Amateur Sleuths
epub |eng | | Author:Óskar Guðmundsson

29 Monday,6th December1982 The dancers sat in a circle on the stage of the National Theatre. Begga had brought the session to an end after an hour’s practice. ‘Stop, stop, ...
( Category: Mystery April 11,2024 )
epub |eng | 1992-05-15 | Author:Michael Pearce [Pearce, Michael]

‘Connected?’ said Mahmoud. ‘I wouldn’t have thought so.’ ‘Your man yesterday said he thought Abu was on to something and that’s why he was killed.’ ‘Everyone in Egypt thinks his ...
( Category: Mystery April 8,2024 )
epub |eng | 2021-08-18 | Author:William O'Farrell [O'Farrell, William]

The dawn woke me up. I was shivering with the cold, but I must have slept for several hours in spite of it. I got up and stretched the cramp ...
( Category: Mystery March 28,2024 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-27 | Author:Bert & Dolores Hitchens [Hitchens, Bert and Dolores]

13. The two L.A.P.D. detectives came in, greeted Farrel, and one of them said to the girl, “Are you Peg Parmenter?” She nodded, her eyes like saucers. The two city ...
( Category: Mystery March 28,2024 )
epub |eng | 1979-06-15 | Author:Margot Arnold [Arnold, Margot]

92 MARGOT ARNOLD she got back to the hotel. He had got nowhere with Wolf Vincent, who had brushed him off decisively and then left for parts unknown. Feeling somewhat ...
( Category: Mystery March 26,2024 )
epub |eng | 2023-10-23 | Author:Andrew Goliszek [Goliszek, Andrew]

Chapter 21 “Jesus Christ!” The veins on each side of Dennis Galamond’s neck bulged beneath his skin. Every hour since he’d arrived at the warehouse headquarters, the White House had ...
( Category: Mystery March 25,2024 )
epub | | 0101-01-01 | Author:David Willis McCullough [McCullough, David Willis]

MICKEY SPILLANE THE GOLD FEVER TAPES Mickey Spillane (b. 1918) is the tough-guy writer everyone has heard of, along with his private eye Mike Hammer. Spillane appears in television beer ...
( Category: Mystery February 26,2024 )
pdf | | 2023-12-21 | Author:H. P. Blavatsky

( Category: Mystery January 24,2024 )
epub |eng | 2022-07-17 | Author:Jack Karney [Karney, Jack]

CHAPTER 11 I LIVED ON West 65th Street, the four-story house on the corner. I’d been living there a lot of good and bad years, ever since Mom had died ...
( Category: Mystery January 18,2024 )
epub |eng | 1994-12-31 | Author:Cynthia Manson [Manson, Cynthia]

CARL MARTIN Something Ventured It was a typical July evening in Los Angeles. The daytime temperature had been over a hundred and now it wasn’t much cooler. A hot, dry ...
( Category: Mystery January 14,2024 )
epub |eng | 2018-05-04 | Author:Cornell Woolrich [Woolrich, Cornell]

She found herself looking at the house from the opposite side of the street. Its cracker-box outline, its canary-brick facing, dim with soot, looked so prosaic, so matter-of-fact. It was ...
( Category: Mystery December 26,2023 )
epub |eng | 1996-03-31 | Author:Cynthia Manson [Manson, Cynthia]

A Curtain of Green by Eudora Welty Every day one summer in Larkin’s Hill, it rained a little. The rain was a regular thing, and would come about two o’clock ...
( Category: Mystery December 24,2023 )
epub |eng | 2021-01-23 | Author:David B Silva [Silva, David B.]

I grinned, placed the palm of my hand over her belly and waited for the baby to kick. It was either that or look her in the eyes. Something I ...
( Category: Mystery December 23,2023 )
epub |eng | 2019-10-28 | Author:David Marcum (ed) [Marcum, David]

A Most Careful, Strategic, and Logical Mind by Derrick Belanger “Why, Holmes, I have just the thing to occupy our time on this frigid winter day,” I said to my ...
( Category: Mystery December 22,2023 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-03 | Author:Aaron Conners [Conners, Aaron]

32 I left the Brew & Stew and crossed the street to the newest addition to Chandler Avenue, Inspector Burns BBQ. Inspector Burns was a local celebrity who’d hosted a ...
( Category: Mystery December 1,2023 )