When a mysterious suicide follows an outbreak of poison pen letters in the quiet village of Tilling Green, Detective Inspector Frank Abbott of Scotland Yard dispatches Miss Silver to investigate....
Althea Graham's hypochondriac mother seldom visitsthe gazebo- yet she is found dead in it one morning.The Graham estate had once enjoyed a rural view, butnow the grounds are part of suburban London...
Nothing much happens in the village of Hazel Green until a girl goes out for a walk and never comes back. Could her disappearance be linked to security leaks at the nearby Air Ministry experimental...
Hired to trace Anna Ball, who has vanished, Miss Maud Silver encounters an eccentric art colony, bank robberies and counterfeiting. As with other Miss Silver mysteries, the story relies on character...
This is one of some 30 Miss Silver mysteries which Patricia Wentworth wrote during her lifetime. It concerns money motivated marriages and has a complex plot, full of suspense. The author has a large...
Detective Sigrid Harald finds herself involved with a variety of colorful and offbeat suspects as she investigates a murder in the art department of a prestigious university.
On New Year's Eve, 1940, James Paradine makes a speech to his family. Valuable documents have disappeared and the culprit has until midnight to confess. A few minutes after twelve James is dead and...
When James Lessiter returns to Lenton after many years to claim his family estate, his reappearance opens old wounds never healed. Then he is found bludgeoned to death by a fire poker and the...
Things had never been quite the same at Latter End since Lois had taken over. Suddenly life seemed to be an endless succession of bitter family rows, which Lois invariably won. But when Lois Latter...
The odd thing about Walter Schoen, German born but now running a butcher shop in Detroit, he's a dead ringer for Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS and the Gestapo. They even share the same birthday....
Publicada en Rusia en 1995 y en España en 2000, la segunda de la saga Kaménskaya.Una corta sinopsis de la novela sería aquella en la que se hable de las fantasías de Vica: alguien le roba sus sueños...
Dr. Adam Bloom has the perfect life. He's financially secure and lives in a luxurious house with his wife, Dana, and their twentytwo- year-old daughter, Marissa, a recent college graduate. Late one...
Одно из лучших дел сэра Генри Мерривейла. Загадка "закрытой комнаты", возведённая в абсолют и отточенная до блеска. Г. М. выступает в роли адвоката Джимми Ансуэлла, обвинённого в убийстве отца своей...
Wszyscy miłośnicy Herkulesa Piorota z pewnością pokochają także Alberta Campiona. Ten niezwykłe inteligentny i błyskotliwy detektyw amator, bohater siedemnastu powieści Margery Allingham, z pomocą...
The Rosemary and Thyme series, to which this new Peter Lovesey story belongs, has been adapted for TV in the U.K., with Felicity Kendal and Pam Ferris in the starring roles. In its first successful...
Спецагенты не бывают бывшими. Пусть тебя осудили по ложному обвинению в измене Родине, пусть ты не у дел и с горя стал прикладываться к бутылке – в нужный момент всеми забытый неудачник обернется...
Три повести сборника посвящены расследованию таинственных для обычного взгляда криминальных дел. Динамичный сюжет, неизвестная до последней сцены личность преступника, неожиданная развязка,...
Invité à passer un mois de vacances à Londres chez son ami Bob Skinner, Sans Atout craignait de trouver le temps long! Les événements vont vite le rassurer. D'abord, en mettant Tom, un automate...
