Rachel Syms is a beautiful actress, and one of her latest movies was inspired by the legend of Ulysses. Filmed on location on the isle of Corfu, she fell in love with her co-star Anthony Stamp, just as their respective characters, Nausicaa and Ulysses, were rumoured to have done on that very location. But Rachel is already married to a man named George Portman, so their love must remain secret. How very convenient, then, when Portman is discovered dead as the result of an apparent accident!
The great detective was baffled by a misfit piece in the puzzle of a millionaire’s murder.
Балтимор потрясен чередой жутких убийств, и все их связывает одно: у тела жертвы преступник оставляет зловещий автограф — таинственное слово, выведенное кровью. Но Эдгар По обнаруживает еще одно мрачное обстоятельство: похоже, все это имеет какое-то отношение к нему лично. Таинственная сеть стягивается все туже, и выхода из нее, похоже, не будет уже НИКОГДА.
Роман-загадка Гарольда Шехтера «Nevermore» — впервые на русском языке. Удастся ли вам, читатель, отыскать намеки на известные произведения Эдгара По, основанные на реальных событиях, и догадаться о подлинной личности убийцы раньше самого автора?
Stāsts "Nezvērs tumsā" ir psiholoģisks detektīvs, kurā noziegums liek atklāts ar dažādu loģisku prāta spriedumu palīdzību. Tā tā autors ir Rampo Edogava, kurš tiek uzskatīts par detektīvžanra pamatlicēju Japānā.
“Gas!” Parry Percival said under his breath. Martyn, who thought the Doctor was doing well, glanced indignantly at Parry and was astonished to see that he looked frightened. “ ‘—therefore,’ ” the Doctor was saying arrogantly, “ ‘to beg will not become me—’ ”
“Gas!” said an imperative voice off-stage and someone else ran noisily round the back of the set.
And then Martyn smelled it. Gas…
A murdered blackmailer haunts a captain of industry.
When Ross Harte gets into a screaming match with his fiance’s father, millionaire Dudley Wolff, the old man cuts Harte’s beloved out of his will. As far as Wolff is concerned, this is an empty threat, because he plans to live forever. He has a team of scientists working to extend his life as long as possible, and should they fail, a renowned psychic will contact him after his death. Wolff is obsessed with death’s mysteries, and he is about to get a first-hand look.
When a detective attempts to blackmail him, Wolff punches him in the jaw so hard that it stops the crook’s heart. Fearing scandal, Wolff and his staff bury the body in the woods. When the dead blackmailer comes back to haunt him, the millionaire is forced to call on Harte and his friend the Great Merlini, conjurer and sleuth, to banish the spirits that have brought death to his door.
The U.S. army wants Nero Wolfe urgently, but the arrogant, gourmandizing, sedentary sleuth refuses the call to duty. It takes his perambulatory confidential assistant, Archie Goodwin, to titillate Wolfe’s taste for crime with two malevolent morsels: a corpse that won’t rest in peace and a sinister “accident” involving national security. So as Goodwin lays the bait on the wrong side of the law, Wolfe sets the traps to catch a pair of wily killers.