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| 洋書ダウンロードフロア >Mystery | |||||||||||
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| 1:「Lines in the Sand」 | ||||
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Three years ago, Carl Ragar turned on the mob. His conscience couldn’t handle the murder of an innocent bystander, and he had to turn his back on his mentor, Petroc ”Pete” Barbu, a man he’d admired and lusted after. Pete made no apologies for his job as an enforcer, but he’d never planned to get himself or Carl involved in the murder of a reporter. When Carl turned state’s evidence, Pete couldn’t even pretend to be surprised.Now Pete’s still on the run, and Carl is unceremoniously dumped | |||
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| 2:「Castle on the Edge」 | ||||
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When a Swiss psychiatrist arrives at a secluded sanitarium, people start disappearing, one by one until everyone is gone—except one. All the cars have been sabotaged rendering them inoperable. The phone lines have been cut and all the lights go out. The lone wolf is left to fend for himself. Will he be able to escape the fate of all the others? Or will he be swallowed up too! | |||
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| 3:「Faithful Unto Death」 | ||||
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Benzonia, Michigan, 1894: a sleepy Congregationalist community, dedicated to the education of hardworking and virtuous young people of both sexes and all races. Anna Spencer Thacker is the daughter of missionaries, a faithful wife, and mother of five, pious to a fault. She is suddenly stricken with a mysterious ailment that soon proves fatal. Was it truly an unfortunate illness? Or was it murder—-or suicide? Taking a true story of a murder in her own family, Becky Thacker has crafted a | |||
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| 4:「Man Falls Down」 | ||||
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Marcus wakes up in a surreal state of urgency and foreboding. Something is wrong, yet he can’t perceive exactly what. As he makes his way through the morning getting ready for work, little things begin to add up like clues to a horrible truth that awaits him. Will the dream hold up or fall? Will life? A short work of surreal literature from our experimental line The Lab. | |||
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| 5:「Child’s Play」 | ||||
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When a young man meets a woman in a bar, he believes she wants to have a baby and share a life together. Fatherhood, however, can be a mighty scary thing, and his alarm and anger grow as he develops a relationship with their child that brings about a most unexpected surprise. A short work of crime from our Fingerprints line. | |||
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| 6:「Death in the Polka Dot Shoes」 | ||||
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In the small fishing village of Parkers, Maryland, on the Chesapeake Bay, there is no more independent soul than the lone oysterman or crabber who sets out every morning in pre-dawn hours to search for oyster beds or empty his crab pots. It’s a harsh life. When Jimmy Shannon, a Chesapeake waterman, dies during a holiday fishing trip for Blue Fin Tuna, it’s almost unbelievable. Stranger still, is his last will and testament that requires his brother Ned Shannon to give up his law practice in Wash | |||
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| 7:「With a Twist」 | ||||
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This award winning 6000 word short story, originally published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, features Konrath’s stalwart Homicide cop Jacqueline ”Jack” Daniels in a puzzler of a mystery.A body is found in a man’s living room, the doors all locked from the inside. The victim had apparently been dropped from a great height.How did he die? Who killed him?Daniels and her partner, Herb Benedict, follow a trail of ingenious clues to solve this classic whodunnit. Are you clever enough to solve i | |||
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| 8:「Yakuza Pride」 | ||||
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When yakuza underboss Shigure Matsunaga meets Kenneth Harris at a boring social event, he’s surprised to find himself attracted to the blond gaijin with the mismatched eyes. Shigure is even more pleased when he discovers Ken not only speaks Japanese fluently, but is fluent in Japan’s ways, even the more violent of the martial arts. Ken’s expertise at kendo is not his most striking quality—it’s the passion beneath his quiet, almost fragile exterior that ignites Shigure’s lust, and the tw | |||
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| 9:「The Vanishing of Ruth」 | ||||
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1976: friends, Marcus and Ruth, go missing in Afghanistan during an overland bus trip to Kathmandu. A generation later, Ruth’s niece Amber, haunted by the disintegration of her family, determines to get at the truth of their disappearance. Was it murder as her father suspected, or a suicide pact as the police believed? Tracking down the trip’s bus driver, Cassidy, Amber starts to piece together a lost world - the mystical vibrant hippy trail to India - and colourful characters like Juliet, wh | |||
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| 10:「Murder at Gettysburg」 | ||||
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Historian Miranda Lewis is invited to a Civil War reenactment at Gettysburg by her old college friend Ginny and her father, a stately Virginian. When Ginny’s estranged husband is accidentally shot, and then dies of a heart attack, Miranda is suspicious. When Miranda learns that the man who shot Willy has died in a motorcycle-truck accident, she digs more deeply into the characters at the reenactment. Mystery by Leslie Wheeler; originally published by Five Star | |||
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