The Devil in Velvet, Paperback - John Dickson Carr

Reducere. To solve a centuries-old crime, a man makes a deal with the devil: "The fantasy, the murder and the historical action are . . . all wonderful" (San...

Reducere. Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of MurderThat is the case. Alison has been murdered. His blazing body was seen running about the ba...

First published in 1944, Till Death Do Us Part remains a pacey and deeply satisfying impossible crime story, championed by Carr connoisseurs as one...

Reducere. "Martin Starberth stands to inherit his family's estate provided he can fulfill a certain condition. Part of the estate is an old prison where the ...

Reducere. John Dickson Carr lays on the macabre atmosphere again in this follow up to It Walks by Night in which Inspector Bencolin attempts to piece togethe...

Reducere. Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of MurderWith an introduction by Martin Edwards and featuring the Dickson Carr short story "The Sha...

Reducere. DescriptionAt the hand of an outrageous prankster, top hats are going missing all over London, snatched from the heads of some of the city's most p...

First published in 1932 at the height of crime fiction's Golden Age, this macabre and atmospheric dives into the murky underground of Parisian soci...

John Dickson Carr's work under the Carter Dickson pseudonym continued to demonstrate deft mastery of the locked-room genre, with }She Died A Lady{ ...

Reducere. "The purpose, the illusion, the spirit of a waxworks. It is an atmosphere of death. It is soundless and motionless... Do you see?"Last night Mademo...

Reducere. John Dickson Carr, a master of the Golden Age British-style mystery novel, presents Dr. Gideon Fell's most chilling case, in which a clock-obsessed...

Reducere. DescriptionThis vivid biography, written by John Dickson Carr, a giant in the field of mystery fiction, benefits from his full access to the archiv...

Reducere. Book annotation not available for this title.Title: The Case of the Constant SuicidesAuthor: Carr, John DicksonPublisher: Rue MorguePublication Dat...

Reducere. DescriptionBanished from the idyllic English countryside he once called home and en route to live with his cousin in America, Sir John Farnleigh, b...

Reducere. Ol' Rosie, a cranky, old mare, has escaped the corral and has led ten of the Nolan's other horses into the stark mountains of eastern Oregon. It's ...

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Reducere. Harry Devlin is hired by the Kavanaugh Trust to contest the will of their late patron. Charles Kavanaugh has left everything to his new housekeeper...

Reducere. The first thrilling historical crime novel starring Thomas Hawkins, a rakish scoundel with a heart of gold, set in the darkest debtors' prison in G...

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The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and its amazing 'White City' was one of the wonders of the world. This is the incredible story of its realization,...

The Scorpion, whose mother Trebaldi burnt at the stake for loving a man of the cloth, discovers that his father was the murdered Pope. When Trebald...

Reducere. The Devil in Her Bed is the final book in the stunning Devil You Know trilogy by USA Today bestselling author Kerrigan Byrne! He lives in secret se...

Reducere. DescriptionA man accustomed to hiding secrets. A woman with a lost past. Love that cannot be denied. A man accustomed to hiding secrets. His dark s...

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Reducere. In the summer of 1978, a mother and her four-year-old were stabbed to death in the quiet town of New Castle. Police suspected the husband, Lou Kadu...

Hawa is a child of the grinding hardship of a Palestinian refugee camp. She has had to survive the camp itself, as well as the humiliation and dest...

Reducere. This sweeping history explores the growing Latino presence in the United States over the past two hundred years. It also debunks common myths about...

Reducere. "A brilliant account" of the controversial 2005 legal battle between evolution and creationism in public education "by a first-rate journalist" (Ho...

Reducere. The book Rosebudd the American Pimp is about the choices one has to make in order to go to the highest plateau in that lifestyle. Rosebudd did all ...

Reducere. The fabulous Lucifer Box returns for another round of spirited, pun-heavy sleuthing in this devilishly decadent sequel to the acclaimed The Vesuviu...

Reducere. Description"I went from an indifferent apathetic Sunday Mass attending Catholic Christian to an on fire Catholic Christian in a few short years. Wh...

Reducere. Scandal, Shock and Rivalry Can Be an Artist's Best Friends Scandal, shock and rivalry all have negative connotations, don't they? They can be catas...

What can we really know for sure about the past? Can anything from ancient history be regarded as 'fact'? In particular, how seriously can we take ...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Slander has always been a nasty business, Robert Darnton notes, but that is no reason to consider it a topic unworthy of inquiry. By destroying rep...

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Reducere. Erik Larson, author of #1 bestseller In the Garden of Beasts, intertwines the true tale of the 1893 World's Fair and the cunning serial killer who ...

Reducere. " Le Carr 's] novels are so brilliant because they're emotionally and psychologically absolutely true, but of course they're novels." --New York Ti...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Razboiul Rece a fost purtat si castigat, iar spionul britanic Tim Cranmer accepta pensionarea timpurie si se retrage sa duca o noua viata in Anglia...

Reducere. La patruzeci si opt de ani, Tim Cranmer pare pregatit sa inceapa o viata noua, departe de culisele razboiului rece, in intimitatea unui conac retra...

Reducere. Premiantul - editie de buzunar In cel de-al doilea roman dupa Cartita din trilogia "Pe urmele luiKarla", George Smiley a devenit seful Serviciului ...

Reducere. Faimosul erou al lui le Carre, agentul serviciului de informatiibritanic, George Smiley, se confrunta cu o problema de viata si demoarte: trebuie s...

Reducere. Antiques dealer Megan Fields is young, smart and beautiful. Everything the devil seeks in his personal possessions. After a gift from a client star...