Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Mystery & Detective - Collections & Anthologies

Neil Gaiman. Laura Lippman. Lee Child. These are just three of eighteen superstar authors who provide fascinating, thrilling, and utterly original perspectives on Sherlock Holmes in this one-of-a-kind book. These modern masters place the sleuth in suspenseful new situations, create characters who solve Holmesian mysteries, contemplate Holmes in his later years, fill gaps in the Sherlock Holmes Canon, and reveal their own personal obsessions with...

On the 12th floor of the Acme Building, on a cold February day in St. Paul, Guy Noir looks down the barrel of a loaded revolver in the hands of geezer gangster Joey Roast Beef who is demanding to hear what lucrative scheme Guy is cooking up with stripper-turned-women's-studies-professor Naomi Fallopian. Everyone wants to know-Joey, Lieutenant McCafferty, reporter Gene Williker, Guy s ex-girlfriend Sugar O'Toole, the despicable Larry B. Larry, the dreamboat Scarlett Anderson, Mr. Kress of the FDA...

Christina a girl from an extremely abusive home, where her father (a gunsmith), and his girlfriend Leah share the same sociopathic nature and idealism. After Christina s mother suddenly passes the abuse becomes unbearable. Christina who feels like the unloved finds herself seduced by one of her father s friends, in fact a good friend of the family for many years, known as Uncle Frank. Once Christina falls for Frank and they make a plan to escape from her father s home, is when things become unglued and Christina starts to second guess herself to appease Frank amidst a whole new lifestyle....

Christina a girl from an extremely abusive home, where her father (a gunsmith), and his girlfriend Leah share the same sociopathic nature and idealism. After Christina s mother suddenly passes the abuse becomes unbearable. Christina who feels like the unloved finds herself seduced by one of her father s friends, in fact a good friend of the family for many years, known as Uncle Frank. Once Christina falls for Frank and they make a plan to escape from her father s home, is when things become unglued and Christina starts to second guess herself to appease Frank amidst a whole new lifestyle....

The Queen of Mystery has come to Harper Collins Agatha Christie, the acknowledged mistress of suspense--creator of indomitable sleuth Miss Marple, meticulous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and so many other unforgettable characters--brings her entire oeuvre of ingenious whodunits, locked room mysteries, and perplexing puzzles to William Morrow Paperbacks. A sterling collection of short stories featuring Poirot and others, The Golden Ball and Other Stories is a riveting compendium of shocking secrets, dastardly crimes, and brilliant detection--a showcase of Dame Agatha at her...

"Constant action and top-notch writing."
--New York Times

A Palm Beach playboy who amuses himself with murder finds himself on a collision course with a vacationing Motown cop in Elmore Leonard's Split Images--a gripping and electrifying example of noir gold from "the coolest, hottest writer in America" (Chicago Tribune). Split Images is Grand Master Leonard at the top of his game, a bravura example of how exemplary crime fiction is done by a writer who stands tall among the all-time mystery greats: John D. MacDonald, Dashiell Hammett, James...

"No one is Leonard's equal," declares the Chicago Tribune--and anyone who might doubt it would only have to read Elmore Leonard's riveting noir classic, Unknown Man #89, to become a true believer.

The twisty tale of a Detroit process server whose search for a missing stockholder leads him into more serious peril than he ever imagined possible, Unknown Man #89 is a gourmet stew of mystery, suspense, and double and triple cross, peppered with the razor sharp dialogue for which Grand Master Leonard is justifiably famous.

Exhilarating old-school crime...