The Footsteps At The Lock

Author : Ronald Arbuthnott Knox
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547108078

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The Footsteps at the Lock by Ronald Arbuthnott Knox Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Footsteps at the Lock" by Ronald Arbuthnott Knox. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Ronald Arbuthnott Knox
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0486244938

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The Footsteps at the Lock by Ronald Arbuthnott Knox Pdf

Urbane mystery, set in the pastoral reaches of the upper Thames, concerns the disappearance of young heir to a fortune. Insurance company investigator Miles Bredon takes on the case. Delightfully tongue-in-cheek tone, baffling clues, challenging mystery counterpointed by poetic evocation of the river and countryside. Fine novel by author of 10 celebrated "commandments" for writing detective fiction.

Author : Ronald Knox
Publisher : Murder Room
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781471900563

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The Viaduct Murder by Ronald Knox Pdf

When four friends stumble across the body of a fellow club member during a game of golf they suspect murder. The police aren't so sure, and when it looks as though the official verdict will be suicide the men are outraged. Convinced that there had been 'dirty work' and that 'the police aren't very good at following up clues', they undertake their own investigation. A classic Golden Age whodunit that involves the reader in a charming game of detection as the protagonists use Sherlockian methods to unravel the mystery.

Author : Josh Lanyon,Nicole Kimberling,S.C. Wynne,LB Gregg,Z.A. Maxfield,Meg Perry,C.S. Poe,Dal Maclean
Publisher : JustJoshin Publishing, Inc.
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781945802966

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Footsteps in the Dark by Josh Lanyon,Nicole Kimberling,S.C. Wynne,LB Gregg,Z.A. Maxfield,Meg Perry,C.S. Poe,Dal Maclean Pdf

The snick of a lock. The squeak of door hinges. The creak of a floorboard... Nothing is more mysterious than footsteps in the dark. Are those approaching steps that of friend or enemy? Lover or killer? Authors L.B. Gregg, Nicole Kimberling, Josh Lanyon, Dal MacLean, Z.A. Maxfield, Meg Perry, C.S. Poe and S.C. Wynne join forces for Footsteps in the Dark, eight sexy and suspenseful novellas of Male/Male Mystery and Romance.

Author : Ruth Ware
Publisher : Gallery/Scout Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501188787

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The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware Pdf

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “A superb suspense writer…Brava, Ruth Ware. I daresay even Henry James would be impressed.” —Maureen Corrigan, author of So We Read On “This appropriately twisty Turn of the Screw update finds the Woman in Cabin 10 author in her most menacing mode, unfurling a shocking saga of murder and deception.” —Entertainment Weekly From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Lying Game and The Death of Mrs. Westaway comes this thrilling novel that explores the dark side of technology. When she stumbles across the ad, she’s looking for something else completely. But it seems like too good an opportunity to miss—a live-in nannying post, with a staggeringly generous salary. And when Rowan Caine arrives at Heatherbrae House, she is smitten—by the luxurious “smart” home fitted out with all modern conveniences, by the beautiful Scottish Highlands, and by this picture-perfect family. What she doesn’t know is that she’s stepping into a nightmare—one that will end with a child dead and herself in prison awaiting trial for murder. Writing to her lawyer from prison, she struggles to explain the events that led to her incarceration. It wasn’t just the constant surveillance from the home’s cameras, or the malfunctioning technology that woke the household with booming music, or turned the lights off at the worst possible time. It wasn’t just the girls, who turned out to be a far cry from the immaculately behaved model children she met at her interview. It wasn’t even the way she was left alone for weeks at a time, with no adults around apart from the enigmatic handyman. It was everything. She knows she’s made mistakes. She admits that she lied to obtain the post, and that her behavior toward the children wasn’t always ideal. She’s not innocent, by any means. But, she maintains, she’s not guilty—at least not of murder—but somebody is. Full of spellbinding menace and told in Ruth Ware’s signature suspenseful style, The Turn of the Key is an unputdownable thriller from the Agatha Christie of our time.

Author : Julian Hawthorne
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781602066557

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The Lock and Key Library by Julian Hawthorne Pdf

Large Format for easy reading. a collection of both detective, occultism and magic short stories and articles. Arthur Train, David P. Abbott, Andrew Lang, M. Robert-Houdin and Hereward Carrington contribute.

Author : Matthew B.J. Delaney
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429972826

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Jinn by Matthew B.J. Delaney Pdf

It is May 1943. On the remote island of Bougainville, in the South Pacific, a squad of United States Marines beats their way through the thick jungle. They've landed to do battle with the Japanese soldiers on the island, but in short order, they begin to realize that the forbidding battleground holds an ancient secret a hundred times more terrifying than any enemy army---especially when they start finding the bodies. Flash-forward to July 2008. In the slums---and the skyscrapers---of Boston, a new kind of depraved serial killer is stalking human prey and terrifying the city. The bodies have been found posed and mutilated in bizarre ways that the two police officers in charge of the case have never seen before---and never want to see again. Are the two scenarios connected? Detectives Jefferson and Brogan have no idea that to solve the biggest case of their careers, their investigation must take them around the world and through time and history---from a mysterious salvaged submarine with a shocking secret, to an inhumane prison where the inmates are even more scared than usual of "the Pit," and finally back to the beginning: the sinister island in the South Seas where something inhuman has been biding its time. Matthew B.J. Delaney's Jinn won the 2003 International Horror Guild Award for Best First Novel.

Author : Philip J. Tarnoff
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781681814469

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In the Footsteps of Rome by Philip J. Tarnoff Pdf

In the Footsteps of Rome is an epic tale that validates the United States' vulnerability to a major attack by its enemies. The gripping story begins on the battlefields of the Middle East and Africa, where independent groups are fighting for the overthrow of their governments. A new, well-financed organization emerges with the objective of uniting these disparate groups into an effective jihadist force, having the ambitious goal of establishing a worldwide Muslim Caliphate. The organization's effectiveness is enhanced by its acquisition of an advanced technology capable of inflicting significant damage on the United States. For the U.S., the end result, like that of Rome, is chaos and the erosion of its system of government. In the Footsteps of Rome reflects Philip Tarnoff's first-hand knowledge of both government agencies and the private sector. His career experience includes work with state and federal agencies, most recently focusing on the operation of America's highway transportation system, a pursuit for which he has received many awards. As our government pours large sums of money into defense while its infrastructure crumbles, it becomes increasingly clear that the U.S. is following the path of the Rome, whose investments in military superiority dwarfed expenditures on the Empire's other critical needs. Tarnoff's first book, The Road Ahead, which discussed necessary improvements in transportation operations, has received universal acclaim. It is now followed by this work of fiction, which exposes the weaknesses of a deteriorating society.

Author : A. M. Dellamonica
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466812352

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Child of a Hidden Sea by A. M. Dellamonica Pdf

Child of a Hidden Sea by A.M. Dellamonica is a rousing tale of adventure and adversity, politics and personal trials One minute, twenty-four-year-old Sophie Hansa is in a San Francisco alley trying to save the life of the aunt she has never known. The next, she finds herself flung into the warm and salty waters of an unfamiliar world. Glowing moths fall to the waves around her, and the sleek bodies of unseen fish glide against her submerged ankles. The world is Stormwrack, a series of island nations with a variety of cultures and economies—and a language different from any Sophie has heard. Sophie doesn't know it yet, but she has just stepped into the middle of a political firestorm, and a conspiracy that could destroy a world she has just discovered...her world, where everyone seems to know who she is, and where she is forbidden to stay. But Sophie is stubborn, and smart, and refuses to be cast adrift by people who don't know her and yet wish her gone. With the help of a sister she has never known, and a ship captain who would rather she had never arrived, she must navigate the shoals of the highly charged politics of Stormwrack, and win the right to decide for herself whether she stays in this wondrous world...or is doomed to exile. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : I. D. Roberts
Publisher : Allison & Busby
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780749019709

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For Kingdom and Country by I. D. Roberts Pdf

May 1915. Kingdom Lock and his faithful sidekick, Siddhartha Singh are gunned down on the streets of Basra and suspicion falls on German spy, Wilhelm Wassmuss. Major Ross believes Wassmuss is not only still alive but that he is behind the assassination of a senior Turkish officer, the death of whom has been blamed on Lock. Meanwhile, Lock has discovered that Amy Townshend is pregnant and that the child is his. But the general's daughter stubbornly refuses to break off her engagement with Bingham-Smith. Then, when Lock learns that there is a price on his head and every cut throat and desperate man in the area is after the bounty, Ross sends him to the frontlines for his own safety...

Author : Richard O'Brien
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781430324706

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The One After Snelling by Richard O'Brien Pdf

Trade Paperback. Richard O'Brien is the author of 35 books, including 9 novels. This is the first publication of his 'lost' mystery. It's a modern noir about a private dick who gets into something that just might be tougher than his previous case, the Snelling Affair.

Author : A. J. Mackinnon
Publisher : Skyhorse
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781510702134

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The Well at the World's End by A. J. Mackinnon Pdf

“A great travel writer and more importantly a great traveler.” —Sydney Morning Herald When A. J. Mackinnon quits his job in Australia, he knows only that he longs to travel to the well at the world’s end, a mysterious pool on a remote Scottish island whose waters, legend has it, hold the secret to eternal youth. Determined not to fly—he claims it would feel as though he were cheating—he sets out with a backpack, some fireworks, and a map of the world and trusts that chance will take care of the rest. Traveling by land and sea, train, truck, horse, and yacht, Mackinnon travels across the world, getting caught up in a series of hilarious, sometimes surreal, adventures. He survives a near-fatal bus crash in Australia, accidentally marries a Laotian princess, is attacked by a Komodo dragon, and does time in a sketchy Chinese jail, among many other mishaps and misadventures along the way. Each new continent and each new mode of transport brings the possibility of a near-miss or happy accident, all on the quest for eternal youth. This is the astonishing true story of a remarkable voyage.

Author : Indomita Press
Publisher : Indomita Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780578209838

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What Doesn't Kill You by Indomita Press Pdf

The characters in these pages have gone through some stuff. TheyÕve been tricked out of money, given up their innocence, and even ended up accidentally traveling through time with the Devil. TheyÕve thought theyÕd killed peopleÑand even actually done it. TheyÕve come out, struggled with eating disorders and OCD, and even had to take on parenting responsibilities all by themselves. What DoesnÕt Kill You: An Anthology of YA Short Fiction features two-time Na-tional Book Award Finalist Eliot Schrefer as well as Scholastic PUSH author Matthue Roth among a group of two-dozen distinguished writers from all over the United States and Canada who claim to have survived the harrowing pas-sage of their teenage yearsÑbut sometimes just barely! They hope these stories will help you survive tooÑsince they know being a teenager often feels like an impossible task, like itÕs trying to kill you for no apparent reason. If youÕve ever felt like the worldÕs out to get you, then this bookÕs for you.

Author : Thomas Corbishley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Humorists, English
ISBN : UOM:39015001521882

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Ronald Knox, the Priest by Thomas Corbishley Pdf

Author : Jasper Winn
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-07
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781782833345

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Water Ways by Jasper Winn Pdf

For a hundred and fifty years, between the plod of packhorse trains and the arrival of the railways, canals were the high-tech water machine driving the industrial revolution. Amazing feats of engineering, they carried the rural into the city and the urban into the countryside, and changed the lives of everyone. And then, just when their purpose was extinguished by modern transport, they were saved from extinction and repurposed as a 'slow highways' network, a peaceful and countrywide haven from our too-busy age. Today, there are more boats on the canals than in their Victorian heyday. Writer and slow adventurer Jasper Winn spent a year exploring Britain's waterways on foot and by bike, in a kayak and on narrowboats. Along a thousand miles of 'wet roads and water streets' he discovered a world of wildlife corridors, underground adventures, the hardware of heritage and history, new boating communities, endurance kayak races and remote towpaths. He shared journeys with some of the last working boat people and met the anglers, walkers, boaters, activists, volunteers and eccentrics who have made the waterways their home. In Britain most of us live within five miles of a canal, and reading this book we will see them in an entirely new light.