In 1953, Penny is just another washed-up, wannabe Hollywood actress who is past her prime. She has settled in to a quiet lifestyle, and when she finds a low-rent bungalow in Canyon Arms, it's a dream come true; Penny takes to the place instantly. But the dream cottage with its French doors and tiled courtyard may not be as perfect as it seems. Penny's new neighbors start filling her head with stories about past tenants, whispering voices, and a suicide that may not have been a suicide at all. Soon enough, Penny starts hearing strange noises and she can't help but wonder about the true fate of the bookseller who died in her home a dozen years earlier. Her suspicions are only fueled by the ominous inscription that she discovers in a book that's closely guarded by her landlord. . . . Views: 151
Product DescriptionHaving had enough of life on board the ship that saved her from a watery grave, Dido Twite wants nothing more than to sail home to England. Instead, Captain Casket's ship lands in Nantucket, where Dido and the captain's daughter, Dutiful Penitence, are left in the care of Dutiful's sinister Aunt Tribulation. In Tribulation's farmhouse, life is unbearable. When mysterious men lurk about in the evening fog, the resourceful Dido rallies against their shenanigans with help from Dutiful, a cabinboy named Nate, and a pink whale.About the AuthorJoan Aiken, daughter of the American writer Conrad Aiken, was born in Rye, Sussex, England, and has written more than sixty books for children, including The Wolves of Willoughby Chase. Views: 151
"Irresistible....Amelia is still a joy." —New York Times Book Review The intrepid archeologist Amelia Peabody and her fearless family, the Emersons, are back in Egypt, and something very nasty is afoot in Lord of the Silent—New York Times bestselling Grandmaster Elizabeth Peters's sparkling adventure with more riddles than the Sphinx and more close calls and stunning escapes than an Indiana Jones movie. Reviewers are simply agog over Lord of the Silent, calling it, "Wonderfully entertaining" (Washington Times), "Deeply satisfying" (Entertainment Weekly), and in the words of the Toronto Globe and Mail, "The hype is true. This is Peters's best book." Views: 151
Danger at close rangeRustled by New York Times bestselling author B.J. DanielsUndercover investigator Brittany Bo "Jinx" Clarke is determined to bring down a cattle rustling ring. Dawson Chisholm wants to retrieve his stolen cattle. To get what they both want, they'll have to work together. But spending their days and nights alone—just the two of them against a band of thieves—presents another problem for Jinx: resisting the irresistible Chisholm charm. And she's not sure she wants to...FREE BONUS STORY INCLUDED IN THIS VOLUME!Stone Cold Undercover Agent by Nicole HelmJaime Alessandro fears he's been undercover too long. Now his only shot at destroying one of Texas's largest crime organizations is Gabriella Torres—a "gift" from The Stallion and his longest-held captive. Her inside info and inspired moves are helping Jaime take the gang apart.... Views: 151
In this, the first of Marsh's justifiably famous theatre-mysteries, Inspector Roderick Alleyn has been invited to an opening night by his journalist friend Nigel Bathgate. In the play, two characters quarrel and then struggle for a gun, with predictably sad results. Even sadder, on this particular performance, the gun was not, in fact, loaded with blanks. Views: 151
Heather Davis is shocked by an accusation of child
sexual abuse against her husband. When she breaks through to the fourth
dimension and the Overmind, she is able to prove to her daughter that
Kyle is innocent and that Becky is the victim of a cruel psychologist. Views: 151
One of Ngaio Marsh's most ingenious novels. The April Fool's Day had been a roaring success for all, it seemed – except for poor Mr Cartell who had ended up in the ditch – for ever. Then there was the case of Mr Percival Pyke Period's letter of condolence, sent before the body was found – not to mention the family squabbles. It was a puzzling crime for Superintendent Alleyn... Views: 151
"With our company of riflemen that marched in Arnold\'s army through the Maine wilderness to attack Quebec, there was a sergeant\'s wife, a large and sturdy woman, no common camp-follower, but decent and respected, who one day, when the troops started to wade through a freezing pond, of which they broke the thin ice coating with the butts of their guns, calmly lifted her skirts above her waist and strode in, and so kept the greater part of her clothes dry in crossing. Not a man of us made a jest, or even grinned, so natural was her action in the circumstances. Views: 151
While the whole world knows of the legendary Sherlock Holmes and his Baker Street beat, only dyed-in-the-wool aficionados of the fine art of detection have been privileged to make the acquaintance of Solar Pons and his Praed Street office. Now faithful followers and mystery loves alike will shiver in delight as they join in the case of crime along Old London's cobblestone alleyways...discovering new joy in the tradition of deduction at its very best.THE CHASE CONTINUES . . .Once more, the most successful of pastiche-detectives, Solar Pons, sets out apace with a new sequence of pulse-stopping adventures. Faithful followers and mystery lovers alike will delight in the superlative sleuth's deductive cunning as they join him and his ever-constant companion, Dr. Lyndon Parker, in chase of crime.Come, journey back to the spine-tingling yesterdays of criminality at its worst, and detective work at its best, in turn-of-the-century England, where Solar Pons, London's most redoubtable hero since Sherlock Holmes, awaits. But make haste! The game is already afoot!Contents"The Adventure of the Haunted Rectory""The Adventure of the Singular Sandwich""Murder at the Zoo""The Adventure of the Frightened Governess" Views: 150
Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, better known as Anthony Hope (9 February 1863 – 8 July 1933), was an English novelist and playwright. He was a prolific writer, especially of adventure novels but he is remembered best for only two books: The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) and its sequel Rupert of Hentzau (1898). These works, "minor classics" of English literature, are set in the contemporaneous fictional country of Ruritania and spawned the genre known as Ruritanian romance.Zenda has inspired many adaptations, most notably the 1937 Hollywood movie of the same name. Hope wrote 32 volumes of fiction over the course of his lifetime and he had a large popular following. In 1896 he published The Chronicles of Count Antonio, followed in 1897 by a tale of adventure set on a Greek island, entitled Phroso.He went on a publicity tour of the United States in late 1897, during which he impressed a New York Times reporter as being somewhat like Rudolf Rassendyll: a well-dressed Englishman with a hearty laugh, a soldierly attitude, a dry sense of humour, "quiet, easy manners," and an air of shrewdness. Views: 150
