- The Adventure of the Yellow Face
- The Adventure of the Resident Patient
- The Problem of Thor Bridge
- The Adventure of the Gloria Scott
- The Adventure of the Six Napoleons
- The Adventure of the Stockbroker's Clerk
- The Adventure of the Crooked Man
- The Adventure of the ...
[lire la quatrième du livre The Adventure of the Six Napoleons and Other Cases]
For more than a century the Holmes stories have held a strange, almost inexplicable grip on the popular imagination. They are intimately associated with late Victorian and Edwardian society, yet curiously timeless in their appeal.
[lire la quatrième du livre Sherlock Holmes. Selected Stories]
A cruise down the Nile on a river steamer sounds like the perfect way to get away from it all - a luxurious retreat, miles from civilization.
But the warm and tranquil Egyptian evening is thick with hot passions and cold malice. When everyone on board has a motive, Hercule Poirot must abandon the mysteries of ancient Egypt and focus on altogether deadlier mysteries...
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Poor Roger Ackroyd. He knew that the woman he loved had been harbouring a guilty secret - she poisoned her first husband. And yesterday she killed herself.
But guilty secrets rarely stay secret.
[lire la quatrième du livre The Murder of Roger Ackroyd]
Agatha Christie's world-famous serial killer mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. There's a serial killer on the loose, bent on working his way through the alphabet.
[lire la quatrième du livre The ABC Murders]
Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the year, but by the morning it is one passenger fewer. An American tycoon lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside.
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There's no better time to rediscover James Bond. Escape with the nation's favourite spy in the addictive first novel in Ian Fleming's classic series. Le Chiffre is a businessman with expensive tastes, and SMERSH's chief operative in France.
But as his dissolute lifestyle threatens to ruin him, his only hope is to risk his paymasters' money at the card table.
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There is only one Bond. Catch up on this classic adventure before the release of No Time to Die.
[lire la quatrième du livre Diamonds are Forever]
There is only one Bond. Catch up on this classic adventure before the release of No Time to Die.
[lire la quatrième du livre The Man with the Golden Gun]
In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences is considered by many to be the first work of the true crime genre. In this groundbreaking book, Truman Capote reconstructs the murder of the Clutter family from information provided by newspaper articles and interviews.
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Fans around the world adore the bestselling No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, the basis of the HBO TV show, and its proprietor Precious Ramotswe, Botswana’s premier lady detective. In this charming series, Mma Ramotswe navigates her cases and her personal life with wisdom, and good humor—not to mention help from her loyal assistant, Grace Makutsi, and the occasional cup of tea.
[lire la quatrième du livre The n°1 ladies detective agency]
As winter closes in and blizzards cut them off, the hotel seems to develop a life of its own. It is meant to be empty. So who is the lady in Room 217 and who are the masked guests going up and down the elevator? And why do the hedges shaped like animals seem so alive?
Somewhere, somehow, there is an evil force in the hotel – and that too is beginning to shine.
[lire la quatrième du livre The Shining]
An exciting reissue of Stephen King's debut novel about an outcast teenager with a frightening power which put him on the map and set him on his journey as a household name.Carrie White is no ordinary girl.Carrie White has the gift of telekinesis.To be invited to Prom Night by Tommy Ross is a dream come true for Carrie - the first step towards social acceptance by her high school colleagues.
[lire la quatrième du livre Carrie]
That's when the car accident happened, and he woke up in pain in a strange bed. But it wasn't the hospital. Annie Wilkes had pulled him from the wreck, brought him to her remote mountain home, splinted and set his mangled legs.
The good news was that Annie was a nurse and has pain-killing drugs. The bad news was that she was Paul's Number One Fan.
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Christmas 1951, Los Angeles: a city where the police are as crooked as the criminals.
Six prisoners are beaten senseless in their cells by cops crazed on alcohol. For the three L.A.P.D. detectives involved, it will expose the guilty secrets on which they have built their corrupt and violent careers...
[lire la quatrième du livre The L.A. Quartet Book 3: L.A. Confidential]
Needful Things, the sign said. The oddest name. A name that caused some gossip and speculation among the good folks of Castle Rock, Maine, while they waited for opening day.
Eleven-year-old Brian Rusk was the first customer and he got just what he wanted, a very rare 1956 Sandy Koufax baseball card. Signed. Cyndi Rose Martin was next. A Lalique vase.
[lire la quatrième du livre Needful Things]
Hercule Poirot delighted in telling people that he was probably the best detective in the world. So turning back the clock to trace eighteen of the cases which helped establish his professional reputation was always going to be a fascinating experience. With his career still in its formative years, the panache with which Hercule Poirot could solve even the most puzzling mystery is obvious.
[lire la quatrième du livre Poirot's Early Cases]
It´,s 1968. Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King are dead. The Mob, Howard Hughes and J Edgar Hoover are in a struggle for America´,s soul, drawing into their murderous conspiracies the dammed and the soon-to-be damned. Blood's A Rover will be published for the first time in Windmill paperback. The long-awaited ma
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Soul Murder [Paperback] Blake, Daniel
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1958. America is about to emerge into a bright new age – an age that will last until the 1000 days of John F Kennedy's presidency.
Three men move beneath the glossy surface of power, men allied to the makers and shakers of the era. Pete Bondurant – Howard Hughes's right-hand man, Jimmy Hoffa's hitman. Kemper Boyd – employed by J Edgar Hoover to infiltrate the Kennedy clan.
[lire la quatrième du livre The Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy: American Tablooid]
Edgar Allan Poe was a writer of uncommon talent; in The Murders in the Rue Morgue he created the genre of detective fiction while his genius for finding the strangeness lurking within us all has been an influence on everyone from Freud to Hollywood.
[lire la quatrième du livre The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Stories]
Tyrant, blackmailer, racketeer, murderer - his influence reaches every level of American society. Meet Don Corleone, a friendly man, a just man, a
reasonable
man. The deadliest lord of the Cosa Nostra. The Godfather.
A modern masterpiece,The Godfather is a searing portrayal of the 1940s criminal underworld.
[lire la quatrième du livre The Godfather]
Follow Holmes as he solves the mystery of "The Blue Carbuncle", finds a missing fiancé in "A Case of Identity" and discovers the identity of a strange creature in "The Yellow Face".
[lire la quatrième du livre Sherlock Holmes Investigates - Three Stories of [...]]
From New York Times bestselling author David Morrell comes the novel upon which the box office superhit Rambo was based. First came the man: a young wanderer in a fatigue coat and long hair. Then came the legend, as John Rambo sprang up from the pages of First Blood to take his place in the American cultural landscape. This remarkable novel pits a young Vietnam veteran against a small town cop [...]
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And in Edinburgh, of all places. I mean, you never think of that sort of thing happening in Edinburgh, do you...?
That sort of thing is the brutal abduction and murder of two young girls. And now a third is missing, presumably gone to the same sad end.
[lire la quatrième du livre Knots And Crosses]
No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #5. Gaborone, capital city of Botswana. Mma Precious Ramotswe helps indecisive fiancé Mr J.L.B. Matekoni when orphan farm manager Mma Potakwani persuades him to jump out of an aeroplane, and a bullying dishonest competing mechanic calls. Between cups of bush tea, she sorts money grubbing suitors for hair-braiding tycoon.
[lire la quatrième du livre The Full Cupboard Of Life]
In this third volume of The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, the irrepressible Precious Ramotswe faces supreme problems at home and work.
With her detective agency in financial difficulty, Mma Ramotswe takes the hard decision to share offices to her husband-to-be, Mr J. L. B. Matekoni.
[lire la quatrième du livre Morality For Beautiful Girls]
This is the story of a lover's triangle... It was bad from the start. And it got worse in a hurry.
Christine is eating into his mind, burrowing into his unconscious.
Christine, blood-red, fat, and finned, is twenty. Her promise lies all in her past. Greedy and big, she is Arnie's obsession, a '58 Plymouth Fury. Broken down but not finished.
There is still power in her - a [...]
[lire la quatrième du livre Christine]
There is another 1985, somewhere in the could-have-been, where Thursday Next is a literary detective without squat, fear, or boyfriend. Thursday is on the trait of the villainous Acheron Hades, who has been kidnapping characters from works of fiction and holding them to ransom.
[lire la quatrième du livre The eyre affair]
Harry Hole faces a new rising enemy.
‘A page-turner you won't want to put down’ Time Out
Harry knows he shouldn’t get involved.A report of a rare and unusual gun – a type favoured by assassins – being smuggled into the country sparks Detective Harry Hole's interest. Evil is closer to home than he knows.Then a former WW2 Nazi sympathizer is found with his throat cut.
[lire la quatrième du livre The Redbreast]
Lire en anglaisCollection dirigée par Henri YvinecLa collection s'adresse à tous ceux qui désirent découvrir ou redécouvrir le plaisir de lire dans leur langue d'origine les oeuvres des plus grands auteurs contemporains.Notes en anglais en regard du texte, lexique bilingue en fin de volume dispensent d'un recours fastidieux au dictionnaire.
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