Traditional Detective Mysteries
epub |eng | 1995-11-02 | Author:Bruce Alexander [Alexander, Bruce]

Chapter Eight In which an offer is made and an unexpected meeting takes place The next morning began with a visit by Mr. Donnelly to his patient. When I responded ...
( Category: Genre Fiction June 8,2015 )
epub |eng | 2005-01-01 | Author:Bruce Alexander [Alexander, Bruce]

EIGHT In which we attend a fire and comfort its near victims As I recall, it was a specially warm night. I might have slept unaware through it all had ...
( Category: Genre Fiction June 8,2015 )
epub |eng | 1995-05-12 | Author:Bruce Alexander [Alexander, Bruce]

Chapter Seven In which John Clayton has his say, and Jimmie Bunkins takes me on a journey Sir John Fielding allowed himself no day of complete rest of a Sunday. ...
( Category: British & Irish June 8,2015 )
epub |eng | 1996-05-15 | Author:Bruce Alexander [Alexander, Bruce]

EIGHT In which Sir John fails to read the Riot Act to the crew Though there was much interest in the body of Lieutenant Grimsby by the crew members present ...
( Category: Historical Thrillers June 8,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-14 | Author:Cannell, Dorothy [Cannell, Dorothy]

Chapter 11 “Giselle Haskell, we meet again at last!” The woman responsible for bringing Ben and me together through the rent-a-gent business swooped towards me in a flurry of pink-feather ...
( Category: Traditional Detectives June 5,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-21 | Author:Cannell, Dorothy [Cannell, Dorothy]

“A very strange man,” I said as Roxie and I plodded down the sloping walkway toward Cliff Road. Snow stung our faces. My companion didn’t answer. Mrs. Roxie Malloy was ...
( Category: Traditional Detectives June 5,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-07-30 | Author:John Dickson Carr [Carr, John Dickson]

'My lord, I suppose I did.' Mr Justice Rankin frowned. 'You either had a reason, or you had not?' 'I had a reason.' It was possible that H.M. was beginning ...
( Category: Traditional Detectives May 31,2015 )
epub |eng | 1969-01-02 | Author:John Dickson Carr [Carr, John Dickson]

‘My dear sir,' continued the lawyer, coming over to wring Dr Fell's hand with some animation, 'I - we - can't thank you too much ! I dare say you ...
( Category: Murder May 31,2015 )
mobi |eng | 1985-01-01 | Author:John Dickson Carr [Carr, John Dickson]

"What inventions?" said the chief constable, rather helplessly. "It's all right, Sir Benjamin," said Dorothy. "Herbert is always tinkering with something, without any success. He had a workshop out there." ...
( Category: Traditional Detectives May 31,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2008-03-15 | Author:John Dickson Carr [Carr, John Dickson]

But he saw more; more which no one could have foreseen. He saw the automaton clear the open door, and land in the passage below. One of its wheels snapped ...
( Category: Amateur Sleuths May 31,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-05-24 | Author:John Dickson Carr [Carr, John Dickson]

It had been built between two cypresses; they did not shade it, but they threw shadows straight ahead on either side. It was square, of heavy gray stone, squat, with ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence May 31,2015 )
epub |eng | 1985-12-14 | Author:John Dickson Carr [Carr, John Dickson]

"Yes, I could feel what you were thinking the minute I walked in here," he declared. His startled grin became a chuckle, "Let me ask you something. Did you expect ...
( Category: Traditional Detectives May 31,2015 )
epub |eng | 2009-05-30 | Author:Faye Kellerman

THE WOMAN HAD tenacity and would have made a fine detective. She looked up at Decker and said, “This isn’t coming as easily as Brand. No face just pops out ...
( Category: Military May 31,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2015-05-29 | Author:John Lawrence Reynolds [Reynolds, John Lawrence]

At ten o’clock Janet Parsons entered the squad room with a number of small white sheets torn from a note pad. She walked directly to McGuire’s desk and sat down ...
( Category: Religious May 31,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Catherine Aird

Detective Constable Crosby’s lot had been to interview the Osbornes. It had not been a happy one. Bad news—a far fleeter traveller even than Crosby himself—had already reached chez Osborne. ...
( Category: Police Procedurals May 27,2015 )