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Hanko. Keskikesä. Täydellistä hellepäivää lupaileva kuulas aamu. Seesteinen kesäkaupunki-idylli särkyy varhaisen koiranulkoiluttajan parkaisuun. Rannalla makaa kuollut mies haudatt ...

Kertomus petoksesta, kateudesta, kostosta ja sukupolvien yli ulottuvasta muistista. Ruben Waara istuu hankolaisen purjehdusseuran ravintolassa ja nauttii lämpimästä loppukevään päi ...

Mitä jos näkisit ihmisistä asioita, joita he eivät itsekään halua nähdä?Mosaiikkitaiteilija Monalla on hallitsemattomia aistimuksia toisista ihmisistä. Kun Monaa huijannut puusepp ...

Vaikuttava romaani pimeydestä, joka erottaa aikuisten ja lasten maailmoja. "Jälkeenpäin hän mietti, miksei ollut pysähtynyt. Ajanut tien sivuun, aiheuttanut ketjukolaria, juossu ...

Romaani ihmisen tarpeesta säilyttää niin kuolleet kuin elävät rakkaimpansa. Betonilähiössä tapahtuu veriteko, jonka tekijäksi paljastuu Olavi Finne, iäkäs yksinäinen mies, joka ei ...

On the night before his wedding, Sinclair finds that his precious amethyst box containing a tiny flask of deadly poison is missing. And he knows it can only have been taken by eith ...

Detective Ferguson is on the case when a man masquerading as a burglar suddenly dies in jail. Through entertaining twists and turns, this classic mystery from 1920 will keep you g ...

"I returned to the City about three o’clock on that Monday afternoon pretty well disgusted with life. I had been three months in the Old Country, and was fed up with it." So opens ...

"Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil. That road goes down and down." A rich, old man has been mysteriously stabbed, and ...

Inspector T.B. Smith of Scotland Yard has got a lot on his plate. Two men are found shot to death outside the door of a millionaire, who happens to live just a few doors down from ...

What seems at first sight to be just another murder mystery is quickly revealed to be of international importance. Bio-terrorists threaten the release of an agent that will destroy ...

When Sir Charles Baskerville dies suddenly from a heart attack, a rumour of a deadly, supernatural giant dog, who may have been persecuted for generations, begins to circulate in t ...

Arguably the best compilation of mystery stories ever, ‘The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes’ (1892) is for any lover of intrigue and sophisticated humour. Sherlock’s talent for solvi ...

Returning to London from war, an injured Dr John Watson is in acute need of a place to live. An acquaintance introduces him to the eccentric "consultant detective" Sherlock Holmes, ...

Five thousand dollars is offered in reward to whomever finds the six-year-old heiress, Gwendolen Ocumpaugh, who has disappeared mysteriously from her home. Mr. Trevitt, a private d ...

The wealthy businessman Horatio Leavenworth is found dead in his private library with a bullet in his head. Nothing in the house is broken. Nothing is stolen. All signs point to an ...

'Enter, sir; you are the first to arrive...' When young traveller Hugh Austen, hungry and weather-beaten, seeks refuge in a lonely mansion, he finds himself entwined in the gruesom ...

The dead body of a strange woman is found in an empty house next door to Amelia Butterworth, a single old lady with a formidable curiosity and lots of free time. When Detective Gry ...

"Can Such Things Be?" is a thrillingly creepy collection of short stories from one of the 19th century’s masters of horror. Sit yourself by a campfire or candlelight and enjoy thes ...

"All history proves that no one can hug a secret to his breast and live (...) This is especially noticeable in persons who have committed criminal acts." When a trusted employee is ...

Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. Famous for introducing the character of the vampire Count Dracula, the novel tells the story of Dracula's attemp ...

Kyle McAvoy växer upp tätt intill sin fars advokatfirma i småstaden York, Pennsylvania. Han spås en lysande framtid i sin fars fotspår. Men Kyle har en hemlighet, en mörk sådan, ef ...

Raymond Fawcetts kropp hittades i den lilla källaren till ett skärgårdshus. Ett hus han hade byggt själv och som han besökte varje helg. När han inte kom till sitt jobb som domare ...

In a psychiatric ward, there sits a patient who does not want to be discharged to his empty, lonely apartment. In a measure to remain in the ward, he decides to start confessing to ...

Howard Phillips "H. P." Lovecraft (1890-1937) was an American author who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction. Virtually unknown and only publis ...