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Bulldog Drummond's Third Round (The Bulldog Drummond Thrillers #3)
by H. C. McNeileIn his thrilling third adventure, Bulldog Drummond battles a hired thug with grand aspirations Edward Blackton stares across the crystal waters of Lake Geneva, dreaming of a score big enough to transform him from mere criminal genius to world-dominating mastermind. His recent audience with two panicked representatives of an international diamond cartel may be his big chance. A British professor has perfected the cheap manufacture of precious stones, endangering the very existence of the diamond industry. To safeguard the cartel&’s millions, Blackton will make the professor see reason—or send him to his grave.Luckily, the professor can call on Bulldog Drummond, enemy of criminal syndicates everywhere. Stopping Blackton will mean a chase across England and beyond—and a dip into the dangerous waters that Drummond navigates like no other.This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.
Coffins for Two: Stories of Life, Death, Love, and Other Mysteries
by Vincent StarrettEighteen Golden Age stories of mystery, romance, and danger from the celebrated author of Murder in Peking and The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes.As he tries to reunite with the woman he loves, an escaped fugitive becomes enveloped in a game of cat and mouse with the policeman who put him away. An undertaker and his assistant discover a potion of almost magical proportions. A young woman hatches an elaborate plot to get her suitors institutionalized. A professional golfer becomes infatuated with another man&’s wife. A short story writer finds an unusual way to work out his next idea while riding public transportation. Although Vincent Starrett went on to write successful mystery novels, he continued creating tales like these for pulp magazines in the 1920s and 30s. &“The Fugitive,&” &“The Elixir of Death,&” &“Four Friends of Mavis,&” &“The End of the Story,&” and &“The Truth About Delbridge&” are just a sampling of the fantastic and bizarre stories featured in this volume, some exhibiting a sense of humor, others irony or terror.
The Man in the Brown Suit (Collins English Readers Ser. #Vol. 4)
by Agatha ChristiePretty, young Anne came to London looking for adventure. In fact, adventure comes looking for her--and finds her immediately at Hyde Park Corner tube station. Anne is present on the platform when a thin man, reeking of mothballs, loses his balance and is electrocuted on the rails. The Scotland Yard verdict is accidental death. But Anne is not satisfied. After all, who was the man in the brown suit who examined the body? And why did he race off, leaving a cryptic message behind: "17-122 Kilmorden Castle"?
The Man in the Brown Suit & Crooked House Bundle: Two Bestselling Agatha Christie Mysteries
by Agatha ChristieTWO BESTSELLING MYSTERIES IN ONE GREAT PACKAGE! From the Queen of Mystery, The Man in the Brown Suit, in which a young woman makes a dangerous decision to investigate a shocking “accidental” death she witnesses at a London tube station, and Crooked House, where Charles Hayward must solve a devastating family mystery.THE MAN IN THE BROWN SUITPretty, young Anne came to London looking for adventure. In fact, adventure comes looking for her—and finds her immediately at Hyde Park Corner tube station. Anne is present on the platform when a thin man, reeking of mothballs, loses his balance and is electrocuted on the rails.The Scotland Yard verdict is accidental death. But Anne is not satisfied. After all, who was the man in the brown suit who examined the body? And why did he race off, leaving a cryptic message behind: "17-122 Kilmorden Castle"?Twisty, clever, and intriguing, The Man in the Brown Suit showcases Agatha Christie once again at her very best.CROOKED HOUSEThe Leonides are one big happy family living in a sprawling, ramshackle mansion. That is until the head of the household, Aristide, is murdered with a fatal barbiturate injection.Suspicion naturally falls on the old man’s young widow, fifty years his junior. But the murderer has reckoned without the tenacity of Charles Hayward, fiancé of the late millionaire’s granddaughter.
The Mystery of the Blue Jar and The Witness for the Prosecution
by Agatha ChristieThis collection of classic short mysteries by the author of The Mousetrap will have you asking, &“Whodunit, howdunit, and whydunit?&”At the same time every day, Jack&’s morning golf routine is interrupted by the sound of a woman calling for help. Though the cry is clearly coming from a nearby cottage, the lady who lives there has no distress to report—until she starts having nightmares about a mysterious woman and a blue Chinese vase. Could the cottage be haunted? Or is Jack losing his mind? His attempts to find out will lead him down a dangerous path. A taut psychological thriller, &“The Mystery of the Blue Jar&” is quintessential Agatha Christie. This volume presents that story alongside other short works by the British master of mystery and suspense.
Poirot Investigates: Hercule Poirot Investigates (Hercule Poirot Mysteries #Vol. 5)
by Agatha ChristieFirst there was the mystery of the film star and the diamond . . . then came the 'suicide' that was murder . . . the mystery of the absurdly chaep flat . . . a suspicious death in a locked gun-room . . . a million dollar bond robbery . . . the curse of a pharoah's tomb . . . a jewel robbery by the sea . . . the abduction of a Prime Minister . . . the disappearance of a banker . . . a phone call from a dying man . . . and, finally, the mystery of the missing will. What links these fascinating cases? Only the brilliant deductive powers of Hercule Poirot!
So Big
by Edna FerberWinner of the 1924 Pulitzer Prize, So Big is widely regarded as Edna Ferber's crowning achievement. A rollicking panorama of Chicago's high and low life, this stunning novel follows the travails of gambler's daughter Selina Peake DeJong as she struggles to maintain her dignity, her family, and her sanity in the face of monumental challenges.
The Adventure of the Cheap Flat: A Hercule Poirot Story
by Agatha ChristiePreviously published in the print anthology Poirot Investigates. When a redheaded stranger gossips to party guests that she has rented an amazing apartment at a bargain rate, Poirot smells a rat.
The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb: A Hercule Poirot Story
by Agatha ChristiePreviously published in the print anthology Poirot Investigates. A series of deaths around a pharaoh’s tomb is blamed on an ancient curse, but Poirot knows better.
The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman: A Hercule Poirot Story
by Agatha ChristiePreviously published in the print anthology Poirot Investigates. An Italian count telephones his doctor, screaming, but when help arrives at his hotel room, he is already dead.
The Black Cabinet: A Golden Age Mystery
by Patricia WentworthChloe Dane inherits a fabled ancestral estate—and plunges into deadly danger—in this novel of romance and suspense from the author of the acclaimed Miss Silver Mysteries The lowly assistant to a London dressmaker, Chloe Dane yearns for a new life. She has bittersweet memories of being a carefree child playing hide-and-seek at Danesborough, her family&’s magnificent country estate. Decades later, the ancestral mansion has been restored to its former glory—and Chloe is shocked to discover that she is the sole heir. Danesborough is not the sun-filled, evergreen place she remembers. The trees are bare and the house is shrouded in mist. But the enormous gold-and-black lacquered Chinese cabinet in the drawing room is exactly the same. Chloe&’s childhood imagination created an entire story out of the intricate carvings on the cabinet: a flowing river filled with boats and fishermen and one frightening man she called Mr. Dark. But now, as Chloe begins to uncover Mitchell Dane&’s true motives for bequeathing her the centuries-old manse, she has a very real reason to be afraid: The truth about what&’s hidden in the black cabinet will soon threaten her life.
The Case of the Missing Will: A Hercule Poirot Story
by Agatha ChristiePreviously published in the print anthology Poirot Investigates. When Violet Marsh's late uncle's first will seems to be a prank, she is desperate to find the second one.
The Chocolate Box: A Hercule Poirot Story
by Agatha ChristiePreviously published in the print anthology Poirot’s Early Cases. Poirot investigates a murder in which the only clue is a box of chocolates.
The Dower House Mystery: A Golden Age Mystery
by Patricia WentworthIn this atmospheric tale from the author of the Miss Silver Mysteries, a widow is reunited with her girlhood love in a house haunted by all-too-human ghosts They meet again in the dusk of a ruined garden. Amabel Grey hasn't laid eyes on Julian Forsham in twenty years, not since she gave him up--the man she'd fallen passionately in love with--for the fiancé who needed her. Now an unexpected circumstance brings the British widow and the world-famous scientist together again. Amabel's nineteen-year-old daughter, Daphne, has been invited to join her friends--and the boy she adores--on a trip to Egypt. But she needs two hundred pounds from her mother. George Forsham is offering that exact sum to anyone willing to stay six months at Dower House, the centuries-old estate in the English countryside where Amabel and Julian first met. The fact that the overgrown, sadly neglected house is rumored to be haunted doesn't deter Amabel. Until strange things start happening . . . The mewing of a cat that doesn't exist, the sound of flapping wings, someone crying in the dark. Are restless spirits walking the night? Or is there a rational explanation? Plunged into deadly danger, Amabel could lose her second chance with the man she never stopped loving.
The Fellowship of the Frog (The Inspector Elk Mysteries #1)
by Edgar WallaceAn elusive gang leader and his minions frighten London and frustrate Scotland Yard in this classic crime thriller.The secret organization whose members were known only as &“the Frogs&” was the subject of rumors and jokes—until serious crimes began to occur, one after another. The perpetrators, once caught, were found to bear tattooed frogs on their wrists and kept their mouths firmly shut, and the populace grew terrified of them.The police were frustrated by their fruitless efforts to track down the leader of this strange gang. Then an officer who was working undercover and had finally managed to come face-to-face with the frightening figure was killed.Now it&’s time for Detective Sergeant Elk of Scotland Yard to get involved. Fortunately, despite his shabby clothes, glum demeanor, and utter inability to get himself promoted, he&’s a sharper sleuth than he appears to be . . . From Edgar Wallace, an enormously popular figure in early twentieth-century crime fiction, this is an intriguing tale of a nameless threat and a cop determined to track him down.
The House Without a Key: A Charlie Chan Mystery (The Charlie Chan Mysteries #1)
by Earl Derr BiggersThe first book in the mystery series that served as the basis for the classic films—inspired by a real-life Chinese-Hawaiian police detective. A young man has traveled from Boston all the way to Hawaii to try to convince his aunt to return to their wealthy New England family. Instead, he too finds himself seduced by the islands. But when his aunt is murdered, a shadow falls over the sunny Pacific paradise. Set against the fascinating backdrop of 1920s Waikiki, this novel introduced readers to Asian sleuth Charlie Chan, who was modeled on a real-life Chinese detective in the Honolulu Police Department and would become one of the most famous crime solvers of twentieth-century popular culture. &“Charlie Chan&’s appeal, which depends on his self-effacing charm and trademark aphorisms, remains constant from one case to the next.&” —Kirkus Reviews
The Informer
by Liam O'FlahertyThe classic, gritty, and tragic tale of desperation and betrayal in Ireland that inspired John Ford&’s Academy Award–winning film.Dublin, 1920s. In the aftermath of the Irish Civil War, strong but simpleminded Gypo Nolan is at the end of his rope. Desperate to escape to America with his girlfriend, all he needs is money. Meanwhile, his friend and former comrade Frankie McPhillip is a dedicated member of the IRA—and wanted by the police for murder.When Gypo informs on Frankie in exchange for twenty pounds, his path to freedom is clouded over by his own guilt. But as he squanders his newfound wealth in Dublin&’s pubs and brothels, the Party seeks revenge for Frankie&’s killing. Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, The Informer is a classic of twentieth-century Irish literature with a &“slowly increasing atmosphere of terror, so perfectly unfolded that the book must be ranked very highly indeed. . . . Unforgettable&” (The Sunday Times).
The Layton Court Mystery (The Roger Sheringham Cases)
by Anthony BerkeleyThe renowned British crime writer&’s classic locked-room Golden Age mystery that introduced amateur sleuth Roger Sheringham. A party at Layton Court, the country house of Victor Stanworth, is disrupted when the host is found shot through the forehead in his own library, a suicide as far as the police are concerned. After all, the gun is found in his hand, a note has been left, and the room is locked from the inside. But one of the guests, author Roger Sheringham, has his doubts. The bullet wound is not positioned where it could have been easily self-inflicted. With a house full of partygoers and servants, suspects abound. It will take Sheringham&’s sharp wit and fearless investigating to deduce who brought the festivities to a fatal end. The founder of the Detection Club in London, along with Agatha Christie and other writers, Anthony Berkeley wrote numerous novels, sometimes using the pseudonyms Francis Iles and A. Monmouth Platts. The Layton Court Mystery is his first book in the Roger Sheringham Cases, which includes The Poisoned Chocolates Case and The Silk Stocking Murders, among other titles. &“Certainly, Berkeley&’s short and fascinating career deserves to be saluted. For fans of the classic English crime novel, his books remain enjoyable to this day. Nobody has ever done ironic ingenuity better than Anthony Berkeley.&” —Mystery Scene &“He was one of the most influential crime novelists of the 1920s and 1930s, but has languished somewhat in obscurity since. A troubled, dark, incredibly innovative writer . . .&” —Shedunnit
The Lost Mine: A Hercule Poirot Story
by Agatha ChristiePreviously published in the print anthology Poirot's Early Cases. A Burmese official goes missing in London, as does his very precious cargo.
The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge: A Hercule Poirot Story
by Agatha ChristiePreviously published in the print anthology Poirot Investigates. Poirot tasks his friends with solving a murder that is more like a riddle.
The Red Lamp
by Mary Roberts RinehartA haunted seaside mansion - a series of suspicious deaths...Perfect gothic crime fiction for fans of Shirley Jackson 'Showcases her extraordinary gift for sustaining high levels of tension ... reminiscent of Shirley Jackson ... and she excels at the tantalising tease' Publishers Weekly William Porter has just inherited a seaside manor. As an academic, he doesn't believe the rumours that it is haunted - nor is he suspicious of the circumstances behind the inheritance - after all, lots of people die suddenly from heart attacks, and his uncle Horace was just unlucky. His wife, however, refuses to live in the main house and will only move into the lodge elsewhere on the grounds. And she may be right: soon after they arrive, Porter sees a shadowy figure illuminated by the red glow of Horace's writing lamp, the very light that shone on the scene of his death. Even Porter's scepticism is tested to the limit when a rash of murders occurs across the countryside. And if Porter isn't very careful, he risks implicating himself in the crimes he hopes to solve.
The Red Lamp (An\american Mystery Classic Ser. #0)
by Mary Roberts RinehartA supernatural mystery set in an old seaside house from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author known as the American Agatha Christie. Though he likes to joke about the spirit world, William Porter does not really believe in ghosts. As a professor, he cannot afford to take seriously that which goes bump in the night. But his wife, Jane, is prone to visions, like the one she had last summer about William&’s uncle Horace lying dead on the floor—a dream that came just hours before they got the news that the old man had passed away. A year later, William plans to spend the summer at his recently inherited beachfront property with Jane, but a feeling of psychic dread gives her hesitation, and William will later regret convincing her to go. The house is musty, eerie, and littered with supernatural portents—most chillingly, the faint red light that glows in the wee hours. If they don&’t escape soon, William and his wife may be visiting the spirit world themselves.
The Ringer: Large Print (The Ringer #1)
by Edgar WallaceA notorious assassin returns to London to avenge the death of his sister in this classic crime thriller.Word had come from Australia that the Ringer was dead. The body of the legendary killer had been pulled from Sydney Harbor—or so it was thought.In reality, it is the Ringer&’s sister whose fate is a watery grave. Left in the care of Maurice Meister, a London lawyer for whom she worked as a secretary, she has turned up dead in the Thames—and now the Ringer is on a mission of vengeance.The vigilante walks the streets of the city again, and if the past is any indication, Inspector Wembury of Scotland Yard won&’t have an easy time tracking him down. To complicate matters further, Meister is currently employed by the socially prominent family of the woman Wembury loves . . . The basis for no less than five European films, this suspenseful British novel comes from one the early twentieth century&’s most popular writers of crime fiction.
The Secret of Chimneys (Agatha Christie Signature Edition Ser.)
by Agatha ChristieLittle did Anthony Cade suspect that an errand for a friend would place him at the center of a deadly conspiracy. Drawn into a web of intrigue, he begins to realize that the simple favor has placed him in serious danger. As events unfold, the combined forces of Scotland Yard and the French SÛretÉ gradually converge on Chimneys, the great country estate that hides an amazing secret. . . .
The Veiled Lady: A Hercule Poirot Story
by Agatha ChristiePreviously published in the print anthology Poirot's Early Cases. A woman about to be married is blackmailed by a former flame who threatens to send her fiancé an old love letter she wrote.