Gayford, Cecily (ed.) - Murder in Midwinter / Гейфорд, Сесили (ред.) - Убийство посреди зимы [2020, EPUB, ENG]

The Queen's Square / Королева любит свой цвет by Dorothy L. Sayers Sister Bessie / Сестричка Бесси, или Старая пиявка by Cyril Hare The Invisible Weapon by Nicholas Olde Paintbox Place by Ruth Rendell The Pro and the Con by Margery Allingham The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet / Берилловая диадема by Arthur Conan Doyle The Man from Nowhere by Edward D. Hoch The Avenging Chance / Карающий случай by Anthony Berkeley A Present for Ivo by Ellis Peters Rumpole and the Health Farm Murder by John Mortimer

‘You Jack o’ Di’monds, you Jack o’ Di’monds,’ said Mark Sambourne, shaking a reproachful head, ‘I know you of old.’ He rummaged beneath the white satin of his costume, panelled with gigantic oblongs and spotted to represent a set of dominoes. ‘Hang this fancy rig! Where the blazes has the fellow put my pockets? You rob my pocket, yes, you rob-a my pocket, you rob my pocket of silver and go-ho-hold. How much do you make it?’ He extracted a fountain pen and a chequebook. ‘Five-seventeen-six,’ said Lord Peter Wimsey. ‘That’s right, isn’t it, partner?’ His huge blue-and-scarlet sleeves rustled as he turned to Lady Hermione Creethorpe, who, in her Queen of Clubs costume, looked a very redoubtable virgin, as, indeed, she was. ‘Quite right,’ said the old lady, ‘and I consider that very cheap.’ . . .