Джон Лутц

Книга КРИК УЖАСА ЗА СТЕНОЙ адресована, прежде всего, любителям острого чтения. В ней опубликованы рассказы мастеров зарубежной прозы, изданные знаменитым кинорежиссером Альфредом Хичкоком, разработавшим стиль "хаспенс" (буквально - тревожное ожидание, чувство неуверенности и страха). Произведения этого жанра отличают интригующие повороты сюжета, динамика действия и неожиданная развязка. Они пользу...

"Curtis Colt didn't kill that liquor store woman, and that's a fact. It's not right that he should have to ride the lightning - that's what prisoners call dying in the electric chair. Curtis doesn't belong in it, and I can prove it". But can Curtis's girlfriend prove it? Murder has undoubtedly been done, and if Curtis doesn't ride the lightning for it, then who w...

Отсутствие денег толкнуло Спидо на дурной поступок. Он решил наведаться со своим приятелем на виллу киноактера Кинга Мердока и свистнуть у того марки и прочие безделушки, пока Кинг в отъезде. Однако, газетные сообщения о европейских турне Мердока оказались ложью - хозяин встретил их на вилле и предложил грабителям-неудачникам поучаствовать в необычном, небезопасном для жизни мероприятии.

Danny asked, pausing as he wiped down the stainless-steel counter with the grayish towel he usually kept tucked in his belt. He looked over at Nudger with his somber basset-hound eyes, concerned eyes. "Maybe it'd help to settle your stomach."

“That’s what I am,” Carver said, staring at Hattie Evans, wondering if “Hattie” was a nickname. She was wearing quite a hat, a prim and proper red mushroomlike thing with a truncated little stem on top. It was ninety degrees outside and she was wearing a hat. He had to admit, despite her sixty-plus years it made her look jaunty. “Well, you listen, Mr. Carver, I don’t play games and I won’t be b...

Outside the window the sun bore down with the brilliance and blanching effect of a cosmic tanning lamp. It made the eyes ache. Magellan Avenue was a wide, pale ribbon of pavement. The white stucco combination courthouse and jail across the street looked as if it were constructed of meringue skimmed from the richest of pies. Beyond it, the sun-sparked sea undulated with a shallow glitter that sugge...