Metropolitan Mysteries: A Casebook of London's Detectives
"A welcome look at a distinctive turn in the history of detective fiction., the stories offer ample local color, highlighting for the most part the ordinary folk--shopkeepers, ticket-takers, hairdressers, steeplejacks, barmen, and the occasional government functionary--that give London its flair." -- Kirkus ReviewsFeaturing a roster of Scotland Yard's meticulous best, a cohort of daring doctors and a cadre of characterful private investigators, this new selection by Martin Edwards includes eighteen vintage mystery stories from a period between 1908 and 1963 to showcase the city's most compelling classic cases.Lord Peter Wimsey reads murder in the minutiae of a Bloomsbury kitchen. Dr. Gideon Fell unravels a locked-room mystery from a flat in Chelsea. Superintendent Aldgate cracks the case of the body atop Nelson's Column.The streets of London have been home to many great detectives since the days of Sherlock Holmes and Watson, with some of the best authors in the genre taking to the short story form to pit their sleuths against crimes ranging from murders on the Tube to heists from the capital's finest jewellers. With contributions by Margery Allingham, John Dickson Carr and Dorothy L. Sayers along with rare finds by Raymond Postgate, J. Jefferson Farjeon and many more, this anthology invites you to join some of the greatest detectives ever written on their perilous trail through London's darker underside.
Numbered Account
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A man seeking justice for the murder of his father becomes entangled in a conspiracy larger than he thought possible in this "compelling, suspenseful, [and] fast-paced" (San Francisco Chronicle) financial thriller. "A brilliant thriller that holds you in a vise grip from its first page to its last."--James Patterson A job he shouldn't have taken. A woman he shouldn't have loved. A secret he shouldn't expose . . . if he wants to live. Nick Neumann has it all: a Harvard degree, a beautiful fianc矇e, a star-making Wall Street career. But behind the dazzling veneer of his golden boy exterior is a man haunted by the brutal killing of his father seventeen years before. Now chilling new evidence has implicated his father's employer, the United Swiss Bank, in the crime. Nick doesn't know how. Or why. But he has a plan to find out: move to Zurich. Work for the same bank. Follow in his father's footsteps. Look for the same secrets . . . and uncover something so shocking, so unexpected, justice may not be enough. For as a circle of treachery tightens around him, as a woman with secrets of her own enters his life, Nick makes another chilling discovery. Not just about his father but about himself. And how far he's willing to go to find out what happened seventeen years before--when a man died and a conspiracy was born.
The Day I Lost You
The internationally bestselling author of The Woman on the Ledge returns with a twisty thriller about a missing child and three adults whose shared secrets and hidden history could prove deadly."I need to report a crime. My baby has been stolen."All Lauren wants is a new life in Spain. She's suffered an unimaginable loss, but at last she has found a home in the pretty seaside town of Mantilla de Mar. Everyone deserves a new start, and Lauren needs to put her past firmly behind her.Hope has everything: an interesting career as a therapist, an attractive husband, a dream home in the countryside - and, finally, the baby she always longed for. Sam. Her beautiful boy.But Sam has gone missing.So when the police tell her that a woman has been found in Spain with a child matching Sam's description, Hope thinks that her nightmare might be coming to an end.But Lauren is insisting Sam is her baby. She even has his passport and birth certificate to prove it.So what really happened to Baby Sam? And who still has secrets to hide?One child. Two mothers. And a past that won't let them go.
The Cannibal Who Overate
As manager of New York City's finest luxury hotel The Beaumont, Pierre Chambrun is well acquainted with unreasonable requests from its patrons. When one of the rich rooftop suite owners demands the impossible for his annual birthday bash, Chambrun is unflustered; of course he can have exotic foods and flora flown in from all corners of the globe! No problem procuring the chorus of the Metropolitan Opera to sing "Happy Birthday!" No matter that birthday boy is the obnoxious and well-hated Aubrey Moon--a man who loves nothing better than destroying the lives of those who annoy him. Pierre is more than equal to the task.But when a high-society call girl commits suicide in one of the Beaumont's suites, Pierre learns she'd been under pressure to murder Moon. He also discovers that there is a "Moon Club" made up of people with good reasons to wish the man dead. When an anonymous big spender offers $10,000 to any club member able to exterminate the menace, Chambrun works with his chief of security and the NYPD to catch the mastermind before the plot--and Moon--are executed.
The House Guests
NO ONE'S AROUND FOR MILES... One year ago, Iris's world turned upside down. Haunted by nightmares of her mother's traumatic death, Iris has become a sleep-deprived, jittery version of herself who she hardly recognizes anymore. So when she's given the opportunity to get away from the crushing grind of reality for a relaxing week with her partner and his close-knit group of friends, she jumps at the chance. But after she arrives early to the remote lake house in the Catskills, things take a dark turn. Alone in the cabin in the middle of the night, Iris sees a blood-covered man burying something--or someone--in the mud behind the deck before entering the house. But the daylight reveals nothing, the dirt unturned and the house pristine. As strange and increasingly disturbing discoveries begin to stack up, her fellow house guests refuse to take anything Iris has to say seriously, and she begins to suspect that someone might be gaslighting her. If the stress hasn't finally gotten to her, that is. Determined to uncover the truth, Iris finds herself drawn into a terrifying game of cat and mouse. Is it all in her head, or is there really a killer among them? Can she trust anyone...even herself?
