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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…
«Смерть – вот за чем я охочусь. Именно она помогает мне зарабатывать на жизнь…» Джек Макэвой вовсе не рисуется; он криминальный репортер, и броня цинизма ему необходима, но трагическая гибель брата, полицейского детектива, пробивает в ней брешь. Согласно официальной версии, брат застрелился из-за нераскрытого дела. Но Джек не верит в версию самоубийства, хотя все улики налицо, даже предсмертная за…
«Смерть – вот за чем я охочусь. Именно она помогает мне зарабатывать на жизнь…» Джек Макэвой вовсе не рисуется; он криминальный репортер, и броня цинизма ему необходима, но трагическая гибель брата, полицейского детектива, пробивает в ней брешь. Согласно официальной версии, брат застрелился из-за нераскрытого дела. Но Джек не верит в версию самоубийства, хотя все улики налицо, даже предсмертная за…
Захватывающий, почти документальный отчёт о страшных событиях, происходивших на Шпицбергене во время войны, производит сильное впечатление. История начинается в 1941 году, во время немецкой оккупации Норвегии. На самой северной её окраине, в глухом и малонаселённом Сёр-Варангере, за считаные месяцы концентрируются колоссальные военные силы – сотни тысяч немецких и австрийских солдат. Обстановка бл…
They’re racing to the rescue… And a possible chance at love!When a SWAT team is kidnapped by an unknown assailant, Blake Sullivan and Donna Waters must race to the rescue. This dynamic duo need to put their differences aside to save the day and discover a hot, life-changing connection!
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…
There are plenty of people in Serenade with motive to murder Teresa Donovan.But no one doubts that her estranged husband Cole killed her. No one except FBI profiler Jamie. Though their electrifying attraction threatens her objectivity, Jamie’s gut tells her the magnetic tycoon is innocent. And together they’ll stop at nothing to clear his name.
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 …
Her career divided their marriage… but not their attractionTexas Ranger Heath Murray and his dedicated FBI agent wife, Kendall Barlow have been estranged for months. But when their young daughter is kidnapped as a pawn, they only have each other to turn to. Together they must save their daughter… and their marriage.