Зарубежные детективы
Различные книги в жанре Зарубежные детективыCriminal Types
Mr. and Mrs. Benson were enjoying their cruise around the world, oblivious to the criminal types around them. After all, as Americans, they had nothing to worry about. Not even in Los Angeles, last stop before the Orient. Or did they?
The S.S. Shamrock Mystery
Strange doings on an ore boat! Ted and Nelson to go undercover as unskilled deck hands on the S.S. Shamrock unravel the truth. Is it just bad luck, or is something more nefarious afoot? Stir in a stowaway, a realistic shipping setting, and a series of puzzling events and you get a classic entry in the Ted Wilford series.
A Shot of Murder
VIOLENCE… INTRIGUE… DEATH… A grotesque, diabolical old doctor with a terrifying hypodermic needle that packs a special wallop… A barrel-shaped man of mystery with dark glasses and darker motives, involving the fate of nations… A beautiful brunette with soft, creamy skin and a lovely pearl-handled revolver, out to «get her man» in an unlovely way… You'll meet them all in A SHOT OF MURDER, a tale of mystery and mayhem which begins in Paris and ends in a strange mountain sanitorium where weird experiments are tried on human minds.
The Murder of Ann Avery
ONE WAS A KILLER: A TOUGH KID—with a record of violence. The headlines screamed for a fast conviction. THE LEADER of a vicious gang. What had he wanted from Ann Avery the night of her death? A DOPE ADDICT—She looked too frail to kill anyone. A HIGH LIVER—on a teacher’s salary. Where did he get the big money? A JEALOUS HUSBAND—Did he really love his wife? A LUSH—Blackmail was her only chance for more whiskey. A RELUCTANT WITNESS—Why did he hide a piece of explosive evidence which might clear another suspect? These were the people psychoanalyst Gray set out to question about the murder of Ann Avery, knowing as he searched that one or more among them would also be killed!
The Ceruliana Caper
It is possible to suggest that Her Britannic Majesty’s Foreign Office was moved more by ancestral instinct than by its computers in selecting Sir Vyvyan Bultivant, to be the Governor General of the Pacific island kingdom of Ceruliana, which just might be the closest thing to a Paradise on this Earth. He was just the man for the job. <P> For nearly two decades prior to his appointment Sir Vyvyan had assisted materially in the dissolution of his nation’s once-mighty Empire. Did a newly emergent former Colony need advice on how to establish a Parliament? Did it need words of wisdom on how to set up its own equivalent of New Scotland Yard? Bultivant was there with the answers.
Come Across
What makes a stalker? And what happens when a perfectly respectable man becomes obsessed with the girl across the street? A noir crime story, orginally published in the April 1956 issue of MANHUNT magazine, as only Gil Brewer could tell it!
Y. Cheung, Business Detective
Young Y. Cheung is in a pickle! In order to receive a $100,000 inheritance from his grandfather’s estate, he must get his name mentioned in 1000 U.S. newspapers, “in an honorable fashion” before midnight of the day before the estate is settled. On top of that, his family doesn’t consider his one-of-a-kind profession, business detective, “honorable”. How Y. Cheung uses his inscrutable wiles to gain happiness and the inheritance is a tale only Harry Stephen Keeler could spin. <P> "It was definitely loopy and is the second of his novels I have read to deal sympathetically and sensibly with Asians in 1930s while everyone else was demonizing or eroticizing them in genre fiction of that era. This is one of Keeler's forays into the 'locked room' and impossible problem genre, but being Keller it involves an outrageous and nearly unfathomable solution." – G. F. Norris, Golden Age Detection.
The Abandoned Mine Mystery (Ted Wilford #13)
Strange doings on an ore boat! Ted and Nelson to go undercover as unskilled deck hands on the S.S. Shamrock unravel the truth. Is it just bad luck, or is something more nefarious afoot? Stir in a stowaway, a realistic shipping setting, and a series of puzzling events and you get a classic entry in the Ted Wilford series.
Killer With a Key
The Kingdom of Killain – that's the Duarte, a big-city hotel at the crossroads of the world. The grifters, tough lads, girls on the make – all learn to stay away from Hotel Duarte because Johnny Killain's in charge there. That's his turf – a flick of his fist makes broken guys and dolls. So Johnny patrolled the dark corridors in peace…until the night he rounded a bend and looked murder square in the eye. The blonde lay on the bed in 609, her face a puffed, blue, strangled horror. Her name was Ellen Killain, and she was Johnny's ex-wife. His still-beloved ex-wife.
The Exploit of the Embalmed Whale
1960s spy spoof in which a British master spy smuggles a ton or rocket fuel out of Czechoslovakia, under the noses of the enemy.