Within the quiet respectable market town of Flaxborough lurks a dangerous criminal; someone who has no compunction in committing horrific crimes. A secret agent has been murdered in unsavoury circumstances connected to an acid bath and it is up...
“I want you to get a snake out of my house. Out of my family.” Thus spoke millionaire Otis Jarrell, offering Nero Wolfe ten thousand dollars in cash as a retainer. If it hadn’t just happened that Jarrell called on Wolfe during a time when...
A quarter of a century’s requests from many thousands of Ellery Queen fans all over the world have finally borne fruit. At long last, here is a full-fledged murder mystery investigated and solved by Inspector Richard Queen without so much as a...
1916. Inspector Marmion and Sergeant Keedy are assigned to the case when the body of a young conscientious objector is found bludgeoned to death. Public sympathy is lukewarm for conscientious objectors with some people even claim that a conchie...
Ptomaine poisoning killed the heiress. Now their client can cozy up to the money. But there are too many beautiful women in the mansion, and the slimy little parasite is confused when he should be scared. After Archie Goodwin drops the ball, Nero...
Znany prawnik Alexander Gilburne prosi Joe Alexa o pomoc w rozwikłaniu zagadki śmierci jego przyjaciółki. Ze względu na nietypowe okoliczności jej samobójstwa podejrzewa, że została zamordowana. Alex przyjeżdża do Norford, gdzie zapoznaje...
Emma Hudson, die bewährte Haushälterin des legendären Sherlock Holmes, beweist in diesem Kriminalroman, daß sie einiges vom Meisterdetektiv gelernt hat: Als Lady St. Clair plötzlich stirbt, sprechen ihre Angehörigen von...