Short Stories & Anthologies
epub |eng | | Author:Joseph Conrad

* * * THE RETURN The inner circle train from the City rushed impetuously out of a black hole and pulled up with a discordant, grinding racket in the smirched ...
( Category: Short Stories March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-01-01 | Author:Brett Battles [Battles, Brett]

CHAPTER 30 LIZ WAS SURE that at some point she would be discovered. If her brother had just stuck to the city, it probably would have been easier for her ...
( Category: Espionage March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-01-01 | Author:Eileen Wilks [Wilks, Eileen]

SEVENTEEN BENEDICT ended the call with a single growled word: Hurry. Force rose in Rule like an imminent explosion, hollowing him until all that remained was purpose, tipping him away ...
( Category: Anthologies March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-01 | Author:Simon Kernick [Kernick, Simon]

9 SILENCE FOLLOWED. ONE second. Two seconds. Three. Ash stopped breathing and fought to keep her shivering under control, because it was rustling the leaves under her. Every nerve ending ...
( Category: Suspense March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-07-30 | Author:Nicholas Mennuti, David Guggenheim [Mennuti, Nicholas]

50. Pang is one pissed-off translator. He holds a pack of frozen vegetables—broccoli, to be exact—against his steadily swelling cheek and lips. Occasionally, he removes the frozen food from his ...
( Category: Spies & Politics March 27,2014 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2009-03-17 | Author:Agatha Christie [Christie, Agatha]

II A duchess greeted M. Hercule Poirot in fulsome tones. “So you could manage to come after all, M. Poirot! Why, that’s splendid.” “The pleasure is mine, madame,” murmured Poirot, ...
( Category: Murder March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-10-15 | Author:Dorothy L Sayers [Sayers, Dorothy L]

Scrawns THE GATE, ON WHOSE peeled and faded surface the name SCRAWNS was just legible in the dim light, fell to with a clap that shook the rotten gate-post and ...
( Category: Short Stories March 27,2014 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2011-10-25 | Author:Agatha Christie [Christie, Agatha]

XVI Colonel Johnson looked at his watch. “Nothing much more that I can do here. You’ve got things well in hand, Sugden. Oh, just one thing. We ought to see ...
( Category: Murder March 27,2014 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2011-07-05 | Author:Laurie R. King [King, Laurie R.]

10 I’d had some say in the training of these two Irregulars, and was pleased to find them sufficiently competent to evade the eye of an untutored adolescent. In fact, ...
( Category: Entomology March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-27 | Author:Agatha Christie [Christie, Agatha]

The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan 'Poirot,' I said, 'a change of air would do you good.' 'You think so, mon ami?' 'I am sure of it.' 'Eh - ...
( Category: Murder March 27,2014 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 1957-01-02 | Author:Agatha Christie [Christie, Agatha]

'Enfin, I abandon it!' I said aloud. 'There is not a clue any-wherel Everything is perfectly normal.' As I said the words, my eyes fell on a large box of ...
( Category: Traditional Detectives March 27,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 1924-01-01 | Author:Agatha Christie [Christie, Agatha]

Inside the theatre, the first act of Tosca had just drawn to a close. The audience stirred, spoke to each other. The royalties, charming and gracious, sat in the three ...
( Category: Murder March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-08-23 | Author:Robinson, Peter [Robinson, Peter]

He decided to go into town now and get his last-minute shopping over with before it got really busy. Just before he left, though, his phone rang. Banks picked up ...
( Category: Murder March 27,2014 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 1923-01-01 | Author:Agatha Christie [Christie, Agatha]

V It was a quarter of an hour later. A recherché little supper had appeared; and Poirot, beaming all over his face, was dispensing hospitality and answering our eager questions. ...
( Category: Short Stories March 27,2014 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 1934-01-01 | Author:Agatha Christie [Christie, Agatha]

At twelve o'clock on Christmas Day, Edward Robinson strode into the tiny drawing room of a house in Clapham, with the customary greeting of "Merry Christmas." Maud, who was rearranging ...
( Category: Murder March 27,2014 )