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In the year 2038, there’s only one destination that can play host to the world’s wealthiest adventure seekers: the Pengalaman Island Resort and Virtual Reality Theme Park. Located on a private South Pacific island, guests here live out their wildest fantasies in custom-made virtual reality simulations while also enjoying the usual amenities of an exclusive five-star getaway. All is relatively breezy until famed billionaire and avid guest, Mr. Wagner, goes missing within a virtual simulation. His only hope? A daring rescue led by Derek Ambrose and his ragtag search party.

A major casino robbery turns sour when the getaway car breaks down in the desert. The robbers come across a nearby cabin but it is inhabited by an old loner. The three robbers try and hold him hostage, but he escapes. It becomes their biggest mistake.

Along a beautiful stretch of beach sits a state institution for the criminally insane. Among its inmates are a man who killed his wife with a wine bottle; an ex-butcher who put strange substances into meat; and a man who pushed his daughter out of a 40-story window. When an inmate is found dead on the beach, the rest of the men eye each other coldly - for each of them had a motive to murder the unpopular victim.

No one thought Curtis Colt had been railroaded for the shooting of a liquor store owner, least of all St. Louis private investigator Alo Nudger. It had been an open-and-shut case of cold blooded murder, and the people of Missouri were just waiting for Colt to be strapped into the electric chair - after all, three eyewitnesses couldn't be wrong. But as time runs out on the convicted killer, Nudger receives a call from Candy Ann Adams, Colt's finance, who insists he's innocent, because she knows who really pulled the trigger.

Ernie, a down-on-his-luck gambler who owes the wrong people $1,000, is visited by two enforcers. To escape them, he climbs out onto a narrow building ledge, where he is unseen by the people far below. His only hope of survival lies in his imaginative way with a deck of cards.

St. Louis PI Nudger is called to help stop a man from jumping to his death. The man has asked for Nudger by name, and when Nudger fails to save him, he feels responsible for the death and tries to find out what was behind the suicide. He turns up a fellow detective who leads him on a trail of greed and blackmail.

Kill... or be killed. Frank Quinn is a decorated ex-cop. A former homicide detective specializing in tracking serial killers. Now his niece, Carlie Clark, needs help. Someone is stalking her, and the NYPD can’t stop him. A blonde, blue-eyed beauty, Carlie fits the victim type of the killer who’s been terrorizing women — leaving them bound, gagged, and tortured with surgical precision. To win against the most personal adversary of his career, Quinn will have to set the perfect trap. All he needs is the perfect bait….

Eis essen mit einem Brontosaurus? Ein Basketball-Match mit Michael Jordan? Alles kein Problem im Virtual-Reality-Resort Pangalaman Island. Derek, Sohn der Besitzerin, konnte seine kühnsten Träume schon als Kind ausleben. Nun hat er das ganze Imperium geerbt–und steht vor einem Problem: Der Promi Mr. Wagner ist in einem virtuellen Abenteuer verschwunden.

Thirty-five short stories by Edgar-winning novelist Lutz are included here, following a perceptive introduction by Nevins. Reflecting the ingenious plotting and characterizations in Tropical Heat, Nightlines and the author's other full-length adventures, these entries are a bonanza for discriminating listeners.

From master mystery author John Lutz comes this collection featuring a gripping man-on-the-run novel and four of his best pieces of short fiction. In The Truth of the Matter, Lou Roebuck is a successful advertising man with all the trappings - prestige, position, a flashy car, money, and a beautiful woman on his arm. He's also a compulsive liar, and what begins as a fib on his expense account leads to trouble that compounds like loan shark interest. His past, and the people in it, has caught up with him, again. 

Twelve tales of mystery from the pen of best-selling author John Lutz, Shadows Everywhere collects much of the author's early work. You'll meet everyone from a “hardscrabble farm woman” to a volatile trucker with an explosive cargo, a cliff driver with dreams of gold, and women who are digging for it. Not every PI is a good guy, and not every villain gets his due. These tales twist and turn, surprise and entertain. Flowing from the imagination of a master story-teller, the stories in Shadows Everywhere are a classic glimpse into the worlds of a rare talent.

Twenty-Seven short stories from Edgar Award-winning author John Lutz. Private Eyes, mysteries, and memorable characters.

Alo Nudger, the St. Louis ex-cop is both the most normal of all fictional private eyes and the most surprising. He's got an uncertain stomach he doses with nonstop antacids; he doesn't like guns or violence; and since he doesn't feel any special affinity for what he does, from nosing into people's dirty laundry to confronting perps with the consequences of their misdeeds, and makes more than his share of mistakes, it's only natural that his business cards identify him in typographical error as a private defective.

Etwas Grauenvolles hat das kleine Dorf Waldeck im Bayrischen Wald heimgesucht. Aus dem Gebeinehaus dringen unheimliche Geräusche, und ein lebendes Skelett versetzt die Bewohner in Angst und Schrecken. Doch als Will Mallmann seinen Freund John Sinclair zu Hilfe ruft, bricht das Grauen erst richtig los - und zwar mit einer Gewalt, die das Ende der Welt einläuten könnte...

Die Macht des Schwarzen Todes wuchs! Er hatte dem Sinclair-Team schwere Niederlagen zugefügt, und nun war es für den Superdämon an der Zeit, seine Position im Reich der Finsternis zu festigen! Dazu muss er John Sinclair, den Sohn des Lichts, stürzen! Sein Plan war ebenso teuflisch wie genial - und die Mitglieder des Sinclair-Teams tappten ihm in die Falle! Eines nach dem anderen!

Ein offensichtlich geistig verwirrter Mann irrt durch die Wälder des Spessarts. Er redet ständig von einem Horror-Schloss, schönen Mädchen - und einem Super-Dämon. Als Will Mallman davon erfährt, informiert er sofort seinen Freund John Sinclair, und die Hinweise verdichten sich, dass eine schreckliche Prophezeiung vor ihrer Erfüllung steht: Ist der Schwarze Tod, diese Urgewalt der Hölle, bereits in unsere Welt eingebrochen?

Grimms Märchen sind keineswegs nur kindgerecht und harmlos. Im Gegenteil! Hier wird von Hexen, Teufeln und Bösewichtern aller Art gemordet, zerstückelt, verbrannt und verzaubert. Die unheimlichsten und blutrünstigsten Schauergeschichten der berühmten Märchensammlung gibt es nun endlich als aufwendige Hörspiel-Neuvertonungen. Enthält die Hörspiel-Versionen der Märchen "Blaubart", "Das Mädchen ohne Hände", "Der Räuberbräutigam" und "Der Liebste Roland". Das bereits 7. Abenteuer von Alwyne und Colin Hargreaves, unserem sympathischen Geisterjäger-Ermittler-Team im Gruselkabinett!

Kaum aufs heimatliche Anwesen zurückgekehrt, wird Lucille Amos in dramatische Umstände verwickelt. Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson müssen einsehen, dass in diesem Fall alle Hilfe zu spät kommt: Unweit von Harlington wurde die enthauptete Leiche des Lords entdeckt - Sandfort und seine Schergen haben ihre Drohung auf grausame Weise wahr gemacht. Holmes ist dennoch fest dazu entschlossen, den Mördern das Handwerk zu legen. Denn schon das nächste Opfer Sandforts könnte Lucille Amos heißen, die letzte verbliebene Erbin von Hysteria Hall.

Das British Museum in London: Ein anonymer Absender kündigt schriftlich ein geplantes Verbrechen an - die unbezahlbare Statuette einer römischen Göttin soll aus dem Museum gestohlen werden. Mr. Downing, der Kurator des Museums, bittet Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson um Hilfe in dieser Angelegenheit. Doch was als vermeintlich harmloser Einsatz beginnt, entpuppt sich bald als nervenzerreißendes Abenteuer. Holmes hat nur einen einzigen Anhaltspunkt, um ein weitaus schlimmeres Verbrechen zu verhindern. Und diese Spur führt zu einer rätselhaften Gestalt: "Sturmfront Steven".