Intellectual dandy Philo Vance comes to the aid of District Attorney Markham in the case of murdered stockbroker Alvin Benson fascinating - shot from within his locked house and missing toupee and false teeth. Phenomenally popular when first published, this is a thrilling classic for all crime and mystery fans. New Glossary and biography.
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- 1995
- 1995
Příběh Elleryho Queena Stalo se ve tmě, inspirovaný skutečnou událostí, se odehrává v New Yorku postiženém poruchou elektrické rozvodné sítě. Místo krvavého zločinu halí naprostá tma. Paralyzované město neumožňuje kapitánu Corriganovi přivolat pomoc specialistů, kteří by sejmuli otisky a provedli pitvu. V souboji s tajemným vrahem se tedy musí spolehnout pouze na svůj rozum. A tutéž šanci dává autor i čtenáři.
- 1994
Grand Canary
- 320pagine
- 12 ore di lettura
Grand Canary is a novel by author A. J. Cronin, initially published in 1933. It tells the story of Dr. Harvey Leith, an English physician who is wrongfully blamed for the deaths of three patients and leaves his country in disgrace, ultimately finding redemption when thrust into the middle of a yellow fever epidemic in the Canary Islands.
- 1994
Il villaggio di St Mary Mead è in grande fermento. Marina Gregg, una delle più famose dive di Hollywood, ha deciso di trasferirsi in questa piacevole località, e per l'occasione ha invitato tutta la cittadinanza a visitare la sua nuova magione. L'avvenimento, però, si svolge in maniera completamente diversa dal previsto: una delle ospiti, Heather Badcock, muore nel corso del ricevimento. Avvelenata, come rivelerà l'autopsia. Alcuni invitati raccontano che pochi istanti prima del delitto la vittima sembrava quasi pietrificata dall'orrore. Ma chi, fra i partecipanti al party di beneficenza, può averla sconvolta a tal punto?
- 1993
At a Halloween party, Joyce, a hostile 13-year-old, boasts that she once witnessed a murder. Within hours her body is found, still in the house, drowned in an apple-bobbing tub. That night Hercule Poirot is called in to find the killer.
- 1992
A Puzzle for Fools
- 264pagine
- 10 ore di lettura
A wave of murders rocks a sanitarium—and it's up to the patients to stop them Broadway producer Peter Duluth sought solace in a bottle after his wife’s death; now, two years later and desperate to dry out, he enters a sanitarium, hoping to break his dependence on drink—but the institution doesn’t quite offer the rest and relaxation he expected. Strange, malevolent occurrences plague the hospital; and among other inexplicable events, Peter hears his own voice with an ominous warning: “There will be murder.” It soon becomes clear that a homicidal maniac is on the loose, and, with a staff every bit as erratic as its idiosyncratic patients, it seems everyone is a suspect—even Duluth’s new romantic interest, Iris Pattison. Charged by the baffled head of the ward with solving the crimes, it’s up to Peter to clear her name before the killer strikes again. Reprinted for the first time in over thirty years, A Puzzle for Fools is the atmospheric and complex mystery that first introduced Peter Duluth; the character and his love interest Iris went on to star in eight more novels, two of which were adapted for film.
- 1992
Murder on the Links
- 273pagine
- 10 ore di lettura
Stabbed in the back A pieced of lead piping nearby It should be a simple case... Poirot is summoned to France, but arrives too late to save his client, whose body now lies face down in a shallow grave on a golf course. Why is the dead man wearing his son's overcoat? And who was the intended recipient of the love-letter in the pocket? Before Poirot can answer these questions, the case is turned upside down by the discovery of a second, identically murdered corpse...
- 1987
Hořká bída a nepopsatelné bohatství, závist, nenávist a intriky, záhadná smrt a politická vražda – to je rámec, v němž se odehrává největší archeologický objev tisíciletí: akce Tutanchamon. Čtvrtého listopadu 1922 odhalil Angličan Howard Carter, vyučený malíř, vchod do hrobky Tutanchamona: faraona zapomenutého už před třemi tisíci lety. Právě tento zapomenutý faraon se stal takřka symbolem egyptské historie a jeho zlatá posmrtná maska, vážící přes sto kilogramů, je nejznámějším uměleckým dílem na celém světě. O Tutanchamonovi bylo napsáno bezpočtu knih, ale muž, jemuž dějiny vděčí za tak významný objev, zůstává v pozadí: Howard Carter. Kdysi si začal vydělávat peníze portrétováním koček a papoušků ze sousedství. Pro bohatého sběratele pak kopal už v sedmnácti letech v egyptském poušti. Tam také našel první stopy po zapomenutém faraonovi. Autor nám nabízí příběh, který rozkrývá situaci i nitky z pozadí. Okolnosti této takřka neuvěřitelné historie, zasuté v zaprášených archivech v Káhiře a Oxfordu, vyhledal a doplnil pátráním u posledních očitých svědků.
- 1983
Životopisný román Heinricha Schliemanna, průkopníka archeologie, který uskutečnil svůj dětský sen - vykopat Tróju. Autor si klade za cíl vylíčit autentickou Schliemannovu osobnost, proto se přidržuje jeho deníků, zápisků a korespondence, z nichž často cituje.

