First published in 1929, ''The Case of Sir Adam Braid'' by Molly Thynne (d. 1950), public domain worldwide. The action starts on board ship when a man is found strangled. At first it is assumed that the killing is associated with the victim’s shady activities in...

Editeur : Rare Treasure Editions
Parution : 2025-09-12
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First published in 1930, ''The Case of Sir Adam Braid'' by Molly Thynne (d. 1950), public domain worldwide. The Case of Sir Adam Braid tells of the murder of an ill-tempered old artist in his flat in the short window of time when his manservant was out of the...

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Parution : 2025-09-12
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The main character, Sir Benjamin Watson, created a private zoo in the countryside on the territory of his country house. 'Ganges' is an exotic jungle filled with snakes, elephants, tigers and lions. One summer day, Ann Sherborne arrives at Ganges for meeting friends...

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Parution : 2025-09-11
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The story "Midnight House" is about a mysterious house.The owners go abroad. However, neighbors claim that they saw them in the city. This house is associated with ill-fated love and early death. For a long time, it was closed, but soon reopened......

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Parution : 2025-09-11
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John Buchan’s The Thirty-Nine Steps is a landmark in spy and adventure fiction, first published in 1915 and still regarded as one of the most thrilling tales of its kind. Introducing the now-iconic hero Richard Hannay, the novel set the stage for generations of...

Editeur : Asimis Books
Parution : 2025-09-02
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A ROGER SHERINGHAM MYSTERY. Detective writer John Hillyard is entertaining a small house party at Minton Deeps Farm when a shocking accident takes place. Shortly after enacting a murder drama for their own amusement, the guests are returning to the house when Eric Scott...

Editeur : Rare Treasure Editions
Parution : 2025-08-24
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Gaston Leroux’s The Mystery of the Yellow Room (1907) is one of the earliest and most celebrated locked-room mysteries, a cornerstone of classic detective fiction. Introducing the brilliant young journalist-detective Joseph Rouletabille, the novel sets the stage for a...

Editeur : Asimis Books
Parution : 2025-08-21
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Put Out the Light (1931), also known in the U.S. as Sinister Light, is a haunting and elegantly written mystery novel by Ethel Lina White, a master of psychological suspense. Set in a remote country house in rural England, the novel explores the dark undercurrents of...

Editeur : Asimis Books
Parution : 2025-08-19
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From a secluded cabin in Washington State, where they've fled an 'unspoken past', lawyers Michel and John are pulled back into a world far more dangerous than they could ever have imagined. Two years earlier, a suspicious legal task involving a dilapidated Salt Lake...

Editeur : BoD - Books on Demand
Parution : 2025-11-03
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Florian Huber, a young man living an ordinary life, has one encounter he wishes he could undo: meeting Ava. She transforms his existence, revealing dimensions to it he never imagined. In the end, he is left to wonder. Was it all worth it?

Editeur : BoD - Books on Demand
Parution : 2025-09-24
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'Forty years since her debut, Indemnity Only, Sara Paretsky's social conscience burns brighter than ever . . . the cracking pace maintains the intrigue and tension . . . Further proof, if any were needed, that Paretsky is a giant of modern American crime' TIMES ONLINEOn...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2022-05-05
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'Stunning, not only on account of the author's talent, of which there is clearly plenty, but also in its humanity' New York Times Book Review'A gripping read - everything beautifully evoked, from the alleys of the Old City to the atmosphere of corruption and secrets.'...

Editeur : Sceptre
Parution : 2022-03-31
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**THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**Ruth Galloway and DCI Nelson are on the hunt for a murderer when Covid rears its ugly head. But can they find the killer despite lockdown?'GALLOWAY NOW SEEMS AS REAL AS MARPLE AND MORSE' The Times'INTENSELY ATMOSPHERIC AND...

Editeur : Quercus
Parution : 2022-02-03
Collection : The Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries ePub

The thrilling new novel from the acclaimed author of Murder on Mustique, based on the childhood described in her international bestseller Lady in Waiting.January 1950. Lady Anne Coke, daughter of the 5th Earl of Leicester, is in Scunthorpe on a business trip when she is...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2021-11-11
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The next unmissable novel in the Sunday Times bestselling, multi-award-winning Washington Poe series. Poe and Tilly fans: be prepared for the most twisted thrill-ride so far . . . EVERYONE LOVES M.W. CRAVEN: 'Washington Poe is a brilliant creation from one of the...

Editeur : Constable
Parution : 2025-08-14
Collection : Washington Poe ePub

Million-copy bestselling author Kate Ellis returns with the brand new mystery in the DI Wesley Peterson crime series.When a body is discovered in a picturesque South Devon village, DI Wesley Peterson is called in to investigate. The victim, Barry Brown, is a celebrity...

Editeur : Constable
Parution : 2025-08-07
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Editeur : Headline
Parution : 2025-08-05
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"A rising star of crime fiction" Sunday Times"Outback noir has a new star" The TimesLocated off the coast of South Australia, Kangaroo Island lies surrounded by violent seas harbouring deadly great white sharks and forgotten shipwrecks.Over the centuries the Islanders...

Editeur : Maclehose Press
Parution : 2025-07-31
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History is gossip,' says a protagonist in Washington, D.C., 'but the trick is determining which gossip is history.' It is a trick that Gore Vidal has mastered in his ongoing chronicle of that circus of opportunism and hypocrisy called American politics and which he...

Editeur : Abacus
Parution : 2025-07-31
Collection : Narratives of empire ePub

A cry in the dark.A mother betrayed.A lifetime's search for the truth...The gripping new novel from the bestselling author of The Girl in the Letter is a moving story of cruel separation and the triumph of love. Inspired by real historical events. 'Gunnis skilfully...

Editeur : Review
Parution : 2025-07-31
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