Some of Agatha Christie`s earliest stories - including her very first - which show the Queen of Crime in the A macabre recurring revenge against a jealousy, infidelity and a tortured a stolen the haunting attraction of an ancient a race against a tragic love a body in a an unexpected visitor from beyond the Nine quintessential examples of Agatha Christie`s brilliance are contained in this new collection of early short stories - including the very first one she ever wrote - and provide a unique glimpse of the Queen of Crime in the making.
ISBN: 978-0-00-715485-2
Издательство:
HarperCollins Publishers
Дата выхода: август 2011
Neeve Kearny may be the only person in New York worried about the death of Ethel Lambston. When Ethel, a bestselling author famous for her juicy exposes, is found with her throat cut, Neeve`s memories of her mother`s long-unsolved murder come to life. As an innocent witness in the Lambstone investigation, Neeve is drawn into a sinister labyrinth of greed and ambition.
There are two worlds in racing. Winning and losing. Private detective Sid Halley has gone from one to the other - fast. First his career as a jockey ended when he lost his hand in a fall. Then his wife said a cold good-bye. Now he`s on the trail of thugs who crush losers. With vicious pleasure. These are people who aim to win - at any price. There`s a syndicate of owners with a sideline in violent kidnapping. And Trevor Deansgate, a bookmaker whose hatred of favourites goes one deathly step too For the sake of his health, Halley had better return to winning ways. Because to lose is to
О. Генри - один из самых известных классиков американской литературы, признанный мастер короткой прозы. Его произведениям свойственны тонкий юмор, неожиданные развязки и яркие персонажи. В этот прекрасный сборник включены такие необычные и душевные произведения автора, как "Коловращение", "Вождь краснокожих", "Дороги, которые мы выбираем", "Бесценный доллар" и многие другие. Читайте зарубежную литературу в...
ISBN: 978-5-521-05356-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2017
Charlie Parker returns in the chilling new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of THE LOVERS. The border between Maine and Canada is porous. Anything can be smuggled across it: drugs, cash, weapons, people. Now a group of disenchanted former soldiers has begun its own smuggling operation, and what is being moved is infinitely stranger and more terrifying than anyone can imagine. Anyone, that is, except private detective Charlie Parker, who has his own intimate knowledge of the darkness in men`s hearts. But the soldiers` actions have attracted the attention of the reclusive Herod, a man with a taste for the strange. And where Herod goes, so too does the shadowy figure that he calls the Captain. To defeat them, Parker must...
ISBN: 978-1-4447-1118-9
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: июль 2011
In TunFaire, a city of gorgeous women, powerful sorcerers and dangerous magic, the beautiful, criminally insane daughter of a comatose crime boss has some lascivious designs on private investigator Garrett-who now has to figure out why everyone is suddenly after him.
ISBN: 978-0-451-45974-9
Издательство:
Penguin Group
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Drawing on a huge range of sources - letters, memoirs, conversations - Orlando Figes tells the story of how Russians tried to endure life under Stalin. Those who shaped the political system became, very frequently, its victims. Those who were its victims were frequently quite blameless. The Whisperers recreates the sort of maze in which Russians found themselves, where an unwitting wrong turn could either destroy a family or, perversely, later save it: a society in which everyone spoke in whispers - whether to protect themselves, their families, neighbours or friends - or to inform on them.
ISBN: 978-0-14-101351-0
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
The unthinkable has happened at London’s Peculiar Crimes Unit. In the bitter depths of winter, a member of the team has been murdered, and everyone who works there is a suspect. With the exception of Arthur Bryant and John May that is, for the eccentric detectives who run London’s strangest crime division are stranded on a desolate snowbound road somewhere in the West Country on their way to a spiritualists` convention. As the snows worsen, Bryant & May attempt to solve the crime long distance. And their situation is about to get much. much worse. Unknown to the elderly detectives, an obsessed killer has travelled from the Riviera to Dartmoor, and is stalking the stranded vehicles, searching for one particular victim and edging ever...
ISBN: 978-0-553-81798-0
Издательство:
Bantam
Дата выхода: июль 2011
The first in a stunning new series, The Cousins War, is set amid the tumult and intrigue of The War of the Roses. Internationally bestselling author Philippa Gregory brings this family drama to colourful life through its women, beginning with the story of Elizabeth Woodville, the White Queen The White Queen tells the story of a common woman who ascends to royalty by virtue of her beauty, a woman who rises to the demands of her position and fights tenaciously for the success of her family, a woman whose two sons become the central figures in a mystery that has confounded historians for centuries: the Princes in the Tower whose fate remains unknown to this day. From her uniquely qualified perspective, Philippa Gregory explores the most...
ISBN: 978-1-84739-858-1
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: июль 2011
