Traditional Detective Mysteries
epub |eng | 2012-01-01 | Author:Anne Perry [Perry, Anne]

CHAPTER 11 STOKER CAME INTO PITT’S office and closed the door behind him. “Sir, something’s happened I think you should know about.” His expression was bleak, his eyes sharp and ...
( Category: Historical Mystery March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1972-12-31 | Author:Peter Lovesey [Lovesey, Peter]

CHAPTER 10 ON THE BEACH NEXT afternoon Albert Moscrop lifted the newspaper that was serving to screen his face from the sun, propped himself on one elbow and read the ...
( Category: Historical Mystery March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-11-07 | Author:Charles Finch [Finch, Charles]

CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN Lenox went to sleep not long afterward, his stream of consciousness racing but muddied by drink. The next morning he woke with a single, clarified thought: Might Jacob ...
( Category: Traditional Detectives March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-05-01 | Author:Lynn Shepherd [Shepherd, Lynn]

On entering the breakfast-room next morning, I found my guardian just as usual; quite as frank, as open, and free. There being not the least constraint in his manner, there ...
( Category: Historical Mystery March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Arthur Conan Doyle

That is all.” “Terse and to the point,” remarked Holmes, stretching his long, thin legs towards the fire. “There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society papers ...
( Category: Traditional Detectives March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

CHAPTER 6 Danger It was the height of the reign of terror. McMurdo, who had already been appointed Inner Deacon, with every prospect of some day succeeding McGinty as Bodymaster, ...
( Category: Traditional Detectives March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-01-10 | Author:Sam Siciliano [Siciliano, Sam]

Ten While we were sitting in the Turkish bath, the steam permeating our cold weary frames, Holmes appeared to doze. I was sleepy myself and closed my eyes. “It might ...
( Category: Historical Mystery March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1993-01-01 | Author:Ruth Rendell [Rendell, Ruth]

THIRTEEN BRUNO was gone and life went back to what it had once been. Lessons resumed. It was just as well Liza liked learning, because she seldom had a chance ...
( Category: Murder March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-15 | Author:Leslie Charteris [Charteris, Leslie]

V How Simon Templar walked in the Sun, and Drank from various Bottles The Saint's jacket was gone, and his trouser pockets had been emptied of everything except a handful ...
( Category: Murder March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-15 | Author:Leslie Charteris [Charteris, Leslie]

VII BALANCED ON a knife-edge of uncanny self-control, the Saint stood motionless, watching the girl's expression for a full long second before she turned away with a gasp and rushed ...
( Category: Crime March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-01-22 | Author:Ngaio Marsh [Marsh, Ngaio]

CHAPTER 12 According to the Widow Alleyn sat at the head of the dining-room table with Fox at his right hand and Dr. Curtis at his left. Lady Wutherwood sat ...
( Category: Traditional Detectives March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-01-22 | Author:Ngaio Marsh [Marsh, Ngaio]

CHAPTER 8 Sunday the Thirteenth The next day being Sunday, Father Jourdain with the captain's permission celebrated Holy Communion in the lounge at seven o'clock. The service was attended among ...
( Category: Traditional Detectives March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-15 | Author:Leslie Charteris [Charteris, Leslie]

16 The Saint said: "No." "Why?" wheedled Titania Ourley. "Because you don't have to try and pump me for information like you did at the Algonquin, because I'm not investigating ...
( Category: Murder March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1970-01-01 | Author:Leslie Charteris [Charteris, Leslie]

4 Although the Saint's formidable reputation was strongly in the minds of both Vicky Kinian and Curt Jaeger when their taxi stopped in front of the Portal Hotel, they would ...
( Category: Crime March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1999-03-15 | Author:Rhys Bowen [Bowen, Rhys]

Chapter 13 By midmorning, crowd control had become a necessity and even Jim Abbott was having to work hard. Several TV vans with crews trailed cables across the Powell-Jones driveway. ...
( Category: Traditional Detectives March 26,2014 )