Una joven acude a Hércules Poirot en busca de ayuda. Su padre, Amyas Crale, un famoso pintor, fue envenenado hace muchos años, y su madre, juzgada y condenada por este crimen murió en la cárcel. La muchacha fue enviada entonces a Canadá con...
Matthew Hope spots her on Saturday, exquisitely beautiful, strolling topless on the beach. On Monday, she shows up in his law office, beaten and bruised, ready to file for divorce. By Tuesday, she is dead — and her big, ugly husband is arrested...
When Travis McGee's friend Meyer lent his boat to his niece Norma, and her new husband Even, the boat exploded out in the waters of the Florida Keys. Travis McGee thinks it's no accident, and clues lead him to ponder possibilities of drugs and...
As originally published in “The Shadow Magazine,” March 1, 1934.
A thrilling story of death in New York City’s Times Square — death which baffles even The...
Nick Carter knows that the KGB has called a meeting of all the world's terrorists. It's a party he wants to crash: the only problem is, he doesn't know where or when. But espionage has its own deadly etiquette, and with the help of a beautiful...
High up on the trapeze platform, the circus spotlights trained upon them, stood three blindfolded men clad in sparkling sequinned leotards. As the music died away, the men pulled hoods over their heads and began their intricate, faultless trapeze...
Welcome to Chicago, 1893 -- where new wonders are being unveiled . . . and a monster feeds on the unsuspecting. Tens of thousands are flocking to a bustling, wind-swept metropolis in the middle of America for the great Exposition of 1893 -- to see...