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После внезапной трагической смерти отца юная Надинька осталась круглой сиротой. Она потеряла еще и дом, в котором жила всю жизнь. Теперь у нее есть только верная няня Агаша и любимый Сереженька. Сереженька, Сергей Ильич, так поглощен особо важным проектом: он занят на строительстве первого в мире атомного ледокола «Ленин», что так редко звонит из Ленинграда. И бедная няня Агаша толком не верит в существование жениха, потому что никогда его не видела. А тут еще к объективным трудностям жизни...
| Автор | Татьяна Устинова |
После внезапной трагической смерти отца юная Надинька осталась круглой сиротой. Она потеряла еще и дом, в котором жила всю жизнь. Теперь у нее есть только верная няня Агаша и любимый Сереженька. Сереженька, Сергей Ильич, так поглощен особо важным проектом: он занят на строительстве первого в мире атомного ледокола «Ленин», что так редко звонит из Ленинграда. И бедная няня Агаша толком не верит в существование жениха, потому что никогда его не видела. А тут еще к объективным трудностям жизни...
| Автор | Татьяна Устинова |
"Смерть на брудершафт" – название цикла из 10 повестей в экспериментальном жанре «роман-кино», призванном совместить литературный текст с визуальностью кинематографа. Русский контрразведчик должен раскрыть агентурную сеть. Сможет ли он ради этого стать своим в богемном клубе-кабаре «Дети Луны»? Ведь там собирается особенная публика – декаденты…
| Автор | Борис Акунин |
"Смерть на брудершафт" – название цикла из 10 повестей в экспериментальном жанре «роман-кино», призванном совместить литературный текст с визуальностью кинематографа. "Летающий слон" – это повесть о шпионских авантюрах 1915 года, перевернувших историю русской авиации.
| Автор | Борис Акунин |
"Смерть на брудершафт" – название цикла из 10 повестей в экспериментальном жанре «роман-кино», призванном совместить литературный текст с визуальностью кинематографа. Повесть «Странный человек» описывает хитроумную операцию, которую германская разведка проводит в высших кругах петербургского общества.
| Автор | Борис Акунин |
"Смерть на брудершафт" – название цикла из 10 повестей в экспериментальном жанре «роман-кино», призванном совместить литературный текст с визуальностью кинематографа. В повести «Гром победы, раздавайся!» русский контрразведчик Алексей Романов получает задание, от которого зависит исход гигантского сражения…
| Автор | Борис Акунин |
Welcome to the World’s Toughest Cops. This is a no holds barred look at a the people who risk their lives to serve and protect, in the front line of a war against drugs, gangs, gun crime, violence and smuggling.Vinnie takes the reader into the jungles of Colombia – where Sub-Lieutenant John Orejuela of the Special Ops Commando Unit leads a secret mission to take out a terrorist camp – and goes on patrol in the Californian suburb of Compton, following the cops caught up in a deadly cat-and-mouse...
| Автор | Vinnie Jones |
В Нижний Новгород к месту службы прибывает молодой блистательный поручик Скарабеев. Поначалу на новом месте дела у него складываются благоприятно, – он был обласкан начальством и принят в генеральский дом. Но вскоре начались неприятности: в дом генерала стали подкидывать письма фривольного содержания, порочащие молодую графиню. Под подозрения попадает прибывший недавно поручик.
| Автор | Евгений Сухов |
В Рязани убита генеральша Безобразова и ее горничная. На третий день после происшествия в полицейское управление явился человек, заявивший, что именно он совершил двойное убийство. После проведенного следствия выяснилось, что он оговорил себя. Под подозрение попадает племянник генеральши.
| Автор | Евгений Сухов |
Lesley Molseed was eleven when she was killed in 1975. For sixteen years Stefan Kiszko served a prison sentence having been wrongly convicted of her murder by police anxious to find a culprit.English justice catastrophically failed little Lesley Molseed and her family even though, at the trial of the man wrongly suspected of killing her, the finest barristers of the day were in court. One would go on to become Home Secretary, the other Lord Chief Justice at a time when Stefan Kiszko was serving...
| Автор | Jonathan Rose |
Marisa Merico, the daughter of one of Italy's most notorious Mafia Godfathers, was dazzled by her father, Emilio DiGiovine. To her he was all powerful, sophisticated and loving; to the rest of the world he was staggeringly ruthless. Marisa knew her father would do anything for her, but she hadn't expected just how much he would ask in return.Born to an English mother, Marisa turned her back on her quiet life in Blackpool to join her charming father, Emilio DiGiovine, who had spent years trying...
| Автор | Marisa Merico |
Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White, written in 1859, is considered to be among the first mystery novels and one of the finest examples of the sensation novel, a genre blending realism and gothic romance, and exploring the artificiality of identity. In it, a young protagonist, Walter Hartright, meets a mysterious woman dressed all in white on a London street at midnight. After helping her return home, he learns from police that she has escaped from an asylum. Later, Walter takes a job as an...
| Автор | Уилки Коллинз |
In this third novel in the series, Thaddeus Lewis and his son journey into the heart of disaster. When the bloated corpse of a man dressed in women’s clothing washes up on the shore of Lake Ontario near Thaddeus Lewis’s home, nothing is found on the body except a small scrap of green ribbon. The year is 1847 – «Black ’47» – and 100,000 Irish emigrants are fleeing to Canada to escape starvation. The emigrants bring with them the dreaded «ship’s fever,» and soon Canadian ports are overflowing...
| Автор | Janet Kellough |
A literary mystery where the people and the settings in the exotic East are paramount. Two entwined mysteries unfold in two time periods in Singapore – one in the present and the other in the 1920s. Artist Maris Cousins has lived in Singapore for four years, but the sudden death of her mentor, gallery owner Peter Stone, causes her to stop painting and leave Singapore to reconnect with her family in Canada. There she becomes immersed in the fictional stories of love and betrayal from Singapore’s...
| Автор | S.P. Hozy |
London: the early 1840s. The birth of the young Queen Victoria's first child is taken as an auspicious sign for all. But on a cold March night, a spree of dark crimes in shadowy workhouses shocks the city.<br> <br> When Inspector Owen Endersby, of the recently formed London Detective Police, learns that the string of identical murders and abductions have all taken place under similar circumstances, he fears a monster is prowling the city. How long until the murderer strikes...
| Автор | Jon Redfern |
Someone is digging up the graves at the Strangers’ Burying Ground in Toronto – the final resting place of criminals, vagrants, indigents, and alcoholics – and the only person who seems to care is the sexton, Morgan Spicer. The authorities are unconcerned; after all, for years the growing village of Yorkville has been clamouring to have the bodies moved and the Burying Ground closed. <br> <br> The distraught Spicer enlists the aid of his old friend Thaddeus Lewis, who has...
| Автор | Janet Kellough |
Deals with sexism and the legal system of nineteenth-century Canada and delves into the duplicity surrounding the railway business of the time A well-researched and accurate portrayal of life in rural Ontario during the Victorian age Previous books in the series were well reviewed in Quill & Quire, National Post, Publishers Weekly, and the Globe and Mail The Globe and Mail wrote (of The Burying Ground), “Love the Murdoch Mysteries? Then you need to discover Janet Kellough’s terrific...
| Автор | Janet Kellough |
It's the winter of 1923 and the border towns are under a deep freeze, with ferries ice-bound in the Detroit River, snow burying the streets, and power interruptions. Prohibition is still the backdrop to daily life, but opium smuggling and human trafficking are a pair of disturbing additions to the mix.<br> <br> <b>2015 DEWEY DIVA PICK</b> <br/> <br> In a failed attempt at transporting whisky across the Detroit River, a grim find is brought to the...
| Автор | Michael Januska |
When Fredericka Wing arrives in South Sutton, Massachusetts, a tiny New England town, it seems an ideal place for a working summer vacation. She plans on managing Miss Hartwell's bookstore while working on her own writing. She never dreamed she would find a body in a hammock in her own backyard. Someone brutally murdered Catherine Clay, an heir to the Sutton family fortune. And more violence follows. Together with Peter Mohun, a professor at a local college, Fredericka sets out to discover...
| Автор | Andre Norton |
Working with the great Mark Twain is a job Wentworth Cabot relishes – especially when it includes a first-class boat trip, a visit to Europe, and a steady paycheck. But Cabot hopes his third adventure with the renowned author won't involve any murders… <P> The genial company of Twain's friend Rudyard Kipling seems to guarantee smooth sailing. A German prince, a pretentious Italian art critic, and a rich young lout from Philadelphia are nuisances to Cabot – but for Twain they...
| Автор | Peter J. Heck |
There was a ghastly murder in New York City, and Mark Twain's address was in the dead man's pocket. But even more alarming was that Twain had just received a message sent by anold friend from his riverboat days – and the handwriting matched the note found on the corpse.<P> So with his new secretary, Wentworth Cabot, Twain caught a steamboat bound for New Orleans. On board were all matter of people – wealthy tourists and old river rats, literary amateurs and high-stakes gamblers...
| Автор | Peter J. Heck |
Mark Twain is in merry old England to see his family. Wentworth Cabot, Twain's assistant, is looking forward to seeing the sights, and hopefully finding some peace and quiet – when not helping his boss with a new lecture series. But peace is the last thing they find when they bump into Slippery Ed, a con man from New Orleans and an acquainatnce of Twain's. Ed convinces Twain and his family to attend a seance. The famed author is skeptical of «spooks.» But when another attendee is...
| Автор | Peter J. Heck |
A beautiful city with ugly traditions of corruption and racism. A black man set to hang for a murder he didn't commit. A world-famous author – and detective – who isn't about to let it happen… <P> "An enjoyable tour of 1890s New Orleans… Twain can take a bow for his perfomance. Heck takes a colorful city (New Orleans) an a colorful character (Mark Twain), adds a murder, a duel, some voodoo and period detail and conjures up an entertaining sequel to Death on the...
| Автор | Peter J. Heck |
"Leslie Ford is one of the cleverest and most original of our mystery novelists." – New York Times <P> The mansion at Strawberry Hill rose like a stately white magnolia from a lush green hilltop in Carolina. It was a haven of beauty and grace, and Jennifer Reid knew it was the only place she would ever love. Then murder entered Strawberry Hill, and a mad killer waited in the shadows for Jennifer and the man she adored… <P> "Neatly handled…deft…recommended." – Saturday...
| Автор | Leslie Ford |