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When editor Susan Ryeland is given the manuscript of Alan Conway's latest novel, she has no reason to think it will be much different from any of his others. After working with the best-selling crime writer for years, she's intimately familiar with his detective, Atticus Pünd, who solves mysteries disturbing sleepy English villages. An homage to queens of classic British crime such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers, Alan's traditional formula has proved hugely successful.

大沢在昌「はじまりのシリーズ」にして、今なお多くの読者を魅了する「佐久間公シリーズ」。失踪人調査人・佐久間公は失踪した17歳のタレントを追ううちトラブルに巻き込まれる。

When he falls ill on his way home from school, 15-year-old Michael Berg is rescued by Hanna, a woman twice his age. In time she becomes his lover--then she inexplicably disappears. When Michael next sees her, he is a young law student, and she is on trial for a hideous crime. As he watches her refuse to defend her innocence, Michael gradually realizes that Hanna may be guarding a secret she considers more shameful than murder.

ウルタールの地には「何人も猫を殺すことなかれ」という掟がある。 ウルタールの地で、この奇妙な掟が定められるに至る恐ろしく奇妙な出来事。猫は古代エジプトの化身であり、密林の王の眷属であり、その記憶は遥かな過去へと遡る。 その掟が定められたそもそもの経緯を記し、後世の作家たちの想像力をも刺激した、H・P・ラヴクラフトによる記念すべきファンタジー掌編。

Homicide detective Tracy Crosswhite has returned to the police force after the sensational retrial of her sister’s killer. Still scarred from that ordeal, Tracy is pulled into an investigation that threatens to end her career, if not her life. A serial killer known as the Cowboy is killing young women in cheap motels in North Seattle.

Paul Sheldon is a best-selling novelist who has finally met his number-one fan. Her name is Annie Wilkes, and she is more than a rabid reader - she is Paul's nurse, tending his shattered body after an automobile accident. But she is also furious that the author has killed off her favorite character in his latest book. Annie becomes his captor, keeping him prisoner in her isolated house. Annie wants Paul to write a book that brings Misery back to life - just for her. She has a lot of ways to spur him on.

The New York Times best-selling author of Magpie Murders and Moriarty brilliantly reinvents the classic crime novel once again with this clever and inventive mystery starring a fictional version of the author himself as the Watson to a modern-day Holmes, investigating a case involving buried secrets, murder, and a trail of bloody clues.

The house looked right, felt right to Dr Louis Creed. Rambling, old, unsmart and comfortable. A place where the family could settle, the children grow and play and explore. The rolling hills and meadows of Maine seemed a world away from the fume-choked dangers of Chicago. Only the occasional big truck out on the two-lane highway, grinding up through the gears, hammering down the long gradients, growled out an intrusive threat. But behind the house and far away from the road: that was safe.

ジョン・H・ワトソン・36歳、シャーロック・ホームズ・34歳の頃のことである。『ボヘミアの醜聞』の事件の翌月にあたる、ある夜──。 シャーロック・ホームズはワトソンの家を訪問する。バークレー大佐が殺された事件を手伝ってほしいという。大佐は自宅で死体となって発見された。その前に夫人と口論する声を使用人達が聞いてる。しかし夫人は意識を失っている。夫人の叫んだ「デイヴィド」という言葉。現場に残された動物の足跡。モリスン嬢と、猫背の男の証言。本当に“曲れる者(CROOKED MAN)”とはいったい誰なのか…!?奇怪な事件の真相にホームズが迫る!『曲れる者』(原題:THE CROOKED MAN)は、『背中の曲った男』『背の曲った男』などの邦題で知られている。(1893年7月初出/「シャーロック・ホームズの記憶」より) First published in the Strand Magazine, July. 1893

Duchess Day Radley is a 13-year-old self-proclaimed outlaw. Rules are for other people. She is the fierce protector of her five-year-old brother, Robin, and the parent to her mother, Star, a single mom incapable of taking care of herself, let alone her two kids. Walk has never left the coastal California town where he and Star grew up. He may have become the chief of police, but he’s still trying to heal the old wound of having given the testimony that sent his best friend, Vincent King, to prison decades before. And he's in overdrive protecting Duchess and her brother.

これを聞くと眠れなくなる。怖くてトイレに起きれない……。 そんな恐ろしいホラー短編小説を厳選し、三編を一冊に収めました。さてあなたは、最後まで無事に聞き終わることができますか?実力俳優松井明の、ゾーッとする朗読でお楽しみください。(C)2012 OTOyomu

Almost every afternoon, the Woman in the Purple Skirt sits on the same park bench, where she eats a cream bun while the local children make a game of trying to get her attention. Unbeknownst to her, she is being watched—by the Woman in the Yellow Cardigan, who is always perched just out of sight, monitoring which buses she takes, what she eats, whom she speaks to.

暗黒の牢獄のなかで手探りの探索を始めた私…。19世紀初めのスペインで、宗教裁判官により「もっともいまわしい精神的の恐怖を伴う死」を宣告された男の恐怖の体験を描くポーの恐怖ものの一編。原作は、1842年「贈りもの」(The Gift)に発表。(C)2008青空文庫

Before the nightmares began, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary, controlled life. But the dreams—invasive images of blood and brutality—torture her, driving Yeong-hye to purge her mind and renounce eating meat altogether. It’s a small act of independence, but it interrupts her marriage and sets into motion an increasingly grotesque chain of events at home. As her husband, her brother-in-law, and sister each fight to reassert their control, Yeong-hye obsessively defends the choice that’s become sacred to her.

Libby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered in "The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas". As her family lay dying, little Libby fled their tiny farmhouse into the freezing January snow. She lost some fingers and toes, but she survived, and famously testified that her 15-year-old brother, Ben, was the killer. Twenty-five years later, Ben sits in prison, and troubled Libby lives off the dregs of a trust created by well-wishers who've long forgotten her.

Barrington University is home of the Lords, a secret society that requires their blood in payment. They are above all—the most powerful men in the world. They devote their lives to violence in exchange for power. And during their senior year, they are offered a chosen one.

Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering. Her body was never found, yet her uncle is convinced it was murder - and that the killer is a member of his own family. He employs journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the tattooed, truculent computer hacker Lisbeth Salander to investigate. When the pair link Harriet's disappearance to a number of grotesque murders from forty years ago, they begin to unravel a dark and appalling family history.

不二夫君■どんなことが起こっても、きみは朝までけっしてベッドをはなれてはいけない。声をたててはいけない。ただ目をつむって寝ていればいいのだ。もし、さわいだりすると、きみはどんなめにあうかもしれないよ。それがこわかったら、ただじっとしているのだ。じっとしてさえいれば、きみは安全なのだ。いいかね、命がおしかったら、そのままじっとしているのだよ。　　監督/吉田純子・編集/三好達也_野田仁志

Meet the Williamson sisters, Britain's most treasured World War II veterans. Now in their nineties, Josephine and Penny are in demand, popping up at commemorative events all over the country. Despite their age, they're in great form-sprightly and sparky, and always in search of their next "excitement." This time it's a trip to Paris to receive the Légion d'honneur, accompanied by their devoted great-nephew, Archie.

Ten days to Christmas, and on a bitter December afternoon 8-year-old Tracy Uphill goes missing. Detective Inspector Jack Frost, Denton Police Force's scruffiest officer, knows they only have a limited time to find her, and he's also got to nursemaid Detective Constable Clive Barnard, whose uncle just happens to be the Chief Constable....Then the bodies start to pile up and a crime committed many years before leads a murderer to kill again.