Des mystérieux assassinats frappent les employés d'une grande compagnie aérienne. Comme seul indice, le meurtrier laisse sur chacune de ses victimes un billet de loto. Pour le commissaire Le Scouarec'h, il s'agit tout à la fois de démasquer l'assassin, de deviner son mobile et de faire cesser l'hécatombe ... more »

a selection from Chapter 1: Mollison turned his heavy car from the traffic-burdened main street into the comparative solitude of a backwash of asphalt alley that split two buildings built of old pink brick. Even in the way he drove his car, Lou Morgan thought, Mollison had a flamboyance, a dash. He was ... more »

Best-selling British author, E. Phillips Oppenheim (1866-1946). Oppenheim published over 150 books and countless magazine stories between 1884 and 1946. While most often identified as a mystery writer, Oppenheim's novels range from spy thrillers to romance. All of them have, however, an undertone of ... more »

The only way a trigger trio of crooks could unlock the mystery of the missing evidence was to use Detective Nason's body as a coffin key. a selection from the story's opening: RICHTER looked over his beer at me, his mouth still on the rim of the glass, his little agate eyes squinting from under blond ... more »

This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features the table of contents linked to every story. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the Kindle, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic readers. It is formatted to display on all electronic ... more »

THE CLASSIC ADVENTURES OF A FEMALE SHERLOCK HOLMES Return to the era of the gaslight and the Hansom Cab.  Encounter murder Victorian-style in this classic first published in 1893.  Loveday Brooke was one of the most popular of the fictional female detectives to rise to popularity on the wave ... more »

... . The Duc de Nevers · VIII. A Finder of Missing Heirs · IX. A Murder Conspiracy · X. A Flight Into Texas · XI. A Case of Circumstantial Evidence *** PREFACE: The narratives composing this book are literally true stories of crime. In a majority of the cases the author conducted the prosecutions himself ... more »

The plea came to Malcolm Ross the very night he'd offered to help: You said you would like to help me if I needed it; and I believe you meant what you said. The time has come sooner than I expected. I am in dreadful trouble, and do not know where to turn, or to whom to apply. An attempt has, I fear, ... more »

Florida Grange, Leonard's drop-dead gorgeous lawyer and Hap's former lover, has vanished in Klan-infested Grovetown while in pursuit of the real story behind the jailhouse death of a legendary bluesman's blackguard son. Has she been murdered too? Fearing the worst, Hap and Leonard set out to do the kind ... more »

... SPLENDID THEORY · CHAPTER XVI. WHERE LIPS UNITE · CHAPTER XVII. SUPREME VISIONS · CHAPTER XVIII. THE CHATEAU DE PRE-BONY · CHAPTER XIX. THE FORMULA *** a selection from CHAPTER I - BERGEBONNETTE: FOR me the strange story dates back to that autumn day when my uncle Dorgeroux appeared, staggering and ... more »

a selection from the first chapter: There was a card party at the rooms of Naroumoff, of the Horse Guards. The long winter night passed away imperceptibly, and it was five o'clock in the morning before the company sat down to supper. Those who had won ate with a good appetite; the others sat staring ... more »

CONTENTS: · CHAPTER I. AT THE AIRPORT · CHAPTER II. WHERE IS THE GHOST? · CHAPTER III. THE HARRIDAN · CHAPTER IV. SUDDEN DEATH · CHAPTER V. MAD DOCTOR · CHAPTER VI. ARSENIC · CHAPTER VII. AN AMBITIOUS WOMAN · CHAPTER VIII. GILLIAN DECIDES · CHAPTER IX. DAMAGING TESTIMONY · CHAPTER X. ACCUSED ... more »