Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: The Moonstone, a yellow diamond looted from an Indian temple and believed to bring bad luck to its owner, is bequeathed to Rachel Verinder on her eighteenth birthday. That night the priceless stone is stolen again and when Sergeant Cuff is brought in to investigate the crime, he soon realizes that no one in Rachel's household is above suspicion.
Скачать книгу (размер 478 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 95) Аннотация: Only the Woman in White knows the truth of Laura Fairlie's cruel husband. Can Walter Hartwright discover the terrible secret? From the moment Walter meets this mysterious woman, his future and that of Laura are linked forever.
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared.' One of the earliest works of 'detective' fiction with a narrative woven together from multiple characters, Wilkie Collins partly based his…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. Centred around a glorious yellow diamond, The Moonstone tells the story of Rachel Verinder, who inherits the stone on her 18th birthday. That very evening, the diamond is stolen and there begins an epic enquriy into hunting down the thief. Told from the perspective of 11different characters, Wilkie Collins' tale of…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: 'The first and greatest of English detective novels' of T.S.Eliot. A fabulous yellow diamond becomes the dangerous inheritance of Rachel Verinder. Outside her Yorkshire country house watch the Hindu priests who have waited for many years to reclaim their ancient talisman, looted from the holy city of Somnauth. When the Moonstone disappears the case looks simple, but in mid-Victorian England no…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: At the centre of Hide and Seek (1854) a secret waits to be revealed. Why should the apparently respectable painter Valentine Blyth refuse to account for the presence in his household of the beautiful girl known as Madonna? It is not until his young friend Zack Thorpe, who is in rebellion against his repressive father, gets into bad company and meets a mysterious stranger that the secret of…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 502 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 688) Аннотация: Part of the «Collector's Library» series, this title includes an Afterword, brief biography of the author and a further reading list.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: Wilkie Collins is a master of mystery, and «The Woman in White» is his first excursion into the genre. When the hero, Walter Hartright, on a moonlit night in north London, encounters a solitary, terrified and beautiful woman dressed in white, he feels impelled to solve the mystery of her distress. The intricate plot is peopled with a finely characterised cast, from the peevish invalid Mr Fairlie…
Скачать книгу (размер 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 120) Аннотация: The woman in white first appears at night on a lonely heath near London and is next seen at a grave-side in Cumberland. Who is she? Where has she come from, and what is her history? She seems alone and friendless, frightened and confused. And it seems she knows a secret — a secret that could bring ruin and shame to a man who will do anything to keep her silent. This famous mystery thriller by…
Скачать книгу (размер 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 120) Аннотация: Only the Woman in White knows the truth of Laura Fairlie's cruel husband. Can Walter Hartwright discover the terrible secret? From the moment Walter meets this mysterious woman, his future and that of Laura are linked forever.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Porthgenna Tower on the remote western Cornish coast. Moments before her death, Mrs Treverton dictates a secret to her maid, never to be passed to her husband as she had instructed. Fifteen years later, when Mrs Treverton's daughter, Rosamond, returns to Porthgenna with her blind husband, Leonard, she is intrigued by the strange and seemingly disturbed Mrs Jazeph's warning not to enter the Myrtle…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: »The Moonstone» is an ancient Indian diamond which brings disaster to everyone who owns it. Rachel Verinder’s uncle gives her the diamond as a birthday present, but that same night it is stolen… The Moonstone is now seen as the first, and one of the best, English detective novels.
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Classic / British English (Available April 2008) The Moonstone is an ancient Indian diamond which brings disaster to everyone who owns it. Rachel Verinder's uncle gives her the diamond as a birthday present, but that same night it is stolen The Moonstone is now seen as the first, and one of the best, English detective novels.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: This is a unique collection of strange stories from the cunning pen of Wilkie Collins, author of The Woman in White and The Moonstone. The Star attraction is the novella The Haunted Hotel, a clever combination of detective and ghost story set in Venice, a city of grim waterways, dark shadows and death. The action takes place in an ancient palazzo coverted into a modern hotel that houses a grisly…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: Late one night, on a lonely road near London, Walter Hartright, a young drawing teacher, meets a solitary woman dressed in white. This is the opening scene of The Woman in White, a great Victorian sensation novel, full of mystery, excitement, and suspense. Who is the mysterious woman in white, and why is she alone on the road to London at midnight?
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: On her eighteenth birthday, Rachel Verinder receives a very special present: the Moonstone – a large yellow diamond from India: but that night the Moonstone is stolen… In what T. S. Eliot called ‘the first, the longest, and the best of modern detective novels’, Wilkie Collins tells a story full of mystery, suspense and psychological insight.