An anthology of stories based around the very first mystery detective, Le Chevalier C. Auguste Dupin, created by Edgar Allan Poe.

Dupin famously featured in 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' (1841), then went on to star in two more investigations, 'The Mystery of Marie Rogêt' (1842) and 'The Purloined Letter' (1844).

The anthology will include the original 1841 story and Clive Barker's sequel, 'New Murders in the Rue Morgue' (which was first published in his Books of Blood series) to bookend the stories.

Conributors: Guy Adams, Steve Volk, Thomas Monteleone, Lisa Tuttle, Simon Clark, Joe R. Lansdale, Elizabeth Massie, Ed Gorman, Jonathan Mayberry, Yvonne Navarro, Weston Ochse and Clive Barker

Fiona Marlowe, interior designer to the rich and powerful, finds her wealthy old client, Albert Lodge, dead on the floor of his library in the posh McLean suburb of Washington, D.C. As the investigation unfolds, Fiona discovers she has detective talent, and her innate curiosity spurs her into sticking her nose where it does not belong. Albert’s eighty year old eccentric sister, Opal, arrives from her ranch in south eastern Oregon to settle the estate. She has talked her ranch hand, Jake Manyhorses, into the role of private investigator as she is convinced one of the numerous family members murdered Albert for his money. With Opal's encouragement Fiona joins Jake in the investigation as it spirals into the netherworld of betrayal, blackmail and smuggling, none of which Jake or Fiona bargained for when they said yes to helping Opal solve the mystery of Albert’s demise.

Hours before he is due to set off on a long-delayed and much-deserved vacation with his wife and son, Det.-Sgt. Malcolm Ainslie takes a phone call he would have been better off ignoring. The caller is the chaplain at Florida State Prison, delivering a message from Elroy Doil, the serial murderer Ainslie helped put on the prison's death row. On the eve of his execution, Doil has asked to make a confession. But there is a condition: he will deliver it only in person to Ainslie.

Ainslie has no choice. Doil was convicted of a double murder, but he was suspected in ten more. No homicide detective could turn down the opportunity to close ten murder cases in a single night. What Ainslie learns from the condemned man, however, propels the ex-priest-turned-cop into an investigation that reaches into the most elite levels of his own department and the Miami city government. And it tests as never before his skills as a cop and his character as a man.

Antonio Martens is a torturer for the secret police of a recently defunct dictatorship. Now imprisoned, he begins to recount his involvement in the surveillance, torture and assassination of Federigo and Enrique Salinas, a prominent father and son whose principled but passive opposition to the regime left them vulnerable to the secret police.

Preying upon the young boy's aimless life, the secret police began to position him as a subversive element, before they turned their attentions to his father. Once the plan was set into motion, any means were justified to reach the regime's chosen end…

What do a dead cat, a computer whiz-kid, an Electric Monk who believes the world is pink, quantum mechanics, a Chronologist over 200 years old, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (poet), and pizza have in common?

Apparently, not much: until Dirk Gently, self-styled private investigator, sets out to prove the fundamental interconnectedness of all things by solving a mysterious murder, assisting a mysterious professor, unravelling a mysterious mystery, and eating a lot of pizza - not to mention saving the entire human race from extinction along the way (at no extra charge).

To find out more, read this book (better still, buy it and then read it) - or contact Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.

Elvis Cole se enfrenta a uno de los momentos más delicados de su vida: acaba de recibir la llamada de un hombre que asegura tener secuestrado a Ben, el hijo de Lucy, su compañera sentimental. El niño, que estaba al cuidado de Cole mientras su madre se hallaba de viaje, salió al jardín a jugar y pocos minutos después desapareció sin dejar rastro. Según las palabras del hombre que retiene a Ben, el secuestro está relacionado con un oscuro suceso del pasado de Cole. Éste fue el único superviviente de un batallón americano que fue aniquilado en Vietnam, y aunque en su momento fue premiado por su heroicidad, parece que alguien sigue resentido por el hecho. Para complicar aún más las cosas, Cole tiene que enfrentarse con Richard, ex marido de Lucy y padre de Ben, quien además de culparle por lo acontecido entorpece La búsqueda al insistir en la participación de su propio equipo de investigadores. Ayudado por su socio, Joe Pike, y la policía Carol Starkey, Cole se vuelca de pleno en el rescate en una carrera contra el reloj, mientras revive unos espinosos episodios que creía haber enterrado. Robert Crais ahonda en cuestiones vitales al retomar el pasado de su protagonista en esta novela que aúna con acierto una clásica trama detectivesca con un thriller de gran intensidad.

Fiona Marlowe, designer detective, and Jake Manyhorses, cowboy buckaroo, meet up once again out west in the high desert under big skies and star-filled nights. This time they find themselves in pursuit of cattle rustlers and mysterious bones. But they must decide if there is a future for them in fields of alfalfa, a herd of cattle, and a big ranch house. What an enjoyable read. I want to be Fiona Marlowe — savvy, tasteful, a handsome cowboy on my arm. Jennifer Fulford, author of Blood, Love and Steel.

Johannes Cabal, necromancer of some little infamy, returns in this riotously clever and terrifically twisted tale of murder and international intrigue.

In this genre-twisting novel, infamous necromancer Johannes Cabal, after beating the Devil and being reunited with his soul, leads us on another raucous journey in a little-known corner of the world. This time he's on the run from the local government.

Stealing the identity of a minor bureaucrat, Cabal takes passage on the Princess Hortense, a passenger aeroship that is leaving the country. The deception seems perfect, and Cabal looks forward to a quiet trip and a clean escape, until he comes face-to-face with Leonie Barrow, an enemy from the old days who could blow his cover. But when a fellow passenger throws himself to his death, or at least that is how it appears, Cabal begins to investigate out of curiosity. His minor efforts result in a vicious attempt on his own life — and then the gloves come off.

Cabal and Leonie — the only woman to ever match wits with him — reluctantly team up to discover the murderer. Before they are done, there will be more narrow escapes, involving sword fighting and newfangled flying machines. There will be massive destruction, not to mention resurrected dead.

Steampunk meets the classic Sherlockian mystery in this rip-roaring adventure where anything could happen… and does.

Dana estaba en la cárcel por un delito que no había cometido, y su amiga Heidi había decidido descubrir quién era el culpable y así poder liberarla. El problema era que no sabía ni por dónde empezar.

Entonces, como respuesta a sus plegarias, apareció Gideon Poletti, un detective de homicidios de San Diego que estaba allí para dar unas clases de criminología.

Además de buen detective, Gideon resultó ser el hombre más atractivo que Heidi había tenido el placer de conocer, pero sabía perfectamente que ahora no tenía tiempo para romances; sólo tenía tiempo para sacar a su amiga de la cárcel.

La investigación que emprendieron juntos los llevó a descubrir algo que Heidi jamás habría sospechado. Como tampoco habría sospechado que Gideon se enamoraría de ella tanto como ella de él.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to make love with another woman?

Ronda does, and the more her husband ignores her, the more intense her fantasies, the more she masturbates, and the stronger the urge becomes to find out. Until Ronda is in a coffee shop fantasizing about making love with a woman she saw in the library, when the woman appears at her table and introduces herself as Angela, a detective with psychic powers. Ronda is only convinced when Angela accurately describes Ronda's fantasies and fears that her husband is having an affair.

As Angela shows her the many ways women make love with each other, the two become involved in a deeply emotional relationship in which they share Jeff and his fate as the global corporate empire which has taken his attention from his wife crumbles around him.

Step into Angela's psychic world to know the hidden intentions of those around you as well as their most intimate feelings, fantasies, thoughts and sensations, even in their most secret moments.

This is a remarkable and unique story of Jim Brigginshaw. Having been captured by the Japanese after the fall of Singapore in 1942, Jim was first sent to work in Burma, to build what has become known as the Death Railway. Unlike many of his comrades, Jim survived this ordeal, only to be transferred to Nagasaki, Japan, where he was sent to work in the mines of Sendryu.

Jim describes how the conditions in the ‘Hell pits of Sendryu’ were even worse than those experienced in Burma, but were ultimately the reason why he survived the war. On the 9th August 1945, the Americans, dropped the second nuclear bomb on Nagaski. Jim was fortunately underground at the time, but through this book re-lives the harrowing aftermath of the attack when the ground shook violently.

When the naked, mutilated body of a man is found in a Notting Hill graveyard and the police investigation led by Detective Chief Inspector Grant Foster and his colleague Detective Superintendent Heather Jenkins yields few results, a closer look at the corpse reveals that what looked at first glance like superficial knife wounds on the victim's chest is actually a string of carved letters and numbers, an index number referring to a file in city archives containing birth and death certificates and marriage licenses. Family historian Nigel Barnes is put on the case. As one after another victim is found in various locations all over London, each with a different mutilation but the same index number carved into their skin, Barnes and the police work frantically to figure out how the corresponding files are connected. With no clues to be found in the present, Barnes must now search the archives of the past to solve the mystery behind a string of 100-year-old murders. Only then will it be possible to stop the present series of gruesome killings, but will they be able to do so before the killer ensnares his next victim? Barnes, Foster, and Jenkins enter a race against time - and before the end of the investigation, one of them will get much too close for comfort.

Dan Waddell is a journalist and author who lives in west London with his son. He writes about the media and -popular culture, and has published ten non-fiction books, including the bestselling Who Do You Think You Are?, which tied in with the BBC TV series. This is his first novel.

Dr Jaqueline Silver blows things up to keep people safe.

Working on avalanche control in Slovenia, she stumbles across a delivery problem with a consignment of explosives. After raising a complaint with the supplier, Zagrovyl, a multinational chemical company and her ex-employer, her evidence disappears. She is warned, threatened, accused of professional incompetence and suspended. Taking her complaint to Zagrovyl head office, she narrowly escapes death only to be framed for murder. Escaping from police custody, she sets out to find the key to the mystery.

From the snowy slopes of Slovenia, to the wreckage of Chernobyl, Jaq attempts to expose the trade in deadly chemical weapons, while fighting for her life.

"Goldbach's touch is light and his narrative momentum is fierce." — The Globe and Mail

Robert James, a private detective more interested in chronicling his cases than solving them, gets a midnight call from a young woman whose older husband has been found with a knife in his chest. Murder, corruption, and betrayal ensue as he's drawn into the dark underworld of his client, but hapless Robert and his sidekick, a flower-delivery guy, can't stop drinking, smoking, and philosophizing long enough to keep up. Imagine The Big Sleep via Fernando Pessoa, with a side of Buster Keaton.

John Goldbach is the author of Selected Blackouts, a collection of stories.

Mr. Wong is a feng shui consultant in Singapore, but his cases tend to involve a lot more than just interior decoration. You see, Wong specializes in a certain type of problem premises: crime scenes. His latest case involves a mysterious young woman and a deadly psychic reading that ultimately leads him to Sydney where the story climaxes at the Opera House, a building known for its appalling feng shui. A delightful combination of crafty plotting, quirky humor, and Asian philosophy, the Feng Shui Detective is an investigator like no other!

Paul Theroux is a vocal proponent of rail travel over air travel, which he likens to traveling by submarine for all that goes unseen and not experienced by its adherents. The Great Railway Bazaar, his 1975 account of a four month railroad journey through Europe and Asia begins, "I sought trains, I found passengers." It is certainly the individuals that Theroux meets along the way, rather than the cities, buildings, or sites of touristic import, to which he devotes his most generous descriptions.

Beginning in Victoria Station with Duffill, an older man with a tweed cap, ill-fitting clothes, and mysterious business in Istanbul (Duffill's name later becomes synonymous with being left behind at a railway station), Theroux's journeys brim with a huge cast of colorful characters. From ashram-bound hippies to devout Kali-worshiping Tamils to Vassily Prokofyevich, the drunken Russian dining car manager on the Trans-Siberian Express, Theroux richly details his varied encounters, paying particular attention to the bizarre along the bazaar.

In Calcutta, "a city of mutilated people (where) only the truly monstrous looked odd," the author encounters "the hopping man," who with only one muscular leg, hops himself through the urban detritus; on the Saigon to Bien Hoa train, a Vietnamese woman thrusts an American baby upon him, expecting Theroux to keep and raise the child; and in Japan, where the cleanliness, efficiency, and quiet of the passenger trains provide striking contrast to what the author had up until that point become accustomed to, he finds the cultural undercurrent of sadistic pornography disturbingly unquestioned.

Paul Theroux had already established himself as a novelist at the time of his four month journey; The Great Railway Bazaar, today a travel writing classic, was preceded by ten books, six of which were novels. In fact, his four month long excursion seems to have been funded or at least justified, by the lecture engagements the author had arranged all along his route.

The first of many in this genre from Theroux, including Dark Star Safari (2002) and Ghost Train to the Eastern Star (2008), The Great Railway Bazaar is at once a timeless narrative of humans and travel and a distinctly historical slice of global affairs as viewed by one decidedly motion-bound writer.

The journey however is a long one and while masterfully wrought, it is often the incidental passage of time in a railway compartment that is thus rendered, and by the end of it even Theroux has tired of his travels. Snippets of brilliance exist throughout, but they are intermittent as you might expect, as when viewed from a passing train.

Elvis Cole is once again coming to terms with his life as a PI on the streets of LA. He loves his girlfriend, Lucy Chenier, but his constant exposure to the Californian underclasses has stretched their relationship to the limit especially when Cole's job brings danger too close to her beloved son. The young boy, Ben, is rapidly becoming the light in both their lives. Then one sunny afternoon, the demons from Elvis's past finally come to visit. Ben is snatched from Cole's secluded home. The kidnappers call. They don't want money. They only want retribution. But who from his past is capable of such a crime? The only clue is that the kidnappers mention the words 'five two'. Five two was his unit designation in Vietnam a life he has avoided thinking about for over twenty years. But now he must embark on a journey into his own past to try to protect his future. For it seems that this kidnapper is not only someone who knows him, but someone who owes him.

The African-born author of more than 50 books, from children's stories (The Perfect Hamburger) to scholarly works (Forensic Aspects of Sleep), turns his talents to detection in this artful, pleasing novel about Mma (aka Precious) Ramotswe, Botswana 's one and only lady private detective. A series of vignettes linked to the establishment and growth of Mma Ramotswe's "No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency" serve not only to entertain but to explore conditions in Botswana in a way that is both penetrating and light thanks to Smith's deft touch. Mma Ramotswe's cases come slowly and hesitantly at first: women who suspect their husbands are cheating on them; a father worried that his daughter is sneaking off to see a boy; a missing child who may have been killed by witchdoctors to make medicine; a doctor who sometimes seems highly competent and sometimes seems to know almost nothing about medicine. The desultory pace is fine, since she has only a detective manual, the frequently cited example of Agatha Christie and her instincts to guide her. Mma Ramotswe's love of Africa, her wisdom and humor, shine through these pages as she shines her own light on the problems that vex her clients. Images of this large woman driving her tiny white van or sharing a cup of bush tea with a friend or client while working a case linger pleasantly. General audiences will welcome this little gem of a book just as much if not more than mystery readers.

Hillerman, author of the Joe Leaphorn mysteries, and Herbert, editor of The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing, trace this short-story genre from its beginnings in the hands of Edgar Allen Poe through its development by the likes of Erle Stanley Gardner, Mary Roberts Rinehart and Anthony Boucher to its current practice by such masters as Marcia Muller. Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," which established a great many of the whodunit conventions, is indispensable to such an overview. Raymond Chandler's "I'll be Waiting" emits a doom-laden atmosphere right from the first line; William Faulkner shows unexpected economy of language?and a transparent plot?in "An Error in Chemistry." Ed McBain scores high marks in "Small Homicide," in which the tiny details of a baby's untimely death resonate uncomfortably. As represented in this competent, unstartling collection, Linda Barnes ("Lucky Penny") easily outsasses Sue Grafton ("The Parker Shotgun"). Hillerman makes a solid appearance with "Chee's Witch," and in "Benny's Space" Muller captures the full subtle force of her novel-length vision.

The first book in the series featuring Inspector Robert Colbeck and Sergeant Victor Leeming, set in the 1850s.

The Reality Investigations detective agency investigates and solves all its cases, and the most unsolvable, and goes far further than any other, and is conclusively confronted with its most strangest cases! One of its investigators gains magical powers, with comical results, and encounter strange ghostly energy formations, forms of haunting, secret tunnels, monsters, and tales of lost treasure!

A new World War II detective agency, Reality Investigations, handles complex cases others do not, and the strangest most fantastic cases of all, including investigations of paranormal, and have paranormal investigators, and major investigators worldwide, and they are given their most remarkable case ever, without knowing it.

They investigate sightings of energy ghost formations, which they have never heard of being encountered before, even after consulting the most highly advanced paranormal scientists.

They are unable to trace the source, to investigate it further, until the formations start emerging at a nearby city hospital, and they trace the source to a secret hidden shaft, running through all the walls.

It is buried in the depths of its walls, going deep below the hospital, and they begin investigations there, and trace its origins, and use the most advanced technology to scan deep beneath the hospital, and discover a hidden tunnel going deep below, into a large cavity, and archeologists uncover what is there, and find a mysterious black sphere.

They later find it is not what they are looking for, and is something else.

The riddles are unsolvable, but on their investigations of the original site, with paranormal scientists, and use of scanning technology, they uncover far more than they expect.

Мир на пороге великих перемен, имя которым — Третья производственная революция. И как любая другая революция, эта сопровождается войнами, переделом собственности и сменой господствующих элит. Только это — кибервойны, которые ведутся в Сети кибероружием за господство в будущем кибермире. Сможет ли Россия осуществить прорыв и сотворив «Русское чудо XXI века», занять достойное место в новом, цифровом мироустройстве или потерпит сокрушительное поражение на виртуальных полях сражений незримой Третьей мировой кибервойны и канет в Лету? Будущее покажет.

А каким это будущее может быть, читатель узнает из новой книги эксперта по конкурентной разведке Елены Лариной и известного российского криминолога, генерал-майора милиции в отставке, доктора юридических наук Владимира Овчинского.

Добро пожаловать в реальный мир! Скрытое наблюдение больше не миф. Бывший сотрудник АНБ Эдвард Сноуден раскрывает тайны, вызывающие шок и трепет. Оказывается, частной жизни нет. Всюду и везде за нами наблюдает Большой Брат. Беспрецедентную глобальную электронную слежку осуществляет Агентство национальной безопасности, а конфиденциальное общение между людьми перестает быть возможным.

Эта книга – не просто поток ценной информации, она читается как настоящий детективный роман и дает исчерпывающие ответы на множество разных вопросов.

В чем сенсационность разоблачений Эдварда Сноудена?

Какова подлинная мотивация его откровений?

Почему Эдвард Сноуден поделился секретными материалами именно с Гленном Гринвальдом?

Насколько безопасна Сеть и можно ли скрыться от зоркого глаза Дядюшки Сэма?

Как именно осуществляется сбор секретной информации по всему миру?

Является ли вторжение в частную жизнь необходимостью?

Как отражается слежка на нашем психическом здоровье?

И наконец…

Приведет ли цифровая эпоха к формированию глобальной системы контроля, о которой тиранам прошлого приходилось только мечтать?..

Основой трехтомного собрания сочинений знаменитого аргентинского писателя Л.Х.Борхеса, классика ХХ века, послужили шесть сборников произведений мастера, часть его эссеистики, стихи из всех прижизненных сборников и микроновеллы – шедевры борхесовской прозыпоздних лет.

Данная статья входит в большой цикл статей о всемирно известных пресс-секретарях, внесших значительный вклад в мировую историю. Рассказывая о жизни каждой выдающейся личности, авторы обратятся к интересным материалам их профессиональной деятельности, упомянут основные труды и награды, приведут малоизвестные факты из их личной биографии, творчества.

Каждая статья подробно раскроет всю значимость описанных исторических фигур в жизни и работе известных политиков, бизнесменов и людей искусства.