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When Fredericka Wing arrives in South Sutton, Massachusetts, a tiny New England town, it seems an ideal place for a working summer vacation. She plans on managing Miss Hartwell's bookstore while working on her own writing. She never dreamed she would find a body in a hammock in her own backyard. Someone brutally murdered Catherine Clay, an heir to the Sutton family fortune. And more violence follows. Together with Peter Mohun, a professor at a local college, Fredericka sets out to discover the murderer's identity … and unravel the secrets of the wealthy and powerful Sutton family! <P> "Murders for Sale" – also published under the title «Sneeze on Sunday» – is one of science fiction writer Andre Norton's rare excursions into the mystery field.

"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in Graham's Magazine in 1841. It has been claimed as the first detective story; Poe referred to it as one of his "tales of ratiocination".

A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Jennifer Bassett. The room was on the fourth floor, and the key on the inside. The windows were closed and fastened – on the inside. The chimney was too narrow for a cat to get through. So how did the murderer escape? And whose were the two angry voices heard by the neighbours as they ran up the stairs? Nobody in Paris could find any answers to this mystery. Except Anguste Dupin, who could see further and think more clearly than other people. The answers to the mystery were all there, but only a clever man could see them.

Джессика Феллоуз – автор бестселлеров «The New York Times» о культовом сериале «Аббатство Даунтон» и племянница его создателя, лорда Феллоуза. Она также получила заслуженную известность как уникальный знаток жизни Великобритании XX века. 1920 год. Луиза Кэннон отчаянно стремится вырваться из лап нищеты. Ее спасение – стать нянькой в известном аристократическом семействе. Здесь она сближается со старшей дочерью лорда, Нэнси, умной не по годам девушкой. Вместе они оказываются втянуты в расследование загадочного убийства сестры милосердия, героини Первой мировой войны, – убийства, совершенного в поезде прямо посреди бела дня. Так начинается история сестер Митфорд, шести реально существовавших женщин, скандально известных во всем мире…

Ім’я Едгара Аллана По (1809–1849) – американського письменника-романтика, поета, драматурга і критика, майстра короткого оповідання і засновника детективу – відомо в усьому світі. Оповідання «Вбивство на вулиці Морг» вважають першим детективним твором в історії літератури. Огюст Дюпен, молодий чоловік, який має надзвичайні аналітичні здібності, розслідує жорстоке й загадкове вбивство двох жінок – матері та доньки, скоєні у Парижі, в будинку на вулиці Морг. Також до видання увійшли оповідання «Метценгерштайн», «Береніка», «Не закладайся з чортом на власну голову» та інші, в яких яскраво розкрився непересічний талант Е. А. По.

The new Hercule Poirot novel – another brilliant murder mystery that can only be solved by the eponymous Belgian detective and his ‘little grey cells’.Since the publication of her first book in 1920, Agatha Christie wrote 33 novels, two plays and more than 50 short stories featuring Hercule Poirot. Now, for the first time ever, the guardians of her legacy have approved a brand new novel featuring Dame Agatha's most beloved creation.Hercule Poirot's quiet supper in a London coffee house is interrupted when a young woman confides to him that she is about to be murdered. She is terrified, but begs Poirot not to find and punish her killer. Once she is dead, she insists, justice will have been done.Later that night, Poirot learns that three guests at the fashionable Bloxham Hotel have been murdered, a cufflink placed in each one’s mouth. Could there be a connection with the frightened woman? While Poirot struggles to put together the bizarre pieces of the puzzle, the murderer prepares another hotel bedroom for a fourth victim…In the hands of internationally bestselling author Sophie Hannah, Poirot plunges into a mystery set in 1920s London – a diabolically clever puzzle that can only be solved by the talented Belgian detective and his ‘little grey cells’.