Sleeping Murder

Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062073729
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 266

Book Description
Soon after Gwenda moved into her new home, odd things started to happen. Despite her best efforts to modernize the house, she only succeeded in dredging up its past. Worse, she felt an irrational sense of terror every time she climbed the stairs. In fear, Gwenda turned to Miss Marple to exorcise her ghosts. Between them, they were to solve a “perfect” crime committed many years before.

Cover Her Face

Author: P.D. James
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451697775
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
The first in the series of scintillating mysteries to feature cunning Scotland Yard detective, Adam Dalgliesh from P.D. James, the bestselling author hailed by People magazine as “the greatest living mystery writer.” Sally Jupp was a sly and sensuous young woman who used her body and her brains to make her way up the social ladder. Now she lies across her bed with dark bruises from a strangler’s fingers forever marring her lily-white throat. Someone has decided that the wages of sin should be death...and it is up to Chief Inspector Adam Dalgliesh to find who that someone is. Cover Her Face is P.D. James’ delightful debut novel, an ingeniously plotted mystery that immediately placed her among the masters of suspense.

Murder of a Sleeping Beauty

Author: Denise Swanson
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101119012
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273

Book Description
When school psychologist Skye Denison investigates the death of a popular teenager who was cast as Sleeping Beauty in the school play, she uncovers some shocking revelations about prominent Scumble River citizens. And even ever-optimistic Skye knows that in this case, finding the killer won't end this tale happily-end-after...

Stem Cells—Advances in Research and Application: 2012 Edition

Author:
Publisher: ScholarlyEditions
ISBN: 1464991251
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 960

Book Description
Stem Cells—Advances in Research and Application: 2012 Edition is a ScholarlyEditions™ eBook that delivers timely, authoritative, and comprehensive information about Stem Cells. The editors have built Stem Cells—Advances in Research and Application: 2012 Edition on the vast information databases of ScholarlyNews.™ You can expect the information about Stem Cells in this eBook to be deeper than what you can access anywhere else, as well as consistently reliable, authoritative, informed, and relevant. The content of Stem Cells—Advances in Research and Application: 2012 Edition has been produced by the world’s leading scientists, engineers, analysts, research institutions, and companies. All of the content is from peer-reviewed sources, and all of it is written, assembled, and edited by the editors at ScholarlyEditions™ and available exclusively from us. You now have a source you can cite with authority, confidence, and credibility. More information is available at http://www.ScholarlyEditions.com/.

Are You Sleeping

Author: Kathleen Barber
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501157663
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336

Book Description
"Serial meets Ruth Ware's In A Dark, Dark Wood in this ... psychological thriller about a mega-hit podcast that reopens a long-closed murder case and threatens to unravel the carefully constructed life of the victim's daughter"--

The Sleeping Car Murders

Author: Sébastien Japrisot
Publisher: Gallic Books
ISBN: 1910477990
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 147

Book Description
Described as 'the Graham Greene of France' by The Independent, cult French noir writer Japrisot brings us a murder mystery set in a Parisian landscape of lust, deception and death. 'Sensational' Sunday Times When the night train pulled into Paris, she was dead. And the riddle began . . . A beautiful young woman lies sprawled on her berth in the sleeping car of the night train from Marseille to Paris. She is not in the embrace of sleep, or even in the arms of one of her many lovers. She is dead. And the unpleasant task of finding her killer is handed to overworked, crime-weary police detective Pierre ‘Grazzi’ Grazziano, who would rather play hide-and-seek with his little son than cat and mouse with a diabolically cunning, savage murderer. With corpses turning up everywhere, the question becomes not only who is the killer, but who will be the next victim . . .

The Sleeping Beauty Killer

Author: Mary Higgins Clark
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 150110859X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384

Book Description
Living under suspicion after wrongly serving time for her fiance's murder, Casey attracts the attention of newswoman Laurie, who pledges to exonerate her in spite of the machinations of an attention-stealing former prosecutor.

Agatha Christie's Murder at the Vicarage

Author: Moie Charles
Publisher: Samuel French , Limited
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 96

Book Description
When the Parson declares rather carelessly 'Anyone who murdered Colonel Prothero would be doing the world at large a service !', he does not realise his words will come back to haunt him. From several potential murderers, Miss Marple must find the real killer

As She Lay Sleeping

Author: Mark Pryor
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780882824284
Category : Criminal investigation
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Savagely attacked as she lay sleeping on the sofa, Natalie Antonetti's skull was shattered. Bizarrely, she was able to move about her apartment, changed clothes and tried to speak to her son. Her words never came. Two weeks later she was dead. The only lead was a neighbor who claimed to have seen a shadowy figure wielding a child’s baseball bat an hour prior to the attack. Despite a wide search for leads and questioning some suspects, the police were unable to find anyone who matched the description and the case grew cold. Then out of the blue, a woman contacted the police claiming her husband, Dennis Davis, shockingly revealed to her he had killed Natalie. With no DNA, no fingerprints, no eyewitness and two witnesses who refused to testify, former journalist and rookie prosecutor Mark Pryor committed to bring justice to Natalie's family. This, his first homicide case would require him to be a sleuth, investigator and prosecutor all with the deadline nipping at this heels. He vowed to do it. As She Lay Sleepingfollows the twisted and often murky criminal investigation all the way to its dramatic courtroom climax in this true crime thriller.

Murder Is Easy

Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062113437
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Book Description
A quiet English village is plagued by a fiendish serial killer in Queen of Mystery Agatha Christie’s classic thriller, Murder is Easy. Luke Fitzwilliam does not believe Miss Pinkerton’s wild allegation that a multiple murderer is at work in the quiet English village of Wychwood and that her local doctor is next in line. But within hours, Miss Pinkerton has been killed in a hit-and-run car accident. Mere coincidence? Luke is inclined to think so—until he reads in the Times of the unexpected demise of Wychwood’s Dr. Humbleby.…