Bob Bruce's retirement is settling into an easy rhythm of golf and gardening when a knock at his door brings a stranger with startling news that will change his life. Together they unearth a fraud being conducted by a financial investment firm in...
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As originally published in “The Shadow Magazine,” December 15, 1933.
On his death-bed, Shattuck Barliss cries out that a crime has been committed. But only The Shadow knows that it is but the beginning of greater...
Digging a swimming pool by hand in Key West, former military policeman Jack Reacher is not pleased when Costello, a private detective, comes nosing around asking questions about him. Determined to keep out of trouble, Reacher conceals his...
In the last days of World War II, a sailor discovers a transcontinental conspiracy. It is February 1945, and the war in the Pacific is nearing its climax. In Hawaii on his way to a new post, US Navy ensign Sam Drake stumbles across the girl of his...
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In the four long stories in this collection, Marlowe is hired to protect a rich old guy from a gold digger, runs afoul of crooked politicos, gets a line on some stolen jewels with a reward attached, and stumbles across a murder victim who may...
In these stories, Simon Templar proves by his timely intervention that those on the side of the angels can trust The Saint to defend them.
The Helpful Pirate: The Saint searches for an antique glass and finds a most important old gentleman....
Among some of the finest art treasures, lent by the Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, for display at the Fine Arts Museum, Washington, is the Catherine the Great icon, the oldest known icon and worth millions of dollars.
An expert gang of art thieves...
The greatest crime fighter of the forties returns!
In the roaring heart of the crucible, steel is made. In the raging flame of personal tragedy, men are sometimes forged into something more than human.
It was so with Dick Benson. He had been...
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Автор: Чейз Джеймс Хэдли
Серия: Blandish’s Orchids and Dave Fenner #3
Язык: английский
Год: 1940
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Once again James Hadley Chase achieves an epic of tough writing that easily exceeds anything that he has previously written. Here are all the ingredients that you have come to expect from him — pace, punch and ferocious realism.
This is a...