Returning from the Synod in St Petersburg - and an official rebuke of her crime-fighting ways - Sister Pelagia finds herself aboard a steamer dodging pickpockets, zealots and a sinister man with a detachable eye. But a brutal murder in the next cabin spells the end of her sleuthing retirement, and the start of an investigation that will take her to the Holy Land and far beyond. Pelagia`s journey is peppered with tales of miracles and roosters, and caves that act as portals to other worlds. But an assassin is closing in, pursuing the sister to the land of the Gospels where her criminal enquiry becomes a spiritual enquiry as she sets down her knitting needles to question the very foundations of her
ISBN: 978-0-7538-2616-4
Издательство:
Орион
Дата выхода: август 2011
The Russian creator of the czarist master detective Erast Fandorin here introduces a new, irresistible sleuth. In a remote province of late 19th-century Russia, Bishop Mitrofanii has a family crisis on his hands: one of his great aunt`s rare white bulldogs has been poisoned on her estate, probably as an attack on the old woman. With a fistful of erratic family members and hangers-on as possible suspects, the bishop knows the only one who can solve the apparently clueless crime is Sister Pelagia—freckled, bespectacled, lively, curious, clumsy, and extraordinarily persistent.
Just as the dust from the case of the White Bulldog begins to settle in the small Russian town of Zavolzhsk, its sleepy rural existence is shaken up once again by the arrival of a desperately frightened monk who seeks the help of the bishop, Mitrofanii. The monks have been troubled by visions of a dark, hooded figure that appears to walk on the waters of the vast Blue Lake surrounding their monastery. Sceptical of ghost stories, Mitrofanii sends first his clever young ward, then two of his most trusted advisors, to investigate the mystery. All meet with unexpected fates. Finally Sister Pelagia takes matters into her own hands and, adopting a number of ingenious disguises, she ventures across the Blue Lake in search of answers. As she...
ISBN: 978-0-7538-2375-0
Издательство:
Орион
Дата выхода: март 2012
In the dying days of the nineteenth century, the small Russian town of Zavolzhsk is shaken out of its sleepy rural existence by the arrival from St Petersburg of a Synodical Inspector with a hidden agenda and a dangerously persuasive
ISBN: 978-0-7538-2157-2
Издательство:
Орион
Дата выхода: август 2011
Original / American English (Available April 2008) Pele is the number one player in the story of soccer. He won the World Cup three times with Brazil and the fans loved him. Today, Pele is famous in every country of the world. In 1950, he was a young boy with no shoes. This is his story.
ISBN: 978-1-4058-7692-6
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: май 2012
Original / American English Pele is the number one player in the story of soccer. He won the World Cup three times with Brazil and the fans loved him. Today, Pele is famous in every country of the world. In 1950, he was a young boy with no shoes. This is his story.
ISBN: 978-1-4058-7817-3
Издательство:
Pearson
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Even people who don`t know football know Pele. The best of a generation of Brazilian players universally acknowledged as the most accomplished and attractive group of footballers ever to play the game, he won the World Cup three times and is Brazil`s all-time record goalscorer. But how did this man - a sportsman, a mere footballer, like many others - become a global icon? Was it just by being the best at what he did, or do people respond to some other quality? The world`s greatest footballer now gives us the full story of his incredible life and career. Told with his characteristic grace and modesty, but covering all aspects of his playing days and his subsequent careers as politician, international sporting ambassador and cultural icon,...
ISBN: 978-1-4165-1121-2
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Two Supreme Court Justices are dead. Their murders remain unsolved.Darby Shaw, a brilliant and beautiful New Orleans legal student, draws up a speculative legal brief which links the deaths and uncovers an astonishing presidential conspiracy.When her boyfriend is atomised in a car bomb, it becomes clear that somebody is intent on silencing Darby for good. Somebody who will stop at nothing to preserve the secrets of The Pelican Brief...
ISBN: 9780099537168
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: январь 2020
