Otto Bayer Ordine dei libri (cronologico)

This is another novel by the author of Foreign Affairs.

Edith Hahn, a law student in Vienna, faced the horrors of the Nazi regime when the Gestapo forced her and her mother into a ghetto, marking their papers with a "J." After being taken to a labor camp, she managed to convince officials to spare her mother, but upon returning home, she found her mother had been deported. Realizing she was now a hunted woman, Edith removed her yellow star and went underground, struggling for food and safety each night. Her boyfriend, Pepi, was too frightened to assist her, but a Christian friend provided identity papers, allowing her to escape to Munich. There, she met Werner Vetter, a Nazi party member who fell in love with her. Despite her protests and eventual confession of her Jewish identity, he married her and kept her secret. Edith recounts her life filled with fear, detailing encounters with German officials questioning her lineage, her refusal of painkillers during childbirth to protect her secret, and the harrowing experience of hiding with her daughter while Russian soldiers ravaged the streets. Throughout her ordeal, Edith meticulously preserved her survival records, including real and falsified papers, letters from Pepi, and photographs from labor camps. These documents, now exhibited at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., weave a complex and ultimately triumphant narrative of resilience.

L'Orient Express, il leggendario treno delle spie e degli avventurieri internazionali, occupa un posto importante nell'immaginario degli appassionati di letteratura. Il merito è di questo libro. In quella che probabilmente è la più celebre delle sue imprese, Hercule Poirot, salito a bordo di un vagone di prima classe partito da Istanbul e diretto a Calais, è costretto a occuparsi di un efferato delitto: mentre il treno è bloccato dalla neve sui Balcani, qualcuno tra i passeggeri pugnala a morte il signor Ratchett, un ricco quanto insopportabile cittadino americano. L'assassino deve per forza nascondersi tra i viaggiatori, ma nessuno di loro sembra avere un movente. Almeno in apparenza... Pubblicato nel 1934, "Assassinio sull'Orient Express" è da molti considerato il capolavoro di Agatha Christie, ed è sicuramente uno dei gialli più noti e letti in tutto il mondo.

This installment of the classic British detective series follows amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey as he navigates a complex mystery. The narrative showcases Wimsey's sharp intellect and charm, while the new introduction by actress Dame Harriet Mary Walter adds contemporary insight into the enduring appeal of the series. Fans of detective fiction will appreciate the blend of wit, intrigue, and the quintessential British setting that defines Wimsey's adventures.

A must-read for fans of Agatha Christie's Poirot and Margery Allingham's Campion Mysteries, Lord Peter Wimsey is the immortal amateur sleuth created by Dorothy L Sayers. All that was left of the garage was a heap of charred and smouldering beams. In the driving seat of the burnt-out car were the remains of a body . . . An accident, said the police. An accident, said the widow. She had been warning her husband about the danger of the car for months. Murder, said the famous detective Lord Peter Wimsey - and proceeded to track down the killer.