An Egyptologist, attempting to raise from the dead the mummy of Tera, an ancient Egyptian queen, finds a fabulous gem and is stricken senseless by an unknown force.
A classic novel by Raymond Chandler, the master of hard-boiled crime, The Long Good-Bye is the sixth novel featuring laconic PI Philip Marlowe Down-and-out drunk Terry Lennox has a problem: his millionaire wife is dead and he needs to get out of LA fast.
Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, an impoverished man who formulates and executes a plan to kill an unscrupulous pawnbroker seemingly for her money, thereby solving his financial problems and at the same time, ridding the world of an evil parasite.
Ships at anchor reared their tall masts, here and there; and the broad stream was enlivened and colored by junks and boats of all sizes and vivid hues, propelled on the screw principle by a great scull at the stern, with projecting handles for the crew to work; and at times a gorgeous mandarin boat, with two great glaring eyes set in the bows, came flying, rowed with forty paddles by an armed crew, whose shields hung on the gunwale and flashed fire in the sunbeams; the mandarin, in conical and buttoned hat, sitting on the top of his cabin calmly smoking Paradise, alias opium, while his gong boomed and his boat flew fourteen miles an hour, and all things scuttled out of his celestial way.
In a fictionalization of Burroughs' own difficulties in finding a job prior to becoming a best-selling writer, Jimmy Torrance attempts to make a career for himself in 1921 Chicago, where criminals seem to be everywhere!
Uncle Abner, the most famous literary character created by Melville Davisson Post, is a righteous amateur detective, a keen observer of human actions with profound knowledge and love for the Bible.
This ebook collection contains the following works of Agatha Christie:The Mysterious Affair At StylesThe Secret AdversaryThe Murder On The LinksThe Man in the Brown SuitThe Secret of ChimneysThe Murder of Roger AckroydThe Jewel Robbery at the Grand MetropolitanThe Disappearance of Mr.
Agatha Christies Tommy and Tuppence Beresford arePartners in Crimeor rather partners in crime solvingand must demonstrate their deductive skills in a wide range ofconfounding cases after agreeing to take over Blunts International Detective Agency.
Contiene tabla de contenido activa (HTML)Fiódor Dostoyevski es uno de los principales escritores de su época en la Rusia Zarista; la literatura de Dostoyevski explora la psicología humana en el complejo contexto político, social y espiritual de la sociedad rusa del siglo XIX.
WithStar Over Bethlehem, the beloved Queen of Mystery Agatha Christie shines in a totally unexpected way, offering readers a wondrous collection of poems and holiday short stories.
This ebook collection contains the following works of Agatha Christie:The Mysterious Affair At StylesThe Secret AdversaryThe Murder On The LinksThe Man in the Brown SuitThe Secret of ChimneysThe Murder of Roger AckroydThe Jewel Robbery at the Grand MetropolitanThe Disappearance of Mr.
WithStar Over Bethlehem, the beloved Queen of Mystery Agatha Christie shines in a totally unexpected way, offering readers a wondrous collection of poems and holiday short stories.
Der erste Detektiv der LiteraturgeschichteDer Doppelmord in der Rue Morgue (The Murders in the Rue Morgue) ist eine Novelle des amerikanischen Schriftstellers Edgar Allan Poe von 1841.
Movie star Mary Marvell consults with Hercule Poirot after receiving threatening letters that warn her to return her diamond, the famous "e;Western Star,"e; to its rightful owner.
When an elderly man's body is found on the steps of chambers in the Midde Temple, one of the Inns of Court, it falls to newspaperman Frank Spargo and Detective-Sergeant Rathbury to solve the crime.
Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings are on holiday at the opulent Grand Metropolitan Hotel in Brighton, where they meet the wife of a wealthy stockbroker.
WithStar Over Bethlehem, the beloved Queen of Mystery Agatha Christie shines in a totally unexpected way, offering readers a wondrous collection of poems and holiday short stories.