On a dark evening, Mr. Harley Quin appears at the door of Royston Hall under the premise that his car has broken down. Once inside, he embarks upon the tragic tale of Royston Hall's former occupants, leading to a dramatic change in the perceptions of the current inhabitants – but has Mr. Quin's revelation come too late? Views: 62
SUMMARY: A terrifying novel of suspense based on the Rhine parapsychology experiments at Duke UniversityAfter experiencing a precognitive dream that ends her engagement and changes her life forever, a young psychology professor from California decides to get a fresh start by taking a job at Duke University in North Carolina. She soon becomes obsessed with the files from the world-famous Rhine parapsychology lab experiments, which attempted to prove ESP really exists. Along with a handsome professor, she uncovers troubling cases, including one about a house supposedly haunted by a poltergeist, investigated by another research team in 1965. Unaware that the entire original team ended up insane or dead, the two professors and two exceptionally gifted Duke students move into the abandoned mansion to replicate the investigation, with horrifying results.The Unseen is Alexandra Sokoloff's most thrilling novel to date: a story of deception, attraction, and the unknown. Views: 62
When a practical joke involving eight alarm clocks turns into murder, the case is taken up by Bundle Brent and Jimmy Thesiger. With the help of Bill Eversleigh they discover that the Seven Dials Club is not only a nightclub but also the headquarters of a Secret Society. To track down the murderer Bundle must first decide just which side the members of the Society are on...Around the time Christie wrote this book she commented:"I was gaining confidence over my writing now. I felt that I would have no difficulty in producing a book every year, and possibly a few short stories as well."This book is often seen as a sequel to The Secret of Chimneys as it contains several of the same characters.It was filmed in 1981 for TV. Views: 62
When the body of a fast-living young stockbroker is found in a shallow
grave, suspicion first falls on a cuckolded policeman. Lt. Joe Gunther
investigates the increasingly bizarre details of the crime, but finds
that he’s too far behind events to prevent a second murder. Indeed,
whoever is responsible always seems to be a few steps ahead, as if
there’s a leak on the force. Sweltering August heat does nothing to calm
the increasingly agitated town selectmen, who demand results. Views: 62
A writer's humorous and often-heartbreaking tale of losing his sight—and how he hid it from the world.At age sixteen, James Tate Hill was diagnosed with Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy, a condition that left him legally blind. After high school friends stopped calling and a disability counselor advised him to aim for Cs in his classes, Hill used his remaining blurry peripheral vision to pretend he could still see. Feigning eye contact, memorizing common routes, filling shelves with paperbacks he read via tape cassettes, he organized his life around passing for sighted. A wealth of pop culture knowledge allowed him to steer conversations from what he couldn't see.For fifteen years, Hill hid his blindness from friends, colleagues, and lovers, even convincing himself that if he stared long enough, things would come into focus. At thirty, faced with a stalled writing career, a crumbling marriage, and a growing fear of leaving his... Views: 62
Filled with high-seas intrigue and sharp tensions, this nautical novel takes an intense voyage into the heart of Napoleonic-era Africa. Views: 62
The D.D.I. recognized him and smiled. "That was a great case you brought us. You'll be interested to hear that it is a case of mur-r-der!"For eight years Basil Thomson headed the famous C.I.D., New Scotland Yard. He knew the Yard inside out. Now in this tale of mystery and detection we are taken behind the scenes. We are shown the greatest detection machine in the world in motion, and see how the Yard tracked down its man.Stand, then, with young P.C. Richardson on the misty corner of Baker Street, while the traffic of the city swings by, and fate lays at his feet the beginning of his career. Out of the fog brakes shriek, a big car jolts to a stop, and from beneath the wheels the crowd disentangles a bundle of old clothes, within which is a man quite dead; a man who had said to someone, "Very well, then; I'll call a policeman"—and was killed. Work with him to the ingenious solution, when he takes from his pocket the clue holding the fate of a human... Views: 62
Do you love twisty murder mysteries? Meet Tara Thorpe – the clue to a puzzling local murder has landed right on her doorstep. Perfect for fans of Faith Martin, LJ Ross and Joy Ellis.As
the sun rises, a wealthy young woman – Samantha Seabrook – is found
drowned in the ornamental fountain of a deserted Cambridge courtyard,
the only clue – an antique silver chain wound tightly around her throat.
It’s Tara Thorpe’s job to discover what happened to Miss
Seabrook – but the case becomes personal when she learns that Samantha
had been receiving death threats… rather like the one that landed on
Tara’s doorstep the night the woman died.Together with Detective
Inspector Garstin Blake, Tara tracks the killer to the dank and
dangerous fens on the outskirts of the city. But there’s something
Tara can’t quite admit to Blake about her past – and it could make all
the difference to whether they live... or die. Views: 62
