Fifteen-year-old Ralph, mischievous young Peterkin and clever, brave Jack are shipwrecked on a coral reef with only a telescope and a broken pocketknife between them.
On the surface, this novel is a simple tale of a young man who encounters a shape-shifting devil, an early manifestation of a doppelganger, and the various misadventures that follow.
'Held me completely in its thrall until the very last line' SUSAN STOKES-CHAPMAN'I was hooked from the start' DAILY MAILA SUNDAY TIMES HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTHA TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE HISTORICAL WRITERS' ASSOCIATION DEBUT CROWN PRIZEJune, 1878.
He is fond of enigmas, of conundrums, hieroglyphics; exhibiting in his solutions of each a degree of acumen which appears to the ordinary apprehension praeternatural.
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (nee Miller; 15 September 1890 - 12 January 1976) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.
Edgar Huntly, a young man who lives with his uncle and sisters on a farm outside Philadelphia, begins the novel determined to learn who murdered his friend Waldegrave.
Wie erstaunt war Privatdetektiv und Ermittler Sam Caine, als er hörte, dass sein Freund George Peddie, Prokurist einer großen Bank, ein Dieb sein sollte?
Als in Brighton ein Mord passiert, bei dem niemand auch nur im Geringsten einen Lösungsansatz hat, wird schnell klar, dass man Privatdetektiv und Ermittler Sam Caine aus London braucht.
Mary Roberts Rinehartwas an American writer, often called the American Agatha Christie, although her first mystery novel was published 14 years before Christie's first novel in 1920.
Die Geschichte des jüdischen Prinzen Judah Ben Hur der wegen eines angeblichen Attentats auf den römischen Statthalter von Judäa zur Galeerenstrafe verurteilt wird, später aber in seine Heimat zurückkehrt und eine Aufstandsbewegung gegen die Römer plant.
