A profile based on the subject's personal archives describes such topics as Doyle's education at Stonyhurst and Edinburgh University, his Southsea medical practice, his two marriages, his forays into politics and spiritualism, his friendships with such figures as H. G. Wells and King Edward VII, and[...]
John Dickson Carr is known as the master of the locked-room mystery the impossible crime. But Carr also wrote short stories, radio plays, essays, introductions, and book reviews. S. T. Joshi has written the first full-length study of Carr s entire work and pays particular attention to this author s [...]
'The first deadly walking of the hollow man took place when the side streets of London were quiet with snow and the three coffins of the prophecy were filled at last...' The murderer of Dr Grimauld walked through a locked door, shot his victim and vanished. He killed his second victim in the middle [...]
In the shadowy hallway of clockmaker Johannes Carver's house a policeman is found murdered, the arrow-tipped minute hand of an antique clock embedded in his neck. For Dr Gideon Fell this is the only case that has ever really frightened him, and before he can solve it he must find answers to some see[...]
To solve a long-forgotten crime, a professor challenges the devil in this nefariously puzzling, romantic tale from the Golden Age master of mystery fiction An aging scholar of Restoration history, Nicholas Fenton has long dreamed of traveling into the past. He has a date in mind May 10, 1675 as well[...]
Romanen er både en grøsser og en detektivfortelling. Handlingen foregår i Amerika, i det mørke og tradisjonsrike Ny-England, i velstående, typisk amerikansk mellomkrigsmiljø. Samtidig føres vi tilbake til et dystert Frankrike på 1600-tallet med svarte kunster og heksebål.[...]
Lugar B-13: Et nygift par er på bryllupsreise med en atlanterhavsdamper. Kort etter avgang forsvinner mannen. Dessuten har ingen sett han komme om bord, og lugaren deres finnes ikke. Er kvinnen gal, eller har noen begått en perfekt forbrytelse? I rollene: Svein Erik Brodal, Marit Hamdahl, Jan Hår[...]