After falling overboard from a yacht, Sanger Rainsford swims to a nearby island. There General Zaroff, a big-game hunter who knows of Rainsford from published accounts of his hunting snow leopards in Tibet, invites him to dinner. Zaroff is bored of hunting because it no longer challenges him; he has moved to Ship-Trap Island in order to capture shipwrecked sailors. Any captives who can elude Zaroff, his manservant Ivan, and a pack of hunting dog ...
"The Four Stragglers" opens in the darkness of an unnamed battlefield during the Great War. Cut off from their respective units, three soldiers take refuge in a thicket; a fourth lies dead or unconscious a few metres away. Flares flying above reveal faces, and the cognizant come to recognize that they'd all played parts in a daring jewel heist not two years earlier. ...
CRIME TRAVEL features time-travel mysteries by a terrific lineup of authors.Features an introduction by Donna Andrews.<P> Included are:<P> James Blakey<BR> Melissa H. Blaine<BR> Michael Bracken<BR> Anna Castle<BR> Brendan DuBois<BR> David Dean<BR> John M. Floyd<BR> Barb Goffman<BR> Heidi Hunter<BR> Eleanor Cawood Jones<BR> Adam Meyer<BR> Barbara Monajem< ...
They All Ran Away—<P>Except Malcolm Hunter—the busiest body in town… And Evelyn, his lady—trapped by her dishonest millions and a taste for men alive… And lovely Ferne—a girl unfaitheful unto death, who coveted life…<P> Barney pursued them. He chased them through a labyrinth of horrors into the borrowed arms of a woman with a wrongway heart. For Barney’s task was to smash a killer’s grip on justice, and break a crime that meant murd ...
The Cutthroats and Criminals MEGAPACK® contains 20 great stories by modern and classic authors. Included are:<P> CRIMINAL TYPES, by Vincent McConnor<BR> REDHEADS DIE QUICKLY, by Gil Brewer<BR> THE SARDONIC STAR OF TOM DOODY, by Dashiell Hammett<BR> A HEARING AID FOR CARMODY, by Stephen Wasylyk<BR> A PADLOCK FOR CHARLIE DRAPER, by James Holding<BR> A TRULY HONEST MAN, by Talmage Powell<BR> MURDER O ...
Larry needs to make money—fast—in order to fund his honeymoon. A full, traditional honeymoon is the only way Marsha will marry him. So Larry decides to rob his boss… ...
When Father Walsh went to see D'Arcy, notorious gossip columnist, about a sinister stranger who wanted two old Bibles and talked about the Walls of Jericho, his story was so fantastic he sounded as if he were out of his mind. Police, too, thought he was – especially when they later found him hanging by his neck in his home. They called it suicide. But D'Arcy called it murder.<P> D'Arcy was right. Murder it was. and t ...
A fsherman with a fondness for self-made aphorisms, Fong Kam Lee arrives in Hong Kong to fish lucratively, but is convinced by a syndicate representative that he should instead smuggle luxury goods… ...
