...
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On an errand of mercy to help an elderly neighbour, the Sainted Simon Templar meets a very distraught — and very beautiful young woman.
Seems she is missing a brother, and someone is missing a Rembrandt. Together they track the fiend behind it...
The Mayor's...
He found her in a quiet bar — a sulky-mouthed, awkward, green-eyed kid trying desperately to pick up a man. He taught her how to dress, to walk, to laugh, turned her into the kind of woman who makes every man reach into his pocket for...
Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 4, August 1957 (British...
No parent believes it can happen to them with their child taken from a suburban schoolyard in the gentle hours of dusk. But as widowed mother Kate Bickford discovers, everything can change in the blink of an eye. One minute her lanky, amazing,...
Literary crime fiction master Tom Franklin curates this volume of stellar noir from the Deep...
Автор: Куин (Квин) Эллери
Серия: Ellery Queen Detective #11
Язык: английский
Год: 1936
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Halfway House, where a strange man finds final rest on his tortured journey through life... Halfway House, where under the grim shadow of a sensational murder, opposites meet and clash — common peddler and financier, young housewife and cold...
Hewitt Street, a normally quiet neighborhood where everyone knows their neighbors. Or at least they think they do. Lately, things on Hewitt Street have been strange. There have been a number of mysterious deaths and disappearances. The neighbors...
"Two for the Lions," by Lindsey Davis, takes place in A.D. 73. Lindsey Davis' sleuth – informer Marcus Didius Falco – admits he needs a partner and so teams up (to work on a census project) with Anacrites, a man he loathes because of his...