Mystery
mobi, epub |eng | 1936-12-31 | Author:Baynard Kendrick

Chapter Seventeen: Two soft notes THE ROUTINE OF DONCASTER HOUSE had been badly shaken. Mrs. Colling-Sands scarcely felt a twinge of curiosity when Bleucher telephoned her shortly before supper. “Please ...
( Category: Traditional Detectives October 13,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:E.A. Aymar

Simple. One night, Betty and the boy were at the Laundromat, which meant I was face-deep in Diana. “You’re a quiet man,” Diana said, pulling my head away from her ...
( Category: Anthologies October 13,2022 )
epub |eng | 2022-05-02 | Author:Alice Campbell

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO The night passed safely, and if a dozen times Sarah woke with all her faculties alert the total silence coupled with the recollection that the windows and doors ...
( Category: Traditional Detectives October 13,2022 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-24 | Author:McBain, Ed [McBain, Ed]

There is nothing cops like better than continuity, even if it takes a couple of corpses to provide it. Before Alex Leopold raised his baffled head, Carella and Meyer were ...
( Category: Series October 13,2022 )
epub |eng | 2022-04-25 | Author:Paul Gitsham [Gitsham, Paul]

( Category: Police Procedurals October 13,2022 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-22 | Author:M.R. Hall [Hall, M.R.]

The call came as two delivery men were manoeuvring a desk through her office door. She was jammed up against the bookshelves, pleading with them to be careful as they ...
( Category: Police Procedurals October 13,2022 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-18 | Author:K.P. Gresham [Gresham, K.P.]

Peter Pendergast shoved his thinning red hair back into place, then pushed away from his desk. His thin-lipped mouth was agape. Around him reporters from the Dallas Daily News typed, ...
( Category: Private Investigators October 13,2022 )
epub |eng | 2020-12-24 | Author:Imogen Plimp [Plimp, Imogen]

Chapter Seventeen After a round of espresso and splitting a double serving of the best banana pudding I’d ever had, we parted ways for the afternoon. Evelyn returned to the ...
( Category: Culinary October 13,2022 )
epub |eng | 2020-10-05 | Author:A.R. Winters [Winters, A.R.]

Chapter Seventeen “Remember all of that stuff I said about what a great friend you are?” I muttered under my breath as the hostess motioned for me to follow her ...
( Category: Culinary October 13,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:Larry Kent

Chapter 4 ... my friend, the cop ... A little after ten a.m. My office. The phone jangled. I picked it up and said, “Larry Kent, private investigations.” “Shanker here, ...
( Category: Hard-Boiled October 13,2022 )
epub |eng | 2020-02-05 | Author:Henrietta Clandon

CHAPTER XV ONE SPADE The funeral was over. It was a most cheerful day, with the sun shining, and a blue sky, but I think I never felt so gloomy ...
( Category: Traditional Detectives October 13,2022 )
epub |eng | 2005-11-25 | Author:C.R. Corwin [Corwin, C.R.]

Eric had one hand on the steering wheel and the other around the neck of a huge milk-chocolate rabbit. He’d already eaten one ear and was making quick work of ...
( Category: Women Sleuths October 13,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:CJ Love

* * * Becca and Delia sat on either side of the wedding cake in the back of the van. They held out their hands to protect it without actually ...
( Category: Mystery October 13,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:Larry Kent

6 … the first corpse … After spending thirty-one hours recovering in hospital (someone had heard the rumpus at the construction site and phoned an ambulance—people are wary of contacting ...
( Category: Hard-Boiled October 13,2022 )
epub |eng | 2022-06-12 | Author:Benedict Brown [Brown, Benedict]

Chapter Twenty Returning to the entrance hall, I found Delilah coming down from her master’s bedroom looking particularly hungry. She peered about the room as if to say, what’s been ...
( Category: Traditional Detectives October 13,2022 )