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Различные книги в жанре Зарубежные детективыThe Second Fletcher Flora Mystery MEGAPACK®
Our second volume of Fletcher Flora’s crime and mystery stories collects 20 more tales by the classic author. Included this time are:<P> HELL HAS NO FURY<BR> THE CLOSING TRAP<BR> HELL FOR HANNAH<BR> THE COLLECTOR COMES AFTER PAYDAY<BR> FAIR GAME<BR> MAY I COME IN?<BR> KILL ME TOMORROW<BR> TRESPASSER<BR> MOST AGREEABLY POISONED<BR> SOUNDS AND SMELLS<BR> A COOL SWIM ON A HOT DAY<BR> IQ – 184<BR> SETTLEMENT OUT OF COURT<BR> FOR MONEY RECEIVED<BR> THE CAPSULE<BR> THE TOOL<BR> ONE ENCHANTED EVENING<BR> SOMETHING VERY SPECIAL<BR> A LESSON IN RECIPROCITY<BR> THE AVERAGE MURDERER<P> If you enjoy this ebook, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for «Wildside Press Megapack» to see more of the 300+ volumes in this series, covering adventure, historical fiction, mysteries, westerns, ghost stories, science fiction – and much, much more!
The Naked Eye
Take a nice guy with healthy instincts…put a dead man's eyes in his head…and you have the recipe for a nightmare!<P> Zachary Anders meant no harm. He was a blinded veteran who had been willed the eyes of an executed murderer. But with Zachary's regained sight came an obsession – he had the clear the name of the dead man who had allowed him to see again.<P> When Zachary began to look around, trouble started. He saw a foul nest of assault, kidnapping, blackmail, and murder. And when he began to act, he was plunged into a screaming spiral of madness that almost cost him his sanity – and his life!
Black Cat THRILLOGY #5: 3 Classic Stories by Fletcher Flora
Fletcher Flora (1914-1968) wrote or co-wrote sixteen novels under his own name plus ghost-wrote three as Ellery Queen. He penned many short stories for a variety of mystery magazines and anthologies in the 1950s and 1960s. This volume includes:<P> I’ll Kill for You<br> I’ll Race You<br> In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree
Black Cat Thrillogy #3: 3 Classic Mysteries by James Holding
Welcome to the third volume of The Black Cat Mystery Community’s THRILLOGY series, celebrating classic mystery short stories. Included this time are three classic tales by James Holding: «Career Man,» «The Tahitian Powder Box Mystery,» and «A Deal in Rubies.»
The Suicide Hour
The Suicide Hour. Four A.M., when resistance is lowest. For one particular young woman, the hour has a special meaning…and she often wakes a night, terrified…and unsure exactly why. <P>The puzzle unravels slowly. What happened to her father? Did he really abandon his wife and children, as everyone thinks? Or did something more sinister occur? Her mother and brother can offer little help or information. Mr. White, her father's business partner, has sold his share of the business and moved away. And why is she so terrified of cellars?
The Dark Place
From the Edgar Award-winning author of They Buried a Man comes a novel of strangling horror! <P> "As a thriller or serious novel, powerful and rewarding." – Anthony Boucher, New York Times<P> Mildred B. Davis is an American novelist whose books generally fall into the suspense/mystery genre. Katherine (Davis) Roome, her daughter, and a published author herself, helped Mildred break a 30-year publishing silence by working with her to turn some previously unpublished manuscripts into the Murder in Maine series.
“Pretty Fraudulent” and “Venomous”: Two Janet Simpson Race Track Mysteries
This volume collects both of Sasscer Hill's Janet Simpson stories, featuring the amateur detective in the world of horse racing: PRETTY FRAUDULENT and VENEMOUS. Both stories appeared previously in separate volumes of the Chesapeake Crimes anthology series. <P> “If you miss the late Dick Francis’s racetrack thrillers, you’ll be intrigued by Sasscer Hill’s Racing From Death.” —The Washington Post, August 29, 2012
Black Cat Thrillogy #6: Thomas Thursday
Thomas Thursday (1894–1974) was a lesser-known pulp writer who ended up having one of the longest careers writing for the pulp magazines. His first published short story, “A Stroke of Genius,” appeared in Top-Notch (April 1, 1918 issue). He submitted the story to them after finding an old issue in the subway.<P> He used the penname “Thursday” after glancing at a calendar. His real name remains a mystery. He was still appearing in the pulps in the late 1950s, after which the magazine format all but disappeared from the newsstands.<P> Thursday was primarily a humorist, one of the few in the pulps. He appeared regularly in Top-Notch through the mid-20s, then transitioned to Argosy. Many of his story titles featured wordplay, e.g. “Illiterature” (People’s Favorite Magazine, April 10, 1919), “Young Mild West” (Argosy All-Story Weekly, February 28, 1925), or “Of Lice and Men” (The Phantom Detective, September 1940). Many of his stories centered on circuses and sideshows. <P>Thursday had worked for numerous circuses in his youth. Swindles and scams were a frequent theme.<P> This volume includes 3 classic stories:<P> “Dead Men Don’t Move”<P> “License for Theft”<P> “Attention to Trifles”<P>
Black Cat Thrillogy #4: 3 Mysteries by Stephen Wasylyk
Stephen Wasylyk (1922-1996) was a prolific author for both Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine and Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, penning more than 175 mysteries. He only published short stories during a career than spanned four decades.<P> FAVOR<BR> PARENTAL DISCRETION<BR> FOOD FOR THE TIGER
A Long Rope
A thief has a great gig going: stealing jewelry from rich women so they can collect the insurance money, while giving them the jewelry back for a fee. But when he decides to blackmail his current client, things don't quite work out as planned!