Fergus Hume's Gothic mystery
begins one evening in late-nineteenth-century Verona, when a young
Englishman loses his way and finds himself lost in an eerie graveyard.
Seeing a mysterious woman emerge from one of the tombs, he follows her
to a deserted mansion, where he witnesses a murder worthy of the
Borgias. How can such a crime take place undetected in the prosaic
nineteenth century? And is the woman a vampire? a ghoul? or an
altogether more earthly villain...?
A fin-de-siecle crime thriller from the author of The Mystery of a
Hansom Cab, this is a classic Victorian mystery dripping with period
atmosphere and and Italian romance.
Her veneer was big city … but one look and you knew that Toni Rassell’s instincts were straight out of the river shack she came from. I watched her as she toyed with the man, laughing, her tumbled hair like raw blue-black silk, her brown shoulders bare. Eyes deep-set, a girl with a gypsy look. So this was the girl I had risked my life to find. This was the girl who was going to lead me to a buried fortune in stolen loot.
The blurb says:
Nick Carter stands for an interesting detective story. The fact that the books in this line are so uniformly good is entirely due to the work of a specialist. The man who wrote these stories produced no other type of fiction. His mind was concentrated upon the creation of new plots and situations in which his hero emerged triumphantly from all sorts of trouble, and landed the criminal just where he should be—behind the bars.
The author of these stories knew more about writing detective stories than any other single person.
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Lurid, sexy, gritty tale of police, detectives, and sex.
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Annabel Pellissier, for reasons of her own, allows Sir John Ferringhall to believe that she is her sister Anna. Anna lets the deception continue and has to bear the burden of her sister’s reputation which, in Paris at any rate, is that of being a coquette. Endless complications ensue when both sisters return to London.This is one of the late E. Phillips Oppenheim’s most intriguing stories.
Mr Ambrose Lavendale. a young English-American diplomat, leaves the Embassy service to work as a secret agent in London during World War One. He meets Mlle. Suzanne de Frayne, who is similarly employed by the French, while he is shadowing a scientist who has developed a formula for a lethal gas explosive. In a series of connected stories, the pair uncover German spies, foil plots to divert munitions from the Allies, steal secret weapons, and fall in love.
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Bond? James Bond? He couldn''t be James Bond, and probably wasn''t. Unfortunately for Police Sgt. McConnell, the mystery man believes he is the legendary secret agent, and he can''t be dismissed with a shaken-not-stirred vodka martini and a pat on the head. He has information regarding a murder, and he won''t reveal anything unless she plays along. But things get serious when "Bond" starts taking chances with their lives - and the culprits are playing for keeps.
The story of Jim Jackson, who struggles with poverty and harsh circumstances, before finally murdering his wife in a fit of rage. Faced with the gallows, Jackson confesses: "If ther'd been forty scaffolds right before my eyes, I'd have brought down the poker just the same." This is the only fiction novel written by Clarence Darrow.
