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epub | 824.78 KB | English | Isbn:0688022219 | Author: Bill Pronzini, Martin H Greenberg, Charles G Waugh | Year: 1984

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The purloined letter / Edgar Allen Poe
The adventure of the speckeled band / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The oracle of the dog / G.K. Chesterton
The monkey's paw / W.W. Jacobs
The problem of cell 13 / Jacques Futrelle
The hands of Mr. Otermole / Thomas Burke
The two bottles of relish / Lord Dunsany
The gutting og Couffignal / Dashiell Hammett
Accident / Agatha Christie
Red wind / Raymond Chandler
Rear window / Cornell Woolrich
The house in Goblin Wood / John Dickson Carr
Don't look behind you / Fredric Brown
The nine mile walk / Harry Kemelman
The specialty of the house / Stanley Ellin
Love lies bleeding / Philip MacDonald
Lamb to the slaughter / Roald Dahl
No parking / Ellery Queen
The oblong room / Edward D. Hoch
Sweet fever / Bill Pronzini

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epub | 759.13 KB | English | Isbn:0922066353 | Author: Martin H Greenberg | Year: 1990

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Gathers award-winning mystery stories by Frederick Forsyth, Ruth Rendell, Lawrence Block, and Harlan Ellison

Category:Mystery, Short Stories

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epub | 877.62 KB | English | Isbn:0141442360 | Author: Michael Newton | Year: 2010

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'The ghost is the most enduring figure in supernatural fiction. He is absolutely indestructible... He changes with the styles in fiction but he never goes out of fashion. He is the really permanent citizen of the earth, for mortals, at best, are but transients' - Dorothy Scarborough

This new selection of ghost stories, by Michael Newton, brings together the best of the genre. From Elizabeth Gaskell's 'The Old Nurse's Story' through to Edith Wharton's 'Afterword', this collection covers all of the most terrifying tales of the genre. With a thoughtful introduction, and helpful notes, Newton places the stories contextually within the genre and elucidates the changing nature of the ghost story and how we interpret it.

Category:Horror, Short Stories, Classics, Fiction, Gothic, Anthologies, 19th Century

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epub | 811.74 KB | English | Isbn:014310621X | Author: Michael Sims | Year: 2011

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A wonderfully wicked new anthology from the editor of The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime

It is the Victorian era and society is both entranced by and fearful of that suspicious character known as the New Woman. She rides those new- fangled bicycles and doesn't like to be told what to do. And, in crime fiction, such female detectives as Loveday Brooke, Dorcas Dene, and Lady Molly of Scotland Yard are out there shadowing suspects, crawling through secret passages, fingerprinting corpses, and sometimes committing a lesser crime in order to solve a murder.

In The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime , Michael Sims has brought together all of the era's great crime-fighting females- plus a few choice crooks, including Four Square Jane and the Sorceress of the Strand.

Category:Mystery, Short Stories, Classics, Fiction, Victorian, Crime, Feminism

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epub | 949.73 KB | English | Isbn:1525805002 | Author: Alex Hay | Year: 2023

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The night of London's grandest ball, a bold group of women downstairs launch a daring revenge heist against Mayfair society in this dazzling historical novel about power, gender, and class.

Mrs. King is no ordinary housekeeper. Born into a world of con artists and thieves, she's made herself respectable, running the grandest home in Mayfair. The place is packed with treasures, a glittering symbol of wealth and power, but dark secrets lurk in the shadows.

When Mrs. King is suddenly dismissed from her position, she recruits an eclectic group of women to join her in revenge: A black market queen out to settle her scores. An actress desperate for a magnificent part. A seamstress dreaming of a better life. And Mrs. King's predecessor, with her own desire for vengeance.

Their plan? On the night of the house's highly anticipated costume ball-set to be the most illustrious of the year-they will rob it of its every possession, right under the noses of the distinguished guests and their elusive heiress host. But there's one thing Mrs. King wants even more than money: the truth. And she'll run any risk to get it.

After all, one should never underestimate the women downstairs.

Category:Historical Fiction, Fiction, Mystery, Historical, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Audiobook

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epub | 1.36 MB | English | Isbn:1722506296 | Author: Dr. John Demartini | Year: 2023

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ARE YOU AS PRODUCTIVE AS YOU WANT TO BE? OR AS YOU COULD BE? In this powerful and provocative book, Dr. John Demartini shows you how to overcome the biggest blocks to productivity and streamline your path to success and happiness. He shows you how to boost your productivity by deter*mining your true values and organizing your goals to accom*plish them. You'll Use the methods in this book to determine your highest values and find the quickest path to accomplishing them. You'll achieve productivity, meaning, and fulfillment beyond what you thought possible.

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epub | 768.39 KB | English | Isbn:0786715758 | Author: Anne Perry | Year: 2005

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The greatest story ever told; the rise and fall of civilizations, empires, kings, despots, prophets and disciples; tales of love, betrayal, revenge, war, and disaster, the most fundamental and eternal myths and fables of Judeo-Christian society; the end of the world -the Bible has all of these. And now acclaimed mystery author Anne Perry has culled together an extraordinary list of writers-from Sharyn McCrumb, Carole Nelson Douglas, Robert Barnard, Marcia Talley, Susan Moody and Peter Lovesey to Sharan Newman, Nancy Pickard, Reginald Hill, Gillian Linscott, Simon Brett, and Peter Robinson-to contribute all new mystery and crime stories inspired by and based on these most ancient of biblical tales.

From Sampson and Delilah to David and Goliath; from Mount Sinai to the Last Supper, Thou Shalt Not Kill explores the stories of the bible as chilling expressions of the most basic instincts found in the Good Book. With fifteen unique and inspired twists on the traditional mystery story, Thou Shalt Not Kill is an inimitable edition to any library.

Category:Mystery, Short Stories

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epub | 988.85 KB | English | Isbn:0593535367 | Author: Nick Harkaway, Nicholas Cornwell | Year: 2023

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A virtuosic mashup of Philip K. Dick and Raymond Chandler by way of Marvel-the story of a detective investigating the murder of a Titan, one of society's most powerful, medically-enhanced elites

"Cross-genre brilliance from the superbly talented Nick Harkaway." -William Gibson, New York Times best-selling author of Agency

Cal Sounder is a detective working for the police on certain very sensitive cases. So when he's called in to investigate a homicide at a local apartment, he's surprised by the routineness of it all. But when he arrives on scene, Cal soon learns that the victim-Roddy Tebbit, an otherwise milquetoast techie-is well over seven feet tall. And although he doesn't look a day over thirty, he is ninety-one years old. Tebbit is a Titan-one of this dystopian, near-future society's genetically altered elites. And this case is definitely Cal's thing.

There are only a few thousand Titans worldwide, thanks to Stefan Tonfamecasca's discovery of the controversial T7 genetic therapy, which elevated his family to godlike status. T7 turns average humans into near-immortal distortions of themselves-with immense physical proportions to match their ostentatious, unreachable lifestyles. A dead Titan is big news . . . a murdered Titan is unimaginable. But these modified magnates are Cal's specialty. In fact, his own ex-girlfriend, Athena, is a Titan. And not just any-she is Stefan's daughter, heir to the massive Tonfamecasca empire.

As the murder investigation intensifies, Cal begins to unravel the complicated threads of what should have been a straightforward case, and it becomes clear he's on the trail of a crime whose roots run deep into the dark heart of the world.

Category:Science Fiction, Mystery, Fiction, Noir, Thriller, Crime, Dystopia

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epub | 719.36 KB | English | Isbn:048680609X | Author: Mike Ashley | Year: 2016

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The popularity of the detective story began with the Victorian-era debut of Sherlock Holmes, whose adventures inspired legions of imitators. Subsequent tales of malfeasance and its deduction gradually took a decided turn away from melodrama and toward plausibility, leading to a Golden Age of crime fiction during the 1920s and 30s. The 15 short stories in this anthology, which date from 1905 to 1921, trace the development of an increasingly sophisticated genre even as they abound in the timeless allure of a riveting mystery.
Unconventional characters add to the appeal of these Father Brown, G. K. Chesterton's priest and amateur sleuth, makes his first-ever appearance in "The Blue Cross"; Lady Molly of Scotland Yard, one of fiction's first women detectives, solves "The Ninescore Mystery" by Baroness Orczy; November Joe, Hesketh Prichard's backwoods shamus, investigates "The Crime at Big Tree Portage"; and blind detective Max Carrados exhibits his mastery of "The Game Played in the Dark" by Ernest Bramah. Editor Mike Ashley provides individual introductions to these and other stories, offering intriguing insights into the emergence of the Golden Age of the detective story.

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epub | 907.95 KB | English | Isbn:1848405642 | Author: Declan Burke | Year: 2016

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Irish crime writers have long been established on the international stage as bestsellers and award winners. Now, for the first time ever, the best of contemporary Irish crime novelists are brought together in one volume.
Edited by Declan Burke, the anthology embraces the crime genre's traditional themes of murder, revenge, intrigue, justice and redemption. These stories engage with the full range of crime fiction incarnations: from police procedurals to psychological thrillers, domestic noir to historical crime - but there's also room for the supernatural, the futuristic, the macabre.

Category:Crime

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