Знаменитый детектив Алекс Кросс решил отойти от дел и вернуться к частной практике психотерапевта.
Но старый друг, детектив Сэмпсон, попросил его стать независимым консультантом по делу...
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Derek Burtell is a boorish young man with a devotion to drink and drugs, and deeply in debt. His younger cousin, Nigel Burtell, is a pompous aesthete finishing his studies in Oxford. They share a childhood without parents, and a mutual antipathy. Derek is due to inherit a family fortune from his grandfather’s estate when he turns twenty-five, but if he should die before attaining that age, Nigel becomes the beneficiary. Complicating matters is the further possibility of a legacy from their great-aunt, if they can demonstrate that their hostilities have ceased.
These are the factors leading to their decision to share a summer canoe holiday on the Thames, in spite of their animosity. As they are on the return leg of their excursion, Nigel...
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Jephthah Mottram is a wealthy businessman whose life is insured by a policy which pays a huge sum to his beneficiaries should he die before the age of 65, and after that provides an annuity. During his annual fishing retreat at a rural and decrepit Midlands inn, he dies one night of gas poisoning. There are complications. What is to be made of his attempt to negotiate a settlement with the insurance company because of a diagnosis he had received before his holiday? And what of the disposition of the three gas taps in his bedroom at the hostelry?
Inevitably, Mottram’s death requires investigation, not only by the police but by the insurance company’s brilliant—albeit lazy—detective, ...
Ronald A. Knox was something of a polymath, who as a boy was fascinated by Sherlock Holmes. He was so interested mysteries that he wrote and promulgated the “Ten Commandments” for..." data-title="Книга The Viaduct Murder">
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As the fog and rain clear one Tuesday afternoon in October, four members of a village golf club decide to fit in a match before evening sets in. One of them slices his drive off the third tee. Following his ball to the foot of the neighboring railway viaduct, he stumbles upon a body. The police soon arrive, but they seem to ignore some odd circumstances noticed by the friends, and the four decide to investigate themselves.
Ronald A. Knox was something of a polymath, who as a boy was fascinated by Sherlock Holmes. He was so interested mysteries that he wrote and promulgated the “Ten Commandments” for...
