Зарубежные детективы
Различные книги в жанре Зарубежные детективы
Pirate of the Pacific
Not ships, but nations are the prey of the sinister Oriental mastermind, Tom Too. Only Doc and friends can save the world from his lethal legions.
Resurrection Day
Doc Savage develops a process that can bring a dead person back to life, but the elements are so rare that it can only be done once. After much deliberation, Doc decides to resurrect the wisest man in history, Solomon. But, through the vilest of trickery, the mummy of the wickedest pharaoh to ever rule Egypt is brought back to life instead. Rather than go along with his benefactors, the Pharaoh forces them to help him rebuild his lost empire.
The Sleuth of St. James's Square
Once considered by many to be the greatest American mystery writer of all time, Melville Davisson Post (1869-1930) has begun to fall into undeserved obscurity in the near century since his death. The Sleuth of St. James’s Square, first published as a book in 1920, aptly demonstrates his strengths, and it makes a good place to start for anyone encountering Post’s work for the first time. This volumes includes 16 mystery stories, each connected—if sometimes tangentially—to Sir Henry Marquis, head of the Criminal Investigation Department of Scotland Yard, who is called upon to solve some of the strangest and most puzzling cases in Britain. It starts with a locked-room mystery and ends in Scotland, at a house by a Loch where more is going on than meets the eye. A first-rate collection.
Walker of the Secret Service
Captain Walker, chief of the United States Secret Service, pursued a life of crime as a youth, before refoming. Now he tackles the Service's most difficult cases.
Poison Island
Doc investigates as ships cursed with an Evil Eye, including Pat’s schooner transporting gold from Hidalgo, go missing in the Caribbean in an act of piracy on the high seas that threatens to plunge the United States into war!
The Case of the Wayward Brother
Tim Ryan was walking slowly past Cellini’s nightclub in Soho when the tinkle of glass and the crash of opening doors made him pause. In the darkish deserted street Ryan’s cigarette stub glowed. He took it from his mouth and shielded it with his cupped hand. Then he stepped back into a convenient doorway.<P> From a low basement door of the nightclub a man dashed into the street like a wild animal. As he passed under an adjacent lamp standard Ryan saw his coat was half-ripped from his back and that blood streamed from a wound in his head. He had scarcely run five yards when another man lurched from the nightclub door. The pursuer raised a revolver and fired point-blank at the running man…
Marked for Murder
“Leave this affair alone, Martinson—Jean Hallison is dead!” and the mysterious caller rang off, leaving Inspector Jim Martinson with a headful of worries. Had Jean been savagely murdered, or was it a bluff to put him off the scent? But it was no bluff, and mystery piled on mystery. Where did the suave, grinning Montoni fit in? Accused of assaulting two women—yet at the time of the alleged attack, Jim himself had been watching him elsewhere. Could a man be in two places at once? And the playing cards with green dragons emblazoned on their backs—how did they link up the chain of evidence that Jim slowly tightened to finally rope in the sinister gang that terrorised Framcastle?
Angels of Death
Accountant Michael Parker had been seen by several witnesses clutching his head before purposefully throwing himself in front of a London bus. A post-mortem examination had ruled out a seizure or drugs, which only left suicide. Case closed.<P> But Parker’s widow refused to accept these findings. There had been no suicide note, and Parker had no reason to kill himself. They had been happily married and comfortably off.<P> His widow believed that someone had intentionally driven Parker to take his own life, and was morally, if not legally, guilty of murder. So she hired private investigator John Salford to look into the case.<P> Salford uncovered not one murder, but several, and his own life was then threatened…
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
Gaston Leroux (1868-1927) was an influential mystery and detective author, contributing a great deal to the golden age of mystery fiction. First published serially in France from 1907-1908, «The Mystery of the Yellow Room,» is widely considered the greatest of the «locked room mysteries» of the twentieth century. Joseph Rouletabille, a journalist and novelist, is thrust into a complicated murder investigation, a murder that occurred in a locked room where it was seemingly impossible for any intruders to get into or out of. A colorful cast of characters become involved in the impossible crime of Miss Strangerson. The deft Rouletabille employs deft reason and logic to unravel this complex puzzle. Penned by the author of «The Phantom of the Opera,» this tale shows Leroux at the heights of his literary powers, creating a piece of detective fiction that would become a model for all others.