new age

If you like Golden Age locked room mysteries this is a good one! „Deep Lake Mystery” (1928) by Carolyn Wells, author of „The Clue”, is set in the lake region of Wisconsin. Our narrator Gray Norris is invited to join his old friend, the detective Keeley Moore, and his new wife at their vacation cottage at Deep Lake, Wisconsin for a relaxing month of fishing, swimming, boating, and just getting away...

An ancient English country house with a storied and bloody history is the setting for this intriguing mystery. The new Mrs. Meredith has invited all her friends from her freer, wilder life in London to meet with her at her husband’s family home. However, she is seemingly taken ill and can’t accompany the party on their final jaunt to a neighbor’s house after dinner. Later she is dead of a gunshot wound,...

This is another classic of golden-age detective fiction featuring Detective Hamilton Cleek who was introduced in „Cleek: The Man of the Forty Faces” first published in 1913. This super sleuth and master of disguise will bedazzle you once more as he ingeniously solves a new case. Without the logical mind and condescending manners of Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, Hamilton Cleek worms into your heart through...

Ludzie przybywają do Nowego Jorku w poszukiwaniu magii i nic ich nie przekona, że jej tam nie ma. Charles Thomas Tester żyje z naciągania frajerów. Kantuje mieszkańców Harlemu, Flushing Meadow i Red Hook, żeby zapewnić sobie i ojcu dach nad głową i coś do jedzenia. Wie, że odpowiednio dobrany garnitur potrafi rzucić silny czar, a futerał na gitarę zapewnia mu niewidzialność. Zdaje sobie również sprawę,...