Author : John Goldbach
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 35,49 MB
Release : 2013-04-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1770563350
Robert James, a private detective more interested in chronicling his cases than solving them, gets a midnight call from a young woman whose older husband has been found with a knife in his chest. Murder, corruption, and betrayal ensue, but hapless Robert and his sidekick can't stop drinking and philosophizing long enough to keep up.
Author : Simon Kurt Unsworth
Publisher : Random House
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 20,38 MB
Release : 2020-03-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1473583411
WELCOME TO HELL. Solving crimes was the purpose of Hell's Information Men, yet they almost never achieved it, and even when they did, the facts they scraped free were lost, buried again in the labyrinthine mess of the infernal Bureaucracy. When an unidentified, brutalised body is discovered in Hell, the case is assigned to Thomas Fool. But how do you investigate a murder where death is commonplace and everyone is guilty of something?
Author : Stuart Turton
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 45,45 MB
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1728206030
"Compulsively readable."—New York Times Book Review From Stuart Turton, author of The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, comes an extraordinary new locked-room murder mystery. A murder on the high seas. A remarkable detective duo. A demon who may or may not exist. It's 1634, and Samuel Pipps, the world's greatest detective, is being transported to Amsterdam to be executed for a crime he may, or may not, have committed. Traveling with him is his loyal bodyguard, Arent Hayes, who is determined to prove his friend innocent. Among the other guests is Sara Wessel, a noblewoman with a secret. But no sooner is their ship out to sea than devilry begins to blight the voyage. A strange symbol appears on the sail. A dead leper stalks the decks. Livestock dies in the night. And then the passengers hear a terrible voice, whispering to them in the darkness, promising three unholy miracles, followed by a slaughter. First an impossible pursuit. Second an impossible theft. And third an impossible murder. Could a demon be responsible for their misfortunes? With Pipps imprisoned, only Arent and Sara can solve a mystery that stretches back into their past and now threatens to sink the ship, killing everybody on board. Shirley Jackson meets Sherlock Holmes in this chilling thriller of supernatural horror, occult suspicion, and paranormal mystery on the high seas.
Author : David Grann
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 16,9 MB
Release : 2011-01-11
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 0307275906
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Wager—and one of the most gifted reporters and storytellers of his generation—comes a “horrifying, hilarious, and outlandish” (Entertainment Weekly) collection of gripping true crime mysteries about people whose obsessions propel them into unfathomable and often deadly circumstances. "[Grann is] one of the preeminent adventure and true-crime writers working today."—New York Magazine Whether David Grann is investigating a mysterious murder, tracking a chameleon-like con artist, or hunting an elusive giant squid, he has proven to be a superb storyteller. In The Devil and Sherlock Holmes, Grann takes the reader around the world, revealing a gallery of rogues and heroes with their own particular fixations who show that truth is indeed stranger than fiction. Look for David Grann’s latest bestselling book, The Wager!
Author : Lloyd Shepherd
Publisher :
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,28 MB
Release : 2016-04
Category :
ISBN : 9781471136115
London, 1815: Constable Charles Horton of the River Police Office is called to investigate the brutal murder of a clerk and his family in London's East End. Horton's investigation draws him into the secretive world of the East India Company, which will stop at nothing to protect the secrets of its vast empire. What is the company hiding, and why are its employees disappearing - particularly those linked to the small island of St Helena? The trail takes Horton and his wife Abigail from the steps of John Dee's house in Mortlake to the lonely South Atlantic, on the trail of a killer who seems to be the very devil.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 49,72 MB
Release : 2020-02
Category :
ISBN : 9781736186404
Dark, gritty cyberpunk collides with detective noir as ex special-forces commander Jacobi Slate investigates the hidden truth behind a brutal murder, committed by his closest friend.
Author : Walter Mosley
Publisher : Washington Square Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 19,92 MB
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1982150343
The first novel by “master of mystery” (The New York Times) Walter Mosley, featuring Easy Rawlins, the most iconic African American detective in all of fiction. Named one of the “best 100 mystery novels of all time” by the Mystery Writers of America, this special thirtieth anniversary edition features an all new introduction from the author. The year is 1948, the town is Los Angeles. Easy Rawlins, a black war veteran, has just been fired from his job at a defense factory plant. Drinking in his friend’s bar, he’s wondering how he’ll manage to make ends meet, when a white man in a linen suit approaches him and offers him good money if Easy will simply locate Miss Daphne Money, a missing blonde beauty known to frequent black jazz clubs. Easy has no idea that by taking this job, his life is about to change forever. “More than simply a detective novel…[Mosley is] a talented author with something vital to say about the distance between the black and white worlds, and with a dramatic way to say it” (The New York Times).
Author : Kate Ross
Publisher : Felony & Mayhem Press
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 23,81 MB
Release : 2013-07-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1937384721
Julian Kestrel, gentleman sleuth and dandy, becomes fascinated with the unsolved case of the murder of a Milanese aristocrat and the disappearance of his protégé, a brilliant young English opera singer. What has become of the singer’s fiancée and the aristocrat’s notoriously surly manservant? Could the murder be tied to Italy’s tumultuous politics? Furthermore, the murdered marquis left a widow whose beauty makes Kestrel’s heart skip faster.
Author : Bernie Lau
Publisher : Bernie Lau
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 15,4 MB
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Drug enforcement agents
ISBN : 9780615480466
Author : David Reichert
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 17,47 MB
Release : 2005-12-27
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780312938192
Discusses the twenty year pursuit of Sheriff David Reichert for the Green River Killer.
