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"I just wanted to ask you one question."
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"Why did you lie to us about that burglar?"
The Case of the Deadly Diamonds starts out as a small-scale caper for Ludovlc Travers, leading light of the Broad Street Detective Agency. The unspectacular sum of two hundred pounds had vanished mysteriously from a safe in the home of Paul Morren, an old-guard London jeweller.
But when Travers moves in to investigate for the Insurance company, the case...
83) Invisible Death
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Its favorite afternoon pastime was murder, and its favorite evening occupation was the same, only a trifle more so.
Anthony Bathurst reaches Swallowcliffe Hall, summoned by Constance Whittaker, to protect her husband, Major Whittaker, from an unnamed threat. Bathurst enlists his friend Peter Daventry, a crack shot and good in a fight.
One of the household suddenly drops dead, despite no one being anywhere near him. When poison is, revealed to be,...
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"'Tes a queer place seemingly....Full of ghostesses, what with beasts coming down from the church roof and her that walks, hair blowing like smoke in the gale. 'T'esn't a place to be out alone at night."
In London, rising young movie director Stephen Latimer learns of a gentrified family in Somerset with an old history of witchcraft and haunting. Scenting an excellent subject for his next film, he visits their ancestral manor.
Pleased with his discoveries,...
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Enough words and enough speed and you can get away with murder.
There was something unique about the Case of the Treble Twist. It isn't often one gets a preview of a case or hovers round its fringes four years before it breaks, but that was just what happened here. The preview began the evening Ludovic Travers had a drink with Chief Inspector Jewle, and first heard the name of Harry Tibball, suspect involved in a series of big-scale robberies. Then...
86) Power Ride
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Kester (Kit) Simmons, drummer with the rock band 'Charlotte Jane', was out of beat. He was stressed out, starving and he thought he was going crazy. Then, with less than two weeks to go before a national tour, Kit's precious drums and one of the band members are found slashed to pieces. The keyboard player, Avi Livingstone, is missing, Kit has no alibi and, to make matters worse, the police suspect him of dealing drugs.
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Lil Starling and husband Joe receive an invitation from her best childhood friend to go back to her hometown of Warsaw, NY to receive accolades for solving a fifty-one-year-old murder. Simultaneously, her friend, Federal Judge Stone, informs Lil that several federal inmates could be released from federal prison on a technicality. The technicality spawned appeals that stemmed from the prosecuting attorney that threatened Lil and Joe. She was about...
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John Mariner's wealthiest client, Nathan Livingston, retains John and his retired Houston PD detective friend, Larry Wagner, to identify the killer of his blackmailer, Colton Weber, and retrieve and destroy incriminating photos showing him with other women in an intimate setting. As they track down the killer and the photos, Weber's sister, Denise, one of the women in the incriminating pictures, dies of an overdose. That sets off a scramble for the...
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Previously published in the print anthology The Golden Ball and Other Stories. A young Englishman visiting Cornwall finds himself delving into the legend of a Belgian nun who is living as a refugee in the village. Possessed of supernatural powers, she is said to have caused her entire convent to explode when it was occupied by invading German soldiers during World War I. Sister Angelique was the only survivor. Could such a tall tale possibly be true?...
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Sergeant Beef mysteries volume 6
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In the cleverly plotted Case for Sergeant Beef, Mr. Wellington Chickle, a retired watchmaker, plans the perfect murder, but he chooses the wrong victim. The dead man's sister refuses to accept the idea that her brother committed suicide and calls in the unprepossessing Sgt. Beef who unravels the plot with the aid of the local police. Meanwhile, Townsend, Beef's indefatigable chronicler, comes to a completely different-and completely wrong-conclusion....
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"The Mysterious Affair at Styles"
Who poisoned the wealthy Emily Inglethorp and how did the murderer penetrate and escape from her locked bedroom? Suspects abound in the quaint village of Styles St. Mary—from the heiress's fawning new husband to her two stepsons, her volatile housekeeper, and a pretty nurse who works in a hospital dispensary.
With impeccable timing, and making his unforgettable debut, the brilliant Belgian detective Hercule Poirot...
92) Rogues Resort
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A Dark Place Where Everything Goes
"You will never see us, or anyone else ever again. You will die alone."
In Two days, Winton Hazlett, a former Lancaster bomber pilot and now an Inspector in a small English town, finds himself trying to solve a daring daylight bank robbery and the murder of a young woman he can't identify.
The town, which had never seen anything like this before and already upset by the emerging drug culture of the 1960s, is demanding...
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"Five men occupied their usual places in a first-class carriage, but the sixth place was empty..." It is most unusual for the sixth man, Mr. Parador, to be late. The five commuters are wondering what happened to him, when a strange-looking man enters the compartment, dressed in black and wearing dark glasses. When he is told that the sixth seat is taken, he replies, in a deep sepulchral voice, "He won't be coming." He was right. Parador does not come,...
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"I don't like any of it. He's either being prevented from going home by force . . . or else he'll never go home again."
'Lefty' Donovan, a boxer, leaves home after receiving a mysterious offer that seems too good to be true-and is never seen again. His wife, Flora, approaches Anthony Bathurst to look for her husband, but he fears the worst, especially when he discovers another fighter who had vanished in identical circumstances weeks earlier.
As...
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This anthology compiles all three A Hint of Murder stories in one book: A Hint of Murder: The Writer Alicia Fairfield didn't plan on being famous. Now a bestselling author with millions of fans, Alicia also has the attention of a killer. Someone has been recreating the murders from her books and the suspects are piling up; her mentally ill son, a disgruntled associate, and possibly even her loyal literary agent. The pressure of public recognition...
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"Murder on the Links"
An urgent cry for help brings Poirot to France. But he arrives too late to save his client, whose brutally stabbed body now lies face downwards in a shallow grave on a golf course.
But why is the dead man wearing his son’s overcoat? And who was the impassioned love letter in the pocket for? Before Poirot can answer these questions, the case is turned upside down by the discovery of a second, identically murdered corpse ....
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"What you have in your mind is the possibility that someone put poison on a rose, and Mr. Morgan sniffed it up?"
When stockbroker Montague Morgan-renowned among flower-growers as the creator of the "Rennavy Rose" - is found mysteriously dead in his own garden, attorney William Power is called into the case. Power invites his good friends the Mercers, Penny and Vincent, husband-and-wife detective novelists, to help him investigate the matter of Morgan's...
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For the sake of honey, Bognor investigates a cabal of treasonous monks As the friars of the abbey gather for group prayer, Brother Luke stays in the garden. His tardiness is not due to an overenthusiasm for his potatoes, but to the fact that he is lying face down in the dirt, strangled to death by his own crucifix. For Simon Bognor, this will prove inconvenient. A special investigator attached to the British Board of Trade, Bognor knows that Brother...
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"I cannot tell you of your future - because there is no future for you."
Three remarkable things happen to Aubrey Coventry in one day. First, he is contacted by Wall Street financier Silas Montgomery with a lucrative business proposition - although Montgomery insists on meeting him at two a.m. the following day. Second, at a village garden party, a fortune teller cannot read his future, as he does not have one. And thirdly, a shabbily-dressed man...
100) Tren De Cercanías
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El cuarto libro de la electrizante serie de los misterios de Slim Hardy. En la tarde del sábado 15 de enero de 1977, un tren de cercanías se retrasa en una pequeña estación de pueblo por una fuerte ventisca. La joven enfermera Jennifer Evans, con prisa por volver con su familia, se propone caminar los últimos kilómetros hasta su casa en un pueblo cercano. Telefonea a su hija para confirmarle que está en camino, pero nunca llegará a casa. La...
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