When two girls, aged nine and ten are abducted and killed in Wind Gap, Missouri, Camille Preaker is sent back to her home town to investigate and report on the crimes. Camille, self-described `white trash from old money`, is the daughter of one of the richest families in town. Long-haunted by a childhood tragedy and estranged from her mother for years, Camille suddenly finds herself installed once again in her family`s Victorian mansion, reacquainting herself with her distant mother and the half-sister she barely knows, a precocious 13-year-old who holds a disquieting grip on the town and surrounds herself with a group of vampish teenage girls. As Camille struggles to remain detached from the evidence, her relationship with her neurotic,...
ISBN: 978-0-7538-2221-0
Издательство:
Орион
Дата выхода: август 2011
No suspects. No clues. No rest for the wicked. `You will raise money for the safe return of Alison and Jenny McGregor. If you raise enough money within fourteen days they will be released. If not, Jenny will be killed.` Alison and Jenny McGregor - Aberdeen`s own mother-daughter singing sensation - are through to the semi-finals of TV smash-hit Britain`s Next Big Star. They`re in all the gossip magazines, they`ve got millions of YouTube hits, everyone loves them. But their reality-TV dream has turned into a real-life nightmare. The ransom demand appears in all the papers, on the TV, and the internet, telling the nation to dig deep if they want to keep Alison and Jenny alive. The media want action; the public displays of grief and anger...
ISBN: 978-0-00-734944-9
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: апрель 2012
Роман "Она: история приключения" был написан Хаггардом на волне успеха "Копий царя Соломона". В основу романа легли воспоминания автора о своих путешествиях по Африке и знания древних местных легенд. Трое мужчин из Кембриджа терпят кораблекрушение, страдают от лихорадки и находятся под постоянной угрозой быть съеденными людоедами, и всё это - лишь ради того, чтобы найти Ее. "Она" - загадочная Белая Королева,...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05532-6
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2017
Wanting to learn if he can communicate with deceased the children, adventurer Allan Quatermain seeks a meeting with the feared Zulu witch-doctor Zikali. He tells Allan he must seek out the great white sorceress who rules the Allan to take a message to her. En route, Quatermain encounters emigrant Scotsmen, cannibals, witch doctors, the beautiful Inez, and of course the mysterious She, or Ayesha. She and Allan is a novel by H. Rider Haggard, first published in 1921. It brought together his two most popular characters, Ayesha from She (to which it serves as a prequel), and Allan Quatermain from King Solomon`s Mines.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06441-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
There`s been rising concern in Moscow over a wave of suicides among the city`s young bohemians. An intrepid newspaper reporter, Zhemailo, begins to uncover the truth behind the phenomenon - that the victims are linked by a secret society, the Lovers of Death. But Zhemailo is not the only investigator hot on the heels of these disciples of the occult. Little do they realise that the latest `convert` to their secret society, assuming the alias of a Japanese prince, is none other than Erast Fandorin. But when a young and naive provincial woman, Masha Mironova, becomes embroiled in the society, and Zhemalio dies a mysterious death, Fandorin must do more than merely infiltrate and observe. Especially when the spin of the Russian roulette...
ISBN: 978-0-7538-2721-5
Издательство:
Орион
Дата выхода: август 2011
She is the story of Cambridge professor Horace Holly and his ward Leo Vincey, and their journey to a lost kingdom in the African interior. The journey is triggered by a mysterious package left to Leo by his father, to be opened on his 25th birthday; the package contains an ancient shard of pottery and several documents, suggesting an ancient mystery about the Vincey family. Holly and Leo eventually arrive in eastern Africa where they encounter a primitive race of natives and a mysterious white queen, Ayesha, who reigns as the all-powerful "She" or "She-who-must-be-obeyed".
ISBN: 978-5-521-06594-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
Ewetopia the sheep thinks she has finally hit upon the costume that will get her noticed at the Woolyones Costume Ball: she`ll come dressed as a wolf. Unfortunately, this doesn`t earn her any points with the rest of the sheep, who find such a thing in rather poor taste. And yet, in this topsy-turvy fairytale for readers 6 to 8, Ewetopia does find a dance partner in a tall, attractive sheep at the ball - but why would a sheep come dressed as a sheep? And why does he keep calling her "Mom?"
As this absorbing saga of a modern English family opens, 64-year-old Penelope Keeling is returning to her country house following a heart attack, and her three adult children have varying reactions to the news. The narrative is actually a series of deftly interwoven vignettes that shift back and forth in time; each chapter centers on one of the principal players in the family`s history. The unifying thread is an oil painting entitled "The Shell Seekers," done by Penelope`s father. Pilcher`s characters are well-drawn, real, and engrossing people. A thoroughly charming book for most fiction collections.
ISBN: 978-0-312-96132-9
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
On Christmas Eve 1957, alone in the cockpit of his Vampire, an RAF pilot is returning from Germany to Lakenheath on leave - 66 minutes of trouble-free, routine flying. Then, out over the North Sea, the fog begins to close in, radio contact ceases, and the compass goes haywire.
ISBN: 978-0-09-964251-0
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Two of Sherlock Holmes` most exciting, dangerous and challenging adventures are here in one volume. In "The Shadow of the Rat", a body is found floating in the river - a body that has been deliberately infected with the plague virus. Holmes and Watson find themselves seeking answers at The Bridge of Dreams, a club where a person`s darkest wish can be granted - for a price. Holmes falls under the control of a will stronger than his own which threatens the life of his closest friend Watson and leaves the government - indeed Britain itself - open to a deadly terror, the monstrous Giant Rat of Sumatra. In "The Tangled Skein", it is the autumn of 1888, and following the successful conclusion of the investigation into the affair of the Hound...
ISBN: 978-1-84022-652-2
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Classic / British English Who killed Charles McCarthy at Boscombe Pool? And why? Detective Lestrade from Scotland Yard thinks it was McCarthy`s son, James. Things do not look good for James. But the famous English detective, Sherlock Holmes, sees things differently. His friend, Dr Watson, joins him and tells the story. This Pack contains a Book and MP3
ISBN: 978-1-4479-2582-8
Издательство:
Pearson Education Limited
Дата выхода: июль 2012
This novel is an exciting fusion of a Sherlock Holmes mystery with the Ruritanian world of intrigue and skulduggery of Anthony Hope`s novel "The Prisoner of Zenda". Colonel Sapt of the Ruritanian Court journeys to England on a secret mission to save the country from anarchy. His mission is to engage the services of Rudolf Rassendyll once more to impersonate the King while the monarch recovers from a serious illness. But Rassendyll has mysteriously disappeared. In desperation, Sapt consults Sherlock Holmes who, with his faithful companion Watson, travels to the Kingdom of Ruritania in an effort to thwart the plans of the scheming Rupert of Hentzau in his bid for the throne. "Sherlock Holmes and the Hentzau Affair" is a wonderful blend of...
ISBN: 978-1-84022-548-8
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Sherlock Holmes is back on the case in this collection of sparkling short stories. Not only does Sir Arthur Conan Doyle`s brilliant detective investigate a fascinating series of crimes and misdemeanours in "The Memoirs", but we also learn about Holmes`s early days as a sleuth-hound and encounter the detective`s brilliant brother, Mycroft, who is a member of the Diogenes Club, one of the strangest establishments in London. And, of course, in "The Final Problem" Holmes comes face to face with his nemesis, Professor Moriarty, the Napoleon of Crime. Their struggle, seemingly to the death, was to leave many readers desolate at the loss of Holmes, but was also to lead to his immortality as a literary figure.
