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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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Cannibalism or Murder?
A Rock and Roll Supergroup on their way to a gig in Boston.
A wicked Nor'Easter snowstorm rolls into New England.
The band's charter plane crashes into the side of a mountain miles from nowhere.
Two band members, thrown from the wreckage in the bitter cold, survive.
One dies mysteriously in the wilderness of unexplained trauma.
"Snow blanketed the New England white birch and pine trees. There is no doubt Dangerous Dave...
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"You'll face two charges," I said. "One for murder and one for extortion."
Ludovic Travers remembered Brian Jedmont as a photographer whose ambition outran his sense of ethics. The Broad Street Detective Agency had stopped using his services in unfortunate circumstances, and Travers was accordingly surprised when one day Jedmont turned up at the office anxious to become a client on his own account. Specifically, he wanted Travers to investigate an...
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The moment they entered, Anthony pointed to the floor and to a hand that protruded from beneath the bed.
Dr. Traquair is determined that either he or his wife should die. He decides to allow her to cut a deck of cards to see who will shoot whom - highest card wins.
As the winner of this deadly duel, Traquair takes flight, desperate to elude capture for his crime. Super-sleuth Anthony Bathurst takes up the chase, but it seems that, this time, he...
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His head went sideways, like a hopping sparrow's on a lawn.
The man who saves Henry Clandon's life, during the campaign in Sicily visits him once in hospital, gives his name as David Seeway, makes vague and apparently pointless reference to somebody else called Archie Dibben and a country town called Bassingford, and then virtually disappears. Eight years later, Henry Clandon, now a director of a London publishing firm, sets out to try and find his...
87) Lady of the Wye
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After an illustrious career at London's Metropolitan Police Department, Scottish-born Chief Inspector Cam Fergus accepts a transfer to the Herefordshire town of Ross-on-Wye to wind down his career. The sleepy market town was the perfect place to escape the frequent crimes and gruesome murders that Cam dealt with daily at the Met. Yes, everything was idyllic, until that lazy summer afternoon when the Lady of the Wye surfaced. Although everything points...
88) 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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In a Thames-side village in 1946, its time for retired police surgeon Toby Hunt to make good on his promise to rehabilitate a former criminal. After all, since his retirement, Toby has had nothing but gardening to occupy his time. Despite the strenuous objections of his wife, Sarah, Toby takes on the challenge. But when Ken Livingstone arrives, suspicious deaths beginone after the other, like dominoes toppling. Harriet Parker, linchpin of good works...
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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...
91) Design for Dying
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'I've got the details written down here for you. It's a little matter of a murderous assault, which took place in or near the Marshes' tea estate.'
When Christine Marsh returns to live in the Sussex town where she grew up, the only person to greet the news with enthusiasm is her nearly senile mother Dolly. Christine's put-upon cousin Martha Kershaw knows how selfish Christine is: Martha takes care of Dolly with little recompense and has now been...
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Alexis Mortensen rose from his chair in the first-class Pullman and walked into the corridor.
None of the remaining occupants noticed that he had left them until after Death, travelling at 60 miles an hour, had reached out for him...
Seven men and a woman were in the first-class coach of a train from London to Brighton. They had traveled together each evening for months. That night one of them, Alexis Mortensen, editor of a scurrilous newspaper, died...
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Between the acting of a dreadful thing, and the first motion...
Ludovic Travers sees it happen. He sees a strange young woman assault Clement Foorde, and all because he had expressed his dislike for a certain best-selling novel. Is it a publicity stunt? The matter escapes Travers's mind until he hears on the radio one night that the author of the novel in question has been, drowned. Everyone, including the police, thinks the affair to be no more than...
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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...
95) Untimely Graves
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A new novel in the popular DS Gil Mayo series.
When the murdered body of a woman is found floating in flooded uplands near an isolated farm and nearby cottage, it poses problems of identification, prompting the press to dub her the 'Mystery Woman.'
Who is she? As time goes by, Detective Superintendent Gil Mayo and his assistant Inspector Abigail Moon, begin to fear that question is destined to remain unanswered, until the bursar of a public school,...
96) Frostline
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Maxine Somers is a L.A. beat cop that finds herself working as a small town detective just outside Minneapolis, Minnesota.. She finds her idydilc job anything peacefull, with having to deal with drug trafficers, murders and a new boy friend, Her investigations takes her from Minnesota all the way to southern Texas and back again, to try and solve her case.
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Moving back to Yorkshire was the last thing DI Tom Richmonds thought he would do. His superiors are also perturbed by his decision to transfer. Surely after the murder of the young girl, Yorkshire is the last place he should want to be? Is this Richmond's attempt to make peace with the past, or does he have ideas about reopening a bungled investigation?
Whatever Richmond's intentions, events soon overtake him. When a local biographer is found murdered,...
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In the vault of the National Westminster Bank in Marylebone High Street, London, an iron deed box lay undisturbed for eighty years. When, under the terms of its deposit, the box was opened in the spring of 2010 it was found to contain the manuscript records of fifty-six previously unknown cases of Sherlock Holmes, written by Dr John H. Watson between around 1890 and 1930. This is the fancy behind The Remains of Sherlock Holmes. The author, Paul W....
99) 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...
100) The Gate of Baghdad
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Just as boredom is setting in on his long trip by motor coach across the desert to Baghdad, Mr. Parker Pyne reads about the case of the missing Mr. Long, the famous defaulting financier who, as the papers would have it, is in South America. Another member of his party, Captain Smethurst, tells Pyne that he is worried about something. But before he can tell Pyne what it is, he is found dead, with no visible wound. Pyne must piece together what happened...
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