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Stanley Ellin

    October 6, 1916 – July 31, 1986

    Stanley Ellin was a master of the mystery genre, renowned for his psychologically complex short stories and novels. His work delves into the darker aspects of human nature, often featuring protagonists grappling with moral ambiguity and inescapable fates. Ellin's skillful plotting and unnerving atmosphere create narratives that linger long after the final page, solidifying his place as a significant voice in suspense literature.

    Stanley Ellin
    La douzième statue
    Im Kreis der Hölle
    Die Zeitbombe
    The Specialty of the House
    Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
    The Valentine Estate
    • After winning the Wimbledon Championship at the age of nineteen, Chris Monte received an offer of fifty thousand dollars to turn professional. His coach, a Frenchman who had himself been a tennis star, turned down the offer flat - next year, he told Chris, he would get one hundred and twenty-five. But next year Chris was out of big-time tennis, as a result of an injury to a leg. When, therefore, nine years later, Elizabeth Jones walks into the tennis shop of Cobia Isle Spa on Miami Beach and offers Chris fifty thousand dollars to marry her, the figure strikes him as an unnerving coincidence. But events far more unnerving are to follow on his acceptance...

      The Valentine Estate
      3.7
    • Die Zeitbombe

      • 381 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      Die Zeitbombe - bk941; Benziger Verlag; Stanley Ellin; Paperback; 1986

      Die Zeitbombe
      4.5