The Red Lacquer Case: A Golden Age Mystery, Paperback

Reducere. There was a hand pressed against the window, a large hand that looked unnaturally white, the blood driven from it by the pressure of a man's weight...

Reducere. "'Tes a queer place seemingly. . . . Full of ghostesses, what with beasts coming down from the church roof and her that walks, hair blowing like sm...

Reducere. "I see you told her fortune. Had she a good hand?""There was death in it."The inhabitants of the quiet English village of Teene are a mixed bag. Th...

Reducere. Description"We've managed to head off the Press men so far. But that won't last. We can't escape publicity, and the reading public enjoys murders."...

"Do you want to make 500 pounds? If you do and are willing to earn it, write to..." So reads the handbill thrust on Car Fairfax. He is literally do...

Reducere. "If I meet any dragons I'll run away."When Mary Borlase, English governess of the little Countess Nadine, escapes from Russia during the Great War,...

Reducere. "It is believed locally that her death was accidental, but I'm afraid--"Our story begins with psychic investigator Cosmo Thor meeting Madame Luna, ...

Reducere. "I'm worried. . . .This damned black-out. I'm afraid of what may happen in the dark."Artists' model Althea Greville was, in life, known as somethin...

"You told me a lot of things, " said James grimly. "Most of them weren't true." James Elliott, lost in a fog, comes upon a lonely house in the Engl...

Reducere. She was looking at the place where the mirror had hung. It didn't reflect anything because the glass was gone. Instead there was a blackness, a dar...

Reducere. "Sylvia had on the wrong stockings for her dress, and her lipstick was all crooked, so I think things are pretty grim." Lovely, foolish Sylvia Cole...

Reducere. When she had let down her case, she locked her bedroom door. And then she put out the light and climbed out of the window. Marooned as a baby, Vale...

Reducere. "They are letting me say good-bye. I'm to be shot to-morrow. It will be over by the time you get this..." Laura stood, pale and trembling, in the v...

Reducere. Ice is still. Death is still. But no living flesh should be as still as this... Agent Stephen Enderby, known in Russia as Red Stefan, meets Elizabe...

Reducere. "How would you like to be a rocket? A stranger for a week, an heiress for a week, then down with the stick and a stranger again." Imperious, warm-h...

Reducere. "Thou hast betrayed, and thou hast slain..." What is the mystery shrouding the lovely but sinister Annam stone, stolen from a remote shrine? Every ...

Reducere. "I hate him worse than I hate snails, and worms, and slugs, and spiders with hairs down their legs..." Bride-to-be Mally was an unlikely fugitive f...

Reducere. Ten years He had been dead ten years Uncannily alike in appearance were the twins, Jim and Jack Laydon. Both, too, loved beautiful Evelyn Prothero....

Reducere. "I think you're tempting fate when you say that you will never go back to Danesborough." Chloe laughed, suddenly, frankly. Her eyes were black agai...

Reducere. She held the candle steady and, stooping, touched the smeared patch with the tip of her finger. The stain was blood. When Sarah Marlowe, secretary ...

Reducere. "She's a hula mula wula girl, She's a crazy daisy nightmare My baby's a scream." David Fordyce wasn't looking forward to his birthday party, an ann...

Reducere. Why can no-one stay at the Dower House? Amabel Grey, a charming and lovely widow, had not seen scientist Julian Forsham since she chose to marry an...

Reducere. DescriptionMurder in the poisoned bosom of a genteel, if alarmingly dysfunctional, family in the English countryside.Dennyford is a "peaceful littl...

Reducere. DescriptionTogether they looked down at the inert sprawling figure of a man fantastically dressed in red-and-white-striped pyjama trousers, with a ...

Reducere. Description"I want to catch them. To do that we've got to lead them on. Now listen to me."Elbert J. Pakenham of New York City is among just nine su...

Reducere. DescriptionIt had been so quickly done that he felt almost as if a little knife had actually flashed by him and stuck, quivering, in the door at hi...

Reducere. "There'll be blue murder here before Christmas " A number of parties heading for a luxurious holiday spot, are forced by severe winter weather to p...

Publisher: Herb Lester Associates LtdAuthor(s): Martin EdwardsIllustration(s): Fully illustratedPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 150 x 211 x 9Cove...

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Explores the history of the famous cathedral as part of the School of Chartres through its great teachers Fulbertus, Bernadus Silvestris, John of S...

A case from Lord Peter Wimsey's past returns, in a dazzling novel from Jill Paton Walsh.Publisher: Hodder & StoughtonAuthor(s): Jill Paton WalshNum...

Reducere. Early in his career, Judge Dee visits a senior magistrate who shows him a beautiful lacquer screen on which a scene of lovers has been mysteriously...

In 2003 the British public voted Sir Steven Redgrave the Golden Sports Personality of the last fifty years. A fitting award for Britain's most succ...

Reducere. Description"I was suddenly struck with the sight of a trail of rich red vegetation of several miles in the midst of the eternal snows. I approached...

Fairytale Mystery starring Little Red Riding Hood, Grandma, the Wolf and Sky Private Eye. Little Red Riding Hood is bereft- Grandma has gone missin...

Publisher: Random House USA IncAuthor(s): Gore VidalNumber of pages: 480Collection: Vintage InternationalPublication date: 2001Dimensions: 132 x 20...

Murder by Jury: "If there is any place one would think himself safe, it would be in a jury room, locked up with fellow members of a jury, consideri...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Unlike earlier generations, Jewish American artists born between the 1930s and the early 1960s were among the first to overtly embrace and challeng...

Sherlock Holmes is the most famous of all fictional detectives but, across the Atlantic, he had plenty of rivals.Between 1890 and 1920, American wr...

Reducere. Fatal Shadows (1933): In the early morning hours after the natives' frenetic celebration of the Sultan's birthday, beautiful Ailsa Brownley is foun...

DescriptionReveals how humanity's first advanced culture originated in the Altai-Baikal region of southern Siberia - Explores how this prehistoric ...

Publisher: The History Press LtdAuthor(s): David L. WilliamsIllustration(s): 160 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 120Publication date...

Classic crime fiction's 'Indiana Jones' Tony Medawar unearths more unpublished and uncollected stories from the Golden Age of suspense, including J...

Reducere. "Brings to life the fight world of that era. Mr. Mitchell's account is full of memorably drawn scenes, and the stories we haven't heard before make...

DescriptionThe follow-up to Murder on Millionaires' Row, Erin Lindsey's second historical mystery follows Rose Gallagher as she tracks a killer wit...

A striking and original interpretation of the awesome Stone Age site from one of the world's foremost archaeologists on death and burial

A treasure trove of writing that charts the unfolding of our national obsession

Reducere. A memoir that represents the lifelong journey - both personal and professional - of legendary actress Janis Paige. It's a deeply personal work, fil...

DescriptionSherlock Holmes was not the only solver of crimes to patrol the gaslit streets of late Victorian and Edwardian London. The years between...