epub |eng | 2020-09-10 | Author:Julie Miller

Chapter Nine An hour later, Mark took the steps to Amy’s front porch two at a time. It might have been the longest hour of his life, knowing he couldn’t ...

epub |eng | 2015-01-15 | Author:Robert McCaw [McCaw, Robert]

CHAPTER NINETEEN THE DAY AFTER the burial service, Uncle Kimo accompanied Soo Lin, Keneke’s girlfriend, to police headquarters. As they set up in a conference room, Koa took two more ...

epub |eng | 2019-08-28 | Author:S. K. Tremayne [Tremayne, S. K.]

26 Jo The expected snow has arrived. With thunder and lightning in the middle of it all, making black and yellow cracks in the white sky. Silent, muffled people walk ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ellery Queen [Queen, Ellery]

HISTORICAL NOTE Though Mr. Manders’ account of the above adventure makes no mention of the fact, it may be of journalistic interest to note that Lord Pollexfen’s plans for a ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ellery Queen [Queen, Ellery]

AUTHOR’S NOTE I think I have invented a new kind of procedural detective story—what might be termed a “procedural fantasy.” While it uses the dream “story-within-a-story” which antedates even William ...

epub |eng | 2020-12-08 | Author:Wendy Soliman [Soliman, Wendy]

Chapter Eleven Riley spent the next hour catching up with his paperwork and then re-read all the statements that had thus far been taken with regard to Mrs Faulkner’s murder. ...

epub |eng | 2020-08-10 | Author:Robert P. French [French, Robert P.]

As I see them I feel guilt. Twice over. Once for what I did to them six months ago and twice for allowing Nick to risk his life facing down ...

epub |eng | 2018-10-20 | Author:Robert P. French [French, Robert P.]

17 Cal I cannot even begin to imagine how I would handle it if Ellie were like this. Michael is a lovely little kid but he seems somehow cut off ...

epub |eng | 2015-12-28 | Author:Norah Wilson

Chapter 13 I WAS, for a change, alone at the office after my visit with Cathy Valentine. I’d stayed longer than I’d intended, listening to the merry widow. I liked ...

epub |eng | 2020-08-27 | Author:Agatha Christie

The Plymouth Express Alec Simpson, RN, stepped from the platform at Newton Abbot into a first-class compartment of the Plymouth Express. A porter followed him with a heavy suitcase. He ...

epub |eng | | Author:John Ukah

We talked for some time … or rather I talked and she just sat by the bed staring with that irritated look at my hand. I do not even know ...

epub |eng | | Author:Paula Munier [Munier, Paula]

* * * WHILE THEY WAITED for the medical examiner Dr. Darling and the Crime Scene Search Team to arrive, Mercy figured they would tape off the area around the ...

epub |eng | 2021-03-23 | Author:Jacqueline Winspear [Winspear, Jacqueline]

Chapter 11 “Maisie, I cannot tell you how good it is to have company yet again. I feel as if I have received manna from heaven. Now, tell me what ...

epub |eng | 2020-05-13 | Author:Addison Moore & Bellamy Bloom [Moore, Addison]

Chapter 12 Later that night Jasper and I drove back to the inn and took a walk along the cove with Sherlock and Fish. It was dark, but we did ...

epub |eng | 1988-02-15 | Author:Raymond Chandler & Gould Elliott [Chandler, Raymond & Elliott, Gould]

She took the bottle and stuffed it into her windbreaker. "I had quite a few drinks. Alcohol and barbiturates make a bad combination. I sort of passed out. It was ...