Lwów, wiosna 1939 roku. Dziennikarz śledczy Jakub Stern zamawia garnitur u poleconego krawca. Kiedy przychodzi odebrać zamówienie okazuje się, że krawiec Lille zwany Szczęściarzem powiesił się. U stóp samobójcy Jakub znajduje fotografię...
Eliza Altairsky-Lointaine is the toast of Moscow society, a beautiful actress in an infamous theatre troupe.
Her love life is a colourful as the parts she plays. She is the estranged wife of a descendant of Genghis Khan. And her ex-husband has...
When the Morton Street Slasher leaves the corpses of his victims on the tangled gaslit streets near San Francisco's Union Square, he marks each body with a playing card. Ambrose "Bitter" Bierce, the city's famed newspaperman, immediately blames the...
The Amelia Peabody series is a series of twenty historical mystery novels and one non-fiction companion volume written by Egyptologist Barbara Mertz (1927–2013) under the pen name Elizabeth Peters. The series is centered on the adventures of the...
Jill discovers a concealed box - inside it is a baby's skeleton, seemingly entombed early in the 19th century. Detective Inspector Thornhill and Jill gradually reach the conclusion that the baby's death is more recent than it seems. And the hunt for...