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У Эдварда Хайда есть странный дар или проклятие, которое он держит в секрете от всех, кроме своего врача. Он проживает две реальности: одну настоящую, а другую - мир грез, вызванный неврологическим заболеванием. Когда викторианский Эдинбург потрясает шокирующее убийство, перекликающееся с древним кельтским ритуалом тройственной смерти, капитан Эдвард Хайд оказывается вовлечен в опасный заговор, паутину которого плетет некто зловещий. Ему предстоит либо раскрыть тайну преступления, либо сойти с ума, заблудившись в мире галлюцинаций…

A riveting 1920s Hollywood thriller about the making of the most terrifying silent film ever made, and a deadly search for the single copy rumored still to exist, from the internationally acclaimed author of The Devil Aspect .

1927: Mary Rourke—a Hollywood studio fixer—is called urgently to the palatial home of Norma Carlton, one of the most recognizable stars in American silent film. Norma has been working on the secret film everyone is openly talking about... a terrifying horror picture called The Devil’s Playground that is rumored to have unleashed a curse on everyone involved in the production. Mary finds Norma’s cold, dead body, and she wonders for just a moment if these dark rumors could be true.

1967: Paul Conway, a journalist and self-professed film aficionado, is on the trail of a tantalizing rumor. He has heard that a single copy of The Devil’s Playground —a Holy Grail for film buffs—may exist. He knows his Hollywood history and he knows the film endured myriad tragedies and ended up lost to time.

The Devil's Playground is Craig Russell’s tour de force, a richly researched and constructed thriller that weaves through the Golden Age of Hollywood and reveals a blossoming industry built on secrets, invented identities, and a desperate pursuit of image. As Mary Rourke charges headlong through the egos, distractions, and traps that threaten to take her down with the doomed production, she discovers a truth far more sinister than she—or we—could have imagined.

У Эдварда Хайда есть странный дар или проклятие, которое он держит в секрете от всех, кроме своего врача. Он проживает две реальности: одну настоящую, а другую — мир грез, вызванный неврологическим заболеванием. Когда викторианский Эдинбург потрясает шокирующее убийство, перекликающееся с древним кельтским ритуалом тройственной смерти, капитан Эдвард Хайд оказывается вовлечен в опасный заговор, паутину которого плетет некто зловещий. Ему предстоит либо раскрыть тайну преступления, либо сойти с ума, заблудившись в мире галлюцинаций…

1935 год. Воздух уже отравлен ожиданием предстоящей войны. Но в окрестностях Праги, в средневековом замке, дремлет не меньшее зло. В нем заключена "шестерка дьявола" - убийцы, прославившиеся своей жестокостью. Молодой психиатр, ученик легендарного К. Юнга, Виктор Косарек приезжает в лечебницу в надежде раскрыть природу зла и обнаружить у этих пациентов Аспект дьявола. Тем временем Прагу потрясает череда жестоких убийств, совершенных маньяком, известным как Кожаный фартук. Виктор пытается связать эти убийства и темные секреты своих пациентов. Но, возможно, тут замешан сам дьявол.

Edward Hyde has a strange gift-or a curse-he keeps secret from all but his physician. He experiences two realities, one real, the other a dreamworld state brought on by a neurological condition.

When murders in Victorian Edinburgh echo the ancient Celtic threefold death ritual, Captain Edward Hyde hunts for those responsible. In the process he becomes entangled in a web of Celticist occultism and dark scheming by powerful figures. The answers are there to be found, not just in the real world but in the sinister symbolism of Edward Hyde’s otherworld.

He must find the killer, or lose his mind.

A dark tale. One that inspires Hyde’s friend . . . Robert Louis Stevenson.

Victorian Edinburgh. Captain Edward Henry Hyde is chief detective for the City of Edinburgh Police; as such, he is responsible for investigating all murders and serious crimes in the city. Hyde is a striking but severe-looking man who provokes unease, and often fear, in those who encounter him. Nevertheless, Edward Hyde is truly a good man . . . though he wrestles fiercely with his own unique demons.

When Hyde finds himself at the scene of a heinous murder, with no idea of how he got there or the events leading up to the discovery, his alarm is triggered on two levels. First, the crime scene is brutal and involves the Threefold Death, an ancient Celtic rite of sacrifice entangled with dark Scottish spiritual mythology. Second, Hyde's inability to remember any detail of his arrival at the crime scene makes him immediately fret about the secret he keeps from all but his physician: he suffers from a rare form of epilepsy that causes him to lose time--amnesiac absences where he cannot account for his actions--and nocturnal seizures that manifest themselves as vivid and lucid dreams. As Hyde begins his investigation of the murder in a city on edge, he finds himself not only searching for real world clues, but trying to unravel the significance of the imagery in the otherworld of his dreaming. His investigation leads to the very places he fears, but has never fully imagined.

1935-й год. Воздух уже отравлен ожиданием предстоящей войны. Но в окрестностях Праги, в средневековом замке дремлет не меньшее зло. В нем заключена "Шестерка дьявола" - убийцы, прославившиеся своей жестокостью. Молодой психиатр, ученик легендарного К.Юнга, Виктор Косарек приезжает в лечебницу в надежде раскрыть природу зла и обнаружить у этих пациентов - Аспект дьявола. Тем временем, Прагу потрясает череда жестоких убийств, совершенных маньяком известным как "Кожаный фартук". Виктор пытается связать эти убийства и темные секреты своих пациентов. Но возможно тут замешан сам дьявол…

Human remains are dredged up from the Clyde. They've been sleeping the deep, dark sleep for eighteen years. Suddenly Glasgow's underworld is buzzing with the news that the remains are those of 'Gentleman Joe' Strachan, Glasgow's most ruthless armed robber.

When Strachan's daughters hire Lennox to find out who's been sending them cash every year on the anniversary of Strachan's biggest robbery, his instincts tell him the job spells trouble and will throw him back into world of the Three Kings - the crime bosses who run the city.

But he takes the job. And soon learns that ignoring his instincts may cost him his life.

'The kind of thriller writing that made me want to be a writer' Chris Brookmyre 'Storytelling at its very best!' Michael Connelly Fast-paced, stylish, and blackly funny noir for fans of Philip Kerr and Raymond Chandler Glasgow in the 1950s - private investigator Lennox is keeping a low profile, enjoying a fling with the daughter of shady bookie and greyhound breeder MacFarlane. When MacFarlane is found bludgeoned to death, Lennox is a suspect. Luckily, he has a solid gold alibi - he was in bed with the victim's daughter at the time. It turns out MacFarlane was into some seriously dodgy stuff. One of Glasgow's notorious Three Kings, crime boss Willie Sneddon, is involved and he's not a man Lennox wants to cross. But there's an even bigger player out there, an elusive villain who makes the Three Kings look like minnows. Lennox is going to get his fingers burnt, badly. Praise for Craig Russell: 'Another brilliantly sharp, witty and tough take on a hard city at a hard time . . . a former cop, Russell is Britain's rising crime-writing star' Daily Mirror 'Through his humorous lens, time and place become razor-sharp . . . The lightness of touch is a breath of fresh air in this most crowded of genres . . . This is tartan neo-noir at its most entertaining' Sunday Herald

'Storytelling at its very best!' Michael Connelly When you have as few friends as private investigator Lennox does, you can't afford to lose any. When you do, someone has to pay. Quiet Tommy Quaid is one of Lennox's few friends in Glasgow. Lennox appreciates Tommy's open, straightforward personality - even if he is a master thief. When Tommy is flung to his death from a factory roof in front of Lennox's eyes, Lennox discover

Prague, 1935: Viktor Kosárek, a psychiatrist newly trained by Carl Jung, arrives at the infamous Hrad Orlu Asylum for the Criminally Insane. The state-of-the-art facility is located in a medieval mountaintop castle outside of Prague, though the site is infamous for concealing dark secrets going back many generations. The asylum houses the country's six most treacherous killers--known to the staff as The Woodcutter, The Clown, The Glass Collector, The Vegetarian, The Sciomancer, and The Demon--and Viktor hopes to use a new medical technique to prove that these patients share a common archetype of evil, a phenomenon known as The Devil Aspect. As he begins to learn the stunning secrets of these patients, five men and one woman, Viktor must face the disturbing possibility that these six may share another dark truth.

Meanwhile, in Prague, fear grips the city as a phantom serial killer emerges in the dark alleys. Police investigator Lukas Smolak, desperate to locate the culprit (dubbed Leather Apron in the newspapers), realizes that the killer is imitating the most notorious serial killer from a century earlier--London's Jack the Ripper. Smolak turns to the doctors at Hrad Orlu for their expertise with the psychotic criminal mind, though he worries that Leather Apron might have some connection to the six inmates in the asylum.

Steeped in the folklore of Eastern Europe, and set in the shadow of Nazi darkness erupting just beyond the Czech border, this stylishly written, tightly coiled, richly imagined novel is propulsively entertaining, and impossible to put down.

1935-й год. Воздух уже отравлен ожиданием предстоящей войны. Но в окрестностях Праги, в средневековом замке дремлет не меньшее зло. В нем заключена "Шестерка дьявола" - убийцы, прославившиеся своей жестокостью. Молодой психиатр, ученик легендарного К.Юнга, Виктор Косарек приезжает в лечебницу в надежде раскрыть природу зла и обнаружить у этих пациентов - Аспект дьявола. Тем временем, Прагу потрясает череда жестоких убийств, совершенных маньяком известным как "Кожаный фартук". Виктор пытается связать эти убийства и темные секреты своих пациентов. Но возможно тут замешан сам дьявол…

Lennox liked Quiet Tommy Quaid. Perhaps it's odd for a private detective to like - even admire - a career thief, but Quiet Tommy Quaid was the sort of man everyone liked. Amiable, easy-going, well-dressed, with no vices to speak of - well, aside from his excessive drinking and womanising, but then in 1950s Glasgow those are practically virtues. And besides, throughout his many exploits outside the law, Quiet Tommy never once used violence. It was rumoured to be the police who gave him his nickname - because whenever they caught him, which was not often, he always came quietly. So probably even the police liked him, deep down. Above all,…

Jan Fabel is a changed man. Head of the Polizei Hamburg's Murder Commission, Fabel has dealt with the dead for nearly two decades, but when a routine enquiry becomes a life-threatening - and life-altering - experience, he finds himself on much closer terms with death than ever before. Fabel's first case at the Murder Commission comes back to haunt him: Monika Krone's body is found at last, fifteen years after she went missing. Monika - ethereally beautiful, intelligent, cruel - was the centre of a group of students obsessed with the gothic. Fabel re-opens the case. What happened that night, when Monika left a party and disappeared…

Jan Fabel is a troubled man. His relationships with the women in his life are becoming increasingly complicated: his partner, Susanne, is looking for a deeper commitment. His daughter is considering joining the police and his ex-wife holds him responsible. If that weren't enough, after a gap of ten years, a female serial killer - the Angel of St Pauli - again makes the headlines when an English pop star is found in Hamburg's red-light district, dying of the most savage knife wounds. Links emerge with a series of apparently unrelated events. A journalist murdered in Norway. The death of a Serbian gangster. And a long-forgotten project by East Germany's Stasi conceived at the height of the Cold War, involving a highly-trained group of female assassins, known by the codename Valkyrie. Fabel's hunt for the truth will bring him up against the most terrifyingly efficient professional killer. The ultimate avenging angel.

Just as a major environmental summit is about to start in Hamburg, a massive storm hits the city. When the flood waters recede, a headless torso is found washed up. Initially, Jan Fabel of the Murder Commission fears it may be another victim of a serial rapist and murderer who stalks his victims through internet social network sites, then dumps their bodies in waterways around the city. But the truth of the situation is far more complex and even more sinister. Fabel's investigations lead him to a secretive environmental Doomsday cult called 'Pharos', the brainchild of a reclusive, crippled billionaire, Dominik Korn. Fabel's skills as a…

The heavens are stained with the blood of men, As the Valkyries sing their song.' Njal's Saga Jan Fabel is a troubled man. His relationships with the women in his life are becoming increasingly complicated: his partner, Susanne, is looking for a deeper commitment. His daughter is considering joining the police and his ex-wife holds him responsible. If that weren't enough, after a gap of ten years, a female serial killer - the Angel of St Pauli - again makes the headlines when an English pop star is found in Hamburg's red-light district, dying of the most savage knife wounds. Links emerge with a series of apparently unrelated events. A…

November 1956. The world is in turmoil. While the Suez Crisis and the Hungarian Uprising boil away in the background, Lennox has more immediate concerns, like getting his personal life, and his business, back on track. So, when a woman comes into Lennox's office and hires him to follow her husband, whom she suspects of leading a double life, it seems the perfect case. Straightforward, typical - if a little sordid - and most of all, legal. But as he begins to dig deeper, Lennox realizes that this is no ordinary case of marital infidelity. He finds himself caught by the police in a room with a dead body; pursued by shadowy members of the intelligence community; and once more a target of the Three Kings, the crime bosses who between them run Glasgow's underworld. Lennox must again draw on the violent, war-damaged part of his personality that he has tried to keep buried, in order to survive...

Опытный детектив Йен Фабель больше не хочет охотиться на убийц.
Он просто устал - и собирается уйти в отставку.
Но сначала он должен завершить свое последнее дело.
Дело о маньяке по прозвищу Клоун, убивающем своих жертв во время знаменитого Кельнского карнавала.
У этого странного безумца - свои правила игры. Он пожирает свои жертвы.
Ведь в основе современных веселых карнавалов лежат древние и мрачные кельтские празднества ритуального "поедания плоти"! Но откуда это известно Клоуну? Как только Йен это узнает, он найдет убийцу.

Знаменитый детектив Йен Фабель сталкивался с множеством запутанных и опасных дел. Но на этот раз ему приходится по-настоящему трудно. Таинственный маньяк не просто жестоко убивает успешных, законопослушных обитателей Гамбурга - при этом он полностью копирует древние ритуальные убийства... Кто он? Что вкладывает в свое чудовищное "послание"? Пытаясь найти ответы на эти вопросы. Йен Фабель погружается в прошлое жертв и понимает: убийцу связывает с ними что-то глубоко личное. Но что? Как только Йен узнает это, он найдет убийцу.