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Различные книги в жанре Зарубежные детективыHeaven Ran Last
Mad love and murder – in a race fixed by fate! A classic novel by William P. McGivern, originally published in the famous pulp magazine Mammoth Mystery…
Clattering Hoofs
The fugitive was Cape Sloan (or so he called himself), late of Yuma Penitentiary. He was young, but tough as rawhide, reckless as a plains-bred mustang. And he'd sworn a bloody revenge on the ruthless killers who shot down his father, robbed his mother, and sent him to jail on a framed-up murder charge.<P> The law was after him, and a pair of gun-toting rattlesnakes tried to get him by every means from lynching to ambush. But Sloan hung on like grim death to get the evidence that would clear his name. He had friends, and a girl who loved him, but when the chips were down, it was six-gun lead that won him justice!
X. Jones—Of Scotland Yard
One of Keeler's best, this is the second half of the notorious Marceau case, where a strangler baby dangling from an autogyro may have done the deed. Written in 1935 at the peak of Keeler's powers. <P> Xenius Jones, Chief Inspector of Scotland Yard, gave the exact date he would reveal the details of the infamous André Marceau murder. Then Alec Snide, an American reporter, broke the case before he did! But Jones insists that Snide is 100% wrong—and he’s got the 4-dimensional proof of it! In the second “dossier novel” of this remarkable murder case, Harry Stephen Keeler once again proves that no one could handle a complicated plot as he could. <P> Note for the culturally sensitive: Most of Harry Stephen Keeler's works are not politically correct by contemporary standards. Please keep in mind the time in which it was written as you read it.
Take a Step to Murder
If he proved the girl was innocent, then Renner himself would be arrested as the killer! <P> TAKE A STEP TO MURDER <P> Only a short time ago Renner had told the harsh truth to Tamara. <P> "Look," he had said, «I'm forty thousand dollars short on this deal and you can help me. I know this Kelcey Anders who isn't quite normal, understand? With him girls are a disease. Here's what I want you to do: let him rough you up a little, let him try to rape you and then scream for help. I'll break in and threaten him with arrest. But that’ll never happen because his old man will pay off to keep his son out of prison. Pay off forty thousand dollars to keep you quiet.» <P> Renner never forgot the look of disgust onTamara's face, and as he stared down at the body of Kelcey Anders, he thought he knew who had mutilated and killed the town satyr.
Marching Sands
When former Army officer Robert Gray is hired by the American Exploration Society to find a fabled lost race in the Gobi Desert. Originally published in 1920, this is a classic early fantasy novel.
Beginning with a Bash
The sign said COME IN AND BROWSE—IT’S WARM INSIDE. Martin Jones made the mistake of his life when he joined the others inside the bookstore. One of them, Professor John North, would soon be dead. And Martin is going to be the prime suspect.<p> Luckily for Martin the bookstore is owned by his friend Dot Peters, who knows he's innocent. Even with the able assistance of Leonidas Xenophon «Bill» Witherall, the retired headmaster of the Boston academy which Martin once attended, can she prove his innocence?
Beware The Pale Horse: A Wade Paris Mystery
A double murder <P> And the killer – whoever he was – showed signs of getting rattled. Wade Paris knew he had to get him fast, before he could strike again. <P> So step by step, he closed in on the unknown killer – putting on the pressure. <P> Then the killer broke and went for Wade. And the trouble was – Wade still didn’t know who was the killer!
Jeopardy Is My Job
Chester Drum flies to Spain's Costa del Sol to investigate kidnapping and murder among the expatriate set, who drink always, work never, and love only themselves.
The Lady is Dead
The blind psychologist Patrick Laing is once again obliged to put his academic theories to practical use when the university where he teaches is rocked by the repercussions of an old scandal and the reverberations of Murder. <P> Over twenty years before, Helena Stedman had been a beautiful and popular actress, and many of the men now on the university faculty, including the dignified Dean Prentiss, had been more than half in love with her. Then had come a fall from grace, her retirement and death. <P> All of this seemed to have little to do with the scientist Eric Fordyce's disapproval of his son’s theatrical ambitions; Fordyce's untimely demise in a fire in his laboratory apparently had a much closer connection with atomic bomb and other top Government secrets. <P> In fact, it took a blind man to see that art and science are sometimes not so far apart as they appear.
All for the Love of a Lady: A Col. Primrose Mystery
MONEY – D. J. Durbin had the price of a lavish mansion and a beautiful wife. But he couldn’t buy back his health… or save his life.<P> MYSTERY – Cass Crane came back from the Orient, knowing a little too much about some things… and not nearly enough about others.<P> ROMANCE – Beautiful Courtney Durbin was exciting, dangerous—and a glamorous threat to pretty Molly Crane’s love for Cass.<P> THEN MURDER CAME… to suggest an unholy bond between Courtney and Cass… and Colonel Primrose stepped in to solve a double murder, while Grace Latham kept an eye on Molly – lonely, helpless, and afraid.