YEARS AGO, A P.I. OUT OF CHICAGO BROUGHT JUSTICE TO A DIRTY TOWN.NOW HE’S GOING TO PAY.A sawed-off shotgun blast to the face leaves one man dead – and reveals a secret that has pursued another across an ocean and set the world’s most ruthless criminal on his trail. The man needs the help of a great detective… but could even Sherlock Holmes save him now?

Bilingual book to learn SpanishIn bilibook-editions the text is displayed alternately sentence by sentence in both languages. In addition, some words are marked so that you quickly find them in the translation text.This system helps you to maintain a comfortable reading flow. You do not have to read the entire translation to find a word translation.The story:'The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet' is a new challenge for the famo...

British Murder Mysteries gathers more than 560 detective novels, true-crime narratives, and whodunit thrillers into a capacious survey of crime writing's formative British traditions. Its range extends from clue-driven investigations and ingenious locked-room problems to sensational melodrama, urban suspense, courtroom intrigue, and psychologically charged tales of pursuit. Familiar detective archetypes, hidden identities, compromised institutions, and the moral ambiguities of modern city ...

Dive into the beguiling world of "560 British Mysteries: Detective Novels, True Crime Stories & Whodunit Mysteries (Illustrated)," a curated anthology that transports readers into the heart of Britain's golden age of mystery writing. This comprehensive collection showcases an impressive array of narrative styles, from intricate whodunits and taut detective stories to recountings of real-life crimes. The anthology spans the breadth of British literary ingenuity and captures the nuanced spir...

Spanning 560 British mysteries, this illustrated compendium surveys the evolution of crime writing from sensational investigation and true-crime narrative to the intricate detective novel and playful whodunit. Its range encompasses urban noir, country-house puzzles, railway and courtroom suspense, espionage-inflected adventure, psychological menace, and comic paradox. Memorable investigative encounters, ingenious locked-room problems, and accounts shaped by public fascination with criminal...

This “highly recommended” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) collection edited by New York Times bestselling author Lee Child pairs the beloved characters of twenty-two internationally bestselling writers in “a must-read for fans of the thriller genre” (The Real Book Spy).The incredible follow-up to FaceOff features twenty-two of the world’s bestselling and critically acclaimed thriller writers pairing their series characters in...

The Santa's Great Treasure Chest gathers more than 450 Christmas novels, tales, carols, poems, and legends into an expansive archive of festive imagination. Moving between devotional verse, fairy tale, domestic realism, moral fable, comic vignette, ghostly wonder, and children's adventure, the volume traces Christmas as both sacred observance and secular cultural ritual. Familiar holiday narratives, carols, and folkloric retellings stand alongside less-circulated period pieces, making the ...

If you were looking for the definitive Christmas anthology, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! This book is everything you want Christmas to be — loving, warm and celebratory. Timeless and adorable, beautifully designed, "The Big Book of Christmas" is a great big stocky book — stuffed with novels, novellas, short stories, poems, carols and songs. Inside you'll find: · Novels, novellas and short stories from Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, Hans Christian Andersen, O. He...

In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats. - English proverbCat stories set in ancient Egypt, pre-history Mexico, Victorian England, space stations, grim magical worlds, during the zombie apocalypse, and a typical neighborhood give a glimpse into the mysterious lives of felines. And each cat, whether friend or fiend, believes In a Cat's Eye, all things belong to cats.Cat-lovers and readers of science fiction, fantasy, mystery, and horror will find a tale to sink their claws...

Sheed & Ward, in partnership with Commonweal magazine, presents the second of two volumes in the groundbreaking series, American Catholics in the Public Square, a project funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts. Essays by scholars, journalists, lawyers, business and labor leaders, church administrators and lobbyists, novelists, activists, policy makers and politicians address the most critical issues facing the Catholic Church in the United States. Volume 2, American Catholics, American Cultur...

The Ultimate SF Collection gathers 140 tales of dystopia, interplanetary adventure, scientific speculation, and vanished civilizations into a capacious map of speculative fiction's formative centuries. Its range extends from satirical fable and philosophical romance to Gothic terror, imperial adventure, utopian polemic, and proto–space opera. Visions of submerged continents, engineered futures, hostile planets, social collapse, and strange evolutionary possibilities reveal how science fict...

The Whumpy Printing Press presents: High Stakes and Bloody BusinessFrom bloodthirsty monsters to misunderstood victims, this anthology brings together thirty vampire stories. The vampires in these stories are sometimes good, sometimes bad, but they're always hungry.So sink your teeth into this collection to satisfy your (fictional) bloodlust.Included authors: Kailey Alessi, Ennis Rook Bashe, Max Browne, Mill Cohen, Alfie Court, Megan Renee Doyle, Booker G. ...