Loren D. Estleman Pořadí knih (chronologicky)

"A collection of 11 short stories that pay homage to the style and characters of Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe mysteries"--

V knigu voshli roman i rasskazy amerikanskogo pisatelja Lorena Estelmana, po-novomu pereosmyslivajuschie literaturnoe nasledie Artura Konan Dojla.

Since his first appearance in Beeton’s Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created. Now, in two paperback volumes, Bantam presents all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Conan Doyle’s classic hero--a truly complete collection of Sherlock Holmes’s adventures in crime! Volume I includes the early novel A Study in Scarlet, which introduced the eccentric genius of Sherlock Holmes to the world. This baffling murder mystery, with the cryptic word Rache written in blood, first brought Holmes together with Dr. John Watson. Next, The Sign of Four presents Holmes’s famous “seven percent solution” and the strange puzzle of Mary Morstan in the quintessential locked-room mystery. Also included are Holmes’s feats of extraordinary detection in such famous cases as the chilling “ The Adventure of the Speckled Band,” the baffling riddle of “The Musgrave Ritual,” and the ingeniously plotted “The Five Orange Pips,” tales that bring to life a Victorian England of horse-drawn cabs, fogs, and the famous lodgings at 221B Baker Street, where Sherlock Holmes earned his undisputed reputation as the greatest fictional detective of all time.

Existuje vztah mezi zločinem a horkem? Jeffery Deaver je přesvědčen, že ano. Zločinu se dopouštějí horké hlavy, v žáru vášně, když jim vaří krev. Proto oslovil dvacítku autorů, aby napsali detektivní povídku s horkem jako hlavním prvkem. Výsledkem je výjimečný soubor, kde autoři překonávají sami sebe v neuvěřitelných fabulacích, a čtenář je ohromen, jak rozmanitě lze zpracovat zdánlivě fádní téma. Příběhy nás zavedou na prosluněnou Floridu, do dusné mexické hospůdky či na sálající americký zapadákov. Řeší se vraždy, únosy a zmizení sousedovic psa, a čtenář je pokaždé překvapen nečekaným rozuzlením. Jeffery Deaver přispěl excelentní povídkou, jejíž děj se točí kolem přehřátého motoru auta. Ponořte se do víru žhavých vášní a kolotajících citů – při četbě této knihy se budete cítit doslova v jednom ohni!

Seven legendary authors recount the life of Lyle Speaks, from his hardscrabble boyhood in Texas to his later years as an aging cattle rancher in Montana, years in which his colorful past may yet come back to haunt him.

Zwei Romane 189 + 190 pp.

Brian Aldiss, with the kind of science-fiction fantasy of which he is one of the finest exponents alive today. - Sunday Telegraph Joe Bodenland, a 21st century American, passes through a timeslip and finds himself with Byron and Shelley in the famous villa on the shore of Lake Geneva. More fantastically, he finds himself face to face with a real Frankenstein, a doppelganger inhabiting a complex world where fact and fiction may as easily have congress as Bodenland himself manages to make love to Mary Shelley. TheGuardian Brian Aldiss's monster is a beaut. The eerie, icy, last confrontation between it (and its mate) and Joe with his felder car and swivel-gun is intense and vivid - The Sunday Times

Co člověku vytane na mysli, když se řekne soukromý detektiv? Možná Sherlock Holmes nebo Phil Marlowe, drsný, cynický samotář s náklonností k pití, který brázdí zlé ulice velkoměsta. Čas však přinesl nové postavy, jako McBainův Milt Davis, jednoruký intelektuál Dan Fortune či hrdinky Sue Graftonové, které čelí nástrahám osudu s podobnou bravurou a přidávají špetku sexu či humoru. Drsný život soukromých detektivů je součástí detektivního žánru odjakživa a jeho přitažlivost neuvadá. Tato antologie obsahuje čtyřiadvacet povídek, které patří k nejlepším za posledních padesát let. Čtenáři se mohou těšit na příběhy od autorů jako Raymond Chandler, Fredric Brown, Ross Macdonald, Sue Grafton a mnoha dalších. Každá povídka přináší napětí a jedinečné pohledy na svět detektivů. Co zbývá? Otevřít knihu, rozsvítit ve všech místnostech a zkontrolovat okna... a začít číst.

Since his first appearance in Beeton’s Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created. Now, in two paperback volumes, Bantam presents all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Conan Doyle’s classic hero--a truly complete collection of Sherlock Holmes’s adventures in crime! Volume II begins with The Hound of the Baskervilles, a haunting novel of murder on eerie Grimpen Moor, which has rightly earned its reputation as the finest murder mystery ever written. The Valley of Fear matches Holmes against his archenemy, the master of imaginative crime, Professor Moriarty. In addition, the loyal Dr. Watson has faithfully recorded Holmes’s feats of extraordinary detection in such famous cases as the thrilling The Adventure of the Red Circle and the twelve baffling adventures from The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes. Conan Doyle’s incomparable tales bring to life a Victorian England of horse-drawn cabs, fogs, and the famous lodgings at 221B Baker Street, where for more than forty years Sherlock Holmes earned his undisputed reputation as the greatest fictional detective of all time.

Nach fünf Jahren im Staatsgefängnis von Missouri für den Überfall auf einen Lastwagen voller Mondschein beschließt Virgil Ballard, sein Leben zu ändern. Er entscheidet sich, Banküberfälle zu begehen, doch seine Karriere könnte möglicherweise frühzeitig beendet werden.

Amos Walker, a tough-talking Detroit detective, will delight mystery buffs. Loren D. Estleman has written a series of fast-paced mysteries which occur in the Motor City where murders are committed nightly within full view of the glittering Renaissance Center. In "Motor City Blue", Walker is hired by an ex-gangster named Ben Morningstar to find his missing ward Marla. His only clue is a black and white glossy of the type sold under the counter in "those" kinds of bookstores. While slugging his way to the solution to this case, Amos witnesses a kidnapping of an old Vietnam friend and solves the murder of a young black labor leader. Estleman writes with a definite sense of style and contagious feeling for the rhythms of life in the inner city.

A newscaster's son disappears, and Amos Walker dives into the depths of Detroit to rescue the boyOn screen, Sandy Broderick is everything a newscaster is supposed to be. He has a deep voice, a ten-thousand-watt smile, and the God-given ability to banter with weathermen until his ears fall off. But when the cameras turn off, he has a private problem: His twenty-year old son, Bud, has disappeared. Amos Walker is going to find him. The boy and his junkie girlfriend are both gone, and Broderick is terrified--not for his son, but for his career. The station is about to do an expose on drugs in Detroit, and the newscaster doesn't want his boy's addict girlfriend to get in the way of his Pulitzer. This new client may be sleazy, but Walker handles scum for a living, and it's time to go to work. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Loren D. Estleman including rare photos from the author's personal collection.

The narrative delves into a thrilling mystery involving Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson as they tackle the gruesome murder of Sir Danvers Carew, intricately linked to the notorious Edward Hyde and the respectable Dr. Henry Jekyll. Officially summoned by the Queen, Holmes uncovers dark truths behind what was thought to be mere fiction. This account reveals the hidden reasons for Holmes's secretive involvement in the case, offering a fresh perspective on Robert Louis Stevenson's tale.