Филлис Дороти Джеймс3.7 В ризнице церкви обнаружены два трупа. Убийство? В этом нет сомнений. Но что связывает жертв – нищего бродягу Харри Мака и ушедшего на покой политика Пола Бероуна?
Многоопытный детектив Адам Дэлглиш, ведущий расследование, убежден: мотивы преступления следует искать в ближайшем окружении Бероуна. Ведь никто из обитателей этого роскошного дома не может объяснить, что именно делал сэр Пол глухой ночью в старинной церкви.
Красавица вдова, ее респектабельный брат, аристократка-мать, молчаливый шофер – похоже, каждый из них хранит какую-то тайну.
Лоренс Блок3.9 Мэтт Скаддер, в прошлом нью-йоркский полицейский, а ныне частный детектив и завсегдатай кабаков, становится свидетелем вооруженного ограбления бара братьев Моррисси. Братья просят Мэтта выследить грабителей без лишнего шума и не привлекая к делу полицию. В то же самое время убивают жену знакомого Мэтта, а у его друга пропадают важные документы. Скаддер начинает расследование всех трех дел..
Max Allan Collins0.0 From a foxhole on Guadalcanal (shared with Barney Ross) to the glitzy underworld of Hollywood in the '40s, Nate Heller fights his memories and the Mob. Something happened at the Canal, something Heller's blocking out. What he can't block, though, is the wound he received -- the million-dollar wound, the one that got him home. Back in the States, and back in Chicago, he becomes involved once again with Frank Nitti during the gang boss' last violent days, and with the gangland attempts to take over the movie unions. The homefront is every bit as violent as the war-torn Pacific, and even the solace of Sally Rand can do nothing to ease Heller, who is haunted by the death of a friend in Guadalcanal, and surrounded by the mayhem of gangland murders.
Joe Gores0.0 Released after spending several years in San Quentin, Runyan must confront several people involved in the jewel heist that put him away--insurance investigator David Moyers, treacherous accomplice Jamie Cardwell, and Louise Graham, author of a book on the
Stephen Greenleaf0.0 "Readers who like their private-eye novels witty, literate, and properly balanced between misanthropy and compassion will find Stephen Greenleaf's BEYOND BLAME exactly to taste." — NEWSWEEK — Psychologist Dianne Renzel has been brutally butchered in her own bed. The evidence points to her husband, Lawrence Usser, a brilliant law professor, whose speciality is the successful use of the insanity defense for a variety of unsavory clients.
Now Dianne's parents have hired Tanner to make sure Usser doesn't use his customary fancy legal footwork to skip the rap for his own wife's murder. But as Tanner digs into the case, assumption after assumption gives way to question after question, and soon it's nearly impossible to know who is guilty and who is beyond blame....
Tony Hillerman0.0 With the attempted murder of Officer Jim Chee, Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn finds three unsolved homicides may be linked to witchcraft buried deep within the Navajo culture.
Джон Ле Карре3.9 Магнус Пим, советник британского посольства в Вене, внезапно исчезает. Все считают его дезертиром. Скоро выясняется, что Пим был связан с вражеской разведкой. Коллеги Пима и их соперники начинают розыск шпиона-двойника, приводящий к самым неожиданным результатам.
Авторский вымысел в романе удачно сочетается с реальными фактами, что дало право мировой прессе назвать его самым интересным и убедительным произведением о деятельности английских спецслужб.
Bill Pronzini0.0 "Pronzini is a pro."
- The New York Times In Deadfall Bill Pronzini's popular "Nameless Detective" returns in his most baffling - and harrowing - case to date. While staked out on a routine car repossession, Nameless all but witnesses the shooting of a San Francisco lawyer, Leonard Purcell. He arrives on the scene in time to hear Purcell's dying words, one of which is "deadfall." But Purcell dies in Nameless's arms before the cryptic word can be explained. The mystery deepens when Nameless discovers that Leonard's brother, Kenneth, fell to his death six months earlier. Is Purcell's death linked to the apparent accidental "deadfall" of his brother? Leonard's housemate thinks so, and he hires Nameless to prove it. The detective's search takes him into a labyrinth of bizarre relationships involving Kenneth's promiscuous widow, his unattractive daughter, her drug-addicted boyfriend, a shrewd society matron with a passion for antique snuff bottles, a bisexual Filipino, and a missing Mexican deliveryman. Before Nameless can learn the truth behind the demise of the Purcell brothers, the case takes a number of turns that leave his own life hanging in the balance.
Masako Togawa0.0 A classic mystery from one of Japan's best-loved crime writers The Lady Killer leads a double life in the shadow world of Tokyo's singles bars and nightclubs. By day a devoted husband and hard worker, by night he cruises nightclubs cafes and cinemas in search of lonely single women to seduce. But now the hunter is being hunted, and in his wake lies a trail of gruesome murders. Who is the culprit? The answer lies tangled in a web of clues, and to find it he must accept that nothing is what it seems. This is a moody, brilliantly plotted mystery from the writer dubbed 'the P.D. James of Japan'.
Коллин Уилкокс0.0 Hastings investigates a murder among a set of wealthy adulterers. By the time Haney and the woman get to her apartment, they are so drunk they can hardly get through the door. They undress and begin to fool around, but before they make it to the bedroom, they have an argument. Haney is about to leave when the woman starts to laugh at him. He spins around and slugs her as hard as he can. His head is beginning to clear by the time he makes it home. He's just sober enough to notice the glint of a dagger before it's buried in his gut. Haney's wife finds his body at the foot of the stairs. She calls the police, but cannot tell them the truth about the evening - that she and her husband were both in other people's beds. Lieutenant Frank Hastings has no trouble interrogating criminals, but untangling this web of marital lies will be one of the trickiest cases of his career.
