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Различные книги в жанре Зарубежные детективыThe Man Who Was Thursday
It is very difficult to classify THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY. It is possible to say that it is a gripping adventure story of murderous criminals and brilliant policemen; but it was to be expected that the author of the Father Brown stories should tell a detective story like no-one else. On this level, therefore, THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY succeeds superbly; if nothing else, it is a magnificent tour-de-force of suspense-writing.<P> However, the reader will soon discover that it is much more than that. Carried along on the boisterous rush of the narrative by Chesterton’s wonderful high-spirited style, he will soon see that he is being carried into much deeper waters than he had planned on; and the totally unforeseeable denouement will prove for the modern reader, as it has for thousands of others since 1908 when the book was first published, an inevitable and moving experience, as the investigators finally discover who Sunday is.<P> Includes a biographical introduction by Karl Wurf.
Restoration
"Art Taylor is the author of The Boy Detective & The Summer of ’74 and Other Tales of Suspense and the novel in stories On the Road with Del & Louise. His work has earned the Edgar, Agatha, Anthony, Derringer, and Macavity Awards. He is an associate professor of English at George Mason University. www.arttaylorwriter.com <P>Restoration"« by Art Taylor was originally published in Issue One of Crime Syndicate Magazine.» It was selected by Barb Goffman, one of the most acclaimed mystery short story authors and editors in modern times, for inclusion in her Barb Goffman Presents line for Black Cat Mystery. This is volume 7 in the series.
Corpses Don't Care
Signor Valentini stepped from his car, regally adjusted his fur-collared coat, bowed to the cheering crowd, and strode to the portals of his luxury hotel which he was about to open officially. He glanced at its architectural majesty with great pride. It was here he hoped to spend his declining years. He intended to make people speak of the hotel, not as the Superba, but as ‘Valentini’s.<P> With solemn dignity, Valentini inserted the golden key in the lock of the outer shutter, turned it, and grasping firmly at the ring on the lower end of the shutter—he was a vigorous man—swung it heartily upwards, revealing the handsome, revolving entrance doors—and the frosty-eyed corpse which stared negligently out at him through the glass panels!
Fly Away Home
Yancey, a no-good deadbeat, has been borrowing money from his successful friend, a doctor, for years. When Yancey comes in one day and pays back all the money that he's borrowed, how he got it is quite a tale…one that may leave him dead!
Trap for a Killer
JOHN RUSSELL FEARN (1908-1960) sold his first novel to the pulp magazine Amazing Stories , and quickly became a prolific and popular contributor to all of the American science fiction magazines of the day. Later he switched to the U.K. market, writing scores of SF, detective, and western novels. He is best remembered for his famous superwoman 'Golden Amazon' series, currently available from Wildside Press.
Master of the Walking Dead
The original 1939 blurb for this story reads: «Molding corpses stalk darkness as fate cuts a grim, macabre jigsaw of death!» Today you would except a zombie story, as with the hit TV show «The Walking Dead,» but in the original pages of the pulp magazine Thrilling Mystery, you get the opposite – a classic crime story by one of the best pulp writers of the era. The dead may walk, but there is always a rational explanation, now matter how sensational the blurb.
The Horror from the Deep
On October 2. 1936. the SS Orient Princess, a vessel of some 8,000 tons, put into Valparaiso carrying a cargo of timber and crude rubber from the Dutch East Indies. Immediately upon arrival, her captain, one Willem van Groot, was met by two members of the local police and Professor Thomas Wilmerson of Miskatonic University, the latter having flown to Chile in response to an urgent radio message sent by van Groot four days before the Orient Princess reached port.<P> Captain van Groot took with him from the ship, the log and a large notebook carefully wrapped in waterproof oilskin which he kept in his possession until the four men were seated around the table in Wilmerson’s hotel room and the door was securely locked. Only then did the captain place the two items on the table. Before speaking, he opened the ship’s log and riffled through the pages until he found the one he wanted.<P> Glancing up, he looked at each man in turn, then said quietly, “Gentlemen, I can understand your curiosity concerning the radio message I dispatched but I can assure you that this matter is of the utmost importance and secrecy. I asked that you, Professor Wilmerson, should be here when we docked since this package”– he indicated the oilskin-wrapped book with his right hand—“is addressed to you personally and although I’ve only glanced through the contents, I shudder to think of what may have happened to the writer.”<P> So begins this Cthulhu Mythos novella, a brand new tale from a British master of dark fantasy!
The Egyptian Tomb
Tony Gilmour and his friends Ron and Alan travel to Egypt to investigate the suspicious death of Ron’s father – but they are dogged by enemies who will stop at nothing to ensure that no one discovers the secret of the tomb of Ko LenTep!
Find the Lady
Mike Spagliotti, the big-time racketeer, had enjoyed a successful life of crime, managing to evade police arrest. But that life had met a sudden and violent end, when he was found shot through the head in his New York hotel suite. He had seemingly died alone—with the doors of his suite locked. Two of his thugs were standing guard over him in the passage, as usual—and they swore they had heard nothing. The gun must have had a silencer. But the guards also swore they had let no one past. A perplexing problem for the Detective-Inspector Flannel, of Homicide, whose fiery temper is not improved when a troublesome lady newspaper reporter involves herself in his investigation!
Punch with Care
The discovery by Asey Mayo and Doc Cummings of the bludgeoned body of Carolyn Barton Boone in an antique Pullman car of the Pochet and Back Shore Railroad marks the beginning of a wacky murder chase highlighted by the disappearance of the body until after the killer strikes a second time. All in all, it’s a typical Asey Mayo adventure full of sparkling wit and crisp dialogue.