Ergebnis für "The Pit and the Pendulum" in Krimis & Thriller

You wake. Confused. Disorientated. A noose is round your neck. You are bound, standing on a chair. All you can focus on is the man in the mask tightening the rope. You are about to die. John Wallace has no idea why he has been targeted. No idea who his attacker is. No idea how he will prevent the inevitable. Then the pendulum of fate swings in his favour. He has one chance to escape, find the truth and halt his destruction.

Here are five funny, entertaining, delectable mystery stories featuring Peter "Pit Bull" Geller, who may be a bit damaged physically (in an auto accident), but has lost neither his biting wit nor his keen sense of how the upper crust manages their criminal ways. Included are "Pit and the Pendulum", "Pit on the Road to Hell", "A Christmas Pit", "Dog Pit", and "Horse Pit" (winner of the Black Orchid Award from the Nero Wolfe Society and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine). Great story from a master storyteller!

Possibly the scariest horror story of all time. Captured and condemned to death by the Inquisition at Toledo, the narrator finds that his captors have devised a dungeon for him which exposes him to the most dreadful and drawn out psychological terror before certain death finally catches him. Every time he manages to escape one of their petrifying devices, another even more gruesome mode of execution is deployed.

När Gerd Ekstedt avlider i sömnen av hjärtstillestånd är hennes son den ende som misstänker att döden inte kommit naturligt. En försvunnen klocka gör honom övertygad om att någon varit i hennes sovrum på natten. Kriminalkommissarie Johan Axberg, som har fullt upp med semesterplaneringen och en narkotikahärva, avvisar dock misstankarna som ett förvirrat uttryck för sorg. Samtidigt får Axbergs vän Erik Jensen, läkare på Sundsvalls sjukhus, in en ung kvinna med hjärtstillestånd på akutmottagningen.