Wolf’s lust for a unique black orchid combined with his envy of the orchid fancier who hybridized it impel him to attend the annual New York flower show. A nursery/seed company employee is murdered at the show. Wolfe offers to solve the murder in...
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The Saint has been pardoned for all crimes now and his identity is no secret. This book consists of 15 short stories which originally appeared in the Empire News, a now-defunct Sunday Newspaper, in 1932. Leslie Charteris had a contract to write a...
Hamish Gavin has accepted a teaching position at a unique institution, Joynings, where almost all of the students--and most of the faculty--have dark deeds and secrets in their past that led them there. Equal parts safe house, college, and...
Dame Beatrice receives a letter from her grandnephew, Denis Bradley, and relates its contents thusly to Laura over breakfast: "Denis has joined a friend named Tom Richardson for a fortnight's holiday. He was late getting to the hotel and the...
The book, which picks up soon after the events of the previous full-length novel, Getaway, consists of the following stories (designated as Part One, Part Two, and Part Three):
The Gold Standard - In Paris, Simon Templar finds a mortally wounded...
Comrie and Hera are planning to marry but, before taking the risk of setting up as legal life-partners, they decide on an unusual test of compatibility: they embark on a long, sometimes arduous pilgrimage along part of Scotland's West Highland...
How come a New York reporter like Ross Millan was combing half of Mexico looking for old man Shumway's missing daughter? Millan had asked himself the question a dozen times-and when he found her, he asked himself a whole lot more questions. For...
Once again Vic Malloy, of Universal Services and Orchid City, California, fishes in waters so troubled they make a maelstrom look like a millpond. Janet Crosby's letter was the problem - it was unfortunate that is should have lain 14 months...
Dame Beatrice is summoned to Galliard Hall by a heretofore unknown relative, one Romilly Lestrange, who asks his guest for her psychiatric opinion of his troubled wife. It turns out that the patient in question--a young woman called Trilby but...