Скачать книгу (размер 1 906 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 375) Аннотация: This is the sequel to The Secret of Chimneys, the second novel to feature Superintendent Battle and Bundle Brent. As a prank, eight alarm clocks are set to wake up champion sleeper, Gerry Wade. But when morning arrives, one clock is missing and the prank backfires, with tragic consequences.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 835 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 361) Аннотация: While playing an erratic round of golf, Bobby Jones slices a ball over the edge of a cliff. His ball is lost, but on the rocks below he finds the crumpled body of a dying man. With his final breath the man opens his eyes and says: «Why didn't they ask Evans»?
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: The author of the phenomenal # 1 New York Times bestseller «Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus», John Gray has helped millions of men and women achieve lasting love and happiness. Now he turns his wisdom and expertise to one of the most sensitive and essential issues in a relationship: sex. In «Mars and Venus in the Bedroom», he explains how we can use advanced relationship skills to keep…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 676 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 330) Аннотация: In the land of Ingary, such things as spells, invisible cloaks, and seven-league boots were everyday things. The Witch of the Waste was another matter. After fifty years of quiet, it was rumored that the Witch was about to terrorize the country again. So when a moving black castle, blowing dark smoke from its four thin turrets, appeared on the horizon, everyone thought it was the Witch. The…
Скачать книгу (размер 116 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 24) Аннотация: When Mr. Gruber takes Paddington to Buckingham Palace to watch the Changing of the Guard, there are so many people in the way he can't see a thing. But a mysterious someone «on high» comes to his rescue and Paddington has a very good idea who it might be.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Tommy and Tuppence Beresford have just become the owners of an old English house. Along with the property they have inherited a collection of antique books. When looking through «The Black Arrow», Tuppence comes upon a series of apparently random underlinings which spell out a disturbing message.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Tommy and Tuppence Beresford were restless for adventure, so when they were asked to take over Blunts International Detective Agency, they leapt at the chance. After their triumphant recovery of a pink pearl, intriguing cases kept on coming their way.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: An archaeologist's wife is murdered on the shores of the River Tigris in Iraq... It was clear to Amy Leatheran that something sinister was going on at the Hassanieh dig in Iraq; something associated with the presence of «Lovely Louise», wife of celebrated archaeologist Dr. Leidner. In a few days' time Hercule Poirot was due to drop in at the excavation site. But with Louise suffering from…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: An urgent cry for help brings Poirot to France. But he arrives too late to save his client, whose brutally stabbed body now lies face downwards in a shallow grave on a golf course. But why is the dead man wearing his sons overcoat? And who was the impassioned love-letter in the pocket for? Before Poirot can answer these questions, the case is turned upside down by the discovery of a second,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Agatha Christie's ingenious murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Nick Buckley was an unusual name for a pretty young woman. But then she had led an unusual life. First, on a treacherous Cornish hillside, the brakes on her car failed. Then, on a coastal path, a falling boulder missed her by inches.…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: Just after midnight, a snowdrift stopped the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train was surprisingly full for the time of the year. But by the morning there was one passengerwer. An American lay dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. With tension mounting, detective Hercule Poirot comes up with not one, but two solutions to the crime.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 921 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 378) Аннотация: When Cora is savagely murdered with a hatchet, the extraordinary remark she made the previous day at her brother Richards funeral suddenly takes on a chilling significance. At the reading of Richards will, Cora was clearly heard to say: Its been hushed up very nicely, hasnt itBut he was murdered, wasnt he? In desperation, the family solicitor turns to Hercule Poirot to unravel the myste.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: At a Halloween party, Joyce — a hostile thirteen-year-old — boasts that she once witnessed a murder. When no-one believes her, she storms off home. But within hours her body is found, still in the house, drowned in an apple-bobbing tub. That night, Hercule Poirot is called in to find the evil presence. But first he must establish whether he is looking for a murderer or a double-murderer ...
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: First there was the mystery of the film star and the diamond... then came the suicide that was murder... the mystery of the absurdly chaep flat... a suspicious death in a locked gun-room... a million dollar bond robbery... the curse of a pharoahs tomb... a jewel robbery by the sea... the abduction of a Prime Minister... the disappearance of a banker... a phone call from a dying man... and,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: When the luxurious Blue Train arrives at Nice, a guard attempts to wake serene Ruth Kettering from her slumbers. But she will never wake again, for a heavy blow has killed her, disfiguring her features almost beyond recognition. What is more, her priceless rubies are missing.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Roaming the pristine landscape of Earth, cared for by machines and aliens, the few remaining humans alive since the war with Titan play Bluff, allowing them to win or lose property and also form new marriages in order to maximise the remote chance some pairings will produce a child. When Pete Garden, a particularly suicidal member of the Pretty Blue Fox game-playing group, loses his current wife…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 300) Аннотация: Marking 70 years since publication, the definitive edition of J.R.R. Tolkien's first book, sporting a facsimile of his original cover design and complete with fold-out maps and his own drawings and paintings. Bilbo Baggins enjoys a quiet and contented life, with no desire to travel far from the comforts of home; then one day the wizard Gandalf and a band of dwarves arrive unexpectedly and enlist…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Isabel Allende’s powerful tale of one boy’s escape from the slums of Los Angeles. This magnificent novel tells the story of Gregory Reeves, the son of Charles, an itinerant preacher. As a boy, Gregory accepts the endless journeying and poverty which is his family’s lot, never questioning the validity of his father’s homespun philosophy of life – the Infinite Plan. But, as manhood approaches,…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: A sequel to one of Lessing’s most celebrated novels, ‘The Fifth Child’. Many will recall the powerful impact ‘The Fifth Child’, Doris Lessing’s 1988 novel, made on publication. Its account of idyllic marital and parental bliss irredeemably shattered by the arrival of the feral fifth child of the Lovatts made for unnerving and compulsive reading. That child, Ben, now grown to legal maturity, is…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Can a ghost from the future save a life in the past? A chilling tale of dark forces and revenge… The ghost turns up one summer day, alone in a world she once knew, among people who were once her family. She knows she is one of four sisters, but which one? She can be sure of only one thing – that there's been an accident. As she struggles to find her identity, she becomes aware of a malevolent…