A secret group of Washington`s most powerful men have J. Edgar Hoover killed in order to reach his secret files only to discover there is someone else capable of using these personal dossiers for blackmail and extortion.
ISBN: 978-0-553-26094-6
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
There`s something rotten in the small town of Pickax - at least to the sensitive noses of newspaperman Jim Qwilleran and his Siamese cats Koko and Yum Yum. An accident has claimed the life of the local paper`s eccentric publisher, but to Qwilleran and his feline friends it smells like murder. They soon sniff out a shocking secret, but Koko`s snooping into an unusual edition of Shakespeare may prove somewhere in Pickax a lady loves not wisely but too well, a widow is scandalously merry, and a stranger has a lean and hungry look. The stage is set for Qwilleran, Koko, Yum Yum, and the second act of murder most
Saki (H.H.Munro) stands alongside Anton Chekov and O.Henry as a master of the short story. His extraordinary stories are a mixture of humorous satire, irony and the macabre, in which the stupidities and hypocrisy of conventional society are viciously pilloried. Among the short stories are the well-known classics, "Sredni Vastar" and "The Unrest Cure".
ISBN: 1-85326-071-1
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Tom Sagan is staring down the barrel of a gun. He has lost everything he ever loved: his job, his wife, his daughter, his hurts most is that he knows his Pulitzer Prize-winning career as a journalist was sabotaged. He was set up, but he can`t prove it. They - whoever they are - have beaten him. So he decides to end his life. But before he can pull the trigger, an enigmatic stranger Simon has Tom`s estranged daughter at his mercy. What he wants is something only Tom can supply. It`s the key to a five hundred-year-old mystery, one with explosive consequences in the modern a perilous quest that takes them from Vienna, to Prague and finally to the Blue Mountains of Jamaica, the two men square off in a dangerous game. Along the way, both of...
Jack London (1876—1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fiction, he became one of the first writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. "The Cruise of The Dazzler" is an early adventure novel by London, set in his hometown San Francisco. The plot revolves around a young boy Joe Bronson who has trouble at home and at school. The arguments with his father lead him to run away and join the crew of the ship called Dazzler. Joe dreams of a sailor`s life full of excitement but he soon realizes that he joined the crew of pirates.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07511-9
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Five short stories set in Amercia in the 1920s and 1940s. The Cut Glass Bowl, Bernice Bobs Her Hair, Gretchen\`s Forty Winks, Magnetism and Three Hours Between Planes.
ISBN: 978-1-405-07323-3
Издательство:
Langenscheidt
Дата выхода: январь 2011
Готически-юмористическая новелла Оскара Уайльда об американской семье, купившей древний английский замок. Со столь же древним проклятием в виде привидения сэра Симона де Кентервилля, убившего свою жену и не нашедшего покоя после собственной смерти. Что окажется сильнее - сварливый нрав мертвого аристократа или непосредственность американских скептиков? Экранизированная история продолжает привлекать...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05549-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: март 2017
Max and Maddy Twist`s parents were once famous, international detectives - before the evil Professor Sardine ruined their careers, that is. Now they run an ice-cream parlour, and it is the services of their crime-busting Cluedo-champion children that are called upon. Mr Huffendort, a rich Swiss banker is very worried about a series of raids upon banks, carried out by a team of highly-trained St Bernard dogs! Who can be the criminal mastermind behind this evil and cunning plot? It`s time for Max and Maddy to pack their hats, scarves and various disguises, and fly to Switzerland to find out.
ISBN: 978-0-7475-8049-2
Издательство:
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humour, "The Crying of Lot 49" opens as Oedipa Maas discovers that she has been made executrix of a former lover`s estate. The performance of her duties sets her on a strange trail of detection, in which bizarre characters crowd in to help or confuse her. But gradually, death, drugs, madness and marriage combine to leave Oepida in isolation on the threshold of revelation, awaiting "The Crying of Lot 49". This is one of Pynchon`s shortest novels and one of his best.
ISBN: 0-09-953261-1
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
Jim Qwilleran is not exactly overwhelmed by his new assignment for the Daily Fluxion. Interior design has never been one of his specialties and now he`s supposed to turn out an entire magazine on the subject every week! But the first issue of Gracious Abodes is barely off the presses when Qwilleran finds himself back on more familiar territory - the exclusive residence featured on the cover has been burglarized and the lady of the house found Qwilleran and Koko - the brilliant Siamese - have their respective moustache and whiskers twitching, and when Koko starts pawing clues in the dictionary and sniffing designer furniture, Qwilleran finds himself doing a feature on a very clever murder.
Shabby and lumbering, with a face like a Norfolk dumpling, Father Brown makes for an improbable super-sleuth. But his innocence is the secret of his success: refusing the scientific method of detection, he adopts instead an approach of simple sympathy, interpreting each crime as a work of art, and each criminal as a man no worse than himself. This complete edition brings together all of the "Father Brown" stories, including two not previously available in Penguin: "The Donnington Affair", in which Chesterton rises to the challenge of solving a murder-mystery half written by someone else (Max Pemberton), and "The Mask of Midas", which was found in Chesterton`s papers after his death.
ISBN: 978-0-14-119385-4
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Welcome to the breathtaking adventures of Sexton Blake! For the greater part of the 20th century, the countless escapades of super sleuth Sexton Blake kept millions of readers on the edge of their seats. Together with his faithful sidekick, the youthful Tinker, and his intelligent bloodhound, Pedro, he stood firm against an onslaught of crime and villainy, defeating his enemies with his extraordinary powers of deduction, iron fists and unyielding determination. This thrilling collection presents seven exploits from his ‘golden age’: "The Slave Market" In the dangerous depths of Africa, Blake races to the rescue of an old school friend! "A Football Mystery" Blake and Tinker join the England team to beat the cheating opposition! "The...
ISBN: 978-1-84022-170-1
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) was an English writer best known for his detective stories about Sherlock Holmes. "The Crime of the Congo" is a book intended to expose the situation of serious human rights abuses in the Congo Free State, persohal property of the King of the Belgians, Leopold II. This exposure includes many cases of violations, including a serious excess of authority, slavery, and tortures.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07185-2
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июнь 2018
Sir Arthur Gonan Doyle.retold by Virginia Evans - Jenny Dooley.
Why would a dog suddenly attack its master? Why would a respected Professor disappear for two weeks without telling anyone where he went? And why, upon his return, would he begin to act in a strange and scary way, creeping around in the house and garden on all fours? Can brilliant detective Sherlock Holmes and his colleague Dr Watson help the Professor and solve the mystery of the Creeping Man?
ISBN: 9781845582234
Издательство:
Express Publishing
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2018
Гораций Уолпол - знаменитый американский писатель XVIII века, талантливый художник-иллюстратор. "Замок Отранто" - это первый готический роман, настоящий памятник мистической литературы. Окружённый романтикой сюжет разворачивается на фоне старого, зловещего средневекового замка. Читателя ждёт древнее проклятие, нависшее над древним княжеским родом, любовный треугольник, неотвратимый рок и...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05750-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2017
Howard Lovecraft was an American writer who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction. Despite the fact that he was virtually unknown before he died, today he is known as the most influential author in his genre. "The Call of Cthulhu and Other Stories" is a collection of wonderful short stories such as "Dagon," "The Nameless City" and "The Call of Cthulhu." These stories, full of mystery and fantastic creatures, have captured the minds of readers all over the world.
ISBN: 978-5-517-00247-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2019
Amber is the one real world, casting infinite reflections of itself Shadow worlds, that can be manipulated by those of royal Amberite blood. But the royal family is torn apart by jealousies and suspicion; the disappearance of the Patriach Oberon has intensified the internal conflict by leaving the throne apparently up for grabs. In a hospital on the Shadow Earth, a young man is recovering from a freak car accident; amnesia has robbed him of all his memory, even the fact that he is Corwin, Crown Prince of Amber, rightful heir to the throne and he is in deadly peril ... The five books, Nine Princes in Amber, The Guns of Avalon, Sign of the Unicorn, The Hand of Oberon and The Courts of Chaos, together make up The Chronicles of Amber, Roger...
ISBN: 1-85798-726-8
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
The Churchills dominated world politics for generations - but, like every family, they too have their secrets. Winston`s mother, Jennie, had an affair with the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII, and her spendthrift habits devastated the family`s reputation. The younger brother, Jack, played a crucial role both in Winston`s successes and in holding the family together during tough times. From Sir Randolph`s alleged syphilis to Winston`s illegitimacy, from Jennie`s gambling problem to Jack`s dashed ambitions, authors Celia and John Lee use never-before-seen archives to cut through the rumors and lies and get to the truth about the life of the former prime minister and his relationship with his family.
This is a classic story from one of our best-loved authors. Gemma doesn`t believe a chicken could have written a book - chickens can`t even read! But here in front of them is The True Story of Harrowing Farm, and its scratchy pages definitely look, well, chickeny. It is an epic tale of cruelty and bravery, the story of a chicken who flies frillions of miles, reaching the heights of intergalactic superstardom, to try to save us humans.
ISBN: 978-1-4052-3321-7
Издательство:
Egmont Books Ltd
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the Discworld. Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant idiot Somewhere on the frontier between thought and reality exists the Discworld, a parallel time and place which might sound and smell very much like our own, but which looks completely different. It plays by different rules. Certainly it refuses to succumb to the quaint notion that universes are ruled by pure logic and the harmony of numbers But just because the Disc is different doesn`t mean that some things don`t stay the same. Its very existence is about to be threatened by a strange new blight: the arrival of the first tourist, upon whose survival rests the peace and prosperity of the land. But if the person charged with maintaining...
ISBN: 978-0-552-15292-1
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: январь 2013
"Зов предков" - одно из лучших ранних произведений Джека Лондона. В повести рассказывается о судьбе собаки, вынужденной выживать в условиях суровой дикой природы Аляски. Автор сосредотачивает внимание читателя на законе, управляющем животным миром: выживает особь, умеющая лучше других приспосабливаться к изменяющимся условиям среды. Повесть "Зов предков" - это художественное переосмысление американской...
ISBN: 966-346-175-6
Издательство:
Знання
Дата выхода: октябрь 2006