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!
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.
Moll, which she emphasizes is not her birth name, though she never does reveal what it was, is raised until she is teenager in America by a foster mother.
The stranger came early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the year, over the down, walking from Bramblehurst railway station, and carrying a little black portmanteau in his thickly gloved hand.
Doyle, unsuccessful in his medical practice, in need of money and a more satisfying career, had already sold a number of magazine stories when he wrote the novella, "e;A Study in Scarlet,"e; the first Sherlock Holmes story, which, after many rejections, was published in Beeton's Christmas Annual for 1887.
"e;Wins my Oscar for the craftiest murder method cooked up (literally) this month"e; from the author of the classic mystery Dead Men Don't Ski (Sunday Telegraph).
An Inspector Tibbetts mystery "e;which only serves to prove how ingeniously well Patricia Moyes is keeping up her variations on the classical whodunit"e; (The Sun).
A classic mystery "e;bubbling with humor, bursting with clues, and switching from petty misdemeanors on the home shores to intrigue and adventure abroad.
A disreputable lawyer is out to prove his lying client is no killer in this classic Canadian mystery: "e;Very exciting and full of excellent comedy"e; (P.
Dieses eBook: "Die drei aus Hollywood (Detektivroman)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.
Set in 13th century England, the story concerns the fictitious outlaw Norman of Torn, who harried the country during the power struggle between King Henry III and Simon de Montfort.
In The Man Who Was Thursday we are transported to a surreal turn-of-the-century London, Gabriel Syme, a poet, is recruited to a secret anti-anarchist taskforce at Scotland Yard.
Harold March, the rising reviewer and social critic, was walking vigorously across a great tableland of moors and commons, the horizon of which was fringed with the far-off woods of the famous estate of Torwood Park.
Dieses eBook: "Der Frosch mit der Maske (Kult-Krimi)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.
After several months of successful work in London and Amsterdam with American expatriate Fletcher Paige, musician Evan Horne returns to the states and settles in the San Francisco Bay Area.
When a county employee is found shot to death in broad daylight while sitting in his county road grader, Undersheriff Bill Gastner is faced with puzzling questions.
The rugged Cat Mesa country north of the village of Posadas is hosting the first annual Posadas 100, a cycle-cross bicycle race that promises to attract more than 140 competitors.
