Traditional Detective Mysteries
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-03-25 | Author:Martha Grimes [Grimes, Martha]

FOURTEEN I JURY looked at his hand, the one which had just shaken Melrose Plant’s, and asked, “Why would you cut off the fingers of one hand, Mr. Plant?” It ...
( Category: Traditional Detectives December 15,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1987-01-01 | Author:Martha Grimes [Grimes, Martha]

Seventeen FIONA CLINGMORE sat at her desk wearing a mask of brown goo that hid everything but her eyes and lips, turning the pages of Harrods magazine with a wetted ...
( Category: Traditional Detectives December 15,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-03-25 | Author:Martha Grimes [Grimes, Martha]

CHAPTER 12 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24 The next morning Jury was sitting at Pluck’s battered wooden desk, Wiggins looking over his shoulder. They were studying Darrington’s book, Bent on Murder and ...
( Category: Traditional Detectives December 15,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-12-31 | Author:Suzette A. Hill

25 The Vicar’s Version Later that week I had a luncheon appointment: one of the bishop’s ‘intimate’ At Homes given periodically when Gladys has a social rush of blood to ...
( Category: Crime December 8,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-31 | Author:Christopher Fowler

23 The Headsman As shoppers dragged themselves back and forth to the depressing Tesco supermarket on the corner, few ever looked up at the building on Caledonian Road. If they ...
( Category: Traditional Detectives December 8,2014 )
epub |eng | 2002-12-31 | Author:Ann Purser

Twenty-Four “Fancy goin’ out tonight, Lois?” said Derek. He had had mixed feelings about his mother-in-law coming to stay. He got on with her well enough, and over the years ...
( Category: Traditional Detective Mysteries December 8,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-31 | Author:Simon Brett

Seventeen “Is that Jude Nichol?” She was surprised. So few people ever referred to her by anything other than her first name. It was only on official documentation that she ...
( Category: Humorous December 8,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1994-12-31 | Author:M.C. Beaton

6 The following morning, James finally agreed to Agatha’s suggestion that she should talk directly to Alice and Gemma and see what she could find out and he should talk ...
( Category: Traditional Detectives December 8,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-31 | Author:M.C. Beaton

Seven Secret guilt by silence is betrayed. —John Dryden Outside, Jimmy said, “I’m going for a drink. They’ll phone me when the search warrant is being brought over. But it ...
( Category: Police Procedurals December 8,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-12-31 | Author:Suzette A. Hill

I laid the paper aside. Typical: only Mavis would be daft enough to go and feed squirrels! 23 The Vicar’s Version “DOG’S MAULING OF CORPSE’S ANKLE!” blazoned the Clarion’s headline. ...
( Category: Crime December 8,2014 )
azw3 |eng | 2008-09-22 | Author:Alexander McCall Smith [Smith, Alexander McCall]

CHAPTER TEN JAMIE WAS PLAYING that evening at the Festival Theatre. Scottish Opera was doing Don Pasquale, and although Isabel had seen the production when they had first performed it ...
( Category: Traditional Detectives December 8,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Wilson, Laura [Wilson, Laura]

Friday 27th September Rene Sweet of Hitler to let me have a decent sleep last night. I decided to risk my own bed for once, and slept right through till ...
( Category: War December 3,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2014-11-11 | Author:Finch, Charles [Finch, Charles]

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE Lenox looked at the doctor. “I know we’ve asked too much already, but if you could—” “Of course,” said McConnell. The three men went outside to Lenox’s carriage, ...
( Category: Amateur Sleuths November 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Wentworth, Patricia [Wentworth, Patricia]

* * * TWENTY-THREE << ^ >> IT WAS EARLY the same afternoon that Miss Silver looked across the second of the vests she was knitting for Dorothy Silver's little ...
( Category: Crime November 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Wentworth, Patricia - [Wentworth, Patricia -]

* * * Chapter Twenty-four << ^ >> A pleasant evening could hardly be expected. There was too much that was discordant, apprehensive, and resentful in the thoughts of the ...
( Category: Murder November 26,2014 )