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The Adventures of Solar Pons
August Derleth - 1945
The game is afoot...Pons, Solar. Born 1880 in Prague. Public school education. Graduated Oxford University 1889. Unmarried. Member Savile, Diogenes, Athenaeum, Cliff Dwellers, Lambs. Est. private inquiry practice at 7B Praed Street, 1907. British Intelligence World War I, II. Widely travelled. Residences: New York, Chicago, Paris, Vienna, Prague, Rome, 7B Praed Street, London W2. Telephone: AMbassador 10000.Sherlock Holmes' decision to live alone in the bee-loud glade left an abhorrent vacuum in the life of London; but of all the Holmesian commentators, only August Derleth perceived the obvious truth - that the vacuum had to be filled. And how admirably Solar Pons fills it! - Anthony Boucher"In Re: Solar Pons" by Vincent Starrett"A Word From Dr. Lyndon Parker""The Adventure of the Frightened Baronet""The Adventure of the Late Mr. Faversham""The Adventure of the Black Narcissus""The Adventure of the Norcross Riddle""The Adventure of the Retired Novelist""The Adventure of the Three Red Dwarfs""The Adventure of the Sotheby Salesman""The Adventure of the Purloined Periapt""The Adventure of the Limping Man""The Adventure of the Seven Passengers""The Adventure of the Lost Holiday""The Adventure of the Man With a Broken Face".
Cold Feet
Karen Pullen - 2013
On the grassy lawn of the Rosscairn Castle B&B, she waits with the couple’s family and friends for the ceremony to begin. But one of them has other plans, and as the guests grow restive, the satin-clad bride is dying most horribly.When the sheriff asks for Stella’s assistance, she’s energized by the opportunity to prove herself. But why would someone kill Justine, the bride, on her wedding day? The grieving groom claims that she was a much-loved angel who couldn’t possibly have had any enemies. Stella finds that he is deluding himself, that jealousy, depression, and grief colored Justine’s current relationships. The groom's former girlfriend haunts him obsessively. A young couple blames Justine, a midwife, for their daughter’s disabilities, claiming the child’s birth was mismanaged. An ex-lover lost his job when Justine accused him of stalking her. Perhaps more importantly, Justine had concealed her past from everyone, even Mike. Even as a paranoid drug dealer seeks to silence her, Stella must unravel these complex knots before Justine’s murderer claims another victim.Weaving together themes of family, gender, and identity, Cold Feet is a mesmeric, disquieting story that takes the reader to the discovery of a chilling truth: sometimes death is the only way to secure a secret.
The Elizas
Sara Shepard - 2018
But Eliza swears she was pushed, and her rescuer is the only witness.Desperate to find out who attacked her, Eliza takes it upon herself to investigate. But as the publication date for her novel draws closer, Eliza finds more questions than answers. Like why are her editor, agent, and family mixing up events from her novel with events from her life? Her novel is completely fictional, isn’t it?The deeper Eliza goes into her investigation while struggling with memory loss, the closer her life starts to resemble her novel until the line between reality and fiction starts to blur and she can no longer tell where her protagonist’s life ends and hers begins.