The rotting, naked corpse of a man is found amidst swarms of flies in the living room of a confused woman. Who is he? Why is Michelle Doyce trying to serve him afternoon tea? And how did the dead body find its way into her flat? DCI Karlsson needs an expert to delve inside Michelle`s mind for answers and turns to former colleague, psychiatrist Frieda Klein. Eventually Michelle`s ramblings lead to a vital clue that in turn leads to a possible identity. Robert Poole. Jack of all trades and master conman. The deeper Frieda and Karlsson dig, the more of Poole`s victims they and the more motives they uncover for his murder. But is anyone telling them the truth except for poor, confused Michelle? And when the past returns to haunt Frieda, she...
Tully Makker is a tough young woman who forms an enduring bond with jennifer and Julie, two friends from very different backgrounds. Tully emerges into adulthood, marriage and a career, and then lifes strikes back in the most unexpected way.
ISBN: 0-00-649001-8
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2004
In the broom cupboard of a small dwelling called Rose Cottage, stands a house fit for a mouse - well, two mice actually. A house made of pebblestone, with gables on the windows and turrets peeking out of the roof. A house with a ballroom, a billiard room, a banqueting room, a butler`s room and a drawing room. The house belongs to Mr and Mrs Nutmouse, or Tumtum and Nutmeg as they affectionately call each and Nutmeg have a wonderful life but the children who live in Rose Cottage, Arthur and Lucy, are miserable. So, one day Tumtum and Nutmeg decide to cheer them Tumtum repairs the electric heater in the attic where the children sleep and Nutmeg darns the children`s clothes. Arthur and Lucy are delighted and think a Fairy of Sorts is looking...
ISBN: 978-1-4052-3386-6
Издательство:
Egmont Books Ltd
Дата выхода: август 2011
Offering a unique perspective on sports, celebrity, and popular culture in the 1920s, this irresistible story is an insightful real-life tale replete with heads of state, irrepressible showmen, mobsters, Hollywood luminaries, and the cream of New York society in the 1920s.
The Russo-Turkish war is at a critical juncture, and Erast Fandorin, broken-hearted and disillusioned, has gone to the front in an attempt to forget his sorrows. But Fandorin`s efforts to steer clear of trouble are thwarted when he comes to the aid of Varvara Suvorova -a `progressive` Russian woman trying to make her way to the Russian headquarters to join her fiance. Within days, Varvara`s fiance has been accused of treason, a Turkish victory looms on the horizon, and there are rumours of a Turkish spy hiding within their own camp. Our reluctant gentleman sleuth will need to resurrect all of his dormant powers of detection if he is to unmask the "traitor, help the Russians to victory and smooth the path of young love.
In this third Erast Fandorin mystery, set in 1877, Russia is at war with the Ottoman Empire, and the brilliant detective is searching the Russian army for a Turkish spy. He is followed by a young woman with revolutionary ideals, who has disguised herself as a boy to find her fiancé at the front. Her coldness toward Fandorin, a "lackey of the throne", begins to change as she comes to respect his courage, deductive powers, and piercing gaze. The "Russian Sherlock Holmes" who starred in "The Winter Queen" and "Murder on the Leviathan" returns in this novel by Russian literary phenomenon Boris Akunin.
