Showing results for "The Express" in Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

London, 1898. Held captive by a diabolical criminal mastermind and his gang of thugs, Watson overhears an assassination plot that not only endangers the life of Sherlock Holmes, but threatens to ignite a war. If he has any hope of foiling his kidnappers’ nefarious plans, he must escape - and quickly. Eluding the familiar foe proves challenging, however. Watson is soon caught and awakens in jail, the prime suspect for two murders, dressed in the clothes of a missing man, one Lord Harwell.

A lifetime spent fighting other people’s wars had earned John Winter a comfortable early retirement. But when the CIA seizes his money, they quickly realise that their former employee is not a man you want to try to push around. When the former combat pilot and SAS man turned gun-for-hire gives Langley a deadline for its return, the agency think it holds all the cards. An F-4 Phantom jet fighter, an audacious plan to fly halfway round the world, and a threat to dramatically alter the balance of power in the Middle East says they don’t. 

El primero de los elaborados crímenes de esta recopilación de cuentos policiales tiene lugar en el Lusitania Express mientras alguien lee la revista "Misterio y delito". Los siguientes relatos narran los casos que se exponen en los artículos de la revista. Con esta obra, Mariano Sánchez Soler se identifica sin prejuicios con los escritores "negros" de los que en 1992 Manuel Vázquez Montalbán dijo: "como reacción a la literatura merodeante [...] nos salieron historias en las que intervenían la aventura y el delito".

Peluquerías, postizos, tinturas, cortes y extensiones, quirófanos, clínicas, lipos, liftings, flotadores, operaciones estéticas, residuos patógenos. Los ámbitos en que transcurre y el vocabulario que ilumina esta siniestra historia protagonizada por Ruth Epelbaum –la detective creada por...