The story by the American writer William Irish (1903–1968) meets all the requirements of the detective genre: it contains a mysterious murder, insidious crim...

The anthology includes the most interesting stories by masters of action-packed literature. Different in time and place of action, narrative style, methods o...

A tragicomic story about how a young man helped his father hide a murder.

An unexpected phone call prevented a girl from committing suicide. No, she has not changed her mind, she will do it again the next evening, and now she will ...

In the story “Rear Window,” filmed in 1954 by Alfred Hitchcock (“Rear Window”), the protagonist, confined to a wheelchair, solves a crime taking place in the...