Cannes. Film Festival time. Classy hotels, wonderful food, expensive movies - and a beach full of starlets showing off their curves. And delicious blonde Lucille Balu is more curvaceous than most.When she hears that world-famous movie mogul Floyd Delaney wants to meet...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2012-09-06
Collection : Murder Room
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When Chet Carson broke jail he thought he'd found a safe hideout in a lonely filling station. But instead he finds himself caught up in a dangerous threesome - an elderly owner, his gorgeous wife, Lola, and a safe with a fortune inside, which Lola wants. Her chance...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2012-09-06
Collection : Murder Room
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She came out of his past to threaten his futureOut of Jefferson Halliday's past comes Rima Marshall. She's got nothing to lose - she's sunk just about as far as a woman can go. But she knows enough to put Jefferson in the hot seat. And he knows she knows. With the deck...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2012-09-06
Collection : Murder Room
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For years the worldwide operations of a mysterious and ruthless extortioner who calls himself the Tortoise have baffled Scotland Yard and the police forces of Europe. But the Tortoise makes a mistake when he interferes with wealthy American playboy Don Micklem, who has...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2012-09-06
Collection : Murder Room
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For Murray Kirk, running a private investigation agency is a business; he isn't interested in justice or crusades, just profit and loss. And, because Murray knows something about police corruption, when he's asked to act for a young officer accused of bribery, he isn't...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2012-09-06
Collection : Murder Room
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When Dave Fenner is hired to solve the Blandish kidnapping, he knows the odds on finding the girl are against him - the cops are still looking for her three months after the ransom was paid. And the kidnappers, Riley and his gang, have disappeared into thin air.But what...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2012-09-06
Collection : Murder Room
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'A fine craftsman' Ellery QueenA cryptic telegram; a dead man; two ingenious and quite different sets of clues; and each one of the half-dozen suspects is something of an imposter . . .It was a case that staggered the imagination of everyone involved. Until detective...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2012-09-06
Collection : Murder Room
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'A fine craftsman' Ellery QueenThe man in the yellow robe had put the ancient curse of the Nine Times Nine on Wolfe Harrigan. And when Matt Duncan looked up from the croquet lawn that afternoon, he saw the man in the yellow robe in Wolfe Harrigan's study.When Matt got...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2012-09-06
Collection : Murder Room
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'A fine craftsman' Ellery QueenWhen a Swiss professor is found dead on a California university campus only a few feet away from the home of a student he was visiting, Dr Ashwin, a professor of Sanskrit, and Martin Lamb, a graduate student, join forces to find the...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2012-09-06
Collection : Murder Room
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'A macabre little tale about an unusual restaurant in Manhattan and its lonely patrons, it displayed both a debt to Edgar Allan Poe and an acute understanding of human nature that is the key to the success of his work' GUARDIANStanley Ellin's first short story, 'The...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2012-09-06
Collection : Murder Room
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'Some wise guy - Confucius or somebody - said there was nothin' like the truth, which is a thing that I believe in - sometimes. Anyhow, I am goin' to try this nothin' but the truth stuff on this dame I spoke to. What can I lose, anyway?'When Julia Wayles is kidnapped in...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2012-09-06
Collection : Lemmy Caution
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In his tenth and final adventure, set just after the end of the Second World War, Lemmy Caution is in Paris investigating the theft of secret State Department documents.In the opinion of his chief, however, Lemmy has fallen down on the assignment given to him - to trail...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2012-09-06
Collection : Lemmy Caution
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Cara, Gayda, Pearl: sizzling dames. Travis, Clemensky, Clansing: desperate men. A set of secret papers. Bring in FBI man Lemmy Caution to recover the papers, and we have all the ingredients for a fast-moving story of espionage, deception and double dealing.Lemmy Caution...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2012-09-06
Collection : Lemmy Caution
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Proceed with caution ... to Mexico ... ... or at least Mexico as Lemmy Caution sees it: 'It's hot as hell. Away down the dirt road some guy's playin' one of them wailin' Mexican fandangles which give me that twilight feelin' ... maybe it'd be a relief to start dyin'...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2012-09-06
Collection : Lemmy Caution
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In the first of the Lemmy Caution series, a group of organised gangsters are operating a 'snatch' racket, laying a plan - worked out in the minutest detail - to kidnap the daughter of an American millionaire while she is in England. And their plot must not only account...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2012-09-06
Collection : Lemmy Caution
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Henrietta looked at Lemmy Caution with starry eyes. 'There's breakfast on the way,' she said, 'come on in.''Listen lady,' replied Lemmy. 'Maybe you ain't heard about me. I think I oughta warn you, I am not the sorta guy you ask around for breakfast, especially if you're...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2012-09-06
Collection : Lemmy Caution
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The fourth title in the Lemmy Caution seriesIn the morgue office there ain't anybody there at all. We go through the office into the corpse room. I switch on the light an' there we start pullin' out the trays with the stiffs on.We found the morgue attendant all right....

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2012-09-06
Collection : Lemmy Caution
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In his seventh adventure 'G' man Lemmy Caution is sent to investigate the murder of a female agent and the disappearance of a prominent scientist. His search leads Lemmy to notorious gangster Enrico Pranzetti, and straight into a trap ...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2012-09-06
Collection : Lemmy Caution
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Blood's runnin' down my face from where this guy's just bust me, my nose feels like it's split in half. Then this dame gets up an' strolls over to me - I reckon I am not lookin' quite so good.She says: 'Well for cryin' out loud.'Is this my big day or is it?She stands...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2012-09-06
Collection : Lemmy Caution
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Millie Trent, the toast - or scandal, according to some - of a West Country sailing resort, is found drowned. The verdict is accidental death, although no one seems to know when or why she ended up in the sea.Paul Mycroft, despite his determination not to let the affair...

Editeur : The Murder Room
Parution : 2012-09-06
Collection : Murder Room
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