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Повість “Два денних рейси” присвячена викриттю працівниками міліції розкрадачів соціалістичної власності.
Un home apareix mort al seu compartiment durant el trajecte de l'Orient Express. La cambra, bloquejada per dins, semblava infranquejable; tot i això, les punyalades a...
A strange terror coiled in the shadows behind the brooding elegance of the huge chateau. It lay there like some dark and twisted thing – waiting, watching, ready to...
The Sommita lay spread-eagled on her back across a red counterpane. The bosom of her red biblical dress had been torn down to the waist and under her left breast,...
It is Midsummer's Eve. Three young friends meet in a wood to act out an elaborate masque. But unknown to them, they are being watched. With a bullet each, all three are...
Featuring the famous Commander Adam Dalgliesh, Devices and Desires is a thrilling and insightfully crafted novel of fallible people caught in a net of secrets,...
At a grand Reykjavik hotel the doorman has been repeatedly stabbed in the dingy basement room he called home. It is only a few days before Christmas and he was preparing...
Also published as “Jar City”.When a lone septuagenarian is murdered in his apartment in the Nordurmyri district of Reykjavik, detective inspector Erlendur Sveinsson is...
The Grand Master returns in prize-winning formGeoffrey Mason did it for the money. It is obvious that his client Julian Trent is guilty, and it's about time rich boy...
After a home dye job ruins her hair, Agatha Raisin, the prickly yet lovable amateur sleuth, turns to the wonderful new hairdresser in the neighboring town for help. And...
The stark naked body was lying in the tub. Not unsual for a proper bath, but highly irregular for murder — especially with a pair of gold pince-nez deliberately perched...
Він мужній, безстрашний, безжалісний — справжній сучасний герой. Життя для нього — війна. Він працює у приватному детективному агентстві й розслідує найскладніші та...
Він мужній, безстрашний, безжалісний — справжній сучасний герой. Життя для нього — війна. Він працює у приватному детективному агентстві й розслідує найскладніші та...
Пригодницькі твори письменника з Німецької Демократичної Республіки Петера Адамса зажили широкої популярності у читачів багатьох країн. Вони захоплюють не лише гостротою...
В политическом детективе шведского писателя П. Вале преступником оказывается государственный аппарат, уничтоживший целую группу прогрессивных журналистов, которых до тех...
Paulina Paine is deaf, but her ability to lip-read is astonishing. So two men who met one day during an art exhibition did not realize that the woman sitting out of...
"Peter Brunold has a bloodshot glass eye to use the "morning after". It is distinctive, closely identified with him, and thus quite a handicap when a corpse is found...
Silver BlazeThe Yellow FaceThe Stockbroker's ClerkThe "Gloria Scott"The Musgrave RitualThe Reigate PuzzleThe Crooked ManThe Resident PatientThe Greek InterpreterThe...
На этот раз госпоже Рамотсве предстоит открыть тайну неверных жен и вывести на чистую воду служанку своего жениха. В этой остроумной и занимательной книге мы узнаем и о...
СОДЕРЖАНИЕРассказы о саперахВ тылу врагаНаедине со смертьюПроклятый дзотПрыжок через невозможноеПовестиНа прифронтовой станцииЧто происходит в тишинеВзрыв произойдет...
Judge Dee must solve three complex mysteries in this case. Poisoned plums, secret messages in a scroll picture, passionate love letters and a murderer with a penchant...
A story of drama and intrigue set on the sinister side of the international racing circuit. Tor Kelsey, an undercover agent for the Jockey Club's Security Service trails...
There’s more than blood and bone beneath the skin… The victim, a nondescript “numbers cruncher,” died horribly just yards away from his terrified wife and daughter,...
Starred Review. While Miles's patients start remarking about loved ones not seeming to be themselves, he merely chalks it up to paranoia. However, when he becomes...
After a six-year absence from the bestseller lists, Dick Francis roared out of the gate with 2006's Under Orders, demonstrating once again every ounce of his famed...
Inspector Thomas Lynley of Scotland Yard, who first appeared in "A Great Deliverance", investigates the murder of a playwright at a Scottish country house hotel, where...
Ingram Sandy had been lured to the Greek island of Thera by a father she had never known, an archaeologist scorned for his obsession with Atlantis. Now, as the island's...
Pauline Walks the Plank..A confirmed landlubber, insurance fraud p.i. Pauline Sokol's never heard the call of the sea – or if she has, she didn't pay attention. But now...
This is the most disappointing Robin Cook novel I've read. The novel's protagonist, internest Dr. Jason Howard, is a middle-aged widower who sold his practice and...
Murder and mystery reach epidemic proportions when a devastating plague sweeps the country.Dr. Marissa Blumenthal of the Atlanta Centers for Disease Control...
Inspector Singh is home – and how he wishes he wasn’t. His wife nags him at breakfast and his superiors are whiling away their time by giving him his usual ‘you’re a...
Класик швейцарської літератури, прозаїк, драматург, лауреат міжнародних і національних літературних премій: Мольєра (1957), Шиллера (1959) і ін. Багату творчу спадщину...
У пригодницькій повісті “Веста” не знає пощади” відомий польський письменник Микола Козакевич викривав підступні дії ворогів нової Польщі, які намагаються підірвати...
В новому романі відомого українського прозаїка розповідається про таємниче вбивство у Києві на вулиці Воровського, про мільйони в руках естрадної співачки, про кохання...
Al detective Harry Bosch, recién incorporado al Departamento de Homicidios de la policía de Los Ángeles tras una baja voluntaria, Ie cae un trabajito rutinario. En el...
"Two for the Lions," by Lindsey Davis, takes place in A.D. 73. Lindsey Davis' sleuth – informer Marcus Didius Falco – admits he needs a partner and so teams up (to work...
When Lila Dryden is discovered standing over the dead body of her irritating fiance with a dagger in her hand, Miss Silver is called in to investigate.
In the comfortable suburbs of Los Angeles an affluent Jewish family disappears. The father's trade is diamonds, a risky international business. Sergeant Pete Decker...