If you don't shudder with every twist and sudden thrust of these 16 terror tales…if you are able to turn off your bedside lamp after closing this volume and drift off to a deep, dreamless sleep…if you can drink your morning coffee without thinking there just might be a peculiarly bitter taste to it, or turn your back on your spouse or best friend without feeling a funny itching between your shoulder blades…then that lovable old master of menace, Alfred Hitchcock, apologizes and personally guarantees you your full payment in horror. All you have to do is meet him in the cemetery under the next murderer's moon…
THE NATIONAL DEBTIn which the Saint disguises himself as a dusty professor in order to save a lovely damsel from the clutches of a sinister conspiracy.THE MAN WHO COULD NOT DIEIn which the Saint's well known sensitivity to the adventurous possibilities of any situation lead him to pursue the current fortunes of the extraordinary Miles Hallin, a seemingly unimpeachable man about whom it has been said that if Miles Hallin could have walked a tight rope he would have walked a tight rope stretched across the crater of Vesuvius as a kind of appetizer before breakfast.
Angst und Unsicherheit gehen um auf dem Rennplatz von Dunstable. Art Mathews schie?t sich unter den Augen seiner Jockey-Kollegen eine Kugel in den Kopf. Doch er ist nur das erste Opfer einer mysteri?sen Ungl?cksserie. Erst Rob Finn, ein ziemlich Neuer im Gesch?ft, macht sich an des R?tsels L?sung und ger?t prompt in Lebensgefahr.
Nobody knows better than Matthew Scudder how far down a person can sink in this city. A young prostitute named Kim knew it also — and she wanted out. Maybe Kim didn't deserve the life fate had dealt her. She surely didn't deserve her death. The alcoholic ex-cop turned p.i. was supposed to protect her, but someone slashed her to ribbons on a crumbling New York City waterfront pier. Now finding Kim's killer will be Scudder's penance. But there are lethal secrets hiding in the slain hooker's past that are far dirtier than her trade. And there are many ways of dying in this cruel and dangerous town — some quick and brutal… and some agonizingly slow.
Ex-Jockey Randall Drew wird in einer delikaten Mission nach Moskau geschickt.Ein myster?ses Wesen mit Namen"Aljosha" bedroht einen k?niglichen Kandidaten an den Olympischen Spielen in Moskau.Der Auftrag ist vage,der Gegner unsichtbar,und die Hidernisse sind eigentlich unuberwindlich...
SO THIS GIRL WALKS INTO A BAR……and when she walks out there's a man with her. She goes to bed with him, and she likes that part. Then she kills him, and she likes that even better. On her way out, she cleans out his wallet. She keeps moving, and has a new name for each change of address. She's been doing this for a while, and she's good at it.And then a chance remark gets her thinking of the men who got away, the lucky ones who survived a night with her. She starts writing down names. And now she's a girl with a mission. Picking up their trails. Hunting them down. Crossing them off her list…
Somewhere in western New York there's a remote mountaintop in the moonlight, its dark forests and moon-dappled meadows populated only by corpses, and if ex-PI Joe Kurtz doesn't unravel the secret of that place in five days, he'll be one of them.Everyone seems to want a piece of Kurtz and most succeed in getting one. Unknown assailants gun down Kurtz and his female parole officer, giving Kurtz the headache of a lifetime but putting pretty Peg O'Toole on life support. While working his own case through a haze of concussion migraine, Kurtz has to deal with Toma ...
There's a bitter wind brewing in Buffalo, New York and it's blowing in more than just snow. "Little Skag" Farino, the last don of the local crime family, wants Kurtz dead and is sending in platoons of hit men, starting with the Attica Three Stooges and working up through more competent killers. Little Skag's beautiful sister, Angelina Farino Ferrara, is back from seven years in Sicily and has her own deadly agenda for Kurtz.If that isn't enough, Kurtz is approached by a dying concert violinist who wants his daughter's killer found. Rejecting the case at first, he is soon on the trail of a man who's not just the murderer of one child, but a cold-blooded serial killer who is a master of alternate identities and has the power to send a hundred men after Kurtz. As the bodies pile up like cords of wood, HARD FREEZE hits town with the power of a whiteout blizzard and builds to a truly chilling climax. This is a crime novel where trigger fingers freeze to blue steel.
Joe Kurtz has been wronged one too many times. So when he takes out the drugdealing thug who killed his girlfriend, the exPI gets to cool his heels for 11 years in Attica. It's there that he meets "Little Skag" Farino, the son of an aging Buffalo, New York, mob boss. In exchange for protecting the kid's manhood against any unwanted jailhouse affection, Kurtz gets an audience with Little Skag's father upon his release from prison.Semiretired Don Byron Farino is still clinging to what dwindling power he holds on the New York organized crime scene. He enlists Kurtz's ...
Keller’s a hit man. For years now he’s had places to go and people to kill.But enough is enough. He’s got money in the bank and just one last job standing between him and retirement. So he carries it out with his usual professionalism, and he heads home, and guess what?One more job. Paid in advance, so what’s he going to do? Give the money back? In Des Moines, Keller stalks his designated target and waits for the client to give him the go-ahead. And one fine morning he’s picking ...
Лишь немногие из примерно пятидесяти гостей (в глубине души я надеялся, что ни один) могли знать, что я не кто иной, как частный детектив по имени Шелл Скотт. Однако, видимо, почти у всех возникло подозрение, что я попал сюда по ошибке. Я был единственным мужчиной, не облаченным в вечерний костюм, а среди гостей виднелось даже несколько изрядно смахивающих на дипломатов типов во фраках....
Нехорошие люди напали на правильных пацанов. Эпизоды этой жуткой истории, подтверждающей славу нашего городка как криминальной столицы России, уже освещались в печати и на телевидении. Но черпавшие информацию в правоохранительных органах журналисты не смогли отобразить реальную картину произошедшего, а уголовные дела остались нераскрытыми, попав в разряд так называемых «глухарей».Полную версию и подноготную кровавой бандитской войны автору рассказал участник событий известный авторитет Алек Капонов, о чем и изложено в данном романе, являющимся продолжением книги «Лохотрон для братвы».
Un buen d?a, los apostadores empezar?an a preguntarse ?Qu? se habr? hecho de Harry Arno?, y se dar?an cuenta de que no sab?an nada de ?l."Desaparecer?a, empezar?a una nueva vida. Basta de presi?n. Basta de trabajar para gente a la que no respetaba. Una copita de vez en cuando. Tal vez incluso un cigarrillo al atardecer, contemplando la puesta de sol en la bah?a. Joyce estar?a con ?l. Bueno, a lo mejor. Como si no hubiera bastantes mujeres en el lugar al que se dirij?a. Tal vez ser?a mejor que partiera ?l primero y se instalara. Luego, si le apetec?a, ya la llamar?a. Estaba esperando. Ten?a dos pasaportes con nombres distintos por si acaso. Todo estaba claro; ning?n problema.Hasta aquella tarde en que Buck Torres le dijo que estaba metido en un buen foll?n".
