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In Agatha Christie's short story, «The Adventure of the Cheap Flat,» Poirot's suspicions are aroused when he hears of a sweetheart deal on a flat. Doing a little freelance investigating, he soon learns that the flat is at the center of a case of international espionage and a potentially fatal double-cross. This short story originally appeared in the May 9, 1923 issue of The Sketch magazine.
| Автор | Agatha Christie |
In Agatha Christie's «The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan,» Poirot and Hastings are called on to solve the case of Mrs. Opalsen's missing set of pearls, apparently stolen during a stay at the Grand Metropolitan Hotel. The two suspects are Mrs. Opalsen's maid and the hotel chambermaid, but both blame the other. Who is the real thief? This short story originally appeared in the March 14, 1923 issue of The Sketch magazine.
| Автор | Agatha Christie |
In Agatha Christie's short story, «The Adventure of the Clapham Cook,» Poirot is asked by a Mrs. Todd to investigate the sudden departure of her cook, Eliza. When elements of the case seem to correspond to miscellaneous articles read aloud from yesterday's paper to him by Hastings, Poirot begins to unravel a devilishly complex plot. This short story originally appeared in the November 14, 1923 issue of The Sketch magazine.
| Автор | Agatha Christie |
In Agatha Christie's short story, «The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim,» to win a bet with Inspector Japp, Poirot solves the mysterious robbery and disappearance of a banker from his home, all without leaving his seat. Is the culprit the businessman Mr. Davenheim was supposed to meet? Or is the situation more complicated? This short story originally appeared in the March 28, 1923 issue of The Sketch magazine.
| Автор | Agatha Christie |
In Agatha Christie's short story, «The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly,» Poirot investigates the kidnapping of Johnnie Waverly, the three-year-old son of a wealthy couple in Surrey. Could the butler be in on the plot? And why were all the clocks in the house set ten minutes ahead at the time of the kidnapping? This short story originally appeared in the October 10, 1923 issue of The Sketch magazine.
| Автор | Agatha Christie |
When a man is found dead in a freshly dug grave adjacent to a golf course, Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings arrive on the scene only to be met by a hostile local police detective who is unwilling to share information. But Poirot's methodical investigation slowly and surely reveals the real killer amid a host of suspects and clues, including an impassioned love letter and heavy lead piping found near the body. However, as Poirot and Hastings rush to solve the murder, a similarly slain...
| Автор | Agatha Christie |
In Agatha Christie's short story, The Lemesurier Inheritance," Poirot and Hastings are asked to keep an eye on the heir of a Northumberland estate. The house, thought to be cursed since the Middle Ages, is the locale of several recent near-death accidents for the young boy and rumors of the curse increase. But is it possible the accidents are man-made? This short story originally appeared in the December 19, 1923 issue of The Sketch magazine.
| Автор | Agatha Christie |
In Agatha Christie's short story, «The Million Dollar Bond Robbery,» Poirot must prove the innocence of a young bank manager who has had a million dollars in bonds stolen from him while on a boat voyage to New York. Could it be one of his superiors? And why were the bonds being sold in New York before his ship arrived? This short story originally appeared in the May 2, 1923 issue of The Sketch magazine.
| Автор | Agatha Christie |
In Agatha Christie's short story, «The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge,» Poirot and Hastings are enlisted by a Mr. Roger Havering to help investigate the murder of his aristocrat uncle at his hunting lodge. Hastings discusses the murder with the housekeeper on the scene, but Poirot quickly deduces that her story doesn't add up. This short story appeared in the May 16, 1923 issue of The Sketch magazine.
| Автор | Agatha Christie |
In Agatha Christie's short story, «The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman,» Poirot and Hastings investigate the suspicious death of Count Foscatini in his apartment in Regent's Court. Found dead at the dinner table, with three empty dinner plates, suspicion is immediately placed on his two dinner guests. But is there more to the story? This short story originally appeared in the October 24, 1923 issue of The Sketch magazine.
| Автор | Agatha Christie |
Anthony Whyte’s Ghetto Girls series has garnered critical acclaim and legions of fans for its portrayals of adolescent street life. In the latest installment, Coco, an up-and-coming singer, finds her fortune taking a turn for the worst just as she’s on the brink of fame. Struggling with both her own potential handicap and her mother’s precarious sobriety, she calls on her friend Deedee to help decode an enigmatic message from Miss Katie. Meanwhile, Deedee is in a...
| Автор | Anthony Whyte |
Andrei Bely's novel Petersburg is considered one of the four greatest prose masterpieces of the 20th century. In this new edition of the best-selling translation, the reader will have access to the translators' detailed commentary, which provides the necessary historical and literary context for understanding the novel, as well as a foreword by Olga Matich, acclaimed scholar of Russian literature.Set in 1905 in St. Petersburg, a city in the throes of sociopolitical conflict, the novel...
| Автор | Andrei Bely |
Dark and compassionate, graceful yet raw, Undressing the Moon explores the seams between childhood and adulthood, between love and loss. . .At thirty, Piper Kincaid feels too young to be dying. Cancer has eaten away her strength; she'd be alone but for a childhood friend who's come home by chance. Yet with all the questions of her future before her, she's adrift in the past, remembering the fateful summer she turned fourteen and her life changed forever. Her nervous father's...
| Автор | T. Greenwood |
If you fell in love with 1960s North Carolina when reading Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens, Donna Everhart’s The Moonshiner’s Daughter will transport you right back. Everhart’s sensitive and expert storytelling will capture you in this Southern coming-of-age novel!  Set in North Carolina in 1960 and brimming with authenticity and grit, The Moonshiner’s Daughter evokes the singular life of sixteen-year-old Jessie Sasser, a...
| Автор | Donna Everhart |
No one writes about Italian-American families with the humor, warmth, and heart of Peter Pezzelli. Now, with Francesca's Kitchen, he delivers another winning novel about how much we need the closeness of family–even if we don't know it. Where There's Food, There's Family For years, Francesca Campanile was the queen of her home. Standing in her Rhode Island kitchen, making sauce from sun-ripened tomatoes, dropping in basil from her garden, and adding fresh onion, Francesca...
| Автор | Peter Pezzelli |
Miami in the 1920’s is a city with two faces. By day, it’s a dazzling beacon of industry; when the sun goes down, neon signs flash and decadence reigns. As Prohibition takes hold, speakeasies and illicit distilleries spring up alongside lavish mansions. Nothing can slow the influx of tourists thirsty for strong liquor—or quell the greed of those eager to provide it. Caught between these two worlds , and two very different men, beautiful Lily Strickland throws herself into re-building her...
| Автор | Janie DeVos |
Kim Yideum has an international presence, having read at the Stockholm International Poetry Festival in 2014 and Biennale Internationale des Poètes en Val-de-Marne in 2015. She was a writer-in-residence at the Free University of Berlin through Arts Council Korea, and at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. She is considered one of the most exciting voices in contemporary Korean and feminist poetry, having received her PhD for a thesis on Korean Feminist Poetics. Ji Yoon Lee currently lives...
| Автор | Kim Yideum |
The spare, poetic prose of Raymond Carver meets Jenny Offiill's <i>Department of Speculation</i> and Elizabeth Strout's <i>My Name Is Lucy Barton</i>. In a period when many families in the heartland are shattered by drug addiction, this timely novel chronicles one woman's attempts to understand and survive her blended family, including her meth-addicted son. BEAUT, the winner of the 2018 Lee Smith Novel Prize, is the first novel of acclaimed poet Donald...
| Автор | Donald Morrill |
Even if you think you know what it was like to grow up poor and black in the Jim Crow South, this novel will be a revelation to your understanding. Paulette Bourdreaux's first novel, and winner of the first Lee Smith Novel Prize, is a riveting, scary, and finally, uplifting account of a family's life in 1960s Mississippi. The novel was a finalist for the prestigious Crook's Corner Prize. Said Tayari Jones(An American Marriage): «This soaring story provs what teh old folks say: the...
| Автор | Paulette Boudreaux |
1. This best-selling author received starred reviews from Kirkus, Booklist, and Publisher’s Weekly for his most recent book, JOHN MUIR AND THE ICE THAT STARTED A FIRE (Lyons/April 2014.)<BR> 2. This new novel follows his memoir, RHYTHM OF THE WILD (Lyons/May 2015.)<BR> 3. THE ONLY KAKAY: A JOURNEY INTO THE HEART OF ALASKA(Lyons, 2006) was Finalist for the 2006 Pen Center USA Western award in creative nonfiction.<BR> 4. Features exotic and adventurous setting, quirky-wise...
| Автор | Kim Heacox |
Lit by the hormonal neon glow of Miami, this heady, multilingual debut novel follows a Colombian teenager’s coming-of-age and coming out as she plunges headfirst into lust and evangelism. “Ebullient and assertive. . . . Francisca’s soul stinks up the place beautifully in Fiebre Tropical .” — The New York Times "Juli Delgado Lopera—remember that name—is an irreverent, shameless and disarming new novelist. They are a...
| Автор | Juli Delgado Lopera |
"Stoddard was, next to Melville and Hawthorne, the most strikingly original voice in the mid-nineteenth-century American novel, a voice . . . that ought to gain a more sympathetic and perceptive hearing in our time than in her own."—from the Introduction The centerpiece of this volume is The Morgesons (1862), one of the few outstanding feminist bildungsromanae of that century. Additional selections include arresting short stories and provocative journalistic essays/reviews,...
| Автор | Elizabeth Stoddard |
An injury at birth left Audrey with a wandering eye. Though flawed, the bad eye functions well enough to permit her an idiosyncratic view of the world, one she welcomes in the stifling postwar Brooklyn of the 1950s. During a journey to Manhattan to see a doctor about her sight, she begins to explore the sexual rites of adulthood. But can her romance last? In this beautifully observed novel, Lynne Sharon Schwartz raises themes of innocence and escape while illuminating the rich inner life of a...
| Автор | Lynne Sharon Schwartz |
What is the role of art in the world? And what is the responsibility of the artist? After the death of his wife, Michael Benchere, a well-respected sculptor and once-famous architect, looks for ways to redefine the meaning of his life through the purpose of his art. Determined to create a sculpture that celebrates nothing more than the pure beauty of art, Benchere heads into the Kalahari desert where he is followed quite unexpectedly by a ragtag mix of people. Over the course of his months in...
| Автор | Steven Gillis |