Historical Mystery
mobi |eng | 2011-08-30 | Author:Clive Cussler; Grant Blackwood

CHAPTER 24 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS THEY ARRIVED AT THE RESEARCHERS' ENTRANCE AT SEVEN FORTY-FIVE and were met by a security guard, who checked their credentials then escorted them to the ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense July 31,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2006-08-29 | Author:Philip Kerr

23 There’s nothing the Viennese love more than getting ‘cosy’. They look to achieve this conviviality in bars and restaurants, to the accompaniment of a musical quartet comprising a bass, ...
( Category: Murder July 10,2014 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-09-15 | Author:Penman, Sharon [Penman, Sharon]

William Marshal’s tent was sparsely furnished. He was a soldier first, a courtier second, and had only scorn for those who went off to war with all the comforts of ...
( Category: Ghosts July 8,2014 )
epub |eng | 2003-03-02 | 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 June 23,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-09 | Author:Antonia Hodgson [Hodgson, Antonia]

Captain Ralph Anderson was prowling the ward like a wild animal. Even Jakes looked wary of him. A wide, badly healed scar cut down his left cheek into his lip ...
( Category: Historical Mystery June 1,2014 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-03-15 | Author:Georgette Heyer [Heyer, Georgette]

* * * Chapter Eleven Hawing extricated the car from the ditch with the aid of a farm-horse, Charles and Peter drove it into Manfield, the market town that lay ...
( Category: Murder May 16,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-05-12 | Author:June Thomson [June Thomson]

Holmes was expecting Moriarty. He had already guessed that the letter was a decoy, designed to lure Watson back to the hotel, and he was prepared for this final encounter, ...
( Category: Historical Mystery May 13,2014 )
epub |eng | 2006-03-07 | Author:Baroness Emmuska Orczy Orczy [Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness]

CHAPTER XVII FAREWELL When Marguerite reached her room, she found her maid terribly anxious about her. "Your ladyship will be so tired," said the poor woman, whose own eyes were ...
( Category: Historical Mystery May 11,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-31 | Author:Phil Rickman

‘You see?’ Price said, as we walked to the wooded end of the village. ‘You see how things are? They’re afraid even to call out to God.’ We passed two ...
( Category: Historical May 7,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Ashley Gardner

* * * * * Chapter Eleven Louisa did indeed look haggard. Her face was gray except for spots of color burning in her cheeks. "How on earth is this ...
( Category: Regency May 6,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-08-05 | Author:George Mann

THE SACRIFICIAL PAWN LONDON, OCTOBER 1902 “Unhand me, you darned scoundrel!” The familiar voice reverberated throughout the old manor house like the bark of a cornered dog. Sir Maurice Newbury ...
( Category: Thriller & Suspense May 6,2014 )