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.
In 1994, Robert Black was convicted of the kidnapping, sexual assault and murder of three young girls, and sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum tariff of thirty-five years; in 2011 he was convicted of a fourth such killing.
'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.
How Rampage Killers Interpret Their Worlds addresses a question that recently has become disturbingly persistent: What compels a person or a pair without notice and seemingly without any foreseeable benefit to attack numerous individuals, many of whom are strangers, in a single setting?
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.
Editorial ReviewsProduct DescriptionSurviving Auschwitz tells the moving and inspirational story of three young girls who survived Auschwitz, Adolph Hitler's most notorious death camp.
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.
