epub |eng | 1950-05-01 | Author:Rex Stout [Stout, Rex]

IX One quick look around the Keyes establishment on the twelfth floor was enough to show where a good slice of the profits had gone, unless that was what Pohl’s ...

epub |eng | 2020-07-18 | Author:Bruce Beckham [Beckham, Bruce]

* ‘Don’t fret, lass – Kelly’s going to be alright. That vet leaves Doctor Dolittle standing – she’s probably chatting away to him as we speak.’ Jess nods – but ...

epub |eng | 2020-07-15 | Author:Bruce Beckham [Beckham, Bruce]

17. THE YAT ‘Such an atmospheric pub – so steeped in history.’ Skelgill looks about as though this is something that has not previously occurred to him. Having intercepted Dr ...

epub |eng | 1942-01-01 | Author:Lockridge, Richard & Lockridge, Frances [Lockridge, Richard & Lockridge, Frances]

X Tuesday: 9.20 p.m. To 10.45 p.m. KIRK stood up and walked back to meet Weigand. He shook his head as he walked back. “Not a word, Lieutenant,” he said. ...

epub |eng | 1944-01-01 | Author:Lockridge, Frances & Lockridge, Richard [Lockridge, Frances & Lockridge, Richard]

X Wednesday, 11.10 a.m. to 11.45 a.m. BILL WEIGAND CONTEMPLATED in retrospect the conversation he had just had with the commissioner and tried to fit it in. Deputy Chief Inspector ...

epub |eng | 1958-01-01 | Author:Lockridge, Frances & Lockridge, Richard [Lockridge, Frances & Lockridge, Richard]

Chapter 8 At five-thirty Friday evening, Bill Weigand rang the Norths‘ apartment and got no answer. He had rung it an hour earlier, and got a man with an Italian ...

epub |eng | 1949-01-01 | Author:Lockridge, Frances & Lockridge, Richard [Lockridge, Frances & Lockridge, Richard]

VII Saturday, 3.40 p.m. to 6.15 p.m. AFTER she had got into the taxicab a few blocks down Broadway from the building in which she had left a man who ...

epub |eng | 2011-01-04 | Author:Walsh, Jill Paton [Walsh, Jill Paton]

15 ‘So are you game to encounter the notorious Marchioness of Writtle?’ Lord Peter asked his wife the following morning. ‘Certainly,’ said Harriet. ‘But put me in the picture first. ...

epub |eng | 2011-03-15 | Author:Margery Allingham [Allingham, Margery]

Chapter XIV The Two Chairs A little over an hour later, when it was very nearly dark and the yellow lights of Apron Street were fairylike among the glistening blue ...

epub |eng | 2011-03-15 | Author:Margery Allingham [Allingham, Margery]

chapter 9: The Helpful Official A silent group of men climbed out of the two cars in the drive of The Beckoning Lady shortly after half past ten. Mr. Campion ...

epub |eng | 2011-03-15 | Author:Margery Allingham [Allingham, Margery]

Luke hunched his shoulders. “I don’t know about force,” he said bitterly. “Just give me his direction. I’m not saying I’ve not got plenty to go on. His prints were ...

epub |eng | 1996-01-14 | Author:Carola Dunn [Dunn, Carola]

10 As Daisy and Alec turned into the alley, she was feeling decidedly pipped. Alec had wormed out of her the romance between Muriel and Levich which she hadn’t meant ...

epub |eng | 2009-09-14 | Author:Carola Dunn [Dunn, Carola]

TWENTY Daisy was brushing her hair when she heard a tap at the door. “Come in!” It was a very young housemaid, her eyes bright with excitement and a touch ...

epub |eng | 2020-08-26 | Author:David Carter [Carter, David]

Forty-Six The teenage Madeleine hurried home from college, her mind in turmoil. What would she find? Maybe an ambulance waiting outside, its lights flashing, carting away her damaged mother, a ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ann Cleeves [Cleeves, Ann]

Chapter Twenty-three Dougie had spent a lot of the day at Golden Water. The swan was still there. He’d already started writing his account of its discovery for British Birds ...