Зарубежные детективы
Различные книги в жанре Зарубежные детективыThe Dark Boatman
After Dexter inherits the old family mansion in Tormouth, on the death of his uncle, he visits the main library. Here he peruses the old records pertaining to Tormouth, and finds several references to the Dexter family. The documents trace their history back for almost four centuries. He locates numerous listings of births and marriages in the family, but not one instance of a death! Dexter begins to wonder if he's done the right thing in taking up residence in the house. What happened to his uncle, whose body is missing from the family crypt–and what's going to happen to him? Five tales of horrific curses and unspeakable monsters from beyond the grave!
Green Willows
"I see two women struggling together by the lake. I see them fall into the water… The wind rustles the branches of the willows and it is the sound of gentle sobbing in the night… Someone screams…" Something dark and mysterious haunts the halls of stately Green Willows. Village gossip says it's the ghost of Jonathon Tremayne's wife, the beautiful and saintly Angela, who was treacherously murdered here. Pretty Mary Kirkpatrick, hired as governess to Jonathon’s only child, Elizabeth, quickly finds herself falling in love with the handsome master of Green Willows, and discounts the gossip–until the night she finds herself confronted with a ghostly apparition! A riveting horror novel with a nineteenth-century gothic setting!
Lucifer's Daughter
After eighteen long and friendless years in an orphanage, Julia has finally traced her father, the handsome Dr. Lucius Cagliostro, to a small New England village. But her happiness soon turns into nightmarish terror. The town of Belham is home to unspeakable evil, and the dark and sinister forces that have tormented her all her life are also present too. She quickly finds herself the prey of a demon-worshipping society that wants to make her a slave–or a sacrifice–to the great Lucifer himself. A gripping novel of supernatural horror by a master storyteller!
Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #8
The eighth issue of Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine features the usual assortment of stories and non-fiction, including:<P> «Sun Ching Foo's Last Trick,» by Adam Beau McFarlane<BR>"Do You Love Me?" by Marc Bilgrey<BR>"The Somerset Wonder," by Ron Goulart<BR>"The Hounds of Basketballville," by Hal Charles<BR>"Hit One Out of the Park," by Jeff Baker<BR>"Travelling Light," by John M. Floyd<BR>"Date Night," by S. A. Stolinsky<BR>"Anaconda, Montana," by Bruce Kilstein<BR>"The Man with the Twisted Lip," by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Devil's Footsteps
From out of the bog alongside the ancient track to the fenland village of Hexney, a line of deep freshly-made footprints runs, trodden into the dry surface of the abandoned droveway. Are these footprints, or hoofprints, or what? Triangular, eight or nine inches long, they're set in a line one in front of another. And, each night, the footprints are advancing steadily towards the village. When a young boy’s body is found in the marsh, the superstitious villagers' ire is directed at a young stranger who'd taken his picture before he'd disappeared. Photographer Bronwen Powys finds an ally in the mysterious Dr. Alexander Caspian, who's been investigating the footprints–and before long they'll be fighting the dark forces of evil for their very lives and souls. An absolutely chilling tale of horror and redemption!
The Dyrysgol Horror and Other Weird Tales
What is the nature of the evil that terrorizes Dyrysgol? Detective Inspector Bernard Owen must investigate the disappearances of several inhabitants of a remote Welsh village. Local anger is directed towards Dyrysgol Castle and its enigmatic owner, Viscount Ravenwood, but Owen knows that fear and superstition can cloud the facts; he needs to make his own judgment. The nobleman is a strange and solitary man–but is he a murderer? When another man goes missing, and his car is found with great claw marks across the roof, Owen and his officers find themselves dragged unwillingly towards the bloody conclusion of…THE DYRYSGOL HORROR! The other stories in this highly original collection include «The Doll,» «The Stuff of Nightmares,» «The Unearthed,» and «Army of the Damned.»
The Altar
When a new strip mall and housing development are built near a small New England town, tearing through untouched forest, a 300-year-old grave is uncovered, thereby setting loose an ancient evil from its eternal prison. Science fiction writer Erik Hunter soon finds himself the target of a near-immortal horror that feeds on human suffering. In order to save his family and his town, he must make the harrowing trip into the underworld of another reality, one filled with pain and terror–and there make the ultimate sacrifice to facilitate the return of his imperiled wife and young children to the «real» world. But even giving up his life and soul may not be enough to keep an evil spirit from escaping its natural home, and returning to earth to destroy and infect the world. A novel of unremitting horror that will keep you perched on the edge of your seat!
Dr. Morelle Meets Murder
Here is another collection of the strange adventures of Doctor Morelle, that most sardonic of detectives, in a sequence of eight intriguing episodes from the Doctor’s casebook. The Doctor meets both brutal and cunning murders and murderers, ranging from a man battered to death with a heavy brass object to a woman poisoned with cyanide. Morelle investigates in his inimitable, cerebral, and biting style. He is aided–or sometimes handicapped–by his gentle, timorous assistant, Miss Frayle–who in this volume finally tells gets her backbone up and tells her employer that ?enough is enough!? Finding a new secretary–or keeping the old one–proves to be one of the most difficult mysteries that Dr. Morelle has ever had to solve! Great classic British crime stories.
Dr. Morelle Investigates
When Brian Cartwright receives a written death threat, he takes it seriously–in his not unblemished past he has made some bitter enemies. So he calls in the famous criminologist Dr. Morelle to protect him. The threatening note has predicted the exact time he's to die–nine p.m. later that same day. As the hour approaches, Cartwright locks himself alone in his study, all doors and windows sealed, with Dr. Morelle and his previously invited house guests in an adjoining room–also locked. Yet when Dr. Morelle re-enters the study after the appointed hour, he finds Cartwright’s body slumped on his desk, shot neatly through the head–and not by his own hand! Two classic cases in a long-running series.
Black Maria, M.A.: A Classic Crime Novel
When Ralph Black, chain store magnate, is found shot by his own gun in his locked library in his palatial home, the New York Police Department pronounces it suicide. However, his family members believe he was murdered. His sister in England, Maria Black, M.A., Headmistress of a girls' school, wants to discover the truth. She travels to America, and with her penchant for solving crimes, sets to work to trace the mysterious plot against Ralph. Can she unmask the amazing truth about her brother's death? Or will the first case of «Black Maria» also prove to be her last? Black Maria, Book One.