Два внецикловых романа. [collapse collapsed title=Содержание] Алистер Маклин. 48 часов (роман), стр. 5-235 Росс Макдональд. Свидание в морге (роман), стр. 236-395 Коротко об авторах, стр. 396-397 [/collapse] Примечание: Переводчики в издании не указаны. [b]Источник:[/b] https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4756921

Given its extraordinary span, its international scope, and its variant styles and groundbreaking stylists, A Century of Great Suspense Stories is a singular achievement. A bestselling master of suspense himself Jeffery Deaver had the enviable task of selecting from the thousands of stories written over the past one hundred years those which best represented the classic form, as well as the justly celebrated authors whose ironic twists and stunning payoffs left a lasting, vivid, and unnerving impression. The result is a triumph. In this ambitious anthology you’ll revel in the sardonic, overtly amoral plotting of Patricia Highsmith. You’ll rediscover the strangely poignant and surprising...

В сборник вошли три романа детективного жанра: венгерский автор Лайош Грандпьер в романе «Ядовитые плоды» рассказывает о расследовании убийства богача Леринца Колечанского; роман «В тайном государстве» английского писателя Роберта Маккрама вводит читателя за кулисы деятельности британских спецслужб; в романе «Вокруг одни враги» известного американского писателя Росса Макдональда нехитрое на первый взгляд дело об исчезновении дочери состоятельных родителей оборачивается загадочной цепью трагических событий.

What are the ingredients of a hard-boiled detective story? “Savagery, style, sophistication, sleuthing, and sex,” said Ellery Queen. Often a desperate blond, a jealous husband, and, of course, a tough-but-tender P.I. the likes of Sam Spade or Philip Marlowe. Perhaps Raymond Chandler summed it up best in his description of Dashiell Hammett’s style: “Hammett gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it... He put these people down on paper as they were, and he made them talk and think in the language they customarily used for these purposes.” Hard-Boiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories is the largest and most comprehensive collection of its kind, with over half of the stories...

Pulp fiction has been looked down on as a guilty pleasure, but it offers the perfect form of entertainment: the very best storytelling filled with action, surprises, sound and fury. In short, all the exhiliration of a roller-coaster ride. The 1920s in America saw the proliferation of hundreds of dubiously named but thrillingly entertaining pulp magazines in America: Black Mask, Amazing, Astounding, Spicy Stories, Ace-High, Detective Magazine, Dare-Devil Aces. It was in these luridly-coloured publications, printed on the cheapest pulp paper, that the first gems began to appear. The one golden rule for writers of pulp fiction was to adhere to the art of storytelling. Each story had to have a...

Silken skin pale against dark hair, red lips provocatively smiling at him – that's how Lieutenant Bret Taylor remembered Lorraine. He was drunk when he married her, stone cold sober when he found her dead. Out on the sunlit streets of L.A. walked the man – her lover, her killer – who had been with her that fatal night. Taylor intended to find him. And when he did, the gun in his pocket would provide the quickest kind of justice. But first Taylor had to find something else: an elusive memory so powerful it drove him down three terrifying roads toward self-destruction – grief, ecstasy, and death.

Somebody in Pacific Point is guilty of a kidnapping, but what probation officer Howard Cross wants to find most is innocence: in an ex-war hero who has taken a tough manslaughter rap, in a wealthy woman with a heart full of secrets, and in a blue-eyed beauty who has lost her way. The trouble is that the abduction has already turned to murder, and the more Cross pries into the case the further he slips into a pool of violence and evil. Somewhere in the California desert the whole scheme may come down on the wrong man. Somewhere Cross is going to find the last piece of a bloody puzzle – a mystery of blackmail, passion, and hidden identities that might be better left unsolved.

В девятый выпуск сборника «Крутой детектив США» вошли роман одного из самых читаемых мастеров этого жанра Р. Макдональда и рассказ Э. Уоллеса. Творчество Р. Макдональда хорошо знакомо русскому читателю, Э. Уоллес не менее знаменит. Он родился в Англии, сменил множество профессий, повидал мир и наконец переехал в США, где весьма плодотворно работал в Голливуде. Тогда же он начал писать свои знаменитые детективы. Действие рассказа «Охота за сокровищами» происходит в начале века в Англии.