The tale depicts the eighth and final voyage of Sinbad the Sailor, along with the various mysteries Sinbad and his crew encounter; the anomalies are then described as footnotes to the story.
With the reputation as the hardest and most dangerous female criminal in Britain, Gypsy Jane Lee was feared and respected throughout London's criminal underworld.
In "The Premature Burial", the first-person unnamed narrator describes his struggle with things such as "attacks of the singular disorder which physicians have agreed to term catalepsy", a condition where he randomly falls into a death-like trance.
Medicine's Strangest Cases is a choice prescription of weird and wonderful tales from the history of medicine, featuring the German doctor who fought a duel with a sausage, the Harley Street physician-turned-novelist who invented a disease - and its remedy - to keep his clients happy, and the quiet and cautious Swiss scientist who inadvertently unleashed LSD on the world.
This ebook compiles Conan Doyle's greatest writings, including novels and short stories such as "A Study in Scarlet", "The Hound of the Baskervilles", "The Lost World", "The Adventure of the Speckled Band", "The Sign of Four" and "The White Company".
A remarkable book, the story of Flora De Barral, daughter of the Great De Barral, a monumental swindler, and her love for the sea captain who married her.
'She'd done more to belittle, undermine and scar me, with her ten years of scorn and hatred, than Starling with his brutal physical batterings or any of the others with their attempts at forced sexual contact.
Selección de su célebre y extensa obra "Memorias de mis tiempos", crónica detallada del abigarrado y enrevesado siglo XIX mexicano, escrita por uno de los protagonistas y testigos más lúcidos de aquella época.
Ein Selfmademan wie aus dem Bilderbuch, gehypt als schillernder Visionär, geliebt von Politikern und Tycoonen: Mit seinen Milliardengeschäften hielt er die Wirtschaftswelt in Atem, ehe sich sein Immobilienreich als Luftblase entpuppte.
Traduïda ja en tretze llengües, ara arriba en català aquesta història de reflexió al voltant d'un encontre entre dos animals: una humana i un os, que més enllà de ser un relat de superació, és una invitació a replantejar-nos les relacions socials amb altres espècies.
In Allan Pinkerton's True Crime & Murder Mysteries Collection, readers are taken on a thrilling journey through a series of gripping and suspenseful tales filled with deceit, mystery, and twist endings.
In 'The Greatest Detective Books of Allan Pinkerton,' readers are treated to a collection of thrilling detective stories written by the renowned detective Allan Pinkerton himself.
Cleveland Moffett's 'True Crime Detective Stories' is a riveting compilation of true crime cases that are sure to captivate readers with its vivid storytelling and attention to detail.
In seinem Werk "Haarmann: Gerichtsreportage" präsentiert Theodor Lessing eine detaillierte und schockierende Darstellung des Serienmörders Fritz Haarmann.
In meinem Buch geht es um alle geschichtlichen Ereignisse aus der Vergangenheit, die in Archiven und von Heimtarforschern aufgezeichnet wurden und auch teilweise Urkunden zu finden sind.
La oscuridad llega a esta pequeña ciudad de la costa, donde una familia encuentra una sobreviviente de un secuestro a la que han abandonado creyéndola muerta en una vinera.
Un libro hecho de pequeñas historias reales, anécdotas, recuerdos, algunos más felices, otros marcados por el infortunio y el dolor, pero con un denominador común: el gesto universal del abrazo.
Wilde told the stories of this group orally to his brother in Paris as topics for a magazine he was corresponding with at the time, but he did not know that it would later become one of the signs of exotic literature in the world, with its stories carrying brilliant poeticism, symbolic depth, and stylistic uniqueness.
Allan Pinkerton's 'Bucholz & the Detectives' is a compelling account of detective work in the 19th century, characterized by its detailed descriptions and suspenseful narrative.
Allan Pinkerton's 'The Greatest Cases of Pinkerton Detective Agency' offers a captivating glimpse into the thrilling world of crime-solving in the 19th century.
The remarkable true story of a family forced into hiding after leaking Russian secrets What started out as a great adventure turned into a terrifying nightmare when Nick Stride and his family were forced to flee for their lives from one of the richest, most powerful men in the world.
Cleveland Moffett's 'True Crime & Murder Mysteries Collection' compiles a series of gripping tales that delve into the dark world of crime and mystery.
