Historical Mystery
epub, mobi |eng | 1969-12-31 | Author:Peter Lovesey [Lovesey, Peter]

‘You will pardon me, O’Flaherty?’ The dreamer stirred, disturbed by the voice. ‘I think you should be rousing yourself, my friend. The race, you know. I have just left the ...
( Category: Police Procedurals March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1977-12-31 | Author:Peter Lovesey [Lovesey, Peter]

WEDNESDAY, 20th JUNE INSPECTOR MOSER WAS NOT easily convinced. He believed he had a responsibility to safeguard fellow officers from corruption. The pictures he confiscated were not kept in his ...
( Category: Victorian March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1973-12-31 | Author:Peter Lovesey [Lovesey, Peter]

CHAPTER 9 CRIBB QUIETLY LOCKED HIS bedroom door from the inside, withdrew the key and pocketed it. He crossed to the window, pushed it up and looked down at the ...
( Category: Murder March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-27 | Author:Charles Todd [Todd, Charles]

Chapter 15 Rutledge stayed very still, certain that he had been spotted. That something, some inadvertent movement, had given him away. Then, finally, the man turned back to his contemplation ...
( Category: Police Procedurals March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1975-12-31 | Author:Peter Lovesey [Lovesey, Peter]

CHAPTER 22 In which Thackeray acts on information received—A boarding party—And a party of quite another sort A ROWING BOAT DRIFTED slowly with the current, the oarsman holding his blades ...
( Category: Victorian March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-07 | Author:Guy Adams [Adams, Guy]

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO “I call him my father but in that he was one of many. That is why he grew to hate me. Fathers, like gods, are quick to grow ...
( Category: Crime March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-15 | Author:Leslie Charteris [Charteris, Leslie]

The destroyer returned some hours later from the task of rounding up and capturing the cooperating vessel that was Crantor's charge; and it was Duncarry who escorted the girl on ...
( Category: Vigilante Justice March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-10-15 | Author:Dorothy L Sayers [Sayers, Dorothy L]

He stood for a moment looking at it rather hopelessly. Then he went back to his room and took up a large sheet of foolscap, with the intention of marking ...
( Category: Crime March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 1992-01-01 | Author:Michael Pearce [Pearce, Michael]

By about ten in the morning the sun was already dazzlingly bright and all living objects were seeking the shade. One of the orderlies came round closing the shutters. The ...
( Category: Historical Mystery March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1933-01-01 | Author:Dorothy L. Sayers [Sayers, Dorothy L.]

SLEUTHS ON THE SCENT THE COMMERCIAL ROOM AT the Pig and Pewter presented to Mr. Montague Egg the aspect of a dim cavern in which some primaeval inhabitant had been ...
( Category: Traditional Detectives March 27,2014 )
epub |nld | 2011-12-01 | Author:Kate Ellis [Ellis, Kate]

Rachel looked out of the car window as they drove through Morbay and thought how the place had changed. In her childhood the resort was the very pinnacle of respectability: ...
( Category: Police Procedurals March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2004-12-28 | Author:David Hewson [Hewson, David]

Twenty-Eight The apartment they gave him was on the third floor of a poky residential building adjoining the Vatican Library. It was unfit for a junior clerk, let alone a ...
( Category: Serial Killers March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2003-01-01 | Author:David Hewson [Hewson, David]

32 The apartment they gave him was on the third floor of a poky residential building adjoining the Vatican Library. It was unfit for a junior clerk, let alone a ...
( Category: Serial Killers March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Thomas H. Cook

~ * ~ Orléans, France, 1939 The train lurched forward, and in that movement, Danforth felt that he was no longer a little spy but a man moving inexorably toward ...
( Category: Espionage March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2006-01-01 | Author:I. J. Parker [Parker, I. J.]

Hitomaro located the administrative building and entered. In the large hall, groups of soldiers were gathered about braziers, throwing dice, drinking, talking, or sleeping. After a casual glance at his ...
( Category: Historical Mystery March 27,2014 )