Dark Duet - formato ePub

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:...

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...

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,...

'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...

Slim Callaghan, private detective, is drawn into a particularly dubious case - even for him. A Mrs Paula Denys says she paid a man to steal the priceless Denys Coronet from her husband's safe. Now the...

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...

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...

Agent Michael Kells is in pursuit of Nazi spies in London, who have been tasked with the job of pinpointing the actual landing places of V1 bombs to improve their accuracy.Through the strange byways of...

The sinister business of counter-espionage is played out by an array of magnificent characters. Quayle, compounded of wisdom, administrative genius and the ability to live without sleep, wine or women;...

'The British, once they take the gloves off - once they forget to play cricket, to be English gentlemen - they are the toughest things on earth,' says one German espionage agent to another in Dark Duet....

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,...

Slim Callaghan had been hired by beautiful Cynthis Meraulton to stop her cousins getting her step-father's money. But when the old man is murdered, the only suspect with no alibi and a giant motive is...

Rene Burg, one-time Chicago gunman, finds himself mixed up in the Norwegian underground movement during the war. As well as gunning for the German Army in general, Burg is out to get one person in particular:...

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...

In the second Lemmy Caution novel, the FBI man is sent by his bosses to Casablanca to investigate the disappearance of two million dollars, which have seemingly vanished into thin air. There he meets...

It's wartime London. Inspector Gringall of the Yard, long-time friendly rival of private detective Slim Callaghan, sends Slim on a mission to meet Doria Varette, a torch singer at Ferdie's Place.Callaghan...

In the high-stakes world of political campaigns, where ambition runs as deep as the divides between party lines, love is the most dangerous game of all.Olivia Harrington, a sharp and ambitious journalist,...

We have at times been accused of putting so many people into our books that no one can remember who they are, in which stricture we entirely concur, as we often cannot remember who they are ourself (or...

Can a runaway bride find a second chance at happiness with the one that got away, her first love? When a blizzard strands recently-branded 'runaway bride' Rose Keating on the side of the road with the...

Animals are speaking. Who is Listening? When Quinby Clark has a conversation with a bird, she thinks she's going crazy. But when a dog invites her to attend a mysterious Australian boarding school for...

Every campfire story has an origin; a shadow on the water, a sound in the dark, a tragedy with no explanation. The legend of Camp Alkali is no different. Stories have been woven over the years about a...

After learning about her otherworldly ancestry, a young woman is swept up in a war that started long before she was born— the war that killed her father, a Seelie Gatekeeper. Hoping to understand her...

"Unlock the Secrets of Paradise" In a world where myth and reality blur, a young girl discovers the hidden gateway into the Garden of Eden. With the guidance of a spirit soul from within the Garden. She...

Family secrets hold the key to buried magic. Her legacy awaits. Katelyn Grey is a gardener in Southern California. She's content with pruning shrubs and looking after her step-mom, the only family she...

It will not, we hope, surprise our readers to hear that Lady Cora Waring, formerly Lady Cora Palliser, only daughter of the Duke of Omnium, wife of Sir Cecil Waring of Beliers Priory, was expecting what...

After being Ms. Zi Wei and being on the planet that a mysterious race of people cannot breath on, the enemy calls her the soul swallower. Archibald von Kitari, the wizard, and Tartu von Greenbird, the...

For millennia, Tol has known peace, but now ancient fears resurface as the northern empire of Nordinium invades the Southlands. Amidst the chaos, two young orphans, Perrin and Bren, are thrust into a...

The first lesson Eilean MacAlistair learned in blacksmithing: First, you harden, and then you temper.Otherwise, your metal will break.The same is true with life. A few years back, Eilean didn't temper...

Being dead never felt so good...Silver's memories are gone, but that's the way death usually goes. You wake up by the Styx, you realize you're dead, you pick a name, and you pay Charon for a ride across...

The Stygian Lepus Magazine is a thrilling foray into dark speculative fiction. In each new edition, readers explore the depths of imagination, where fear and fascination intertwine.Offering diverse genres...

1837. At the Graduation Ball of Miss Debenham's Finishing School, the Husband Hunters Club is formed. Livy Monteith is as strong-willed as she is beautiful, and she refuses to wed the man of her parents'...

13 tales of pure Adventure.Action-Adventure tales to lead you to places you've never been — and hope you make it back.Make a wildfire your ally. Tread softly with the French Resistance during WWII. Extract...

"Sherlock Holmes and the Prophets of the Bible Elohim"Prepare for a revolutionary literary experience that dares to challenge centuries of religious and historical assumptions. In this provocative work...

Here are ten really short stories from my imagination. There contain some saddness, some happiness, some hope, some dispair and some advertures included in these stories. I hope you are entertainied by...

Terri's life is turned upside down in the gripping conclusion to the "This Love is Real" series. Without recollection of the past year, she is thrust into a world of uncertainty and heartache. Terri's...

Welcome to Cole County, where we bring you the best of all worlds: city living in Carruthersville, mountain views from Slate Ridge, sandy beaches along Lake Boulder, and quaint towns filled with family-owned...

After years of living in Vermont, Lauren is at the Jersey shore for the summer after a devastating divorce, and her house rental appears to be anything but luxurious.Lauren hasn't been back to Ocean City,...

A collection of 15 dark stories with twists and turns from flash fiction to poetry and a short story!The darker side of what happens if you just . . . shouldn't. But really, wouldn't you try . . .Using...

Desert. Sun. Sand. No roads or human settlements within fifty miles in any direction. The perfect place to found a town? That's what Steve Ragsdale believed. So he and his wife bundled up their four kids...

Stories You Read in the Dark is a collection of three short horror stories that are perfect to read at nights. These stories includes a young boy conquering a witch, a demon escaping prison time, and...

Adam Perdue finds people no one really wants found, in places nobody else wants to look. When Michele Rathborn vanishes from the streets of Orman, her brothers hire him so they can challenge the will...

A short story involving: a stolen colony, and a lost cat, a new beginning, and justice for the past. Can Tika find a way to keep the colony in place for those arriving, or will she be too late? And can...

Trapped inside the ARK's dream worlds Lukas and Jean have to find a way out to stop the ancient machine's plans to spread across the modern world. All the while the worshipers of Darkness Erebus make...

Syllaba city is a mega city broken up into twenty-four distinct districts or wards. Outside of the central Ward Zero each ward is run by a particular company in charge of a key aspect of the city's function....

According to myth the world began when the Goddess descended upon the land and with her 'light' brought life into the world. From the Humans she chose four to serve as her speakers and together they created...

Two years have passed since the military coup was foiled by the efforts of Lukas and Jean. Since that time Lukas has pursued new strengths after learning of his own weaknesses. After his long training,...