Зарубежные детективы
Различные книги в жанре Зарубежные детективыThe Atom Bomb Clue
When an atomic researcher steals uranium, will the cops get their man? A classic tale from the pulps, originally published in 10-Story Detective magazine, November 1946.
Death in the Back Seat
Dorothy Cameron Disney (1903-1992) was an American writer born in the Indian Territory that became the state of Oklahoma. Educated at Barnard College, New York., she worked as a stenographer, copy writer, journalist and night club hostess before becoming a full time writer. She is one of Mary Roberts Rinehart most gifted followers.
Mow the Green Grass
Harley had had it up to there with his neighbor borrowing things. The lawn mower was the straw that broke the camel's back.<P> A rare short story by Gil Brewer!
Death of a Daughter
Fred started the motor but didn’t put the car in gear right away. “It won’t happen here, Marcia. I believe in Leacock. And Leacock understands. He knows I can’t take on the job and do it halfway.” <P>A crime novella originally published in the May, 1960 issue of Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine.
Cheer for the Dead
Pat Campbell is back – the big man, six-foot six to be exact, with the big heart – in a story brimming with action and suspense… Clients were more than paying customers to Pat Campbell. they were friends – whose problems remained his problems even after they themselves ceased to care… Wark Andross – for one – was certainly beyond earthly cares now. Wark was a man whom people loved without regard for his millions. It was entirely fitting, therefore, that the press should memorialize his untimely death as «Unfortunate! Regrettable! Deplorable!» And it was natural for the police – circumstances being what they were – to tag the case as just another unfortunate accident.<P> But Pat Campbell was dissatisfied with the tearful condolences on the one hand and the routine judgments on the other. To his mind, there were too many questions about Wark's death still unanswered; too many evasions and conflicting reports. Somehow it didn't seem reasonable that a man in the prime of his life, in full posession of his faculties would… And for murder, eight million dollars could prove a powerful incentive! So Pat went to work. And soon he found himself locked in a struggle to the finish with a desparate – but resourceful – murderer.
Killers Two
On this Spring morning Jim Woodbine felt the tension blanketing Ashfork like a wave of oppressive heat. For a Saturday there were very few rigs and saddle-horses at the hitchracks, and he smiled grimly as he observed this. It was better not to be around if lead started whining, and there were those who expected guns to pop on this day if he brought in the carload of barbed wire as he had planned to do.
Mind the Posies
"You don’t know me," a thin, taut, male voice said, «and my name’s not important. What I’ve got to say concerns your husband – and a girl.»
Run for the Money
The killers came for his money – of they would have his woman's life! A Wildside Crime Classic by the author of The Star Trap and The Captain Must Die! <p> "Bob Colby was more than just a 'one-hit wonder.' He wrote several other respected novels in the 1950s and '60s, including The Deadly Desire and The Secret of the Second Door (both Gold Medal, 1959) and dozens of short stories for Alfred Hitchcock and Mike Shayne… Do me a favor: hunt down one of his novels and give it a try." – Peter Enfantino <p> "He had a journalist's eye for his times. This was especially true in the novels he set in Hollywood. [The Captain Must Die] is his masterpiece. You will not be disappointed." – Ed Gorman
The Fast Line
Rudy Ferris didn’t have any trouble smashing my door open because he’s a real big guy. He stood facing me, his black automatic pointed straight at my throat. It didn’t take me long to figure out what had happened. Ella had told him – everything....
The Capture
On the far side of the room was a door and beyond that door were Pole and Dowell, two of the men who had murdered old Sothoron and old Sothoron’s wife. He knew they were there. How he knew it he could not have explained. So far as his trained senses had been able to discover, there had come from the next room during his long wait the sound of neither voice nor motion…