In The Man in the Brown Suit Anne Beddingfield's chance witnessing of a man being killed in a subway station leads her to become involved in a world of diamond thieves, murderers, and political intrigue where she and mystery readers meet the incomparable Colonel Race for the first time.
Collected here are 'Secret Adversary' and 'The Mysterious Affair at Styles', the books that introduced the world to Tommy and Tuppence and to Hercule Poirot.
On the surface, this novel is a simple tale of a young man who encounters a shape-shifting devil, an early manifestation of a doppelganger, and the various misadventures that follow.
Edgar Huntly, a young man who lives with his uncle and sisters on a farm outside Philadelphia, begins the novel determined to learn who murdered his friend Waldegrave.
A classic collection of mystery stories: "e;With skillful plotting laced with tongue-in-cheek humor, Allingham never ceases to intrigue and surprise"e; (Daily Mail).
An Egyptologist, attempting to raise from the dead the mummy of Tera, an ancient Egyptian queen, finds a fabulous gem and is stricken senseless by an unknown force.
Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, an impoverished man who formulates and executes a plan to kill an unscrupulous pawnbroker seemingly for her money, thereby solving his financial problems and at the same time, ridding the world of an evil parasite.
Ships at anchor reared their tall masts, here and there; and the broad stream was enlivened and colored by junks and boats of all sizes and vivid hues, propelled on the screw principle by a great scull at the stern, with projecting handles for the crew to work; and at times a gorgeous mandarin boat, with two great glaring eyes set in the bows, came flying, rowed with forty paddles by an armed crew, whose shields hung on the gunwale and flashed fire in the sunbeams; the mandarin, in conical and buttoned hat, sitting on the top of his cabin calmly smoking Paradise, alias opium, while his gong boomed and his boat flew fourteen miles an hour, and all things scuttled out of his celestial way.
In a fictionalization of Burroughs' own difficulties in finding a job prior to becoming a best-selling writer, Jimmy Torrance attempts to make a career for himself in 1921 Chicago, where criminals seem to be everywhere!
Uncle Abner, the most famous literary character created by Melville Davisson Post, is a righteous amateur detective, a keen observer of human actions with profound knowledge and love for the Bible.
This ebook collection contains the following works of Agatha Christie:The Mysterious Affair At StylesThe Secret AdversaryThe Murder On The LinksThe Man in the Brown SuitThe Secret of ChimneysThe Murder of Roger AckroydThe Jewel Robbery at the Grand MetropolitanThe Disappearance of Mr.
Agatha Christies Tommy and Tuppence Beresford arePartners in Crimeor rather partners in crime solvingand must demonstrate their deductive skills in a wide range ofconfounding cases after agreeing to take over Blunts International Detective Agency.
