Зарубежные детективы
Различные книги в жанре Зарубежные детективыCharlie Chan Carries On
"Charlie Chan Carries On" – the 1931 Fox motion picture starring Warner Oland as Chan – is now considered a «lost» film (the original film materials were destroyed in a vault fire.) Unless a copy surfaces in some remote corner of the world, as happened with «Charlie Chan in Paris,» this original screenplay is the closest Chan fans will come to seeing the original film. (There is also a Portuguese-language version called «Eran Trece» [There Were Thirteen] with a different cast. The 1940 film, «Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise,» starring Sidney Toler, Oland's successor in the role of Charlie Chan, was also based on the same novel, but with a different script.)
The Yellow Wallpaper and "What Diantha Did"
This volume collects two classic works by Charlotte Perkins Gilman: «The Yellow Wallpaper» – a chilling tale of descent into madness – and «What Diantha Did,» an early feminist work. Also included is a rare, brief essay by Gilman on why she wrote «The Yellow Wallpaper.» Gilman (1860 – 1935) was a prominent American sociologist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction, and a lecturer for social reform. She was a utopian feminist during a time when her accomplishments were exceptional for women, and she served as a role model for future generations of feminists because of her unorthodox concepts and lifestyle. Her best known work is her semi-autobiographical short story «The Yellow Wallpaper,» which she wrote after a severe bout of postpartum psychosis.
In the Language of Scorpions
THIRTY TALES OF MODERN HORROR! In his newest collection, Charles Allen Gramlich, who has a Ph.D. in psychology, explores the dark territory of modern horror, from monsters, to serial killers, to the surreal landscapes of the insane mind.
The Butler Didn't Do It
What happens when your weird cousin sends you a telegram stating that your aunt's dead and the butler did it? Lindsay Graham discovers that there's more in store than a traditional English funeral and the requisite neighborhood gathering. Way more. <P> Maria Lima's Agatha-Award nominated short story is a great read! (Just don't go into it expecting a novel-length work – it's a short story, and priced accordingly.)
Pit and the Pendulum
Here are five funny, entertaining, delectable mystery stories featuring Peter «Pit Bull» Geller, who may be a bit damaged physically (in an auto accident), but has lost neither his biting wit nor his keen sense of how the upper crust manages their criminal ways. Included are: «Pit and the Pendulum,» «Pit on the Road to Hell,» «A Christmas Pit,» «Dog Pit,» and «Horse Pit» (winner of the Black Orchid Award from the Nero Wolfe Society and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine). Great reading from a master storyteller!
Serpent's Tooth
A young man, relatively new to Fox Creek and living with his elderly grandmother, is discovered dead in his bed after having been severely beaten. Unfortunately, the first person to see the body is Carver Ellis; and the first police officer on the scene is already convinced that young Ellis not only found the body but murdered the victim.
It’s up to Victoria Sears and her new best friend from down-mountain, Lynn Hanson, to work hand-in-hand with Chief Deputy Richard Wroten not only to clear Ellis of any complicity in the death, but to join together a tortuous series of clues to uncover precisely how and why Eric Johansson died.
Can they do it before a crucial piece of evidence disappears?
The Man Who Was Not
Gerald Dawson was the first to die—in an apparent road accident. But when other members of his family receive mysterious telephone calls informing them of their own imminent demise, and the predictions come true, Scotland Yard soon realizes that a serial killer is at work. Baffled, the police call in Dr. Sawley Garson, a specialist in scientific puzzles. But can even he save the few remaining Dawsons from the cunning killer—a man who appears not to exist? Another classic «impossible crime» novel from a master storyteller.
Shattering Glass
The girl had been lying dead all night. There'd been a terrible struggle, but in the end, the woman had lost her life to the jagged top of a cologne bottle–her jugular vein severed. Suspicious immediately falls on Richard Lane, who'd planned to meet the deceased at seven o'clock, just before she died. But is Richard really the killer? Only criminal psychologist Dr. Adam Castle can unravel the perplexing mystery. An edge-of-the seat thriller torn from the pages of the 1940s magazines. First of the Dr. Castle series.
Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #3
The third issue of Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine showcases Kim Newman's tale, «A Volume in Vermillion.» Plus great fiction and non-fiction by Gary Lovisi, Peter King, Jean Paiva, Darrell Schweitzer, and many more! Edited by Marvin Kaye.
Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #4
The fourth issue of «Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine» features Carla Coupe's new Holmes story, "The Adventure of the Elusive Emeralds,' plus tales by Stan Trybulski, Melville S. Brown, Marc Bilgrey, Hal Charles, William E. Chambers, Jean Paiva, and Roberta Rogow. This issue's classic reprint is «The Adventure of the Resident Patient,» by Arthur Conan Doyle. Plus all the regular features, a look at the new Holmes movie, cartoons, and more.