Author: Rufus King
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1479404861
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 187
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When a prominent New Yorker is murdered at his home, Lt. Valcour is called in to investigate. This is the first of the Lt. Valcour series, from the same time period (and much in the same spirit) as the Philo Vance mysteries.
Author: Scott Anderson
Publisher: Doubleday Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Church. As compelling as the best fiction, The 4 O'Clock Murders is all the more terrifying because it is true.
Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062073818
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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Sheila Webb expected to find a respectable blind lady waiting for her at 19 Wilbraham Crescent—not the body of a middle-aged man sprawled across the living room floor. But when old Miss Pebmarsh denies sending for her in the first place, or of owning all the clocks that surround the body, it’s clear that they are going to need a very good detective. “This crime is so complicated that it must be quite simple,” declares Hercule Poirot. But there’s a murderer on the loose, and time is ticking away.…
Author: Zenith Brown
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1479417718
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 159
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Slowly I turned to face the hall and the doorway. I waited in an agony of suspense. The great house was as silent as an empty grave, with the pulse of time beating eternally against it; tick, tock; tick, tock; tick, tock... Gradually I relaxed and let my hand drop, until—I shrieked and turned-and raised my hand dripping with blood. I stared at it like a maniac, and then at the thing it had touched...
Author: Patricia Wentworth
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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This mystery thriller features the Paradine family, who experience a most unpleasant start to their New Year as, on the stroke of midnight, the head of the family, Mr James Paradine, is found murdered. It transpires that he has previously upset another family member and that this may have led to his unfortunate demise. Miss Silver, the rather aristocratic detective, is called on to unravel the family secrets and the murder.
Author: Kenneth Fearing
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 9781590171813
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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A classic of American noir, part murder mystery and part black comedy, set in dark corners of corporate New York City. George Stroud is a hard-drinking, tough-talking, none-too-scrupulous writer for a New York media conglomerate that bears a striking resemblance to Time, Inc. in the heyday of Henry Luce. One day, before heading home to his wife in the suburbs, Stroud has a drink with Pauline, the beautiful girlfriend of his boss, Earl Janoth. Things happen. The next day Stroud escorts Pauline home, leaving her off at the corner just as Janoth returns from a trip. The day after that, Pauline is found murdered in her apartment. Janoth knows there was one witness to his entry into Pauline’s apartment on the night of the murder; he knows that man must have been the man Pauline was with before he got back; but he doesn’t know who he was. Janoth badly wants to get his hands on that man, and he picks one of his most trusted employees to track him down: George Stroud, who else? How does a man escape from himself? No book has ever dramatized that question to more perfect effect than The Big Clock, a masterpiece of American noir.
Author: John Bellairs
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101659718
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
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A haunting gothic tale by master mysery writer John Bellairs--soon to be a major motion picture starring Cate Blanchett and Jack Black! "The House With a Clock in Its Walls will cast its spell for a long time."--The New York Times Book Review When Lewis Barnavelt, an orphan. comes to stay with his uncle Jonathan, he expects to meet an ordinary person. But he is wrong. Uncle Jonathan and his next-door neighbor, Mrs. Zimmermann, are both magicians! Lewis is thrilled. At first, watchng magic is enough. Then Lewis experiments with magic himself and unknowingly resurrects the former owner of the house: a woman named Selenna Izard. It seems that Selenna and her husband built a timepiece into the walls--a clock that could obliterate humankind. And only the Barnavelts can stop it!
Author: Erle Stanley Gardner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal defense lawyers
Languages : en
Pages : 233
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"Perry Mason... murder... and an alarm clock. Jack Hardisty was like a firecracker trying to act like a cannon. He embezzled $10,000 from his father-in-law's bank, and then stole another $90,000 for good measure. Jack didn't last long with that kind of money. Somebody shot a nice clean hole through him and dumped his body in a log cabin. ... Lots of people couldn't stomach Jack Hardisty. His wife hated him and was unfaithful. His father-in-law thought he was the scum of the earth. Others thought he was less. It took a buried alarm clock, merrily ticking away the wrong time, to break the case ... in a startling and weird a solution as Perry Mason ever handed the police!" --
Author: Fergus Hume
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752406704
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 154
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Reproduction of the original: The Clock Struck One by Fergus Hume
Author: Patricia Meredith
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781393892281
Category : Murder
Languages : en
Pages : 333
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"Archie Prescot has traveled across the country to design the now-iconic Spokane clock tower for the new Great Northern Railroad Depot. When his talent for creating unique clock chimes connects him with a local patroness, he is thrilled, until she is discovered dead in the workshop of his new colleague. Her grand home on the South Hill provides ample suspects, as Archie works with his lodgers, Detective Carew and his twin brother, to prove his fellow inventor and himself innocent of the crime. While on the hunt for the murderer, romance crops up when a young lady crosses his path with a mysterious past of her own. Six intersecting storylines create a cohesive look at a convoluted murder that will require all points of view to discover the truth ..."--Amazon
