Boating Mysteries

Part diary, part scientific journal, part detective story, part love story: The Case of Emily V is thoroughly post-modern in its deliberate blurring of the distinction between fact and fiction, its cavalier blending of literary genres. But Oatley's first novel also resembles old 19th-century literature. His characters are dynamic, his storylines complex and suspenseful, his social commentary broad and integral to the plot.

Kim fait face à deux cas dans cet épisode captivant. Un criminel échappé et une étrange demande d’une beauté à la peau d’olive. Elle doit lutter simultanément avec les deux énigmes et retrouver le condamné tout en résolvant le mystère de ce qu’il y a exactement à l’intérieur du butin dans le hangar à bateaux – et qui l’a mis là et pourquoi? Il y a les éclaboussures d’humour habituelles lorsque Kim s’attaque à ses tâches.

Patty is on the way to a relaxing summer vacation, when it turns into the fight of her life. Kids off to college and a summer trip left her alone to do whatever she wanted to or the summer. Little did she know she would be in the middle of a kidnapping and saving other women’s lives.

A story from the collection Do Not Exceed the Stated Dose. Some might think that Bertie, Prince of Wales’ first case was the suspicious death of jockey Fred Archer in 1886, but here the self-important amateur sleuth recalls how his talent for deduction started much earlier in his youth, when he solved a mystery surrounding an Oxford boat race.