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Who killed Eric Davenport? A senior mathematics professor at Underhill College has been found dead in his office, the victim of murder. At Underhill, a small liberal arts college with a pricy tuition and a pampered student body, all of the students are close to their professors. But at least one loved Eric Davenport in a deeply inappropriate fashion. Some hated him. And then there is the faculty at war with itself. And the idiotic administration. And the twin boys who live next to campus. And what’s with all those praying mantises?

A rash of poison pen letters has enveloped the sleepy English village of Walmsley Parva in cloud of suspicion and paranoia. But when rampant aspersions culminate in murder, enquiry agents Beryl Helliwell and Edwina Davenport must stamp out the evil-minded epistles....

Ein rätselhafter Fall kommt dem ermittelnden Briefträger ins Haus geflattert ... Sullys Cousin Serge hat ein neues Hobby: Hühner! Doch wer, verflixt nochmal, schmuggelt ständig weiteres Federvieh ins Gehege? Sully hat allerdings keine Zeit, sich darum zu kümmern, denn in der nahegelegenen Ferienanlage wird eine junge Frau ermordet aufgefunden. Sie trug einen blutroten Drohbrief bei sich ... Ehrensache, dass Sully als Briefträger Claires Ermittlungen unterstützt!

Carpenter Whitney Whitaker and her cousin Buck are no strangers to murder. After all, they’ve encountered corpses on their properties before. But this is the first time they’d decided to take a chance on a property where two suspicious deaths have already occurred. Most buildings on the former boarding school property will be repurposed for an upscale retirement community, but the developer has no use for the headmaster’s house given its violent history. The headmaster and his wife were killed there decades earlier, their deaths remaining unsolved to this day.

The Surrays and their five children form a prolific writing machine, with scores of treatises, reviews and crime thrillers published under their family name. Following a convergence of the whole household at their Oxfordshire home, Ruth—the middle sister—decides to spend some weeks there recovering from the pressures of the writing life. Their next return is heralded by the tragic news that Ruth has taken her life after an evening at the Surrays' hosting a set of publishers and writers, one of whom is named as Ruth's literary executor in the will she left behind.

La detective policial Sarah Collins investigará la muerte de un policía veterano y una joven inmigrante. La principal testigo, una agente de policía en entrenamiento, ha escapado. Sarah pronto se verá buscando respuestas dentro de su mismo departamento de policía, algo que puede costarle su carrera y mucho más.

London, 1878. Als die junge Sängerin Pauline Westray in einem Fotoatelier überraschend stirbt, stehen der Fotograf Clarence Fox und seine Ehefrau Mabel vor einem Rätsel - war die Praline, die sie kurz vor ihrem Tod aß, vergiftet? Während die Polizei keine Erklärung für den Tod finden kann und den Fall bald als natürlichen Tod zu den Akten legt, kann Mabel, die die junge Frau kannte, das nicht glauben. Mabel und Clarence beginnen, weitere Nachforschungen anzustellen. Schon bald stoßen sie auf mehr als nur einen Verdächtigen aus Miss Westrays Umfeld.

Sugar Creek Gap is a Southern small town where everyone puts their differences aside in order to come together for the greater good of the cozy, close-knit community. But when a citizen, Jeff Faulkner, goes missing from the annual Sugar Creek Gap High School fundraiser, the rumor mill starts to turn faster and faster, churning up the past. Bernadette Butler, a local mail carrier, hears all the gossip swirling around while delivering the mail on route. Bernie can't help but collect clues with all the gossip flowing faster than she can deliver the mail.

Dopo un gravissimo incidente il pilota Jerry Burton decide di trascorrere un periodo di riposo a Lymstok, un piccolo paese nel quale la vita scorre fin troppo monotona, insieme all'esuberante sorella Joanna. Presto però la vita dei due, come quella di molti altri abitanti del villaggio, viene stravolta da una serie di lettere anonime. Queste strane missive all'inizio sembrano più assurde che nocive ma, alla fine, provocano ben due morti. Chi, fra gli irreprensibili abitanti della piccola comunità, è il responsabile?

Questo autore di thriller racconta di un'investigatrice che, non contenta di rispondere alla piccola posta di una rivista femminile, entra in contatto con la malavita londinese, forse spinta da motivi sentimentali. Ma non aspettatevi un romanzetto giallorosa, anche se potreste essere ingannati dal tono brillante: il noir è in agguato dietro ad ogni strada, come può capitare a Londra.

The over 800 radio broadcasts summarized in this book combine exciting, high-technology advancements of the 1940s with high adventure! This is why Captain Midnight riveted over 20 million people - equally among youths and adults - to their radios around the globe. It's also why many fans went on to become career aviators. Originally written by military pilot Robert M. Burtt, and recovered by screenwriter and novelist Leonard Zane, these post-WWII thrills are back! So come climb aboard prop and jet planes, and haaaapppyyy laaandiiiings!

Judah Cannon is the middle son of the notorious Cannon clan led by Sherwood, its unflinching and uncompromising patriarch. When Judah returns to his rural hometown of Silas, Florida, after a stint in prison, he is determined to move forward and live it clean with his childhood best friend and newly discovered love, Ramey Barrow. Everything soon spirals out of control, though, when a phone call from Sherwood ensnares Judah and Ramey in a complicated web of thievery, brutality, and betrayal.

After his father passes, James returns home and finds out that his younger brother has become ensnared in a deadly race against the mafia and needs his protection.

Un serial killer è in azione nella città di Richmond: già tre donne sono morte, violentate e strangolate nelle loro camere da letto. I delitti avvengono sempre di sabato, prima dell'alba. Kay Scarpetta sa che il sanguinario killer può tornare a colpire in qualunque momento e non può escludere alcuna ipotesi. Nemmeno quella di essere la prossima vittima.

In ihrem ersten gemeinsamen Fall stoßen Liesl und ihre Freundin Barbara auf das beneidenswert schöne Hinscheiden der Öder Chorleiterin Magdalena Schamberger. Und als dann prompt noch jemand beim Leichenschmaus der Dahingeschiedenen dahinstirbt, ist für Liesl alles klar. Ganz Öd ist ein einziger Sündenpfuhl, den es auszuheben gilt. Dabei kommt Vergangenes zutage, was die Gegenwart ganz schön zum Wackeln bringt...

This sixth volume of The Greatest Mysteries of All Time offers a variety of works by some of the most lauded writers in the field of suspense and literature.

1911, on a winter's night in arid New South Wales wool country, mounted trooper Augustus Hawkins discovers the bodies of three young people. They are scions of the richest family in the district, savagely murdered on a road that Hawkins should have been patrolling, had he not been busy bedding the local schoolteacher.

When Mark Hartmann is asked to perform a post-mortem on a lab assistant killed by cancer, everything looks straightforward. But his initial findings are surprising: Millicent Sweet appears to have died of several different, aggressive tumours. Before he can discuss this with colleagues, he's called to a conference in Scotland. A serious error of judgement gives a pharmaceutical company a handle on him, and they threaten to expose his excesses unless he falsifies his report on Sweet.

If you look at any listing of the 10 most important books of detective stories published in the United States, chances are you will find Uncle Abner, Master of Mysteries on most of them. It is generally recognized as one of the most important contributions to American detective fiction between Poe and Hammett. In fact, there are some critics who call it the single finest collection of American detective stories ever written. This story is from that famous collection.

Andy Boychuk is a successful Saskatchewan politician - until one sweltering August afternoon when the party faithful gather at a picnic. All of the key people in Boychuk’s life - family, friends, enemies - are there. Boychuk steps up to the podium to make a speech, takes a sip of water, and drops dead. Joanne Kilbourn, in her début as Canada’s leading amateur sleuth, is soon on the case, delving into Boychuk’s history. What she finds are a Bible college that’s too good to be true, a woman with a horrifying and secret past, and a murderer who’s about to strike again.