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Houston private investigator Malcolm Ly doesn’t need dangerous cases. He’s still regaining his footing after a recent job cost him his son’s life. The only reason he accepts his latest client, a man locked up for a double homicide who says he’s been framed, is the paycheck.

After Evan’s latest case ends in disaster, he’s at the end of his tether — until fate throws him headlong into Linda Clayton's desperate world and a long-dead investigation that everybody wants to stay that way. But Evan never does what everybody wants, and he vows to find answers for her that he can’t find for himself. As the suspense ratchets up, he’s caught in a desperate fight for his life with a stone-cold killer who will stop at nothing to protect his secrets....

En un paraje virgen de Quebec, a orillas de un lago rodeado de bosques y muy alejado de la civilización, se encuentra el monasterio de Saint-Gilbert-Entre-les-Loups, donde dos docenas de monjes de clausura viven entregados a la contemplación. Cultivan un huerto, recogen los frutos del bosque, son autosuficientes y, sobre todo, cantan. Curiosamente, una comunidad que ha hecho voto de silencio es célebre en todo el mundo por sus salmodias gloriosas del canto gregoriano, cuyo impacto tan profundo en el espíritu del cantor y del oyente es conocido como «el bello misterio».

With virtually identical women being murdered in Minnesota, panic is causing huge political pressure to get the killer off the streets. Celebrated investigator Cade Dawkins is given the hot potato case and hopes to get it wrapped up before the governor has his head. But the killer has his own agenda—one that goes beyond simply murdering knockout blondes. As it becomes a cat and mouse game between killer and investigator, Dawkins begins to realize he just may be the mouse.

Who is THE NOWHERE MAN? He is spoken about only in whispers. He comes to those in greatest need of his protection. There is no enemy he cannot fight. He lives by his own code. He takes no prisoners. His name is Evan Smoak. Taken from a group home when he was young, Evan was raised and trained as an Orphan, an off-the-books black box program designed to create the perfect deniable intelligence asset: An assassin.

What an exotic way to die in Chicago. When esteemed historian Elizabeth Lawrence is found in her car, killed by a cobra’s bite, only a brilliant professor of semiotics, Dr. Evan Wilding, can see the signs around her strange death. As he helps homicide detective Addie Bisset decipher the scene, the puzzles left behind offer Evan chilling passage into the mind of a killer.

Eddie Mallet is being followed by a gorilla in a tee shirt with muscles out-to-here. Marlowe is hired to find out why, but not soon enough to save Eddie. The partner from Mexico City, the stranger dead in Nevada, and the man with the cauliflower ear all added up to a corpse on a concrete floor, but Philip Marlowe couldn’t figure why until he found out that there was one name above all that had to be remembered....

A good action story about an escaped convict and the two women in his life. When it started, a girls wedding and New Years Eve were only six hours away, and Philip Marlowe didn’t think the bride-to-be would make either one of them, but that was before he ran up against the slot machine operator, the escaped convict, and above all, the old acquaintance.

Bizarre enthusiasm, unusual inheritors, $300,000, and a map are some of the details that made the radio broadcast perfect. When the will was read, everybody figured she'd been crazy when she wrote it. And that included me. But I changed my mind after spending a night on an island with a pig, a cat, and an ape. Because in reality, they were people.

Willie Inch needs Wolfe's help. He's a professional sneak thief accused of the murder of wealthy Mrs. Florence Avery Marsh.

Late one evening, Archie and Nero receive a telephone call from a woman named Gloria asking for Archie. She asks for Archie to go straight over to her house on Renaldo Road, West Chester, and then the telephone call is ended abruptly by someone putting a hand over her mouth.

Archie attends a cocktail party at which Nero Wolfe expects the guest of honor to be murder!

Nero Wolfe and Archie are paid $1000 to witness the execution of a will. A simple case soon involves a corpse and twin brothers.

A theatrical murder, a walking dead man, and missing cartridge casings.

A murder occurs in an isolated house in upstate New York during a flood. A well-done mystery. The final promotional announcement and system cue have been deleted.

A man with one shirt cuff more worn than the other pays Wolfe $1000 to drop Dorothy Spencer as a client, even though Wolfe never heard of her. Mr. Porter is promptly found murdered.