
Book Review: A Man Lay Dead by Ngaio Marsh
A house party gone wrong brings Inspector Roderick Alleyn to investigate the murder, the alibis, a missing butler and a seditious puzzle.
A house party gone wrong brings Inspector Roderick Alleyn to investigate the murder, the alibis, a missing butler and a seditious puzzle.
Old hatreds die hard. Old love dies harder. And Meli Galdes has earned her right to retire, but her kinsmen have one last favor to ask: Kill the man who ruined her life.
Seven short stories of clever wit, dark twists, and intense suspense in what threatens to be the fifth and last of the Otherworld Stories. Favorite characters return, secrets are revealed, and several important storylines supposedly reach their conclusions.
The police are at a standstill with the mystery of the Raylax thefts until Jeremy Hunter manages to track the gang down only to make a startling discovery and just how far around the world the plot actually spans!
One morning Reacher ends up near Pleasantville, Tennessee, where nothing is pleasant. Especially that ambush against a hapless soul. There’s something wrong in this town, and Reacher intends to dig in.
The recently married Mrs. Pollifax off to China, where a young agent who trusts only her, Sheng Ti, holds the answers to a plot involving drugs, smuggled diamonds, a famous cat burglar-turned-Interpol agent, a psychic, and murder.