Зарубежные детективы
Различные книги в жанре Зарубежные детективыOnce Upon a Bank Floor…
Two mystery readers meet on a plane. One reads crime stories to pass the time. The other reads them to keep abreast up with the trade…
Swamp Search
Curt Carmic had crashed in his private plane on an Everglades hunting trip. After a week of intensive searching, the Coast Guard had abandoned him as dead. That's why his wife wanted to hire Jim Norton – to find him, dead or alive. A Classic short story, originally published in 1957.
The Scarlet Ace #2: A Candidate for Death
The second installment in the Scarlet Ace series originally appeared in All Detective Magazine, March 1933.
Let Me Kill You, Sweetheart!
Three ambitious men had three things in common. Each was called Curly. Each aimed to marry the town's tempting heiress. Each had made love to Avis Pisano – the wanton whose mangled body was fished out of the swamp. Each one was capable of cold, ruthless action if his plans for the future were threatened…but only one was capable of murder!
The Scarlet Ace
His devlish cunning mocked the power of the law.... He was The Scarlet Ace!<P> Not until he blasted the one who failed did they know the menace of his hidden hand…<P> Classic pulp fiction – the first installment of the Scarlet Ace series – ripped from the pages of the February, 1933 issue of All Detective Magazine!
A Sound Investment
When Joey Marco gets into the strange woman's car and she offers him a job, he knows she's nuts. He's only 22, but an ex con. But she has a job and she needs someone who can run – fast – to pull it off. Of course, it can't be on the level…
Somebody Cares
Veteran detective Odus Martin believes there’s always somebody who cares about a death, that no one is truly alone. When he and a rookie investigate the death of a shy orphan with no friends, they discover her landlady, her boss, and the head of the orphanage are indifferent to her. Who will care this time? <P> A definite change of pace for Talmage Powell!
The Man Who Liked Murderers
A «Chief Inspector Damiot» mystery! <P> All the newspapers would be certain to make a big thing out of it tomorrow: Sadoyan escaping from a prison van in the courtyard of the Prefecture de Police. Young Officer Lorant was a fool to have turned his back even for a second, giving Sadoyan that instant he needed to bring the metal handcuffs down on his skull. <P> Now Chief Inspector Damiot of the French Police had to clean up the mess…
Who's Afraid?
"Expert, ingenious suspense story of a cat and mouse chase – and of murder. How Susan, traveling for Gateways, a Charm School racket, is picked up and trailed by three men. How the husband of her first contact is murdered, of mounting confusion and terror as she is finally stalked. All set in an innocent New England village. Clever trick narration – and breathless build-up. Non-pareil and quite novelty." – Kirkus Reviews
NIGHT MUSIC and OPEN AND SHUT
Night Music: Eight homicides in one night couldn’t have come at a worse possible time for already-overworked Detectives Frank Vandegraf, Jilly Garvey and Dan Lee of the Personal Crimes Unit. The night began with the audacious shooting of a shady and reviled investigator, and proceeded to get nonstop crazier. They can’t rely on the over-strained resources of their department, and as the cases compound and unexpected connections emerge, they’re on their own against the clock, fatigue, and mounting pressure from above. There’s only their own experience and savvy to fall back on as they navigate the treacherous urban territory they know so well. <P> Open and Shut: The ultimate fate of a brilliant surgeon, convicted of the brutal murder of his wife, may be determined by two very different red-haired women. One is the mysterious lady in emeralds, who may be the key to proving him innocent, if only she can be located. The other is Detective Jilly Garvey, who doggedly worked to convict the surgeon but might now be his reluctant salvation. She and her partner, Detective Dan Lee, are driven to uncover the truth, following an elaborate and daunting trail of evidence through a maze of jet-set socialites, urban hipsters, shady investigators, low-life criminals…and still another murder!