Excerpt: "e;Swirled in the maze of a slow awakening, dropped through an abyss from zenith to nadir, the prisoner came out of his dreams and stared through the bars of his door to the pearl gray of the coming dawn.
The Murder on the Links is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, first published in the US by Dodd, Mead & Co in the same year and in the UK by The Bodley Head in May 1923.
Dieser Band beinhaltet folgende Kurzgeschichten: "Im leeren Hause", ("The Empty House"), "Der Baumeister von Norwood", ("The Norwood Builder"), "Das gelbe Gesicht", ("The Yellow Face"), "Der griechische Dolmetscher", ("The Greek Interpreter"), "Sein erster Fall", ("The Gloria Scott"), "Der goldene Zwicker", ("The Golden Pince-Nez"), "Die einsame Radfahrerin", ("The Solitary Cyclist").
Die Spindrift – Eigentümer Toby Essex – ist das schnellste Zehnmeter-Motorrennboot auf der Themse; sie bringt es auf mehr als sechzig Seemeilen die Stunde; die Patrouillenboote der Londoner Strompolizei schaffen höchstens zehn … Ist es da zu verwundern, dass die Spindrift im letzten entscheidenden Augenblick eingreifen muss, als Käpt’n Grosmans Kokain-Schmuggelschiff, die Yangtse aus Hankau, auf der Flucht die rettende Dreimeilen-Zone zu erreichen sucht?
Excerpt: "e;In Thirty-fifth Street, east of Fifth Avenue, there is a house conspicuous among its neighbors in that it differs in construction by being of the variety known as the English basement style.
Excerpt: "e;A hooded wagon was creeping across a depressing desert in the middle of Australia; layers of boxes under the hood, and of brass-handled, mahogany drawers below the boxes, revealed the licensed hawker of the bush.
Auszug: "Wenn ich noch weitere Geschichten von Raffles erzählen soll, kann ich nichts Besseres tun, als auf die ersten Tage unsres Zusammentreffens zurückgreifen und die aus Zartgefühl leergelassenen Blätter der vorhandenen Annalen füllen.
Wallace wurde zum „King of Thrillers“ aufgebaut und mit dem Slogan „It is impossible not to be thrilled by Edgar Wallace“ („Es ist unmöglich, nicht von Edgar Wallace gefesselt zu sein“) vermarktet.
Excerpt: "e;Angel Esquire, of Scotland Yard, has his hands full in helping Jimmy Stannard, as he is known to the criminal element of London, solve the puzzle of the great safe which held the fortune of Old Reale who had placed it there, and who had taken the precaution to hide the combination in a bit of doggerel verse that served as a cryptogram.
Telling the story of famous 16th-century Italian sculptor Benvenuto Cellini, Dumas' historical novel Ascanio was adapted into an opera of the same name by famous composer Charles-Camille Saint-Saens.
Auszug: "Raffles war aus dem Umkreis von London verschwunden, und selbst ich hatte nicht die leiseste Ahnung, wo er sich aufhielt, bis ich ein Telegramm von ihm bekam, in dem er mich bat, ihn am nächsten Abend um sieben Uhr einunddreißig am Bahnhof Charing Cross abzuholen.
The Purcell Papers (1880) are a collection of thirteen Gothic, supernatural, historical and humorous short stories by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-73) originally written for the Dublin University Magazine.
Miss Saunders, a discreet domestic spy of some kind, is hired by Mayor Packard to look after his unaccountably abstracted wife whilst he goes out of town for a fortnight.
Excerpt: "e;Paul Cressingham, captain in Her Britannic Majesty's army, had seen some active service, and was therefore not unused to sleeping on the ground at night wrapt in his military cloak.
