PC Goon is receiving anonymous notes and enlists the help of Ern, his nephew, to help him find out who is behind them. Ern would rather help his friends, the Five Find-Outers and dog to solve the mystery. The investigation puts them on the trail of two jewel thieves, and they close the twenty year old case of a diamond robbery.
ISBN: 978-1-4052-0406-4
Издательство:
Egmont Books Ltd
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Antony Beevor`s "The Mystery of Olga Chekhova" is the true story of a family torn apart by revolution and war. Olga Chekhova was a stunning Russian beauty and a famous Nazi-era film actress who Hitler counted among his friends; she was also the niece of Anton Chekhov. After fleeing Bolshevik Moscow for Berlin in 1920, she was recruited by her composer brother Lev, to work for Soviet intelligence. In return, her family were allowed to join her. The extraordinary story of how the whole family survived the Russian Revolution, the civil war, the rise of Hitler, the Stalinist Terror, and the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union becomes, in Antony Beevor`s hands, a breathtaking tale of compromise and survival in a merciless age. "A fascinating...
ISBN: 978-0-14-101764-8
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
For five hundred years, the survivors of the Great Wars lived peacefully in a valley sanctuary shielded by powerful magic from the dangerous outside world. But the enchanted barriers have crumbled, and the threat of annihilation looms large once more. As he lay dying, Sider Ament, bearer of the last black staff and protector of the valley, gave stewardship of the powerful talisman to the young Tracker Panterra Qu. Now the newly anointed Knight of the Word must take up the battle against evil wherever it threatens: from without, where an army of bloodthirsty Trolls is massing for invasion; and from within, where the Elf king of Arborlon has been murdered, his daughter stands accused, and a heinous conspiracy is poised to subjugate the...
ISBN: 978-0-345-48422-2
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: октябрь 2012
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an English poet, playwright, and actor, considered by many as the greatest English writer. Hundreds of specialists were able to translate his works into every major language, and most of the plays are performed more often than those of any other author. "The Merry Wives of Windsor" is a five-act comedy the action of which takes place in the city of Windsor and its environs. It also features Sir John Falstaff, the fat knight who also was one of the characters in both parts of "Henry IV." Nominally set in the reign of Henry IV, this play is the only one where the action doesn`t shy away from the fact that it takes place in the Queen Elizabeth era, and most of the characters are representatives of the...
ISBN: 978-5-517-00390-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
Sam Spade is hired by the fragrant Miss Wonderley to track down her sister, who has eloped with a louse called Floyd Thursby. But Miss Wonderley is in fact the beautiful and treacherous Brigid O`Shaughnessy, and when Spade`s partner Miles Archer is shot while on Thursby`s trail, Spade finds himself both hunter and hunted: can he track down the jewel-encrusted bird, a treasure worth killing for, before the Fat Man finds him?
ISBN: 978-0-7528-6533-1
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Who is the mysterious burglar that disappears from the scene of the crime without a trace? The five Find-Outers and dog must discover the thief’s identity before Mr Goon does.
ISBN: 978-1-4052-0400-2
Издательство:
Egmont Books Ltd
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
The Moonstone, a priceless Indian diamond which had been brought to England as spoils of war, is given to Rachel Verrinder on her eighteenth birthday. That very night, the stone is stolen. Suspicion then falls on a hunchbacked housemaid, on Rachel`s cousin Franklin Blake, on a troupe of mysterious Indian jugglers, and on Rachel herself. The phlegmatic Sergeant Cuff is called in, and with the help of Betteredge, the Robinson Crusoe-reading loquacious steward, the mystery of the missing stone is ingeniously solved.
ISBN: 1-85326-044-4
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2002
In a hospice in Bury St Edmunds, a man called Daniel is slowly fading away. His friend Maggie sits with him every day; she holds his hand and she listens to the story of his life, to his regrets and to his secrets. And then he tells her about the children he has never met and never will. He talks of them wistfully. His legacy, he calls them. Lydia, Dean and Robyn don`t know each other. Yet. And they are all facing difficult changes. Lydia is still wearing the scars from her traumatic childhood and although she is wealthy and successful, her life is lonely and disjointed. Dean is a young man, burdened with unexpected responsibility, whose life is going nowhere. And Robyn wants to be a doctor, just like her father - a man she`s never met....
ISBN: 978-0-09-955724-1
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: апрель 2012
Twenty-three illustrated gothic tales from the dark corridors of the imagination of the creative genius behind Batman, Edward Scissorhands and Big Fish. Burton`s lovingly lurid illustrations evoke both the sweetness and tragedy of a cast of gruesomely sympathetic children - hopeful, yet hapless beings.
ISBN: 978-0-571-22444-9
Издательство:
Faber
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2011
"Let me tell you who I am, on the chance that these scribblings do survive... "I am Murgen, Standardbearer of the Black Company, though I bear the shame of having lost that standard in battle. I am keeping these Annals because Croaker is dead, One-Eye won`t, and hardly anyone else can read or write. I will be your guide for however long it takes the Shadowlanders to force our present predicament to its inevitable end..." This omnibus volume comprises the novels Water Sleeps and Soldiers Live.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850—1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, travel writer, and essayist. He was a celebrity during his lifetime for works like "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and "Treasure Island". Now he is one of the most translated authors in the world. This volume includes amazing short stories like "Will o` the Mill", "Markheim", "Thrawn Janet" and "The Merry Men" itself.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07801-1
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Книга содержит избранные рассказы известного английского писателя С. Моэма в адаптации Г. К. Магидсон - Степановой. Тексты рассказов снабжены упражнениями, направленными на проверку понимания, отработку лексики и грамматических структур, развитие навыков чтения и общения. В конце сборника приводится словарь. Книга рассчитана на широкий круг лиц, изучающих английский язык.
ISBN: 5-8112-0704-2
Издательство:
Айрис-пресс
Дата выхода: июль 2004