Russell's ebook Library
Taken at the Flood
Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot [74]: A few weeks after marrying an attractive young widow, Gordon Cloade is tragically killed by a bomb blast in the London blitz. Overnight, the former Mrs. Underhay finds herself in sole possession of the Cloade family fortune.Short...
Tales of the Black Widowers
Isaac Asimov
Black Widowers [1]: The Black Widowers Club:There were six of them. Professional men and their waiter. They gather at the Milano Restaurant once a month for good food and good conversation. But lately the Black Widowers have added a new entertainment...
They Came to Baghdad
Agatha Christie
Baghdad is the chosen location for a secret summit of superpowers, concerned but not convinced, about the development of an, as yet, unidentified and undescribed secret weapon.Only one man has the proof that can confirm the nature of this fantastic s...
They Do It With Mirrors
Agatha Christie
Miss Marple [5]: E-book exclusive extras:1) Christie biographer Charles Osborne's essay on They Do It with Mirrors;2) "The Marples": the complete guide to all the cases of crime literature's foremost female detective.A sense of danger pervades the ra...
Third Girl
Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot [81]: Three young women share a London flat. The first is a coolly efficient personal secretary; the second an artist. The third interrupts Hercule Poirot's breakfast of 'Brioche' and 'Chocolat' insisting she is a murderer – and then p...
Three Act Tragedy
Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot [42]: The novel opens as a theatre programme, with this telling credit: ‘Illumination by HERCULE POIROT.’Light must be shed, indeed, on the fateful dinner party staged by the famous actor Sir Charles Cartwright for thirteen guests. It ...
The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman
The Thursday Murder Club [1]: In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved murders.But when a brutal killing takes place on their very doorstep, the Thursday Murder Club find themselves in the mi...
Tomb of the Golden Bird
Elizabeth Peters
Amelia Peabody [18]: Convinced that the tomb of the little-known king Tutankhamon lies somewhere in the Valley of the Kings, eminent Egyptologist Radcliffe Emerson and his intrepid wife, Amelia Peabody, seem to have hit a wall. Having been banned for...
The Torment of Others
Val McDermid
Tony Hill & Carol Jordan [4]: THE VOICE SEEPS LIKE BLOOD...Two years ago, Derek Tyler confessed to a sickening quartet of murders. Now the convicted perpetrator remains locked away, as do the gruesome, inimitable details of his crimes, which is preci...
Towards Zero
Agatha Christie
Superintendent Battle [5]: It's murder most foul when someone at the Gull's Point guesthouse kills Mr. Treves, leaving Superintendent Battle of Scotland Yard with a number of suspects - and zero evidence...
Trace
Patricia Cornwell
Kay Scarpetta [13]: Dr. Kay Scarpetta, now freelancing from south Florida, returns to the city that turned its back on her five years ago.In Trace, Scarpetta travels to Richmond, Virginia, at the odd behest of the recently appointed Chief Medical Exa...
Triangle at Rhodes
Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot [48]: October on the island of Rhodes is a veritable paradise of privacy, beauty, and calm - or so Hercule Poirot has imagined. The reality is quite different, as the arrival of famed Chanel beauty Valentine Chantry causes a ripple of ...
Trick of the Dark
Val McDermid
Barred from practice, disgraced psychiatrist Charlie Flint receives a mysterious summons to Oxford from an old professor who wants her to look into the death of her daughter's husband.But as Charlie delves deeper into the case and steps back into the...
Trojan Gold
Elizabeth Peters
Vicky Bliss [4]: A picture is worth a thousand words - but the photograph art historian Vicky Bliss has just received gives rise to a thousand questions instead. A quick glance at the blood-stained envelope is all the proof she needs that something i...
