The first edition of Shakespeare`s collected works, the First Folio, published in 1623, is one of the most valuable books in the world and has historically proven to be an attractive target for thieves. Of the 160 First Folios listed in a census of 1902, 14 were subsequently stolen-and only two of these were ever recovered. In his efforts to catalog all these precious First Folios, renowned Shakespeare scholar Eric Rasmussen embarked on a riveting journey around the globe, involving run-ins with heavily tattooed criminal street gangs in Tokyo, bizarre visits with eccentric, reclusive billionaires, and intense battles of wills with secretive librarians. He explores the intrigue surrounding the Earl of Pembroke, arguably Shakespeare`s...
Now updated with a new chapter, the #1 "New York Times" - bestselling true crime writer tells the chilling tale of how she came to learn that Ted Bundy, her close friend and colleague at a Seattle crisis hotline, was in fact a savage serial killer.
ISBN: 978-1-4165-5959-7
Издательство:
Simon & Schuster UK
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
Сборник приключенческих и детективных рассказов содержит произведения английских и американских писателей XIX-XX веков в адаптации Г. К. Магидсон-Степановой. Книга рассчитана на старшие классы средних школ, 9-10 классы школ
ISBN: 5-8112-0240-7
Издательство:
Айрис-пресс
Дата выхода: январь 2003
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, travel writer, and essayist. His most famous works are "Treasure Island" and "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." Now he is one of the most translated authors in the world. "The Suicide Club" is a collection of three intriguing detective fiction stories set in the nineteenth century: "Story of the Young Man with the Cream Tarts," "Story of the Physician and the Saratoga Trunk," and "The Adventure of the Hansom Cab.".
ISBN: 978-5-517-00204-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: январь 2018
The delightful seventh adventure for popular heroine Amelia Peabody. The 19th-century Egyptologist and her dashing husband, Emerson, return to Amarna, where they first fell in love. When Emerson is kidnapped, Amelia must rescue her husband, find the culprit, and save her marriage.
ISBN: 0-446-36478-9
Издательство:
Warner Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
A five-act drama set in Louisville, Kentucky in the 1970s, among four generations of a black family. The stonemason`s trade is dying out, and the family`s unwillingness to preserve its truths has tragic consequences.
ISBN: 0-330-35033-1
Издательство:
Pan Macmillan
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
