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History
It was high noon on a mid-August morning of the year 1792, but Jeanne, the waiting-maid, had only just set the coffee down on the small table within the ruelle of Mme de Montargis' magnificent bed. Great ladies did not... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
Cloak-and-dagger intrigue featuring an eccentric agent for Britain's Foreign Office from the author of the "timelessly charming" Miss Silver mysteries (Charlotte MacLeod). Named after three naval admirals, the enigmatic... See More
Biography & True Accounts
The novel is a combination of mystery and spy story, with some romance added in on top of the action. There are secret passages to be explored, lots of government and villainous intrigue, secret formulas, and strange people... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
There was a hand pressed against the window, a large hand that looked unnaturally white, the blood driven from it by the pressure of a man's weight. The light showed the pale fingers -- and the still paler palm crossed by a... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
"Sylvia had on the wrong stockings for her dress, and her lipstick was all crooked, so I think things are pretty grim." Lovely, foolish Sylvia Colesborough knew him only as a voice on the telephone. It told her how she... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
"Beware - walk with care, Or mumbo jumbo will hoodoo you. Young Jeremy Ware is suspected of stealing important papers, and Colonel Garrett of the Secret Service (last seen in Danger Calling) consults Benbow Smith about it... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
Ice is still. Death is still. But no living flesh should be as still as this... Agent Stephen Enderby, known in Russia as Red Stefan, meets Elizabeth Radin, the lovely widow of a Soviet inventor, just at the moment she is... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
(Re)découvrez la charmante Miss Maud Silver, détective à ses heures perdues, dans une anthologie de ses premières enquêtes. Dans les années 1930, alors que la haute société britannique vit son âge d'or, l'ineffable... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
"The door!" he shouted. "The door!" Every man in the room looked where Fifteen was looking. Above the water-lilies and the storks, where the top panel of the door had shown, there was a dark, empty space. The door was... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
(Pandora has published Korean translation of English classic literature for Korean readers. Our translation in Korean is the first of its kind and complete and up-to-date.) See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery(Pandora has published Korean translation of English classic literature for Korean readers. Our translation in Korean is the first of its kind and complete and up-to-date.) See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
Ice is still. Death is still. But no living flesh should be as still as this... Agent Stephen Enderby, known in Russia as Red Stefan, meets Elizabeth Radin, the lovely widow of a Soviet inventor, just at the moment she is... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
Thief, kleptomaniac... or innocent victim of a malevolent plot to implicate her? That's Shirley Dale. First there had been the strange appearance of someone else's pocketbook on her person as she was getting on a crowded... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
"Are you sure? Don't I inherit anything?" "Not unless something happens to Miss Ann Vernon." Ann Vernon won't marry her boyfriend Charles Anstruther, opting instead to become secretary to an old lady. She accompanies Mrs... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
She had trembled. She had laughed her shaky little laugh. And she had vanished into thin air. And the door was locked on the inside When young Anthony Colstone inherits Stonegate from his grandfather's cousin, he hardly... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
"I know what we'll do. We'll play Devil-in-the dark." When Sarah Trent was engaged as governess to seventeen-year-old Lucilla Hildred, she didn't bargain for a series of sinister occurrences -- scary noises, the nocturnal... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
When she had let down her case, she locked her bedroom door. And then she put out the light and climbed out of the window. Marooned as a baby, Valentine Ryven has been on a deserted South Sea island for twenty years, before... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
Meg leaned forward suddenly. There was a note of terror in her voice. "Bill -- where -- is -- Robin?" Robin O'Hara never deserved his wife, Meg. He was unfaithful and involved in work that was just a little bit dangerous... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
Not a breath. Nothing. Just a dead man lying there on the tumbled bed... Peter Talbot, on assignment for his uncle, Frank Garrett of the Foreign Office, takes the place of Spike Reilly, member of a gang of art thieves that... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
Where is Anne Belinda? Anne Belinda has disappeared -- and every time John Waveney mentions her name there is an ominous silence. Lady Jenifer Marr, Anne's twin sister, says she is in Spain. Which is odd -- for John is sure... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
"Thou hast betrayed, and thou hast slain... " What is the mystery shrouding the lovely but sinister Annam stone, stolen from a remote shrine? Every owner of it has suffered an unhappy fate. When Peter Waring, nephew of the... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
"She's a hula mula wula girl, She's a crazy daisy nightmare My baby's a scream." David Fordyce wasn't looking forward to his birthday party, an annual event he shared with his grandmother. But this year Eleanor would be... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
"I wouldn't like to make you really angry, darling. You know, the only time I did you nearly scared me dead. I believe if you were really roused you might do something rather frightful." Lucas Dale, new owner of King's... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
The parcel was addressed in sprawling capitals to "Antony Rossiter, Esq. By hand." There was no more address than that. A sea-faring man brings an unassuming brown paper parcel to the offices of a distinguished law-firm. It... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
"I hate him worse than I hate snails, and worms, and slugs, and spiders with hairs down their legs... " Bride-to-be Mally was an unlikely fugitive from the police. It only happened because she became governess to... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
Why can no-one stay at the Dower House? Amabel Grey, a charming and lovely widow, had not seen scientist Julian Forsham since she chose to marry another man. But it is their fate to meet again now at the eerie Dower House... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
Ten years! He had been dead ten years! Uncannily alike in appearance were the twins, Jim and Jack Laydon. Both, too, loved beautiful Evelyn Prothero. For three mad, ecstatic days early in the Great War, Evelyn had been... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
"I think you're tempting fate when you say that you will never go back to Danesborough." Chloe laughed, suddenly, frankly. Her eyes were black again, and very bright. "It's a fate I don't mind tempting," she said, and... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
"Anybody could have told you what Ross was like." "They did tell me," said Mavis tearfully. "That's why I did it." Ross Craddock was just the type to be murdered. The new landlord of Craddock house, he begins by giving... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
"They are letting me say good-bye. I'm to be shot to-morrow. It will be over by the time you get this... " Laura stood, pale and trembling, in the veiled dress she was to have worn as Jim Mackenzie's bride, and gave her... See More