Книги жанра зарубежные детективы
Новый остросюжетный триллер, который объединяет в себе лучшие черты скандинавских детективов. Настоящий подарк всем ценителям мрачных захватывающих историй с сильной психологической составляющей. В озере высоко в горах находят труп девушки в балетном костюме. Рядом полицейские обнаруживают страницу из книги «Братья Львиное Сердце» и фотокамеру, в объективе которой процарапана цифра «4». Вскоре выя…
Все детективы и триллеры Болдаччи стали бестселлерами. Но серия об Уилле Роби – самая популярная и любимая миллионами читателей по всему миру, по-настоящему запавших на ее главного героя – настоящего мужчину с несгибаемым характером и стальными мускулами, но при этом с нежным и горячим сердцем, остро реагирующим на несправедливость. Уилл Роби – лучший ликвидатор на службе у правительства. Его дело…
Прямо сейчас, пока вы читаете этот текст, сотни серийных убийц разгуливают на свободе. А что, если один из них – ваш муж? Что бы сделали вы, узнав, что в течение многих лет спите в одной постели с монстром? Чудовищный монстр, бывший муж Гвен Проктор, в течение долгого времени убивавший молодых женщин, – мертв. Теперь она пытается наладить новую жизнь для своей семьи. Но это невероятно трудно. Ведь…
За полвека писательской деятельности британский автор детективов Рене Брабазон Реймонд (1906–1985) опубликовал около девяноста криминальных романов и сменил несколько творческих псевдонимов. Самый прославленный из них – Джеймс Хэдли Чейз. «Я, как ищейка, беру след и чую, чего хочет читатель. И что он купит» – так мэтр объяснял успех своих романов, охотно раскрывая золотоносный секрет: читателей пр…
Another classic Ngaio Marsh novel.At first it looked as if Sybil Foster had intentionally left the world: with two husbands dead, a daughter marrying the wrong man and – it later appeared – a debilitating disease, it was no wonder she took her own life.But no one believed she was the type – especially Chief Superintendent Roderick Alleyn. For the field was ripe with unfortunate engagements – one o…
A classic Ngaio Marsh novelYoung Rickie Alleyn had come to the Channel Islands to try to write, but village life was tedious – until he saw the stablehand in the ditch. Dead, it seemed, from an unlucky jump.It might have ended there had Rickie not noticed some strange and puzzling things. But Rickie’s father, Chief Superintendent Roderick Alleyn, had been discreetly summoned to the scene, and when…
Often regarded as her most interesting book and set on New Zealand’s North Island, Ngaio Marsh herself considered this to be her best-written novel.It was a horrible death – Maurice Questing was lured into a pool of boiling mud and left there to die.Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn, far from home on a wartime quest for German agents, knew that any number of people could have killed him: the English…
Murder and mayhem strike when a small group of people are confined to an island in the middle of a New Zealand lake in one of Ngaio Marsh’s last – and best – novels.The luxury mansion on New Zealand's Lake Waihoe is the ideal place for a world-famous soprano to rest after her triumphant tour. Among the other guests are Chief Superintendent Alleyn and his wife – but theirs is not a social visit. Wh…
A touring theatre company in New Zealand forms the basis of one of Marsh’s most ambitious and innovative novelsNew Zealand theatrical manager Alfred Meyer is planning a surprise for his wife's birthday – a jeroboam of champagne descending gently onto the stage after the performance. But, as Roderick Alleyn witnesses, something goes horribly wrong. Is the death the product of Maori superstitions – …
An elderly stroke victim dies without having arranged a will…Beautiful young Elinor Carlisle stood serenely in the dock, accused of the murder of Mary Gerrard, her rival in love. The evidence was damning: only Elinor had the motive, the opportunity and the means to administer the fatal poison.Yet, inside the hostile courtroom, only one man still presumed Elinor was innocent until proven guilty: He…
A typist uncovers a man’s body from behind the sofa…As instructed, stenographer Sheila Webb let herself into the house at 19 Wilbraham Crescent. It was then that she made a grisly discovery: the body of a dead man sprawled across the living room floor.What intrigued Poirot about the case was the time factor. Although in a state of shock, Sheila clearly remembered having heard a cuckoo clock strike…
Twelve stories from the celebrated author of one of the most famous mystery classics ever written, Trent's Last Case.Philip Trent is an artist, a journalist, and an urbane unraveller of highly problematical crimes. Here the unshakable sleuth appears in twelve tales of misadventure, where the crimes that he investigates range from fraud and embezzlement to criminal assault and murder, yet they all …
A full-length Hercule Poirot novel, adapted from Agatha Christie’s stage play by Charles OsborneSir Claud Amory’s revolutionary new formula for a powerful explosive is stolen. Locking his house-guests in the library, Sir Claud switches off the lights to allow the thief to replace the formula, no questions asked. When the lights come on, he is dead, and Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings have to u…
The very first collection of superb short stories featuring Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings…First 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 Minis…
An elderly spinster has been poisoned in her country home…Everyone blamed Emily’s accident on a rubber ball left on the stairs by her frisky terrier. But the more she thought about her fall, the more convinced she became that one of her relatives was trying to kill her.On April 17th she wrote her suspicions in a letter to Hercule Poirot. Mysteriously he didn’t receive the letter until June 28th… b…