When Malcolm Hay, a young British engineer, is sent to work for a Ukrainian-English oil company right before the first World War, he becomes a unique spectator of the political tensions of the time.
This anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together 18 tales from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form, including uncollected stories by Ngaio Marsh and John Dickson Carr.
Vor Kate Fanslers Tür steht eines Tages unversehens ihr alter Freund Max Reston, eigenbrötlerischer Snob und frischernannter Nachlassverwalter der berühmten Schriftstellerin Cecily Hutchins.
In the small rural town of Qonda, South Africa, the power and water supplies are unreliable, property prices are down, and citizens are slowly suffocating in the acrid smoke from the municipal dump.
Introducing Inspector Maigret, the literary character behind the major ITV drama starring Rowan AtkinsonThe first four titles from the new Penguin Inspector Maigret series: Pietr the Latvian, The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien, The Carter of La Providence and The Grand Banks Cafe.
'No one writes a better crime novel than Charles Willeford' Elmore LeonardI Was Looking For a Street tells the story of the author's childhood and adolescence as an orphan, as he moves from railroad yard to hobo tent citiy, to soup kitchen and desert around Los Angeles and across the United States.
Beloved heroine Maisie Dobbs, one of the great fictional heroines (Parade), investigates the mysterious murder of an American war correspondent in London during the Blitz in a page-turning tale of love and war, terror and survival.
From New York Times bestselling author Peter Robinson comes this mesmerizing story-within-a-storythat will thrill his fans and bring him many new readers.
Ein mysteriöser Mord erschüttert Schwedens KunstszeneSten Hammer, Baron und Kunstsammler, wird auf seinem Herrensitz nördlich von Stockholm mit einem antiken Gewehr aus seiner eigenen Sammlung erschlagen.
**SOON TO BE A TV SERIES STARRING CHRIS PRATT** This is seriously good the suspense is unrelenting, and the tradecraft is so authentic the government will probably ban it so read it while you can!
'The great entertainer of our age, and a mesmerizing storyteller' - Stephen KingA dark, psychological thriller, first published in 1957 as The Executioners and filmed by Martin Scorsese, starring Robert De Niro.
In Agatha Christies classic,Three Act Tragedy, the normally unflappable Hercule Poirot faces his most baffling investigation: the seemingly motiveless murder of the thirteenth guest at dinner party, who choked to death on a cocktail containing not a trace of poison.
Next book in the Posadas County Mystery SeriesPosadas County Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman has a lot on her plate-but when her family is threatened by a criminal underworld, she'll stop at nothing to protect her ownGifted fifteen-year-old Francisco Guzman has become an internationally renowned concert pianist, touring the world under the auspices of his music conservatory.
Poetry in Literature for Youth offers teachers, librarians, parents, and students with an instrumental guide for incorporating all forms of poetry into the curriculum.
