Amateur Sleuth
epub |eng | 2018-03-06 | Author:Harry Stephen Keeler [Keeler, Harry Stephen]

DOCUMENT LXXXV Excerpts, from registered letter of date January 12, 1937, from Gilbert Whittimore, Hotel Bourdonnais, 163 Avenue des Champs Elysées, Paris, France, to Aleck Snide, Hotel Russell, Russell Square, ...
( Category: Mystery January 30,2023 )
epub |eng | 1947-07-15 | Author:Cyril Hare

11 A Conference with the Chief Though he had never admitted it to anybody, even to himself, Inspector Trimble was a little afraid of his Chief Constable. It was not ...
( Category: Mystery January 30,2023 )
epub |eng | 2006-01-15 | Author:Stuart Woods

( Category: Mystery January 30,2023 )
epub |eng | 2018-11-28 | Author:Day Keene [Keene, Day]

Eleven RENNER TOLD TAMARA all he knew about Kelcey’s death. While he talked she started to pull her nightdress over her head preparatory to dressing and, suddenly self-conscious in front ...
( Category: Mystery January 29,2023 )
epub |eng | 1959-05-03 | Author:Cyril Hare

* * * “Percy, ask Wilson to come in here for a minute,” said Place, after the visitor had gone. Percy went out to the kitchen, and returned with a ...
( Category: Mystery January 29,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Emma Lathen

Chapter 10 By seven o’clock the next morning, Ben Safford knew what had happened at the Barnes house. When he reached his office, he learned one thing further: Karen Jenks ...
( Category: Mystery January 29,2023 )
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Van Wyck Mason [Mason, F. Van Wyck]

CHAPTER XIII DEATH STRIKES AGAIN Up the stairs three steps at a time leaped a furious and badly shaken Captain North, in his hand the .32 automatic and at his ...
( Category: Mystery January 29,2023 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-20 | Author:Gary Phillips

CHAPTER SIX “You’re not feeling sorry for yourself, are you?” Ella Navarro asked. Brenner had more of his scotch. “I should have caught her.” “You’re too damn competitive.” “Very,” he ...
( Category: Mystery January 29,2023 )
epub |eng | 2019-11-25 | Author:Kulpreet Yadav

CHAPTER 32 VICKS OPENED HIS eyes and found himself staring at an old man, who stood over him. The man was wearing a lab coat, and his teeth seemed too ...
( Category: Mystery January 29,2023 )
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Thomas B. Dewey [Dewey, Thomas B.]

CHAPTER ELEVEN I found a lamp and when I switched it on Singer was kneeling beside the girl on the floor. “She’s alive,” he said. “She’s been beaten.” She had ...
( Category: Mystery January 29,2023 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Randall J. Funk [Funk, Randall J.]

CHAPTER FIFTEEN “You were in the parking lot?” the cop asks. “Yeah,” I say, slumped on the curb. “You see anybody around? Anyone near the car?” “No. It was totally ...
( Category: Mystery January 29,2023 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-07 | Author:Ben Benson [Benson, Ben]

13 IT WAS A TINY ONE-ROOM EFFICIENCY APARTMENT ABOVE the store. There were a pullman kitchenette and a bathroom. In the main room there were an old brass bed and ...
( Category: Mystery January 29,2023 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-10 | Author:Jan Dunlap

Chapter 14 By the time I got to the turn into the high school, the flashing lights on a whole fleet of emergency vehicles had all been turned off, and ...
( Category: Mystery January 29,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sheridan Le Fanu

Chapter XXXVII - In Which Lady Alice Pumps the Bishop * Lady Jane Lennox, who complained of a headache, departed early for her room. The Baronet's passion for whist returned, ...
( Category: Mystery January 29,2023 )
epub |eng | 2009-01-15 | Author:Harry Stephen Keeler [Keeler, Harry Stephen]

CHAPTER XXXI “Well,” said Button firmly and authoritatively, “you go to the police station. And you tell them your story. Not mine, but yours. Yours, yes, designed to make mine—stick. ...
( Category: Mystery January 27,2023 )