"detective Hercule Poirot. ""Murder on the Orient Express"" retains the main plot elements of Agatha Christie's novel of the same name. An additional ending is presented in the game which differs from the conclusion of Christie's novel. As with ""And Then There Were None"", Christie's novel is bundled with the game. Some reviewers of ""Murder on the Orient Express"" criticized the game because of the repetitive nature of tasks the player must complete, and also complained about the inefficient and cumbersome inventory system. Others have praised it for improved graphics compared to ""And Then There Were None"", as well as"
"Nine Coaches Waiting Nine Coaches Waiting is a then-contemporary suspense, Gothic Romance novel by Mary Stewart published originally in 1958. The setting is the late 1950s — contemporary to the time of its first publication. The novel tells the haunting tale of a young English governess, Linda Martin, who travels to the Château Valmy, near Thonon-les-Bains, France, to take care of nine-year-old Philippe de Valmy. There she finds herself tangled in a plot to murder her charge and tries to save him, which eventually results in the revelation of a dark secret. <br> Linda's name is short for Belinda, ""or"
"beating death of a female agent occurs in the movie). Murderers' Row (novel) Murderers' Row is the title of a 1962 spy novel by Donald Hamilton. It was the fifth novel featuring his creation Matt Helm, a Second World War assassin recruited as a counter-agent by a secret American agency. This was the last Matt Helm novel to not use Hamilton's naming convention of ""The (Verb)-ers"" (as in ""The Annihilators"", ""The Ambushers"", etc.). Matt Helm, codenamed ""Eric"", is given a tough and distasteful assignment: to physically assault a fellow female agent in order to help establish her cover in an"
"The Charm School The Charm School is a 1988 spy thriller novel by American author, Nelson DeMille set in the Soviet Union. The novel's hero is U.S Air Force Colonel Sam Hollis, a former F-4 Phantom Fighter pilot who fought in Vietnam. Hollis was shot down during the war and was disqualified from flying. Later on he was transferred to the Army Intelligence and served as an intelligence officer and operative/ air attaché at the American embassy in Moscow. A young American MBA graduate driving in the Russian countryside encounters another American, claiming to have escaped a secret Russian POW"
"the rôle assigned to her before she ever left England. <br> Nine Coaches Waiting Nine Coaches Waiting is a then-contemporary suspense, Gothic Romance novel by Mary Stewart published originally in 1958. The setting is the late 1950s — contemporary to the time of its first publication. The novel tells the haunting tale of a young English governess, Linda Martin, who travels to the Château Valmy, near Thonon-les-Bains, France, to take care of nine-year-old Philippe de Valmy. There she finds herself tangled in a plot to murder her charge and tries to save him, which eventually results in the revelation of"
"Murderers' Row (novel) Murderers' Row is the title of a 1962 spy novel by Donald Hamilton. It was the fifth novel featuring his creation Matt Helm, a Second World War assassin recruited as a counter-agent by a secret American agency. This was the last Matt Helm novel to not use Hamilton's naming convention of ""The (Verb)-ers"" (as in ""The Annihilators"", ""The Ambushers"", etc.). Matt Helm, codenamed ""Eric"", is given a tough and distasteful assignment: to physically assault a fellow female agent in order to help establish her cover in an undercover operation. In doing so, however, Helm accidentally kills the"
"is to decapitate the ""goat"" (one player chosen randomly throughout the game) and get the head through the goalposts. No one has ever died yet during a game until the beginning of the book. FBI agents are sent to investigate the death, since no one previously died before that incidient. Head On (novel) Head On is a science fiction police procedural novel by American writer John Scalzi. The book was published by Tor Books on April 17, 2018. Audible has released two audiobook editions, each with a different narrator, Amber Benson and Wil Wheaton. It is a standalone sequel to"
"Commander in Chief (novel) Commander in Chief (stylized as Tom Clancy Commander in Chief, Tom Clancy: Commander in Chief, or Tom Clancy’s Commander-in-Chief in the United Kingdom) is a political thriller novel, written by Mark Greaney and released on December 1, 2015. In the book, President Jack Ryan and The Campus must stop Russian president Valeri Volodin from launching a covert violent offensive in an effort to bring back Russia as a superpower. ""Commander in Chief"" is Greaney’s third solo entry in the Jack Ryan series, which is part of the overall Tom Clancy universe. The book debuted at number"
"take over South America. Landing in Los Angeles, Caine finds Wasserman who is revealed as a Nazi, von Schiffen, who had taken the identity of the Jew, Wasserman and who needed Mengele dead as part of the oil conspiracy. Caine kills von Schiffen and he and C.J. escape together. 1. BookCrossing.com, (http://www.bookcrossing.com/search/?author=Andrew%20Kaplan). Retrieved on 2007-8-25. 2. Hour of the Assassins, Warner Books paperback (https://www.amazon.com/Hour-Assassins-Andrew-Kaplan/dp/0440135303/ref=sr_1_8/105-3701850-1064460?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1188074381&sr=1-8). Amazon.com. Retrieved on 2007-8-25. 3. Hour of the Assassins, Warner Books paperback (http://www.thebookhive.net/si/B-373-36269.html). TheBookHive.net. Retrieved on 2007-8-25. 4. Stuyvesant High School Notables. http://www.stuyvesant.ourstrongband.org/notables.htm. Retrieved on 2007-8-25. Hour of the Assassins Hour of the Assassins is the"
"The Assassination Option The Assassination Option is the second novel in the Clandestine Operations Series by W.E.B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV. This novel centers around Capt. James Cronley, the central character of the first novel of the series. Cronley has been promoted to be commander of a new unit in the new Central Intelligence Agency. As the chief of DCI Europe, Cronley has to deal with all sorts of intrigue, much of it involving U.S. government and military personnel unhappy with the creation and power of the new CIA. Cronley and the people working with and for him,"
"series was shown in the United States by PBS. Police at the Funeral Police at the Funeral is a crime novel by Margery Allingham, first published in October 1931, in the United Kingdom by Heinemann, London and in 1932 in the United States by Doubleday, Doran, New York. It is the fourth novel with the mysterious Albert Campion, aided as usual by his butler/valet/bodyguard Magersfontein Lugg and his policeman friend Stanislaus Oates. When Albert Campion is called in by the fiancee of an old college friend to investigate the disappearance of her uncle, he little expects the mysterious spate of"
"Death Is My Trade Death Is My Trade () is a 1952 French fictionalized biographical novel by Robert Merle. The protagonist, Rudolf Lang, was closely based on the real Rudolf Höß, commandant of the concentration camp Auschwitz. The story begins in 1913, when Lang is 13 years old. His parents give him a harsh Catholic education, to which he reacts badly. His unstable father, with whom the young Lang has an awkward relationship, wants him to become a priest. At the age of fifteen, Lang starts a military career which leads in 1943 to the post of commandant of Auschwitz."
"novel, during which he studied the case closely. He based Clyde Griffiths on Chester Gillette, deliberately giving him the same initials. A strikingly similar murder took place in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, in 1934, when Robert Edwards clubbed Freda McKechnie, one of his two lovers, and placed her body in a lake. The cases were so similar that the press at the time dubbed the Edwards/McKechnie murder ""The American Tragedy"". Edwards was eventually found guilty, and also executed by electric chair. The novel is a tragedy in the strict sense, Clyde's destruction being the consequence of his innate weaknesses: moral and physical"
"The Executioners (MacDonald novel) The Executioners is a psychological thriller-suspense novel written by John D. MacDonald, published in 1957. It was filmed twice under the title ""Cape Fear"", once in 1962 and again in 1991. The overall tone of the novel is not nearly as brutal as the film adaptations, and especially the remake. The basic plot of the novel concerns an attorney named Sam Bowden, who caught Max Cady, an illiterate, brutal rapist, in the act. Bowden later testifies against him. The jury finds Cady guilty and Cady is sent to prison for fourteen years, when he develops and"
"by a mysterious figure known only as ""the coachman"". He must sort out his domestic arrangements, which include his wife and mistress under one roof, prove himself innocent of the murder of which he was convicted, and reveal the identity of the evil figure behind his problems. ""Dick Darwent, ex-fencing master, was waiting in a dark cell of Newgate Prison—waiting to be hanged. While Dick waited for the hangman, Lady Caroline Ross, rich, cold and beautiful, prepared a champagne breakfast to celebrate her marriage to him, a marriage which would cost her fifty pounds, and which would be ended an"
"""Murder on the Oxford Canal"" tells the story of the murder of Joanna Franks aboard the canal boat ""Barbara Bray"". Morse is soon convinced that the two men hanged for the crime were innocent and sets out to prove it from the confines of his bed. The title of the novel comes from Christopher Marlowe's play ""The Jew of Malta""; the following quotation serves as the epigraph to the novel: Colin Dexter based the novel on the 1839 murder of 37-year-old Christina Collins as she travelled the Trent and Mersey Canal at Rugeley, Staffordshire, on the ""Staffordshire Knot"" en route"
"Bulman novels towards the end of his life, including ""The Judas Trail"" (1996) and ""Shadows"" (1996). Royce was married and lived in Buckinghamshire, UK. He died in 1997. Kenneth Royce Kenneth Royce Gandley (1920–1997) was an English thriller writer who also wrote under name Ken Royce, and the pseudonym Oliver Jacks. Royce was born in Croydon, UK in 1920 and began writing at school. He would buy cheap exercise books and sell them fully illustrated for twice the price. During World War II he served with ""various regiments"" and reached the rank of Captain. He ran his own travel business"
"the killers were. The word 'traitors' in the book's title refers to a section on a number of those who betrayed the CIA, including Aldrich Ames. David W. Doyle David W. Doyle (7 May 1924 – 19 February 2014) was a British-born American author, United States Army Veteran, and former Central Intelligence Agency officer. Born at Harrow, in Greater London, Doyle was the son of Donald and Joyce Doyle (née Kennedy). The family moved to Brussels, the capital of Belgium, in 1925 and returned to London in 1932, and it was there that Doyle began to attend Colet Court, a"
"Bloch"". American Gothic (novel) American Gothic is a 1974 psychological horror novel by American writer Robert Bloch, a fictionalized portrayal of real life serial killer H. H. Holmes, who is renamed ""G. Gordon Gregg"" for the story. Inspired by the case of real-life serial killer H. H. Holmes, the story follows maniacal surgeon G. Gordon Gregg, who preys on young beautiful women and, luring them into his labyrinthine castle, kills them, thus orchestrating the perfect series of crimes. However, an ambitious Chicago journalist called Crystal (last name never given) becomes suspicious of Gregg, a feeling made much more complicated by"
"Soldier: ""Yes, sir. Sorry sir. No excuse sir."". On the other hand, if you crave reading about bureaucratic minutia, you will love it. The Assassination Option The Assassination Option is the second novel in the Clandestine Operations Series by W.E.B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV. This novel centers around Capt. James Cronley, the central character of the first novel of the series. Cronley has been promoted to be commander of a new unit in the new Central Intelligence Agency. As the chief of DCI Europe, Cronley has to deal with all sorts of intrigue, much of it involving U.S."
"Cabal (novella) Cabal is a 1988 horror novel by the British author Clive Barker. It was originally published in the United States as part of a collection comprising a novel and several short stories from Barker's sixth and final volume of the ""Books of Blood"". The book was adapted into the film ""Nightbreed"" in 1990, written and directed by Barker himself, starring Craig Sheffer and David Cronenberg. Boone, a young man suffering from an unspecified mental disorder, is told by his psychiatrist, Decker, that he is responsible for brutal serial murders in Calgary. Boone, however, has no recollection of committing"
"action thrillers will be well satisfied."" Thriller novel reviewer The Real Book Spy lauded the book, saying that ""The hallmark of a good thriller is that it’s exciting and fast. Greaney seems to embrace that style, and it works really well here."" Commander in Chief (novel) Commander in Chief (stylized as Tom Clancy Commander in Chief, Tom Clancy: Commander in Chief, or Tom Clancy’s Commander-in-Chief in the United Kingdom) is a political thriller novel, written by Mark Greaney and released on December 1, 2015. In the book, President Jack Ryan and The Campus must stop Russian president Valeri Volodin from"
"Kill the Messenger (novel) Kill the Messenger is a suspense thriller by author Tami Hoag. The hardcover edition of the novel was first published in July 2004. In March 2006 the book was released in mass market paperback. That same month the paperback edition rose to No. 1 on The New York Times Best Seller List, No. 3 on the Top New Books List published in Canada's ""National Post"", and No. 4 on the USA Today Best Seller List. Bike messenger Jace Damon attempts to live under the radar in Los Angeles with his younger brother (Tyler, who has an"
"A search for Rogers was launched and a warrant was issued for him as a material witness to the crime but Rogers was never found. Rogers' life was documented in the 1992 book ""The Man on the Grassy Knoll"" by John R. Craig and Philip A. Rogers. According to this work, Rogers was a CIA agent who likely impersonated Lee Harvey Oswald in Mexico City and, along with Charles Harrelson, was one of two shooters involved in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The authors allege that Rogers, Harrelson, and Chauncey Holt were the ""three tramps"" arrested in Dealey"
"Killer on the Road Killer on the Road is a crime novel by James Ellroy. First published in 1986, it is a non-series book between the Lloyd Hopkins Trilogy and the L.A. Quartet. It was first released by Avon as a mass-market paperback original under the title Silent Terror, and has since been republished in the US under Ellroy's original title ""Killer on the Road"", first as a mass-market paperback in 1990 and later as a trade paperback in 1999. After the Lloyd Hopkins Trilogy, written in the third person, ""Killer on the Road"" returns to the first-person narrative style"
"Head On (novel) Head On is a science fiction police procedural novel by American writer John Scalzi. The book was published by Tor Books on April 17, 2018. Audible has released two audiobook editions, each with a different narrator, Amber Benson and Wil Wheaton. It is a standalone sequel to ""Lock In."" Haden's Syndrome victims, called Hadens, continue to use Threeps to interact with the outside world. Some Hadens begin to play Hilketa, a football-like game, but with swords and hammers with a head instead of a ball. The two teams are made up of Hadens in Threeps. The goal"
"Psycho (novel) Psycho is a 1959 thriller novel by American writer Robert Bloch. The novel tells the story of Norman Bates, caretaker at an isolated motel who struggles under his domineering mother and becomes embroiled into a series of murders. The novel is widely recognized as Bloch's most enduring work and one of the most influential horror books of the 20th Century. The story was adapted into Alfred Hitchcock's seminal 1960 film of the same name, and was loosely adapted into the ""Bates Motel"" television series (2013-2017). Bloch later wrote two sequels, which are unrelated to any of the film"
"Cross Country (novel) Cross Country is the 14th novel in the Alex Cross series by James Patterson. According to the ""Library Journal"" it was the second most borrowed fiction book in United States libraries in 2009. An African warlord known as the Tiger, aided by his crew of angry young men, horrifically murders author Eleanor 'Ellie' Cox and her entire family. Alex Cross and girlfriend Bree Stone go investigate, when Alex recalls Ellie had been his one time girlfriend, whom he had loved at one point. He is instantly terrified by this so much he gets no sleep, does no"
"The Killer (Wilson novel) The Killer (published in the USA as ""Lingard"") is a 1970 novel by Colin Wilson about Arthur Lingard, a mentally unstable man with a troubled history of crime, incest and extremely violent behavior. He is an inmate at the Rose Hill experimental prison near Sedgefield, serving the last years of an eight-year sentence for a second-degree murder. The minimum security is due to the inference of the state authorities that Lingard is a ""harmless vegetable"". The prison doctor Samuel Kahn (the novel's narrator) disagrees with this due to his deep insight into Lingard's unfathomable psyche. The"
"Gregory Powell (murderer) Gregory Ulas ""Greg"" Powell (August 2, 1933 – August 12, 2012) was an American criminal who kidnapped Los Angeles Police Department Officers Ian Campbell and Karl Hettinger on the night of March 9, 1963. Assisted by accomplice Jimmy Lee ""Youngblood"" Smith, Powell took the officers to an onion field near Bakersfield, California, where Officer Campbell was fatally shot. Infamously known as the ""Onion Field"" Killer, Powell's story was depicted in Joseph Wambaugh's 1973 non-fiction book, ""The Onion Field"". The book was later made into a 1979 film adaptation of the same name in which Powell was portrayed"
"Cards on the Table Cards on the Table is a detective novel by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 2 November 1936 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company the following year. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) and the US edition at $2.00. The book features the recurring characters of Hercule Poirot, Colonel Race, Superintendent Battle and the bumbling crime writer Ariadne Oliver, making her first appearance in a Poirot novel. The four detectives and four possible suspects play bridge after dinner with Mr"
"Rachel Ingalls Rachel Holmes Ingalls (born 1940) is an American-born author who has lived in the United Kingdom, since 1965. She won the 1970 Authors' Club First Novel Award for ""Theft"". Her novella ""Mrs. Caliban"" was published in 1982, and her book of short stories ""Times Like These"" in 2005. Ingalls's short story ""Last Act: The Madhouse"" inspired the story of the character Jean in the 1997 film ""Chinese Box"" by Wayne Wang. Ingalls was born on May 13, 1940, in Boston and grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She got her B. A. degree from Radcliffe College in 1964, and"
"manuscript is held by Brandeis University. Catch-22 Catch-22 is a satirical novel by American author Joseph Heller. He began writing it in 1953; the novel was first published in 1961. Often cited as one of the most significant novels of the twentieth century, it uses a distinctive non-chronological third-person omniscient narration, describing events from the points of view of different characters. The separate storylines are out of sequence so the timeline develops along with the plot. The novel is set during World War II, from 1942 to 1944. It mainly follows the life of Captain John Yossarian, a U.S. Army"