Зарубежные детективы
Различные книги в жанре Зарубежные детективыThe Great Detective: His Further Adventures
Sherlock Holmes! That magical name conjures up all that is thrilling and exciting about the classic mystery short story. The Great Detective, created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is without doubt the most well-known and popular fictional character ever created–and with good reason. Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories are fascinating excursions into scientific detection with interesting, well-formed characters, offering intelligent, thoughtful mysteries that all men and women can relate to–and enjoy. Quite simply, Doyle created magic with his Sherlock Holmes stories.
Writers over the last hundred years have been desperately trying to capture and recreate that magic, and I feel that the authors in this book have done just that. Here are a dozen well-crafted stories (nine of them original to this book) by writers whose love of the original Holmes stories clearly show in their work. So sit back in your comfortable chair and let the fog of old Victorian London swirl around you. Once again, the game is afoot!
[Note: This book has been officially licensed from the Arthur Conan Doyle estate.]
The Werewolf Megapack
"The Werewolf Megapack" collects 22 classic and modern tales of shape-shifters (and not just wolves!) – including works by Jay Lake, Jack Williamson, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, John Gregory Betancourt, Rudyard Kipling, Saki, and many more. Included are: <P> LEOPARD, by Jay Lake<BR> GABRIEL-ERNEST, by Saki<BR> SYMPATHY FOR WOLVES, by John Gregory Betancourt<BR> THE DRONE, by Abraham Merritt<BR> THE WERE-WOLF, by Clemence Housman<BR> AND BOB’S YOUR UNCLE, by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro<BR> THE MARK OF THE BEAST, by Rudyard Kipling<BR> DUMPSTER DIVING, by Nina Kiriki Hoffman<BR> THE WEREWOLF, by Eugene Field<BR> THE WOLF, by Guy de Maupassant<BR> WOLVES OF DARKNESS, by Jack Williamson<BR> THE MAN WHO WAS CHANGED INTO A CROW, by P’u Sung-ling<BR> HUGUES, THE WER-WOLF, by Sutherland Menzies<BR> THE WHITE WOLF OF THE HARTZ MOUNTAINS, by Frederick Marryat<BR> THE SHE-WOLF, by Saki<BR> MORRAHA, by Joseph Jacobs<BR> THE OTHER SIDE: A BRETON LEGEND, by Eric Stenbock<BR> THE WHITE WOLF OF KOSTOPCHIN, by Sir Gilbert Campbell<BR> THE WOLF LEADER, by Alexandre Dumas<BR> THE HUNTER’S MOON, by Michael McCarty & Terrie Leigh Relf<BR> WEREWOLF OF THE SAHARA, by G. G. Pendarves<BR> EVIL FORCES, by Gary Lovisi <P> And don't forget to search for «Megapack» or «Wildside Megapack» in your favorite ebook store for more entries in Wildside Press's Megapack series, ranging from science fiction and fantasy to westerns, mysteries, ghost stories – and much, much more!
The Comic Book Killer
He was a white, suburban bachelor. A total square. Lived with his mother. Worked for an insurance company. She was a black, tough, streetwise cop. Then somebody stole a quarter million dollars worth of rare comic books. And then people started getting murdered. Lindsey and Plum were like oil and water, but they had to work together, like it or not! Joe Gores, author of Hammett and other novels, said: «Lupoff writes with intelligence, humor, wisdom, and a zest for life. He had a lot of fun writing this book, and it shows; because of it, we have a lot of fun reading it.» The Comic Book Killer is the first volume in Richard A. Lupoff's hugely popular Lindsey-and-Plum series. Readers will cheer the return of these grand characters and their exciting investigations.
Echoes of the Goddess
"[This] novel has immense power in its climax," said The Encyclopedia of Fantasy about Darrell Schweitzer's 1982 novel, THE SHATTERED GODDESS. Now, at last, here's the companion volume to that work, a cycle of eleven stories set «in the time of the death of the Goddess.» This is an Earth of the far future, when the planet has declined into chaos, and darkness looms at the end of human history. Here you'll meet…a dadar, a wizard's shadow attempting to become a man; two sorcerers grotesquely transformed by their fratricidal hatred; a musician who becomes the lord of death; a boy-priest consumed by divine visions; and a witch who loves a god, among many others. Here's strangeness, wonder, and terror in the tradition of Clark Ashton Smith's Xothique or Jack Vance's The Dying Earth. Schweitzer is a master fantasist, whom anthologist Mike Ashley once called «today's supreme stylist.» Great fantasy reading, now collected into book form for the first time!
Adventure Tales 6
The sixth issue of ADVENTURE TALES includes 3 stories by H. Bedford-Jones («Mustered Out,» «The Badman's Brand,» and «Surprise in Sulphur Springs») plus «The Fugitive Statue,» by Vincent Starrett (featuring detective Jimmy Lavender), «Miracle,» by John D. Swain, «The Devil's Heirloom,» by Anthony M. Rud, «The Tapir,» by Arthur O. Friel, «Thubway Tham's Dog,» by Johnston McCulley, «Lancelot Biggs Cooks a Pirate,» by Nelson S. Bond, and «Payable to Bearer,» a crime novelet by Talbot Mundy. Plus the usual features. A great pulp extravaganza!
The Amulet
In the small town of Ewerton, Wisconsin, the murders just keep piling up, and Anna suspects that her warped grandmother is somehow to blame. Only she can find a solution–if the horror doesn't get her first!<P> "In the tradition of Stephen King's Castle Rock, Ewerton has become another classic locus of evil, a place that you never want to visit. First-rate characterization drives the stake of horror right through the center of your quivering heart!"–Robert Reginald.
The Black Charade
In 1880s England, Dr. Caspian and his wife Bronwen both have genuine psychic abilities, which they keep secret. Even so, they've gained a reputation as investigators of so-called psychic phenomena, exposing a number of fraudulent mediums. In their latest adventure, they're consulted by prominent politician Joseph Hinde, whose beautiful daughter Laura has become strangely withdrawn. Her secret assignations have led him to suspect that she might be attending séances in an attempt to contact her dead mother, whom she had adored. <P>Asked to rescue her from the clutches of evil charlatans, the Caspians uncover a tangled trail of people dying in strange and horrible circumstances. Dr. Caspian suddenly realizes that not only is Laura's life in danger from an age-old spirit…but Bronwen's as well.<P>Another first-rate novel of horror by a masterful storyteller!
The Pictures of Dorian Gray
"The Picture of Dorian Gray" is the only published novel by Oscar Wilde. It appeared as the lead story in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. The magazine's editors feared the story was indecent as submitted, so they censored roughly 500 words, without Wilde's knowledge, before publication. Even so, the story was greeted with outrage by British reviewers, some of whom suggested that Wilde should be prosecuted on moral grounds, leading Wilde to defend the novel aggressively in letters to the British press. Wilde later revised the story for book publication, making substantial alterations, deleting controversial passages, adding new chapters and including an aphoristic Preface which has since become famous in its own right. The amended version was published by Ward, Lock and Company in April 1891. Some scholars believe that Wilde would today have wanted us to read the version he originally submitted to Lippincott's. Both the 1890 and 1891 versions are included in this publication
The Baker Street Boys
If Mr. Sherlock Holmes had been in the country when the Baker Street Irregulars stumbled across the mystery of the Captive Clairvoyant, then no doubt he would have given immediate assistance. But Mr. Holmes was in Switzerland engaged in a deadly duel of wits with his most feared opponent, the evil Professor Moriarty; and so the Baker Street Irregulars, the gang of ragamuffins who sometimes assisted Mr. Holmes in his investigations, had to rely on their own wits. It all began—and ended—in Trump’s Music Hall, the theatre where Sparrow was employed, where the star of the show was The Amazing Marvin, Hypnotist Extraordinaire and Mentalist Supreme! But Marvin had a secret and sinister agenda.... Two marvelous tales of Holmesiana!
Time for Murder: Macabre Crime Stories
When Chalmers decides to attend one of Dr. Lanson's nightly séances, it's not because he has any belief in the occult, but simply to find somewhere warm to rest his weary feet. It's a decision he soon regrets. First, a luminous cloud forms in the air over the heads of the assembled people. A strange voice speaks, warning that someone in the room is about to die to prevent him from revealing secrets. The man sitting next to him leaps to his feet, yelling his defiance–and then the lights are extinguished. As the man's voice is cut off, a girl's ear-piercing shriek reverberates…and Terror Stalks the Séance Room! Just one of eleven exciting macabre crime short stories by a master of the form!