Historical Mystery
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-07-05 | Author:Dorothy L. Sayers [Sayers, Dorothy L.]

CHAPTER XI POLICEMAN’S LOT Elbow: What is’t your worship’s pleasure I shall do with this wicked caitiff? Escalus: Truly, Officer, because he hath some offences in him that thou wouldest ...
( Category: Traditional Detectives May 31,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Dorothy L. Sayers [Sayers, Dorothy L.]

CHAPTER XVIII THE EVIDENCE OF THE SNAKE There is a little, hairy, green-eyed snake, Of voice like to the woody nightingale, And ever singing pitifully sweet, That nestles in the ...
( Category: Murder May 31,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-07-05 | Author:Dorothy L. Sayers [Sayers, Dorothy L.]

The Bibulous Business of a Matter of Taste ‘HALTE-LÀ!… ATTENTION!… F----e!’ The young man in the grey suit pushed his way through the protesting porters and leapt nimbly for the ...
( Category: Historical May 31,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-07-05 | Author:Dorothy L. Sayers [Sayers, Dorothy L.]

CHAPTER XIV GRAND SLAM IN SPADES ON THE SEVENTH MORNING after the exhumation—which happened to be a Tuesday—Lord Peter walked briskly into Mr. Murbles’s chambers in Staple Inn, with Detective-Inspector ...
( Category: Traditional Detectives May 31,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-07-09 | Author:Dorothy L. Sayers [Sayers, Dorothy L.]

CHAPTER XII As a tulipant to the Sun (which our herbalists call Narcissus) when it shines, is admirandus flos ad radios solis se pandens, a glorious Flower exposing itself; but ...
( Category: Murder May 31,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Dorothy L. Sayers [Sayers, Dorothy L.]

YOURS SINCERELY, JOAN MURCHISON. “Megatherium Trust?” said Wimsey. “That’s a nice thing for a respectable solicitor to get mixed up with. I’ll ask Freddy Arbuthnot. He’s an ass about everything ...
( Category: Crime May 31,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-23 | Author:George Pelecanos

MAYBELLINE WALKER lived in one of the apartment houses that lined 15th Street along the green of Meridian Hill, which many in the city now called Malcolm X Park. Drugged-out-looking ...
( Category: Police Procedurals May 30,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-01-01 | Author:Tasha Alexander

Downstairs xi Alice had finished with Mr. Hargreaves’s room and was now in Lady Emily’s pale blue dressing room. The walls were close to the same color as that in ...
( Category: Amateur Sleuths May 30,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Tasha Alexander [Alexander, Tasha]

Downstairs xi Alice had finished with Mr. Hargreaves’s room and was now in Lady Emily’s pale blue dressing room. The walls were close to the same color as that in ...
( Category: Amateur Sleuths May 30,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-09-21 | Author:Anne Perry [Perry, Anne]

The following day she had several hours off duty, and used them to visit two people for whom she had formed a considerable friendship. One was Major Hercules Tiplady, although ...
( Category: Suspense May 28,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-27 | Author:Charles Todd [Todd, Charles]

Chapter Thirteen We talked of other things after that. But ten miles from home, I asked the Colonel Sahib, “Do you think we should tell Mother? About Lieutenant Wade?” “We ...
( Category: Traditional Detectives May 28,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Faye Kellerman [Kellerman, Faye]

Chapter 33 The night was moonless and cold. Rebecca shivered underneath her frieze cloak and wished she had dressed her head in a thicker hat. But at least her legs ...
( Category: Historical Mystery May 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2005-07-08 | Author:Kellerman, Faye [Kellerman, Faye]

TWENTY-NINE It was a simple lunch of wurst and cabbage, but everything was tastier when enjoyed under the sun. White plumes of clouds rolled through aqua skies, and the wind ...
( Category: Murder May 26,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2014-05-20 | Author:Grecian, Alex [Grecian, Alex]

30 Claire gritted her teeth and closed her eyes and held on tight to the thin sheet that covered her belly. Each contraction lasted a little bit longer than the ...
( Category: Murder May 21,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-03-14 | Author:Georgette Heyer [Heyer, Georgette]

* * * Chapter Thirteen When he left his father’s room, Raymond was in the grip of an overmastering instinct to get out of the house, and away from the ...
( Category: Psychological May 16,2014 )