Wildside press jun 2026 (39 résultats)

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - When Tyler Lake, a refined young man stranded in San Francisco, is befriended by the eccentric millionaire Austin Kiley, he thinks his luck has turned. But a misplaced package and a fleeting glimpse of a tattooed eye plunge him into a nightmare of mistaken identity. Drugged and abducted, Tyler awakens to find himself the intended victim of an intricate plot-his own appearance, eerily similar to Kiley's, making him a perfect substitute in a deadly scheme.Held captive in a house of secrets, Tyler is forced to participate in a bizarre ritual involving a clandestine society that tattoos its members with a chilling emblem. As a masked tattoo artist works on his arm, he realizes that every detail of his abduction was meticulously planned-and that his captors will stop at nothing to see their plan through. But who is the mastermind behind the mask, and what is the true purpose of the tattooed eye A breathless tale of suspense and deception set against the fog-shrouded streets of 1920s San Francisco, this novel weaves a labyrinth of clues and crimson herrings that will keep you riveted until the final revelation.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - When the ninth Earl of Puddingham discovers that a pair of priceless diamond cuff-buttons, a royal gift from King George I, have vanished from his bedside, he summons the renowned detective Hemlock Holmes and his loyal chronicler Dr. Watson to Normanstow Towers. But the theft is only the beginning: as the day unfolds, more of the historic jewels disappear, and a violent attack leaves the Earl fighting for his life.With a castle full of eccentric relatives, suspicious servants, and mysterious guests from across the globe, Holmes must unravel a web of secrets and lies. As the clues pile up and the suspects multiply, the great detective's methods are pushed to their limit. Can Holmes and Watson unmask the culprit before the last heirloom is stolen, or will the ancient family treasures be lost forever. …

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - In the grim and isolated Bleak House, young Effie Galt finds her nerves frayed by the eerie laughter that echoes from the sealed cellar. Her aunts and uncle dismiss the sounds as fancy-until a shadowy form is glimpsed, and David Galloway is found murdered at the foot of the cellar stairs, his neck raked by what appear to be claw marks.With no way in or out of the windowless cellar, the impossible crime defies reason. As a local constable and a county detective begin their investigation, the house's dark history of violence and madness comes to light. Is there a human killer hiding a cunning secret, or has something unearthly been unleashed in the cellar The chilling mystery tightens its grip as Effie and her remaining family confront the terror that lurks below.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Roy Auckland had been asked to join the expedition now on the remote planet Carolus. Despite the fact that he was a communications expert, not an explorer, he was excited about the opportunity to visit an unknown world. But he wondered why he had been requested personally by the head of the expedition. Once on Carolus, Roy met the weird creatures called the Vaec and was immediately intrigued by their mirth-loving nature and their patient devotion to practical jokes. But was it one of their practical jokes that almost exploded alongside Dr. James' skull Or was it a made-on-Earth murder gimmick Suddenly, Roy Auckland realized that behind their 'native simplicity' the Vaec were dangerously and subtly deceptive. And he also realized that somehow he had to break through their mask to understand them-or Dr. James would be only the first of the Earthmen to die.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Four rip-roaring tales from the golden age of pulp magazines sweep readers from the steaming reefs of the South Pacific to the gilded sanctum of a master criminal, and across the salt-stained centuries of high-seas adventure.On a forgotten island where white traders and native islanders eye each other warily, gin and greed brew a deadly storm. In a windowless tapestried lair, a cold mastermind orchestrates crime with the precision of a symphony until something unforeseen disturbs the music. On the wharves of colonial Charles Town, a notorious buccaneer strides ashore to settle a score with a redcoat colonel, and far out on the indigo deep, a brigantine duels a King's corvette through smoke and splinter, a grim talisman lashed to the masthead.Salt spray, gunpowder, and shadow conspire in this lively quartet-it's vintage adventure storytelling at full sail.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Picture a London that took a different turn-a city where magic flourishes instead of physical sciences. Carpets drift above streets clogged with horse-drawn wagons and cycles, crystal balls instead of telephones carry messages, and a licensed practitioner can be hired to deal with any troubles ordinary folk cannot handle.One particular practitioner keeps a dingy office on the wrong side of town, feet planted on his desk, and his crystal ball gathering dust until the next client climbs the stairs. His cases arrive in strange shapes: a fortune that reeks of murder, a vanished colleague, a rogue sorcerer loose in the fog, a haunting that refuses to behave. Cracking them takes more than a spell-it takes the nerve and patience of a born detective!Collected for the first time, here are all thirteen Private Mage tales, fusing hardboiled crime with gaslamp wonder, as a mage-for-hire walks the dark streets of a city where every case bends the rules of both magic and the law.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Ernest Haycox (1899-1950) came up through the pulps and helped carry the Western into a more mature, character-driven form. He later became a regular in Collier's and The Saturday Evening Post, published major novels, and saw 'Stage to Lordsburg' become John Ford's classic film Stagecoach. His work is noted for action shaped by choice, pressure, and moral cost. These five early stories show Haycox testing history, humor, and danger in several settings. 'Ambushed' follows a woman rancher forced to take command after betrayal and rustling threaten her home. 'Trial by Fire' moves to Revolutionary New England, where duty and danger meet under British rule. 'The Three Wise Men' offers a sharp look at judgment, gossip, and mercy in a fading desert town. 'A Municipal Feud' finds comedy and rivalry in rough civic life. 'The Rum Runners' leaves the frontier for a tense sea tale of smuggling, law, and desperate men.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - A wealthy diamond dealer is found dead behind a door bolted from the inside, the only key still in his pocket and a single playing card clenched in his fist. Suicide, the police rule-until a sharp-eyed private investigator notices the card and smells murder.Hired to crack the impossible crime, he plunges into a city where the smuggling trade runs on blood and every suspect carries a flawless alibi. A grieving daughter with no grief. A diamond smuggler with too much to lose. A contract killer who never misses. And somewhere behind them all, a phantom who signs each murder with a card drawn from a deadly deck.As the bodies stack up and the cards keep falling, the line between hunter and hunted blurs. To name the dealer in this murderous game, Johnny Merak must wager his own life-and pray he isn't holding a losing hand.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - A solitary, dreaming boy is sent to a celebrated boarding school that worships games, conformity, and worldly success. He withers under its cruelties and smug pieties, sustained only by memories of a lost home and by glimpses of a radiance the people around him cannot see.As he grows, an inheritance reaches him out of the first dim centuries of British Christianity: the rumour of the Holy Grail, and a faith older and stranger than anything taught in chapel. It draws him out of ordinary life and toward an ecstasy his elders can only call madness.By turns a savage satire of the modern schoolroom and a rapturous vision of the unseen, the story follows a soul convinced that the visible world is a thin veil stretched over an unbearable glory - and willing to follow that conviction to its furthest and most costly end.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Haunted by the past, Hermione Rodenberg retreats to the remote Scottish estate of Ardenmore, seeking solace from a world that has brought her only sorrow. But the ancient house, once home to her late husband Dominic Arden, is far from peaceful. Strange occurrences, a cryptic message, and whispers of a long-hidden secret draw her into a web of intrigue and danger. When a scrap of paper bearing a fateful date surfaces, Hermione is forced to question everything she thought she knew about the man she loved-and the crime that tore them apart.But Ardenmore is no sanctuary. The old tower by the sea harbors secrets, and the locals speak of lights in the night and a phantom motorcar. Inspector Mackay warns of smugglers and worse, urging vigilance. Yet the greatest peril may lie closer to home, hidden in the heart of the house and the memories she cannot escape. What really happened on the Flanders battlefield And is Dominic Arden truly dead, or does his ghost-or something more corporeal-still walk the halls of Ardenmore. …

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Two young Englishmen touring postwar France stumble upon a magnificent château where one of them once recovered from the horrors of the trenches. Welcomed back as guests, they soon sense that something is deeply wrong. The servants live in terror, mirrors shatter without cause, and the master of the house speaks darkly of warnings and an evil presence he calls the Monster.When their host is found murdered, the friends realize the haunting is no superstition but a calculated campaign of fear. A foreign conspiracy is closing in on the family, and the master's beautiful daughter stands at its center. Aided by a shrewd detective, the pair set a trap for an enemy who strikes from the shadows and always seems one move ahead.What follows is a relentless duel of nerve and cunning across the forests and corridors of the Marne, where every locked door conceals a secret and survival depends on unmasking a killer before the next blow falls.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - As night falls on the prison, the Governor prepares for another execution-just another day of routine. But when a visitor arrives with a forged reprieve and a silenced revolver, the Governor finds himself held hostage in his own office. The intruder, a cunning criminal mastermind, demands the immediate release of his partner in crime, a condemned murderer scheduled to hang at dawn.Refusing to surrender to panic, the Governor stalls for time by recounting the stories of fourteen new inmates, each a criminal undone by a single fatal error. With the telephone line cut and the fog thickening outside, a tense psychological duel unfolds between two men who understand the criminal mind all too well. Can the Governor find a way to turn the tables before the clock strikes eight.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - A young banker, master of one of London's great fortunes, stands accused of driving his fiancée's brother to ruin and death. Heartbroken and bent on revenge, she goes through with their wedding all the same, determined to break the man she once loved at the very moment he believes himself happiest.Her scheme works beyond anything she imagined. Stripped of his money and his name, the banker disappears into the city's underworld, a stranger among pickpockets, fences, and gunmen who would cut a throat for the price of a meal. Knifed in a gang quarrel and hunted by police and criminals alike, he learns what charity costs from those who have nothing.As Scotland Yard closes in on a string of robberies and killings, a notorious gunman becomes the one ally between a lost man and the grave. But the wife who set the ruin in motion is now racing to undo it-before the bluff that keeps him alive is called.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - A glorious July morning in a drowsy Essex market town promises nothing but green fields, river mist, and idle days at a comfortable old inn. Then a body surfaces in the slow brown water-a quiet, unhappy clerk who had every reason to despair and no obvious reason to die where he did.What begins as a melancholy accident soon refuses to stay tidy. Train times do not add up; an alibi rests on a single unwitnessed hour; and the respectable households along the riverbank prove to be guarding more than their garden walls. Beneath the talk of weather and dividends runs a current of debt, ambition, and old resentment.Summoned from Scotland Yard for a restful holiday, a patient, unshowy detective instead finds himself sifting timetables and half-truths in a village where everyone is charming and no one is entirely honest. The river gave up one secret. It is hiding several more.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - The young heir to an Indian throne carries a rope of pearls famous across two continents. When a heartless beauty deliberately ruins the necklace, a quiet, calculating man begins to plot its recovery - and its theft.His design is flawless on paper. Every move is anticipated, every player set in place like a piece on a board. But human beings are not chessmen. They have passions, fears, and wills of their own, and they refuse to keep to the squares assigned them.On the sunlit Normandy coast and aboard a pleasure house-boat drifting down the Seine, the elegant scheme begins to slide toward murder. A celebrated detective of the French police, idling away a hot summer nearby, finds its threads tightening around him. To save the innocent and unmask the guilty, he must learn why a perfect plan went so terribly, fatally wrong.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - On a wild March night, as an icy gale tears across the northern meadows, a man returns to a remote farmhouse and finds a woman shot dead at the kitchen table. She was a stranger to the village-a divorcee with a chequered past and enemies she never named. Suspicion settles at once on the young farmer who raised the alarm, for the evidence against him looks damning, and the local police want a quick arrest.But one guest at a nearby country house refuses to accept the obvious. Genial, unhurried, and far shrewder than he appears, he begins to sift a muddle of footprints, copper spangles, and a discarded stylographic pen abandoned in the long grass. Each clue draws him deeper into a tangle of old grudges, secret callers, and a love affair someone would kill to conceal. Before the truth comes to light, more than one reputation-and one life-will hang in the balance.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - When a woman's body is discovered in the display window of a prestigious Fifth Avenue department store, the elegant setting belies a brutal crime. The victim, arranged as if peacefully sleeping on a luxurious bed, holds no obvious clues-yet the powder on her face hints at a cunningly concealed truth. The police are baffled, but one man sees what others miss.Ellery Queen, the sharp-witted amateur logician, steps into the labyrinth of suspects and secrets. With his father, Inspector Richard Queen, he navigates a world of merchants, artists, and hidden rivalries, where every gesture and whisper may be a fatal clue. As the investigation tightens, he realizes that the key lies not in what is seen, but in what is meticulously hidden behind a mask of normalcy.In this classic puzzle mystery, nothing is as simple as it appears. With relentless logic and an eye for the overlooked, Queen must reconstruct the truth from a mosaic of deception before the killer can slip away into the shadows.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - England waits in dread of invasion. Along the wild southern shore, where smugglers run their cargoes by moonlight and the downs roll black against the sea, a brooding house upon the cliffs has become a nest of treachery. Within its walls a charming, ruthless foreign agent gathers the secrets that could open the coast to a conquering army.A headstrong young squire, chasing horse-thieves into the night, stumbles upon the house and the spirited girl held within its master's grasp. What begins as idle curiosity hardens into something far more dangerous, for he has lost his heart to the one person standing at the very centre of the plot.Caught between his loyalty to his country and the woman he cannot abandon, he must outwit a cunning enemy in a deadly game of signals, ambushes, and midnight betrayals-before the tide turns and the spy slips across the Channel.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - A Norwegian harbour-master is drawn into a web of deceit when his old friend, a wealthy industrialist, invites him on a luxury cruise to Monte Carlo. What begins as a pleasant voyage soon reveals a sinister purpose: a secret meeting that will force the harbour-master to choose between his conscience and his loyalty.As they arrive in the glittering casino, tension mounts. A chance encounter with a mysterious young woman sends shockwaves through their plans. The harbour-master's devotion to his daughter back home wars with the demands of the man who holds his fate. When tragedy strikes, he realizes the deceit is far tighter than imagined-and his own role may cost him everything.What is the terrible act he has been compelled to commit And how does the enigmatic woman connect to the shadows of his past As the night unfolds, the line between coercion and consent blurs, and the ultimate price of survival becomes terrifyingly clear.From the frozen Arctic to the sun-drenched Riviera, this gripping tale of moral crisis and dangerous secrets explores how far one man will go to protect what he loves.…

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - When Tyler Lake, a refined young man stranded in San Francisco, is befriended by the eccentric millionaire Austin Kiley, he thinks his luck has turned. But a misplaced package and a fleeting glimpse of a tattooed eye plunge him into a nightmare of mistaken identity. Drugged and abducted, Tyler awakens to find himself the intended victim of an intricate plot-his own appearance, eerily similar to Kiley's, making him a perfect substitute in a deadly scheme.Held captive in a house of secrets, Tyler is forced to participate in a bizarre ritual involving a clandestine society that tattoos its members with a chilling emblem. As a masked tattoo artist works on his arm, he realizes that every detail of his abduction was meticulously planned-and that his captors will stop at nothing to see their plan through. But who is the mastermind behind the mask, and what is the true purpose of the tattooed eye A breathless tale of suspense and deception set against the fog-shrouded streets of 1920s San Francisco, this novel weaves a labyrinth of clues and crimson herrings that will keep you riveted until the final revelation. …

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Roy Auckland had been asked to join the expedition now on the remote planet Carolus. Despite the fact that he was a communications expert, not an explorer, he was excited about the opportunity to visit an unknown world. But he wondered why he had been requested personally by the head of the expedition. Once on Carolus, Roy met the weird creatures called the Vaec and was immediately intrigued by their mirth-loving nature and their patient devotion to practical jokes. But was it one of their practical jokes that almost exploded alongside Dr. James' skull Or was it a made-on-Earth murder gimmick Suddenly, Roy Auckland realized that behind their 'native simplicity' the Vaec were dangerously and subtly deceptive. And he also realized that somehow he had to break through their mask to understand them-or Dr. James would be only the first of the Earthmen to die.…

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - When the ninth Earl of Puddingham discovers that a pair of priceless diamond cuff-buttons, a royal gift from King George I, have vanished from his bedside, he summons the renowned detective Hemlock Holmes and his loyal chronicler Dr. Watson to Normanstow Towers. But the theft is only the beginning: as the day unfolds, more of the historic jewels disappear, and a violent attack leaves the Earl fighting for his life.With a castle full of eccentric relatives, suspicious servants, and mysterious guests from across the globe, Holmes must unravel a web of secrets and lies. As the clues pile up and the suspects multiply, the great detective's methods are pushed to their limit. Can Holmes and Watson unmask the culprit before the last heirloom is stolen, or will the ancient family treasures be lost forever.…

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Four rip-roaring tales from the golden age of pulp magazines sweep readers from the steaming reefs of the South Pacific to the gilded sanctum of a master criminal, and across the salt-stained centuries of high-seas adventure.On a forgotten island where white traders and native islanders eye each other warily, gin and greed brew a deadly storm. In a windowless tapestried lair, a cold mastermind orchestrates crime with the precision of a symphony until something unforeseen disturbs the music. On the wharves of colonial Charles Town, a notorious buccaneer strides ashore to settle a score with a redcoat colonel, and far out on the indigo deep, a brigantine duels a King's corvette through smoke and splinter, a grim talisman lashed to the masthead.Salt spray, gunpowder, and shadow conspire in this lively quartet-it's vintage adventure storytelling at full sail.…

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Picture a London that took a different turn-a city where magic flourishes instead of physical sciences. Carpets drift above streets clogged with horse-drawn wagons and cycles, crystal balls instead of telephones carry messages, and a licensed practitioner can be hired to deal with any troubles ordinary folk cannot handle.One particular practitioner keeps a dingy office on the wrong side of town, feet planted on his desk, and his crystal ball gathering dust until the next client climbs the stairs. His cases arrive in strange shapes: a fortune that reeks of murder, a vanished colleague, a rogue sorcerer loose in the fog, a haunting that refuses to behave. Cracking them takes more than a spell-it takes the nerve and patience of a born detective!Collected for the first time, here are all thirteen Private Mage tales, fusing hardboiled crime with gaslamp wonder, as a mage-for-hire walks the dark streets of a city where every case bends the rules of both magic and the law.…

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - A solitary, dreaming boy is sent to a celebrated boarding school that worships games, conformity, and worldly success. He withers under its cruelties and smug pieties, sustained only by memories of a lost home and by glimpses of a radiance the people around him cannot see.As he grows, an inheritance reaches him out of the first dim centuries of British Christianity: the rumour of the Holy Grail, and a faith older and stranger than anything taught in chapel. It draws him out of ordinary life and toward an ecstasy his elders can only call madness.By turns a savage satire of the modern schoolroom and a rapturous vision of the unseen, the story follows a soul convinced that the visible world is a thin veil stretched over an unbearable glory - and willing to follow that conviction to its furthest and most costly end.…

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - A wealthy diamond dealer is found dead behind a door bolted from the inside, the only key still in his pocket and a single playing card clenched in his fist. Suicide, the police rule-until a sharp-eyed private investigator notices the card and smells murder.Hired to crack the impossible crime, he plunges into a city where the smuggling trade runs on blood and every suspect carries a flawless alibi. A grieving daughter with no grief. A diamond smuggler with too much to lose. A contract killer who never misses. And somewhere behind them all, a phantom who signs each murder with a card drawn from a deadly deck.As the bodies stack up and the cards keep falling, the line between hunter and hunted blurs. To name the dealer in this murderous game, Johnny Merak must wager his own life-and pray he isn't holding a losing hand.…

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Ernest Haycox (1899-1950) came up through the pulps and helped carry the Western into a more mature, character-driven form. He later became a regular in Collier's and The Saturday Evening Post, published major novels, and saw 'Stage to Lordsburg' become John Ford's classic film Stagecoach. His work is noted for action shaped by choice, pressure, and moral cost. These five early stories show Haycox testing history, humor, and danger in several settings. 'Ambushed' follows a woman rancher forced to take command after betrayal and rustling threaten her home. 'Trial by Fire' moves to Revolutionary New England, where duty and danger meet under British rule. 'The Three Wise Men' offers a sharp look at judgment, gossip, and mercy in a fading desert town. 'A Municipal Feud' finds comedy and rivalry in rough civic life. 'The Rum Runners' leaves the frontier for a tense sea tale of smuggling, law, and desperate men.…

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - A young banker, master of one of London's great fortunes, stands accused of driving his fiancée's brother to ruin and death. Heartbroken and bent on revenge, she goes through with their wedding all the same, determined to break the man she once loved at the very moment he believes himself happiest.Her scheme works beyond anything she imagined. Stripped of his money and his name, the banker disappears into the city's underworld, a stranger among pickpockets, fences, and gunmen who would cut a throat for the price of a meal. Knifed in a gang quarrel and hunted by police and criminals alike, he learns what charity costs from those who have nothing.As Scotland Yard closes in on a string of robberies and killings, a notorious gunman becomes the one ally between a lost man and the grave. But the wife who set the ruin in motion is now racing to undo it-before the bluff that keeps him alive is called.…

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - As night falls on the prison, the Governor prepares for another execution-just another day of routine. But when a visitor arrives with a forged reprieve and a silenced revolver, the Governor finds himself held hostage in his own office. The intruder, a cunning criminal mastermind, demands the immediate release of his partner in crime, a condemned murderer scheduled to hang at dawn.Refusing to surrender to panic, the Governor stalls for time by recounting the stories of fourteen new inmates, each a criminal undone by a single fatal error. With the telephone line cut and the fog thickening outside, a tense psychological duel unfolds between two men who understand the criminal mind all too well. Can the Governor find a way to turn the tables before the clock strikes eight.…

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Two young Englishmen touring postwar France stumble upon a magnificent château where one of them once recovered from the horrors of the trenches. Welcomed back as guests, they soon sense that something is deeply wrong. The servants live in terror, mirrors shatter without cause, and the master of the house speaks darkly of warnings and an evil presence he calls the Monster.When their host is found murdered, the friends realize the haunting is no superstition but a calculated campaign of fear. A foreign conspiracy is closing in on the family, and the master's beautiful daughter stands at its center. Aided by a shrewd detective, the pair set a trap for an enemy who strikes from the shadows and always seems one move ahead.What follows is a relentless duel of nerve and cunning across the forests and corridors of the Marne, where every locked door conceals a secret and survival depends on unmasking a killer before the next blow falls.…