зарубежные детективы

«Амос Декер – один из самых необычных сыщиков в литературе, о котором мечтал бы любой писатель остросюжетного жанра». Washington Post «И снова вы можете произнести слова „Болдаччи“, „бестселлер“ и „киносценарий“, не переводя дыхания». Chicago Sun «Бо…

A classic Ngaio Marsh novel reissued.Dreams of stardom had lured Martyn Tarne from faraway New Zealand to make the dreary, soul-destroying round of West End agents and managers in search of work. The Vulcan Theatre had been her last forlorn hope, and…

Another classic Ngaio Marsh novel.At first it looked as if Sybil Foster had intentionally left the world: with two husbands dead, a daughter marrying the wrong man and – it later appeared – a debilitating disease, it was no wonder she took her own li…

Will her secrets get them killed?Nick Simon is using his “fiancé,” Julie Peterson, as an alibi. But when someone starts calling with threats of murder, Julie is drawn even closer to the only man who can protect her…

A classic Ngaio Marsh novelYoung Rickie Alleyn had come to the Channel Islands to try to write, but village life was tedious – until he saw the stablehand in the ditch. Dead, it seemed, from an unlucky jump.It might have ended there had Rickie not no…

Often regarded as her most interesting book and set on New Zealand’s North Island, Ngaio Marsh herself considered this to be her best-written novel.It was a horrible death – Maurice Questing was lured into a pool of boiling mud and left there to die.…

Джеймс Хэдли Чейз – признанный классик детективного жанра, произведения которого переведены на десятки языков и около пятидесяти из них экранизированы. Прежде чем стать всемирно известным писателем, Чейз испробовал немало профессий, в том числе и аге…

Murder and mayhem strike when a small group of people are confined to an island in the middle of a New Zealand lake in one of Ngaio Marsh’s last – and best – novels.The luxury mansion on New Zealand's Lake Waihoe is the ideal place for a world-famous…

A touring theatre company in New Zealand forms the basis of one of Marsh’s most ambitious and innovative novelsNew Zealand theatrical manager Alfred Meyer is planning a surprise for his wife's birthday – a jeroboam of champagne descending gently onto…

Agatha Christie’s ingenious mystery thriller, reissued with a striking cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.Lucy Angkatell invited Hercule Poirot to lunch. To tease the great detective, her guests …

An elderly stroke victim dies without having arranged a will…Beautiful young Elinor Carlisle stood serenely in the dock, accused of the murder of Mary Gerrard, her rival in love. The evidence was damning: only Elinor had the motive, the opportunity a…

A typist uncovers a man’s body from behind the sofa…As instructed, stenographer Sheila Webb let herself into the house at 19 Wilbraham Crescent. It was then that she made a grisly discovery: the body of a dead man sprawled across the living room floo…

Twelve stories from the celebrated author of one of the most famous mystery classics ever written, Trent's Last Case.Philip Trent is an artist, a journalist, and an urbane unraveller of highly problematical crimes. Here the unshakable sleuth appears …

Детектив Кеннет Рейнир, получивший статус лучшего детектива в штате Коннектикут за раскрытие, казалось бы, самых невероятных дел, расследует очередное запутанное, а что самое главное для него, интересное дело. Убийство некого Джорджа Габельтона, сове…

Книги Мэри Стюарт завоевали сердца миллионов читателей, получив при этом высокую оценку критиков, особо отмечавших ее мастерство в жанре авантюрного романа. Ей, как никому другому, удалось объединить в сюжете лирическую тему, детективные ноты и поист…