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Различные книги в жанре Зарубежные детективыThe Dead Can Tell: A Detective McKee Mystery
A rampaging wife of a Manhattan socialite plunges with her car into the East River – and it is only weeks afterward that a sleugh decides to do something about a recurring corpse… A Detective McKee mystery, from the author of Dead Man Control and McKee of Centre Street.
The Marceau Case
"The Babe from Hell!" gasped Andre Marceau just as the wire rightened around his neck. A second later he lay sprawled on the ground – dead. Close by his body were the tracks of tiny footsteps, beginning nowhere and leading nowhere…the only clues to one of the most shocking crimes of the Twentieth Century!<P> That was the beginning of a mystery that Scotland Yark sleuths worked on frantically for two years and then abandoned in despair, without a solution. Yet it was to be solved, not by a detective, but by a resourceful and imaginative American newspaper man, who tracked down an overlooked clue and reopened the case. The thread of Destiny which brought a horrible death to Andre Marceau stretched through Europe to Japan and Australia and even America!
And Kill Once More
In one jump, Marty Bowman made it from lifeguard to bodyguard – and what a body! Her name was Kate. She hired him as her protector and/or playmate. She took him to a luxurious desert hideaway. All of which was fine with Marty – until his lucky silver dollar turned up in the fingers of a corpse. One of the guests was out to frame him, maybe murder him!<P> Marty figured he and his gun could make out even against guys as dangerous as Dr. Cronk. But what about women like Sandra, who’d swim only after dark? And glamorous Elsa, so interested in his muscles? Unless Marty could flush the killer among them, and quick, the weekend with Kate would wind up with him in a pine box – or the gas chamber!
The Bamboo Blonde
When Con Satterlee picked up the half-intoxicated blonde in the Bamboo Bar, Griselda was annoyed. When he walked out with the blonde, leaving Griselda flat, she was furious. She was frightened, too, returning alone to the isolated, ramshackle beach cottage. And this was to have been their second honeymoon!<P> Con came back rattling a handful of shells which he said he had taken from the blonde’s revolver. But the blonde didn’t come back. The police found her corpse the next morning. And then Con was arrested. That left Griselda alone, behind a door with a lock that a bent hairpin could open. Quite defenseless, she had to face the sinister Major Pembrooke, who wanted something from Con; beautiful, lying Kathie; Dare, so very possessive as far as Con was concerned; and the debonair Kew, who was intent on helping Griselda, for selfish reasons.
Murder Without Tears
Lovely Ann Cramer made a cozy alibi for Jason Broome – and Craddock made his favorite corpse. But when Anne swore to the police that she had spent that whole kiss-and-kill night with him, was she really saving Jason from the hot seat…or luring him into MURDER WITHOUT TEARS!
Mystery on Graveyard Head
A SUMMER OF MYSTERY!<P> This is the story of young Steve and Linda and their exciting vacation in a Maine seacoast town. Into their days of summer fun came a number of interesting characters and the strange story of the past of Graveyard Head…<P> What were the weird, moving lights out on the ocean? Who had stolen Linda's painting of the «Dead Ship» from the summer art show? What was behind the mysterious Wiggins and his cunning ability at knife-throwing?<P> Tension mounts and Linda and Steve find themselves in a series of dangerous situations. Then, as they work together to unravel the strange mystery, summer friendship grows into romance…
Girl Meets Body
"Tim Ludlow's English bride, Sybil, brings trouble in her trousseau. Housing shortages end in housing problems with a gambler's murder, the history of Sybil's father, and the curiosity of their New Jersey coast neighbors, a one-man reception committee, and a last minute mellerdrammer touch. Spoof and sparkle, equals some spontaneous combustion." – Kirkus
Judas Journey
FRAMED!<P> Marcia Carr was dead. Rack Ramsey had loved her–but not enough to be framed for her murder!<P> What part had Marcia played in Bowen's filthy narcotics racket? Why was Sara Colvin so frightened of the suave Blake Bowen? How did Marcia's ten million dollars figure in the strange partnership of gambler Phil Stark and widower Jeff Carr? Puzzling pieces in a fantastic pattern for murder…<P> But over all was Rack's terrifying realization that had he not gone to Mexico in search of a mahogany jungle, Marcia might still be alive!
Murder in Stained Glass
The scene of this story is a fascinating one: the Connecticut workshop of the country's foremost stained-glass window artist. This eccentric man, Frederick Ullathorne, has fled New York to escape reporters, friends, scandal and interruptions of all kinds while he finishes his life work, a magnificent rose window for St. John's Cathedral. This is harshly interrupted early one morning when bones are found in the furnace of the workshop cellar…