A murder trial takes a diabolical turn when the wife of the accused takes the stand. A woman's sixth sense and a loaded revolver signal premonitions of doom. A golfer hears cries for help, that no one else can hear. A stranded motorist seeks refuge in a remote mansion and is greeted with a dire warning. A mysterious phone call leads a fiction writer into a very real adventure. Detective Hercule Poirot faces his greates challenge when his services...

While en route from Syria to Paris, in the middle of a freezing winter's night, the Orient Express is stopped dead in its tracks by a snowdrift. Passengers awake to find the train still stranded and to discover that a wealthy American has been brutally stabbed to death in his private compartment. Incredibly, that compartment is locked from the inside. With no escape into the wintery landscape the killer must still be on board. Fortunately, the brilliant...

Nancy Drew tries to find a clue to the strange tapping sounds in the house of a retired actress.

Sherlock Holmes investigates an unusual case at a secluded, moated English country house.

Twenty-four stories by the likes of Bierce, Dahl, Macdonald, and Sturgeon are touched, mainly on the lighter side, by evil, the macabre, and dark suspense.

"Open the files on seventeen new crime stories to probe the brutal and complex hearts of criminals... Invisible Blood is a gripping collection of the compulsions of the criminal mind."--Provided by publisher. In this gripping collection of the compulsions of the criminal mind, readers will follow the trails of clues in the brutal killing of a homeless man; watch as a secretive group of intelligence community officers trace Jack Reacher through Heathrow;...