Docile, j'ouvris ma serviette. Je n'avais même pas l'idée de lui résister. Et puis le pouvais-je ? Ce Durin me tenait mieux qu'avec des menottes. Je ne pensais qu'à une chose : ce soir même, j'en aurais fini avec cette horrible aventure ! more »

The words stung John Hare's fainting spirit into life. He opened his eyes. The desert still stretched before him, the appalling thing that had overpowered him with its deceiving purple distance. Near by stood a sombre group of men. more »

Lady Anselman stood in the centre of the lounge at the Ritz Hotel and with a delicately-poised forefinger counted her guests. There was the great French actress who had every charm but youth, chatting vivaciously with a tall, pale-faced man whose French seemed to be as perfect as his attitude was correct ... more »

Le parfum de la dame en noir étant la suite du Mystère de la Chambre Jaune, on ne gâchera pas le plaisir de ceux qui n'ont pas lu la première partie des aventures de Rouletabille en en révélant trop ici. A ceux qui ont déjà lu Le Mystère de la Chambre Jaune (ou qui ne souhaiteraient pas le lire, les ... more »

Harold March, the rising reviewer and social critic, was walking vigorously across a great tableland of moors and commons, the horizon of which was fringed with the far-off woods of the famous estate of Torwood Park. He was a good-looking young man in tweeds, with very pale curly hair and pale clear ... more »

Es war Grimmelshausens Sprache, seine Ironie und sein abgründiger Humor, die den Simplicissimus zu einem der, wie Clemens Brentano meinte, »vortrefflichsten« Bücher machten. Bunt, roh, wild, derb, niemals gekünstelt oder gar schlüpfrig, tritt das Leben in bildhafter Plastizität aus ihm hervor, das Leben ... more »

BANG! Bang! The pistol shots were almost simultaneous. A cow peacefully grazing fifty yards away received one of the bullets in her back. She had nothing to do with the quarrel all the same. Neither of the adversaries was hit. Who were these two gentlemen? We do not know, although this would be an excellent ... more »

Product Info What subtle strange message had come to her out of the West? Carley Burch laid the letter in her lap and gazed dreamily through the window. more »

Tall and burly, with features and skin hardened by exposure to the sun and winds of many climates, he looked like a man ready to face all hardships, equal to any emergency. Already one seemed to see the clothes and habits of civilization falling away from him, the former to be replaced by the stern, ... more »

Contient les aventures suivantes : Un scandale en Bohème. La ligue des rouquins. Une affaire d'identité. Le mystère de la Vallée de Boscombe. Les cinq pépins d'orange. L'Homme à la lèvre tordue. L'aventure de l'escarboucle bleu. La bande mouchetée. Le pouce de l'ingénieur. Le gentilhomme c ... more »

Joseph Muller, Secret Service detective of the Imperial Austrian police, is one of the great experts in his profession. In personality he differs greatly from other famous detectives. He has neither the impressive authority of Sherlock Holmes, nor the keen brilliancy of Monsieur Lecoq. Muller is a small ... more »

Alptraum Organhandel. Von einem Eisenbahntunnel herunter wird ein betäubter Mann auf die Gleise geworfen und kurz danach von einem Intercity überrollt. Exakt 48 Stunden später wiederholt sich dieses makabere Szenario. Aber das ist nicht das Einzige, was die Toten miteinander verbindet: beide waren nackt ... more »