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Cassie Oldfield and Walter Shaws are forensic geologists who investigate crimes threatening lives and the land—a job that always leads to trouble.

In Old Alley Town wird wieder gemordet – oder genauer gesagt: zu Tode frisiert! Friseurin Millie Short ist außer sich, als sie eine Leiche in ihrem Salon findet. Der ältere Mann liegt leblos auf dem Stuhl – erdrosselt mit ihrer Haarschneidemaschine. Nur gut, dass sich die Frau längst an Leah Page und ihre Freundinnen gewandt hat.

Follow Officer Eden Mercer and her loyal K-9 partner, Shadow, through five gripping mystery thrillers set against the dark, atmospheric backdrop of the Oregon Coast. From ritual murders and deadly secrets to twisted killers and dangerous conspiracies, Eden must rely on her instincts, her courage, and her bond with Shadow to uncover the truth before more lives are lost. Includes: Book 1: Shattered Silence, Book 2: Deadly Lessons, Book 3: Lethal Lines, Book 4: Treacherous Depths, Book 5: Twisted Pursuit.

The Salad of Colonel Cray is a short story by Gilbert Keith Chesterton: Black figure of Dr. Oman standing on the sunlit lawn and looking steadily into the room. Before he could quite recover himself Cray had cloven in.

The Strange Crime of John Boulnois is a short story by Gilbert Keith Chesterton: Mr. Calhoun Kidd was a very young gentleman with a very old face, a face dried up with its own eagerness, framed in blue-black hair and a black butterfly tie. He was the emissary in England of the colossal American daily called The Western Sun—also humorously described as the "Rising Sunset.

Her må Holmes og Watson bekæmpe Ku Klux Klans forfærdelige forbrydelser, bevæge sig rundt blandt professionelle tiggere i London, opklare sagen om tyveriet af en i sandhed sjælden ædelsten og løse mysteriet i mesterstykket Det brogede bånd – den historie Conan Doyle selv opfattede som en af sine bedste. For slet ikke at nævne sagen om den legendariske eventyrerske Irene Adler, som for Holmes altid vil være Kvinden.

Als Jacques Futrelle zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts seine Erzählungen um die „Denkmaschine" veröffentlichte, betrat eine Figur die literarische Bühne, die das Genre der Detektivgeschichte auf seine ganz eigene, unverwechselbare Weise bereicherte: Professor S. F. X. Van Dusen. Van Dusen, von seinen Bewunderern wie von seinen Gegnern schlicht die „Denkmaschine" genannt, ist kein Detektiv im herkömmlichen Sinne. Wo andere Spuren lesen, vertraut er ausschließlich auf die Logik; wo andere Vermutungen anstellen, kennt er nur Gewissheiten.

Als Jacques Futrelle zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts seine Erzählungen um die „Denkmaschine" veröffentlichte, betrat eine Figur die literarische Bühne, die das Genre der Detektivgeschichte auf seine ganz eigene, unverwechselbare Weise bereicherte: Professor S. F. X. Van Dusen. Van Dusen, von seinen Bewunderern wie von seinen Gegnern schlicht die „Denkmaschine" genannt, ist kein Detektiv im herkömmlichen Sinne. Wo andere Spuren lesen, vertraut er ausschließlich auf die Logik; wo andere Vermutungen anstellen, kennt er nur Gewissheiten.

EN EL PARAÍSO, NADIE CIERRA LA PUERTA... HASTA QUE ES DEMASIADO TARDE. Waikiki, 1925. Entre el aroma de las flores de jengibre y el murmullo de las olas, un crimen brutal sacude a la alta sociedad de Honolulu. Dan Winterslip, un hombre de inmensa fortuna y pasado turbio, es hallado muerto en su...

SHERLOCK HOLMES WORKS BESIDE THE GREAT LADY DETECTIVES OF THE VICTORIAN ERA! There was a rich plethora of female sleuths in the Victorian and Edwardian eras, solving mysteries throughout the world at the same time as Sherlock Holmes. Imagine if these sleuths worked together to fight crime and stop master criminals! See Sherlock Holmes partner with Loveday Brooke, Judith Lee, Kitty Winters, Lois Cayley, Ruth the Betrayer and many, many more in FOURTEEN ALL-NEW ADVENTURES!! Edited and with an introduction by Derrick Belanger, BSI.

Everyone has a little darkness inside them ... But just how dark is yours, and what are you willing to do to keep it hidden? "Cherry Hollow is a place where if you leave to live elsewhere, you never return, and if an outsider moves in, they never leave." It may seem like your average rural town in the Lake District, but Cherry Hollow hides more secrets than most. And it all started with the disappearance of Kieran Jones in 1998. Didn't it?

Two action-packed archaeological adventures filled with deadly secrets, relentless danger, and pulse-pounding thrills. If you love fast-paced, globetrotting romps with amazing characters, then you'll love Charlee's story! Charlee Flynn discovers that her parents aren’t really antiquities experts, they’re "black market acquisitions specialists." They're thieves! And now, after an old enemy forces them to flee their Costa Rican home, Charlee must become one too.

Ten full-cast vintage BBC Radio crime dramas featuring Michael Gilbert’s most enduring characters, including Mr Calder and Mr Behrens, Inspector Hazlerigg and Inspector Petrella A treat for any fan of crime dramas, this collection stars legendary voices including Prunella Scales, Maurice...

Berenice — A Tale. Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of earth is multiform. Overreaching the wide horizon like the rainbow, its hues are as various as the hues of that arch, as distinct too, yet as intimately blended. Overreaching the wide horizon like the rainbow! How is it that from Beauty I have derived a type of unloveliness? — from the covenant of Peace a simile of sorrow?

"The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" is a short story by the American author Edgar Allan Poe about a mesmerist who puts a man in a suspended hypnotic state at the moment of death. An example of a tale of suspense and horror, it is also to a certain degree a hoax, as it was published without claiming to be fictional, and many at the time of publication (1845) took it to be a factual account.

Mr. Edward Nutt, the industrious editor of The Daily Reformer, sat at his desk, opening letters and marking proofs to the merry tune of a typewriter, worked by a vigorous young lady. He was a stoutish, fair man, in his shirt-sleeves; his movements were resolute, his mouth firm and his tones final; but his round, rather babyish blue eyes had a bewildered and even wistful look that rather contradicted all this. Nor indeed was the expression altogether misleading.

Two men appeared simultaneously at the two ends of a sort of passage running along the side of the Apollo Theatre in the Adelphi. The evening daylight in the streets was large and luminous, opalescent and empty. The passage was comparatively long and dark, so each man could see the other as a mere black silhouette at the other end. Nevertheless, each man knew the other, even in that inky outline; for they were both men of striking appearance and they hated each other.

"The Cask of Amontillado" is a short story by the American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in the November 1846 issue of Godey's Lady's Book. The story, set in an unnamed Italian city at Carnival time, is about a man taking fatal revenge on a friend who, he believes, has insulted him. Like several of Poe's stories, and in keeping with the 19th-century fascination with the subject, the narrative follows a person being buried alive – in this case, by immurement. As in "The Black Cat" and "The Tell-Tale Heart", Poe conveys the story from the murderer's perspective.

The Paradise of Thieves was published in The Wisdom of Father Brown. This mystery is a real cliff-hanger. The great Muscari, most original of the young Tuscan poets, walked swiftly into his favourite restaurant, which overlooked the Mediterranean, was covered by an awning and fenced by little lemon and orange trees. Waiters in white aprons were already laying out on white tables the insignia of an early and elegant lunch; and this seemed to increase a satisfaction that already touched the top of swagger.

"William Wilson" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1839 in The Gift, with a setting inspired by Poe's formative years on the outskirts of London. The tale features a doppelgänger. The story follows a man of "a noble descent" named William Wilson. Although denouncing his profligate past, he does not accept full blame for his actions and says that "man was never thus ... tempted before".