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«– Ну и что ты думаешь, Гаррет? – спросил Гозмо.

Прежде чем ответить, я скучающим взглядом окинул пустой трактирный зал и только после этого выдал фразу, вертевшуюся на языке с того самого момента, как он предложил Заказ.

– Мне это не нравится…»

Едва появившись на книжном рынке в 1919 г., роман крупнейшего прозаика, поэта, эссеиста, одного из классиков немецкой и мировой литературы Германа Гессе «Демиан» сразу завоевал огромную популярность. Томас Манн писал: «Незабываемо электризующее действие, вызванное вскоре после Первой мировой войны романом “Демиан”, произведением, которое с беспощадной точностью задело нерв эпохи и вызвало благодарное восхищение целого поколения молодежи…»

When Nameless is hired by Cory Beckett, a beautiful young woman who claims to be a model, to find her missing brother, Kenneth, it seems to be a routine matter. Kenneth has fled San Francisco in a drug-induced panic to avoid trial on a charge of stealing a valuable necklace from the alcoholic wife of the man for whom he works, wealthy yachtsman Andrew Vorhees. When agency operative Jake Runyon locates and questions the frightened young man, Cory Beckett's motives come into question and the case takes on darkly sinister complexities.

Cory lied to Nameless about her livelihood, her relationship with Vorhees, her brother's alleged drug use, and the nature of his alleged crime. Not only is she Andrew Vorhees’ mistress, Cory has a secret second lover, factory owner Frank Chaleen, with whom she conspired to frame Kenneth. This bizarre sibling betrayal is part of a diabolical plan that reveals her to be a deadly, designing woman who will stop at nothing to achieve her warped desires.

Bill Pronzini, famed for his “Nameless” detective series, displays his darker side, along with his remarkable breadth, in this stunning collection of 19 stories. We meet an array of characters fit for nightmares. A hapless store clerk who only wants to “look” at a beautiful, naked young neighbor... A woman trapped with a killer who just happened to wash ashore... A good Samaritan who gives a lift to a madman... A tormented husband who dreams of a little room of his own... Stretching across five decades, here is a collection that demonstrates again Bill Pronzini’s mastery of popular fiction.

Sabina Carpenter and John Quinncannon are no stranger to mysteries. In the five years since they opened Carpenter and Quinncannon, Professional Detective Services, they have solved dozens, but one has eluded even them: Sherlock Holmes or, rather, the madman claiming his identity, who keeps showing up with a frustrating (though admittedly useful) knack for solving difficult cases.

Roland W. Fairchild, recently arrived from Chicago, claims Holmes is his first cousin, Charles P. Fairchild III. Now, with his father dead, Charles stands to inherit an estate of over three million dollars-if Sabina can find him, and if he can be proved sane. Sabina is uncertain of Roland’s motives, but agrees to take the case.

John, meanwhile, has been hired by the owner of the Golden State brewery to investigate the “accidental” death of the head brewmaster, who drowned in a vat of his own beer. When a second murder occurs, and the murderer escapes from under his nose, John finds himself on the trail not just of the criminals, but of his reputation for catching them.

But while John is certain he can catch his quarry, Sabina is less certain she wants to catch hers. Holmes has been frustrating, but useful, even kind. She is quite certain he is mad, and quite uncertain what will happen when he is confronted with the truth. Does every mystery need to be solved?

Маленький сборник фантастических рассказов, печатавшийся как 16-страничное приложение в журнале «Огонек» (1993, № 11). Билл Пронзини. Привет — здорово, лиловая корова How Now Purple Cow (1969) Уолт Лайбшер. Инопланетянский рог изобилия Alien Cornucopia (1959) Эдвард Д. Хоч. Зоопарк Zoo (1958) Эдвард Д. Хоч. Последний парадокс The Last Paradox (1958) Хайфорд Пирс. Могущество почты Mail Supremacy (1975) Аллан Э. Нурс. До полного слияния The Compleat Consumators (1964) Джеймс Э. Томпсон. Принцип синхронности Synchronicity (1978) Рэй Брэдбери. Чикагская бездна To the Chicago Abyss (1963) Перевод В. Мисюченко, В. Артемова. Рисунки Ольги Разиной.

Two missing bodies and two separate investigations take Carpenter and Quincannon from the heights above San Francisco Bay to the depths of Chinatown’s opium dens.

For John Quincannon, this is a first: searching a Chinatown opium den for his client’s husband, missing in the middle of a brewing tong war set to ignite over the stolen corpse of Bing Ah Kee.

Meanwhile, his partner, Sabina Carpenter, unsure of the dark secrets her suitor might be concealing, searches for the corpse of a millionaire, stolen from a sealed family crypt and currently being held for ransom.

With the threat of a tong war hanging over the city (a war perhaps being spurred on by corrupt officials), Carpenter and Quincannon have no time to lose in solving their cases. Is there a connection between the two body snatchers? Or is simple greed the answer to this one?

And why is the enigmatic Englishman who calls himself Sherlock Holmes watching so carefully from the shadows?

No suspense collection is complete without this anthology. Originally published in the stories in this volume represent many of the biggest names in detective and suspense fiction: Ellery Queen, Harold Q. Masur, Celia Fremlin, Jack Ritchie, Patricia Highsmith and Bill Pronzini are only a few of the prize-winning authors in this amazing volume.

Two novellas and two short stories featuring Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Bill Pronzini’s iconic Nameless Detective!

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In the second short, , readers discover how, indeed, one thing just leads to another (First published in as ).

The final work, , is another original novella and entangles Nameless in a weird crime with fearful occult overtones.