Не оглядываясь на прошлое, до сих пор преследующее Гвен Проктор, она пытается двигаться вперед. Теперь Гвен – частный детектив, занимающийся тем, что у нее получается лучше всего, – решением чужих проблем. Но вот ей поручают дело, к которому она поначалу не знает, как поступиться. Три года назад в Теннесси бесследно исчез молодой человек. Зацепок почти не осталось. За исключением одной, почти безнадежной. Незадолго до своего исчезновения этот па ...
The diary read, “It is settled. I am going to kill him.” And with these words begins as unusual and spectacular a mystery as anyone could ask for. Johnny Kendall, a photographer whose job has been squeezed out in a merger, sets up shop in a small state capital as a commercial photographer. He lands the job of taking pictures of corpses for the sheriff's office, and that is how he manages to be in on the ground floor of the attempted ax murd ...
Ramon Ribero, Minister of Justice, is (voluntarily) kidnapped by the Society of the Parrot, a revolutionary organization that he has helped fund against his own government. The government ransoms for his release, but refuses to set free their own political prisoners when threatened with Ramon's death. ...
A Tale of the Continental Op The man who had disturbed my Sunday morning sleep—I found when I reached the Glenton—was a slim, white-faced person of about twenty-five, with big brown eyes that were red-rimmed just now from either sleeplessness or crying, or both. His long brown hair was rumpled when he opened the door to admit me; and he wore a mauve dressing-robe spotted with big jade parrots over wine-colored silk pajamas. ...
“Someone has been tampering with my collection,” Milsted announced in a hard, metallic voice. “Some infernal thief has stolen a priceless relic—the statue of Hanuman. Now, I don’t make any accusations; but I want that curio back. I think I know the thief, and while I’d be justified in turning him over to the police, I’ll give him a chance to return my property without a scandal—if he will…” ...
He was lying low in a small town after a bank job. There, on a gold green, he began to plant the seeds for another job. Because the local bank manager had a wife he didn't want, who wouldn't give him a divorce.... ...
A middle-aged American couple is in the midst of a year-long tour of Europe when they come across a man in Zurich who knows somebody in Naples who might be able to help them get something they've always wanted but couldn't obtain…not legally, anyway. ...
