Зарубежные детективы
Различные книги в жанре Зарубежные детективыStoltzfuss' Revenge
Isaac Stoltzfuss had seen many changes and put up with much since his boyhood on the Stoltzfuss family farm. But the Russian satellite, as described in the pages of the Lancaster New Era, was just too much.
Murder in the Maze
In the first place, Grandfather Rastin never should have bought that house in Wiston. It happened several years ago, when he was only about seventy-eight, but even so he was old enough to know better. He admits that himself. <P> In the second place, he should have asked his tenants for references. <P> He did buy the house, and he didn't ask for references, and that's where the trouble started… <P> Lloyd Biggle, Jr. (1923-2002) is most famous as a science-fiction writer who used genuine science while emphasizing human and cultural elements, especially art and music (he held a Ph.D. in Musicology.) His detective stories about Grandfather Bill Rastin in the fictitious Borg County, Michigan show this emphasis on the human element in a nostalgic, Norman Rockwell-esque world.
In An Outpost of Empire
Of all the Trucial States that lie along the southern coast of the Persian Gulf, none is bleaker and more forbidding in aspect than the miniscule Sheikhdom of Qad al Akh. It is not oil which accounts for the relative prosperity of Qad al Akh. This mini-nation’s sole export is Cannabis sativa…
The Strange Will (Hong Lei Chung #1)
Farrel Ivins may be standing on the gallows with his neck in a noose, but he's not worried. He's taken a drug that makes it impossible to contemplate his future, and besides, he hasn't given his «final» speech yet. He knows that when the governor hears about the odd goings-on in Oxford Circus, Lake City, Chicago, and Chinatown Crescent, where the tong of the Lean Grey Rats rules, Farrel is bound to be saved. So begins the most Oriental of Harry Stephen Keeler's webwork mysteries.
The Photographer: Lisbon Assignment
The Photographer is hired to kill a man who is using a model to smuggle heroin into the U.S…but the model double-crosses him with unexpected results.
The Photographer and the Butcher
The Photographer latest assignment: identify and kill The Butcher, a rival killer. Noting that The Butcher's victims show no signs of struggle, are all ugly, and wore topaz jewelry in bad taste, he deduces that The Butcher is a demented interior decorator. But nothing is ever quite as it seems…
The Photographer: Second Talent
In «Second Talent,» Manuel, Holding's photographer assassin, is assigned to kill a rare art collector, Senhor Martinho. But Martinho has plans of his own…
The Photographer and the Artist
The photographer is hired to kill an artist – who moonlights as a forger.
The Photographer and the Servant Problem
When the Photographer is hired to kill a servant, he finds more than a mere thief plundering employers' homes…
The Photographer and the Undertaker
The second installment in James Holding's classic «The Photographer» series about a professional assassin. One of his best series.