Детективы стр. 169

"Nelio is dead. And however unlikely it may sound, it seemed to me that he died without once being afraid. How can that be possible?"-from Chronicler of the WindsWorld...

Far from the shogun's court at Edo, Most Honourable Investigator Sano Ichiro begins the most challenging case of his career. Upon the insistence of his strong-willed and...

This well-drawn tale of espionage is set in West Berlin, 15 years after the end of WW II. Quiller, a British agent who works without gun, cover or contacts, takes on a...

It is June 1694, and Reiko, the beautiful wife of Sano Ichiro; Reiko's friend, Midori; the shogun's mother; and Lady Yanagisawa, wife of the shogun's powerful...

Althea Graham's hypochondriac mother seldom visitsthe gazebo- yet she is found dead in it one morning.The Graham estate had once enjoyed a rural view, butnow the grounds...

Hired to trace Anna Ball, who has vanished, Miss Maud Silver encounters an eccentric art colony, bank robberies and counterfeiting. As with other Miss Silver mysteries,...

Detective Sigrid Harald finds herself involved with a variety of colorful and offbeat suspects as she investigates a murder in the art department of a prestigious...

Things had never been quite the same at Latter End since Lois had taken over. Suddenly life seemed to be an endless succession of bitter family rows, which Lois...

The Rosemary and Thyme series, to which this new Peter Lovesey story belongs, has been adapted for TV in the U.K., with Felicity Kendal and Pam Ferris in the starring...

Необходимо признать, что многие считали мистера Понда скучным человеком. Он питал пристрастие к длинным речам — не от самонадеянности, а от старомодности литературных...

«Поэт и безумцы» — поздний сборник рассказов Честертона, о котором Наталья Трауберг говорила, что их «можно любить больше, хотя бывает это редко.

Парадоксы мистера Понда были весьма своеобразными. ... Уоттон поглядел на него, но решил, облегченно вздохнув, что все это не более чем метафизика. Гилберт Кийт Честертон

Журнал «Наука и жизнь», 2011 г., № 4, стр. 136-138

Цветы просто прекрасны. Они радуют нас, привносят краски в серую жизнь. Цветы любят все. Но свои цветы всегда красивее чужих. Свои цветы всегда ухожены и удобрены....

Inspector Alan Banks' ninth case sees him investigating the murder of a young racist. A man who, it seems, has lived by the sword and now died by the sword. But it is...

The eighth novel in the critically acclaimed Inspector Alan Banks series. Detective Inspector Banks had seen crimes just as savage in London, but somehow the murder of a...

Number 35 The Hill is an ordinary house in an ordinary street. But it is about to become infamous. When two police constables are sent to the house following a report of...

On a balmy June night, Kirsten, a young university student, is strolling home through a silent moonlit park when she is viciously attacked.When she awakes in the...

In the blistering, dry summer, the waters of Thornfield Reservior have been depleted, revealing the ruins of the small Yorkshire village that lay at its bottom, bringing...

Давно пересеклись пути-дорожки бывшего спецназовца Ролана Тихонова и бандита Волока. Нужда заставила Ролана стать киллером в банде авторитета. Но, как известно,...

The nude photo of a teenage runaway shows up on a pornographic website, and the girl’s father turns to Detective Chief Inspector Alan banks for help. But these are...

The chilling new Inspector Banks novel from the bestselling author of Playing With Fire. When he receives a mysterious and disturbing telephone call from his brother...

Fire – It consumes futures and pasts in a terrified heartbeat, devouring damning secrets while leaving even greater mysteries in the ashes. The night sky is ablaze as...

It was rumoured that Hollywood stars would go down on their knees for the privilege of being photographed by the good-looking, brilliantly talented and ultra-fashionable...

On his train journey back to Scotland for a well-earned rest, Inspector Grant learns that a fellow passenger, one Charles Martin, has been found dead. It looks like a...

В высшем обществе Лондона орудует неуловимый шантажист. А единственный человек, которому удалось напасть на его след – сэр Роберт Госпелл, – гибнет при загадочных...

THE DESCENT INTO HELL IS NOT ALWAYS VERTICAL…Sam Hudson, a reputable San Diego attorney, learns this when the authorities wrongfully convict him of the brutal rape and...

Andrew Vachss returns with a mesmerizing novel about a hard-core thief who's about to embark on a job that will alter his life forever. Sugar’s a pure...

A triple-crown winner of mystery’s most coveted awards, Rick Riordan brings his Texas-style take on the crime thriller to an island paradise where ex-P.I. Tres Navarre...

Третій том повного видання оповідань про Шерлока Холмса українською мовою.Художнє оформлення О. Мачинського.

Marmion and Keedy return for a third time in the acclaimed Home Front Detective series.

As thousands of Brits are fighting on the Front Line, a new breed of...

March 1934. Revered mystery writer Josephine Tey is traveling from Scotland to London for the final week of her play Richard of Bordeaux, the surprise hit of the...

It was April in Rome, and gathered together in the church of San Tommaso in Pallario was the kind of varied group of people that can only meet on a tour. They were there...

A model murder… where a famous painter Agatha Troy, R.A., makes her appearance.

On vacation in New Zealand, Inspector Alleyn meets a theater troupe engaged in a real-life drama more killing than anything they’ve ever staged. When the producer is...

Moving into Chawton Cottage, Jane Austen gets an unexpected and mysterious Bengal chest as a legacy. But before she has time to study its contents, a corpse is found…

Повесть датского писателя Е. Амдрупа «В чьих руках был нож» изображает беспринципных аморальных деятелей провинциального городка, которые идут на преступление, чтобы...

В книгу вошли произведения современных мастеров детективного жанра —… американца Мартина Кейдина…, посвященные борьбе с мафией и терроризмом.До книжки увійшли твори...

General Carlyon is killed in what first appears to be a freak accident. But the general's wife readily confesses that she did it. With the trial only days away the...

A woman suffers amnesia as she regains consciousness to find herself standing on cellar steps with a dead girl down below. As she flees she runs into Miss Silver, who...