Sinister Errand - format ePub

The sinister business of counter-espionage is played out by an array of magnificent characters. Quayle, compounded of wisdom, administrative genius and the ability to live without sleep, wine or women;...

Slim Callaghan, private detective, is drawn into a particularly dubious case - even for him. A Mrs Paula Denys says she paid a man to steal the priceless Denys Coronet from her husband's safe. Now the...

In the first of the Lemmy Caution series, a group of organised gangsters are operating a 'snatch' racket, laying a plan - worked out in the minutest detail - to kidnap the daughter of an American millionaire...

Shaun Aloysius O'Mara, intelligence agent for the British 'second bureau', has been ordered by his superiors to go to Paris to obtain information that will lead to the capture of the lone survivor of...

Slim Callaghan had been hired by beautiful Cynthis Meraulton to stop her cousins getting her step-father's money. But when the old man is murdered, the only suspect with no alibi and a giant motive is...

No one asked Slim Callaghan to investigate - he just did it - and they had to like it. A £40,000 insurance claim, two beautiful women and possibly a fake suicide were at stake. Slim Callaghan, private...

Three dazzling sisters are suspects in the killing of their own mother. If only Viola could have predicted the potential for danger when she drafted the will that prevents any of her daughters from being...

Quayle, the master of a British spy ring in World War II, is faced with the task of dealing with a man who has come from Morocco with what he says is important information about German troops there. But...

Agent Michael Kells is in pursuit of Nazi spies in London, who have been tasked with the job of pinpointing the actual landing places of V1 bombs to improve their accuracy.Through the strange byways of...

Proceed with caution ... to Mexico ... ... or at least Mexico as Lemmy Caution sees it: 'It's hot as hell. Away down the dirt road some guy's playin' one of them wailin' Mexican fandangles which give...

The Second World War has just ended and the Secret Service has 'mislaid' two lists of German war criminals. Peter Everard Quayle is the head of the Department concerned and he was responsible for the...

Rene Burg, one-time Chicago gunman, finds himself mixed up in the Norwegian underground movement during the war. As well as gunning for the German Army in general, Burg is out to get one person in particular:...

In his seventh adventure 'G' man Lemmy Caution is sent to investigate the murder of a female agent and the disappearance of a prominent scientist. His search leads Lemmy to notorious gangster Enrico Pranzetti,...

'Some wise guy - Confucius or somebody - said there was nothin' like the truth, which is a thing that I believe in - sometimes. Anyhow, I am goin' to try this nothin' but the truth stuff on this dame...

Cara, Gayda, Pearl: sizzling dames. Travis, Clemensky, Clansing: desperate men. A set of secret papers. Bring in FBI man Lemmy Caution to recover the papers, and we have all the ingredients for a fast-moving...

Textauszug: "Jetzt hören Sie mal zu, Skendall", sage ich. "Ich glaube, ich bin Ihnen auf der Spur. Zunächst einmal möchte ich von Ihnen wissen, was gestern Abend bei Joe Madrigaul vorgefallen ist. Wie...

"Lemmy", sagt sie, "Sie müssen wissen, dass ich Sie für einen ganz köstlichen Menschen halte. Sie sind so direkt, dass Sie manchmal die offensichtlichsten Tatsachen übersehen. "Sie ziehen mich auf seltsame...

Die Handlung mit dem Super-FBI-Agent Lemmy Caution beginnt in diesen Pulp-Thriller in Mexiko auf der Spur eines anderen G-Man, der verschwunden ist. Es geht um eine chemische Formel zweier Chemiker für...

FBI-Agent Lemmy Caution baut sich eine Undercover-Tarnung als gesuchter Mörder auf, um die internationale Verbrecherbande um den Gangster Siegella zu überführen. Die vergnügungssüchtige Millionenerbin...

'The British, once they take the gloves off - once they forget to play cricket, to be English gentlemen - they are the toughest things on earth,' says one German espionage agent to another in Dark Duet....

Der eilige Henker ("The Urgent Hangman") ist ein spannender Kriminalroman des englischen Autors Peter Cheyney. In dem Buch geht es um den Detektiv Slim Callaghan, der in einen Fall von Erpressung und...

In "Gefährliche Kurven" taucht der Leser ein in die Welt der Unterwelt und des Verbrechens. Peter Cheyney entführt uns in eine düstere, aber dennoch faszinierende Welt voller Intrigen, Gewalt und Verrat....

"Peter Cheyney's "Sie können das Wechselgeld nicht behalten" nimmt die Leser mit auf eine aufregende Reise durch die zwielichtige Unterwelt des Nachkriegs-Londons. Lernen Sie Slim Callaghan kennen, einen...

In "Der skrupellose Mr. Callaghan" stellt uns Peter Cheyney seinen knallharten, redseligen Privatdetektiv Slim Callaghan vor. Als Callaghan von Inspektor Gringall von Scotland Yard gebeten wird, sich...

Tauchen Sie ein in die düstere Welt des Londoner Privatdetektivs Slim Callaghan in Peter Cheyneys packendem Thriller "Ich bedaure, dass Sie Probleme haben". Als Callaghan auf eine verdächtige Selbstmordserie...

Tauchen Sie ein in die düstere Welt des Londoner Privatdetektivs Slim Callaghan und begleiten Sie ihn bei seinem neuesten Fall in "Sie sagen nie, wann" von Peter Cheyney. Als die geheimnisvolle Mrs. Paula...

Tauchen Sie ein in die Welt des legendären Privatdetektivs Slim Callaghan! In Peter Cheyneys spannendem Krimi "Unbehagliche Bedingungen" ermittelt Callaghan in einem kleinen Dorf in der Nähe von Alfriston....

"Frauen ist das egal" von Peter Cheyney ist ein Hard-Boiled-Krimi der besonderen Art. Special Agent Lemmy Caution erzählt die Geschichte in seinem unvergleichlichen Slang und bringt den Leser in ein Abenteuer...

Mein Name ist Caution, Lemmy Caution. Ich arbeite für den FBI. Nicht jeder Auftrag, den ich kriege, fängt so verquer an wie dieser hier. Eine Mrs. Marella Thorensen hatte uns geschrieben und einen Beamten...

In his tenth and final adventure, set just after the end of the Second World War, Lemmy Caution is in Paris investigating the theft of secret State Department documents. In the opinion of his chief, however,...

Danger Abroad is the 12th novel in Terry Odell's popular Blackthorne, Inc. romantic suspense series. With the ups, downs, twists, and turns of a roller coaster, you'll want to hop on and join the ride.When...

Not all that glitters is gold. Elora is learning that the people she's living with might be keeping secrets. Dangerous ones.Even though she's scared of being alone, Elora knows she has to leave. Oscar,...

Welcome to Carabas, where cats and dogs live together—but harmony comes at a price.Searching for his missing Siamese girlfriend Moira, feline journalist Julius Kyle bravely ventures beyond the city he...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'When I decide to escape I shall want nobody’s assistance.’ In this thrilling collection, we meet Arsène Lupin, a brilliant, alluring master of disguise...

A GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, FINANCIAL TIMES, BBC, TIME, VOGUE, MARIE CLAIRE, ESQUIRE and ROLLING STONE BOOK TO READ IN 2025'An original' RACHEL KUSHNER'Gorgeously disquieting' HERNAN DIAZ'One of our most brilliant...

A Financial Thriller from London to Lagos, Dakar and the Shadows of Global ElitesWhen a former waiter turned trader sets out to destroy a corrupt pharmaceutical empire, he triggers a silent war in the...

What would killing him accomplish? Nothing, mostly.Then again, neither would letting him live.When Hester is diagnosed with cancer on her fortieth birthday, she knows immediately what she must do: abandon...

A Frida Lorne krimisorozat 7. kötete. Litvin professzort aggasztja, hogy az általa vezetett Agykutató Centrum egyik vendége váratlan hirtelenséggel elhalálozott. Bár nem sok jel utal rá, hogy súlyos bűncselekményt...

From the pen of a multiple award-winning author comes this collection of stories about love, loss, religion, murder, memory, and mystery. In "Midnight Shift", a pair of doctors seeking intimacy instead...

Dear Dad: A fast-paced psychological thriller with shocking revelations is a gripping, emotionally charged novel that plunges readers into the haunting journey of Elliot Hart, a grieving son who uncovers...

Alex, an ordinary young man, stumbles upon a mysterious artifact that transports him to Eldoria, a world of magic and technology.  Overwhelmed by the unfamiliar environment, he soon learns of the Oracle...

Jaron Vales, a software engineer drowning in a monotonous existence, experiences an electrifying surge of energy while debugging a stubborn piece of code.  Suddenly, he's thrust into a lush, prehistoric...

Stalked to the Altar is a chilling psychological thriller story about obsession, lies, and a woman who will do anything to get the man she wants—even if it means destroying someone else.For ten years,...

Zhou Xuan resurrected as the young boss of the Zhou Clan, but was involved in many strange events. First, he encountered a ghost baby in Luo Yingtang, and then he discovered the bizarre death of Mr. Dai...

Zhou Xuan resurrected as the young boss of the Zhou Clan, but was involved in many strange events. First, he encountered a ghost baby in Luo Yingtang, and then he discovered the bizarre death of Mr. Dai...

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. He is the creation of Scottish born author and physician Sir Arthur Conan...

The most famous by far of all twentieth-century political allegories, Animal Farm is the account of a group of barnyard animals who revolt against their vicious human master, only to submit to a tyranny...

SOMETIMES WHEN YOU LOVE SOMEONE... YOU LIEThe bestselling author and creator of the hit Netflix drama Fool Me Once explores the dangers of obsession in this #1 bestselling suspense thriller. Six years...

A spellbinding epic tale of ambition, anarchy and absolute power set against the sprawling medieval canvas of twelfth-century England, The Pillars of the Earth is Ken Follett's classic historical masterpiece.A...

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Winston Smith rewrites history. It’s his...

‘Addictive. A first-class page-turner.’ Lisa Hall, author of Between You and Me Can the past ever be forgotten? As soon as nurse Maura Lyle sets foot inside the foreboding Essen Grange,...

OVER 12 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDENOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREA NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFor years, rumours of the 'Marsh Girl' have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina...

"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again..." Ancient, beautiful Manderley, between the rose garden and the sea, is the county's showpiece. Rebecca made it so - even a year after her death, Rebecca's...

The first thriller in the Mickey Bolitar series, now airing as an original series on Amazon Prime. Bestselling author and creator of the hit Netflix show Fool Me Once, Harlan Coben brings us a shocking...

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'It does everything you'd expect of a masterpiece - and it is one' Sunday Express'Hums and crackles with delicious unease' Independent'Captivating' The Sunday Times'An absorbing thriller' Mail on SundayNO...

Welcome to the quaint town of Ledstow, where magic whispers through the trees and secrets linger in every shadow. When a shocking murder rocks the musical community, Esther finds herself entangled in...

A bloodless corpse and a stranger in town. It's happening again.Terror returns to Dante's Hallow. Nicholas Harwood and his unlikely group of companions, both the living and the dead, must find a way to...

Multiple 5-Star Reviews on Reader's Favorite!Joshua Ryan is a disgraced lawyer in desperate need of redemption, and one case could turn everything around.When Rabbi Carl Rubin's wife is found strangled,...

Alicia Stone has always lived up to her name: unbreakable. As the daughter of a general and a Special Forces consultant with black belts in three martial arts, she's fought her way to the top in a world...