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PART Ⅰ. The Lost World(1912) PART Ⅱ. The Poison Belt(1913) PART Ⅲ. The Land of Mist(1926) PART Ⅳ. When the World Screamed(1928) PART Ⅴ. The Disintegration Machine(1929)
In a sleepy English village, where scandal whispers under a polite facade, a single act of betrayal erupts into a mystery that entangles everyone. In Motive v. Opportunity, Miss Marple faces one of her most baffling dilemmas: when both motive and opportunity lie in plain sight, what reveals the real killer? Every character seems cloaked in a blend of innocence and cunning, each with their own murky secrets. But the question is not who had a reason or the chance—it's who had the audacity. Can Miss Marple's sharp instincts pierce through layers of lies, or will this crime remain unsolved, hidden behind a mask of politeness? Step into a world where every smile may conceal a threat, and every motive may be more deadly than it appShow book
I thought my husband killed my daughter. He's innocent. I thought my father died of a stroke. He was murdered. I thought my sister was alive and living in Florida. She's been dead for ten years. I thought my foster daughter was safe in my home. She's not. Everything I thought I knew is a lie. But I have to focus on the future, on the young girl I'm fostering. I find her in my back yard in the middle of the night—she's tiny, lost, and terrified. Someone left her here. It's all connected. The lies are piling up. I don't know where this girl came from. She won't tell me anything. Not even her name. I have no idea who I've brought into my home . . .Show book
THERE ARE TWO SIDES TO EVERY DIVORCE . . . YOURS AND THE JERK'S. In this case, there's Clancy’s side and then there's the JERK's side. Of course, Kiki sides with Clancy because they're BFFs (Best Friends Forever). As for the JERK, well, the poor guy can't make up his mind. The JERK has left and come back to Clancy once before. Now he's fed up with his young girlfriend and wants to come back to Clancy yet again. Or does he? Then JERK drives over a bridge in a low-lying area known for flash floods. Wouldn't you know it—his car is swept away and he's found unconscious. As he lies in his hospital bed fighting for his life, Clancy and his girlfriend are waging warfare, and it ain't pretty. One secret after another tumbles out. Kiki is there for Clancy to lean on, but Kiki has problems of her own. Another divorce has her attention, as does the corpse Kiki finds in a car. Kiki's hunky husband is dealing with police department problems. Her bi-racial son is being picked on. Her daughter's Hebrew tutor is decidedly against mixed marriages. And Kiki needs to hire more help at her store, Time in a Bottle.Show book
A favorite destination—even for New Yorkers—is the venerable Metropolitan Museum of Art. On this particular day, “the Met,” as generally known, experiences an unusually large number of visitors. Visitors have their choice of viewing over two million works of art spanning five millennia of cultures worldwide. But some among them are up to something more sinister. At one point, the Met’s surveillance cameras’ lenses capture “a mysterious-looking couple” amid the many visitors strolling about the many galleries. The pair is dripping wet in their matching taupe Burberry trench coats. Just as the two of them walk past Soleil dans le Ciel de Saint-Paul, a masterpiece of Marc Chagall, a large tourist group—who, oddly enough, all are wearing distinctive red-and-white-striped vinyl raincoats—converges around them. But it is what happens next that baffles the museum’s surveillance crew. After “the mysterious-looking couple” pulls off their prank, they and the large tourist group walk out of that particular camera’s range, becoming submerged elsewhere in the interminable galleries of the gigantic museum. But when a docent notices “something strange” with Chagall’s Soleil dans le Ciel de Saint-Paul, in short order, the museum-goers inside the Chagall gallery hear “High Alert!” and watch in horror as a heavy metal grille drops down from the ceiling to the floor, effectively locking them inside the gallery. And thus began what later came to be called The Mysterious Affair at the Met.Show book
WE LIVE IN APOCALYPTIC TIMES In Book two of the series, the 5 Years After universe expands. Maggie battles her personal demons while fighting the gathering darkness. Then, a new threat emerges. Believing Maggie is dead, Brett travels through the American Northwest. He is a witness to the end of all things. In abandoned New York City some survivors have chosen to stay for some very sinister reasons. “The landscape this author paints feels so real. This is an apocalyptic treat.”Show book
"The Adventure of the Abbey Grange", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes. Holmes wakes Doctor Watson up early one winter morning to rush to a murder scene at the Abbey Grange near Chislehurst. Sir Eustace Brackenstall has been killed, apparently by burglars. Inspector Stanley Hopkins believes that it was the infamous Randall gang who have committed several other burglaries in the neighborhood.Show book
