Twelve remarkable, gritty stories starring Detective Inspector John Rebus in his home city of Edinburgh, as only Ian Rankin can portray it: not just the tearooms and cobbled streets of the tourist brochures, but a modern urban metropolis with a full range of criminals and their victims--blackmailers, peeping Toms, and more than one kind of murderer. It`s a city like any other, a city that gives birth to crimes of passion, accidents, and long-hidden jealousy, and a city in which criminal minds find it all too easy to fade into the shadows. As dedicated readers of the series well know, nobody is better equipped to delve into Edinburgh`s back alleys and smoky pubs than Rebus, and no one better able to illuminate his world than Ian Rankin.
ISBN: 978-0-312-98000-9
Издательство:
Macmillan USA
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Max Skinner is a man at the heart of London`s financial universe until his employers embark on a little asset-stripping of their own. Himself. Amid the grey London drizzle, there is one potential ray of sunshine: Max`s Uncle Harry has left him his estate in his will - an eighteenth-century chateau and vineyard an hour`s drive from Avignon. Out of a job, and encouraged by his friend Charlie about the money in modern wine, he heads for France. What Max discovers is a beautiful house, wonderful weather and a bustling village. The downside is the quality of the wine in his vineyard, but when Max suggests calling in an expert, Roussel, a former employee of his uncle`s, is resistant. Help is at hand, however, when a beautiful blonde...
ISBN: 978-0-7515-3966-0
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Halloween Night, 1954. A young, film-obsessed scriptwriter has just been hired at one of the great studios. An anonymous investigation leads from the giant Maximus Films backlot to an eerie graveyard separated from the studio by a single wall. There he makes a terrifying discovery that thrusts him into a maelstrom of intrigue and mystery - and into the dizzy exhilaration of the movie industry at the height of its glittering power.
ISBN: 978-0-380-81200-4
Издательство:
HarperCollins
Дата выхода: январь 2013
This extraordinarily well-reviewed first novel introduces Scotland Yard s Inspector Thomas Lynley and his assistant, Barbara Havers, as they investigate a daughter s brutal murder by her deeply religious father.
ISBN: 9780553278026
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: май 1989
It`s time now to go to wherever on earth the wild babies grow. Join the Cat in the Hat as he introduces beginning readers to reptiles. This title and others form part of a series of books that takes an off-beat look at nature and natural sciences through a fun combination of Seussian rhymes and zany illustrations. Aimed at early readers - from four to seven year olds - the books are designed to bridge the gap between concept books written for preschoolers and more formal non fiction titles that require fluent reading skills. By presenting the facts in a lively and rhythmic manner, they provide the critical foundation upon which complex facts and ideas can eventually be built.
ISBN: 978-0-00-743305-6
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: июнь 2011
Thomas Hardy (1840—1928) was an English novelist and poet. «A Group Of Noble Dames» is great short story collection, which includes such works like «The Lady Penelope», «The Duchess Of Hamptonshire», «The Honourable Laura» and others.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06911-8
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: май 2018
