When Dr John Watson takes rooms in Baker Street with amateur detective Sherlock Holmes, he has no idea that he is about to enter a shadowy world of criminality and violence. Accompanying Holmes to an ill-omened house in south London, Watson is startled to find a dead man whose face is contorted in a rictus of horror.
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- 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 ...
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![Sherlock Holmes. Selected Stories](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureS/H/9780199672066-sherlock-holmes.-selected-stories.jpg)
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.
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![Death on the Nile](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureD/E/9780007527557-death-nile.jpg)
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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![The Murder of Roger Ackroyd](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9780007527526-murder-roger-ackroyd.jpg)
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.
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![The ABC Murders](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9780007527533-murders.jpg)
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.
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![Murder on the Orient Express](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureM/U/9780007527502-murder-orient-express.jpg)
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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![Diamonds are Forever](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureD/I/9780099576884-diamonds-forever.jpg)
There is only one Bond. Catch up on this classic adventure before the release of No Time to Die.
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![The Man with the Golden Gun](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9780099576990-with-golden.jpg)
There is only one Bond. Catch up on this classic adventure before the release of No Time to Die.
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![In Cold Blood](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureI/N/9780241956830-cold-blood.jpg)
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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![The n°1 ladies detective agency](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9780349116754-n1-ladies-detective-agency.jpg)
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.
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![The Shining](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9781444720723-shining.jpg)
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.
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![Carrie](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureC/A/9781444720693-carrie.jpg)
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.
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![Misery](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureM/I/9781444720716-misery.jpg)
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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![The L.A. Quartet Book 3: L.A. Confidential](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9780099537885-l.a.-quartet-book-l.a.-confidential.jpg)
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...
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![Needful Things](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureN/E/9781444707878-needful-things.jpg)
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.
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![Poirot's Early Cases](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureP/O/9780008164843-poirot-early-cases.jpg)
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.
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![Blood's Rover](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureB/L/9780099537793-blood-rover.jpg)
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](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureS/O/9780007347902-soul-murder.jpg)
Soul Murder [Paperback] Blake, Daniel
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![The Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy: American Tablooid](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9780099537823-underworld-u.s.a.-trilogy-american-tablooid.jpg)
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.
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![The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Stories](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9780099540830-fall-house-usher-other-stories.jpg)
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.
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![The Godfather](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9780099528128-godfather.jpg)
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.
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![Sherlock Holmes Investigates - Three Stories of Detection](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureS/H/9788853007803-sherlock-holmes-investigates-three-stories-detection.jpg)
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".
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![First Blood](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureF/I/9780755346677-first-blood.jpg)
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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![Knots And Crosses](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureK/N/9780752883533-knots-crosses.jpg)
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.
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![The Full Cupboard Of Life](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9780349117256-full-cupboard-life.jpg)
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.
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![Morality For Beautiful Girls](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureM/O/9780349117003-morality-beautiful-girls.jpg)
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.
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![Christine](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureC/H/9781444720709-christine.jpg)
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 [...]
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![The eyre affair](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9780340733561-eyre-affair.jpg)
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.
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![The Redbreast](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureT/H/9780099546771-redbreast.jpg)
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.
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![ENGLISH CRIME STORIES OF TODAY](https://www.unitheque.com/Intermediaire2/CouvertureE/N/9782253057321-english-crime-stories-today.jpg)
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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