Edgar - Libros y biografía

Recently released from prison, John Gray visits his old friend Peter Kane. Although it is the day of his daughter's wedding, Kane agrees to an audience with Emanuel Legg, the criminal and cop-killer with...

LIEUTENANT BRIDGEMAN went out over the German line and "strafed" a depot. He stayed a while to locate a new gun position and was caught between three strong batteries of Archies. "Reports?" said the...

THE road from Alebi is a bush road. It is a track scarcely discernible, that winds through forest and swamp, across stretches of jungle land, over thickly vegetated hills. No tributary of the great river...

In Edgar Wallace's 'Terror Keep', the reader is taken on a thrilling journey through a mysterious castle filled with secrets, betrayal, and suspense. Wallace's fast-paced narrative style keeps the reader...

An explosive, topical drama from one of the UK's top political playwrights.It's 16th April 2010, the day after the UK's first ever televised prime ministerial debate. Stranded in Malaga Airport by a volcanic...

The gripping story of the sensational, real-life case in which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle found himself playing detective - based on Julian Barnes's Booker Prize-nominated novel.In 1903, Birmingham solicitor...

1968. A time of political upheaval the likes of which has not been seen since. Until - perhaps - now. In a new age of radical leftism and global politics, this new version of David Edgar's 1983 award-winning...

Ann Perryman hat ihren Bruder Ronnie verloren. Sie glaubt, Inspektor Bradley von den fliegenden Kolonne habe ihn umgebracht, und deswegen steigt sie jetzt beim früheren Arbeitgeber ihres Bruders, Mark...

In How Plays Work, distinguished playwright David Edgar examines the mechanisms and techniques which dramatists throughout the ages have employed to structure their plays and to express their meaning....

It's 1968. David is twenty. It is the height of the worldwide student revolt. The Vietnam war rages. Enoch Powell delivers his 'Rivers of Blood' speech. Martin Luther King is assassinated. These events...

RIGHTLY speaking, it is improper, not to say illegal, for those sadly privileged few who go in and out of Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, to have pointed out to them any particular character, however...

IT is not for you or me to judge Manfred and his works. I say 'Manfred', though I might as well have said 'Gonsalez', or for the matter of that 'Poiccart', since they are equally guilty or great according...

Maydays tells the story of the twenty-somethings who came of age in 1968 and were drawn into revolutionary politics; of defection from East to West as well as from Left to Right. David Edgar's play is...

“THE worst of being a mug,” said Private Smith, “is that you usually look it. That ain’t my point of view, an’ it’s not original, bein’ the idea of one of the grandest lawyers that ever went into the...

SMITHY sat on the edge of his cot and sorted his belongings. The solid black trunk that a paternal Government provided for the reception of the soldiers’ worldly possessions was wide open, and the inside...

TO Isongo, which stands upon the tributary of that name, came a woman of the Isisi who had lost her husband through a providential tree falling upon him. I say "providential," for it was notorious that...

MR COMMISSIONER SANDERS had graduated to West Central Africa by such easy stages that he did not realize when his acquaintance with the back lands began. Long before he was called upon by the British...

A mother and son bound to a land of terrible beauty. A story that will make you smile and make you cry and perhaps make you wonder. Wonder at the joy of the dreadful power of nature at it's wildest, at...

Eine Liebesgeschichte - ein Krimi - eine Sittengeschichte? Alle drei! Mrs. Carawood kauft eine Villa in Ascot und schenkt sie Gräfin Marie Fioli, die ihr Pflegekind ist.

Lei è la più raffinata e scaltra criminale in circolazione, allevata nel nome dell'anticonformismo e del non rispetto delle convenzioni e delle leggi. È lei la mente della banda più terribile in circolazione....

A panoramic adaptation of Gita Sereny's definitive and magisterial biography of a man whose devotion to Hitler blinded him to the worst crime of the twentieth century.Plucked from obscurity to be Hitler's...

The first created thing was light. Then life came, then death. In between was fear. But not love. Love was absent. In Eden, there was none. Adam and Eve emerged there adult. The phases of the delicate...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Meddling Kids comes a mind-blowing, gender-bending, genre-smashing romp through the entire pantheon of action and noir. An office door bears the names of...

Extra! Extra! American billionaire King Kerry is using his immense wealth to quite literally, buy London, in this gripping mystery from prolific writer and creator of King Kong, Edgar Wallace. King Kerry...

The first in David Edgar's trilogy of plays about post-Communist Eastern Europe - see alsoThe Prisoner's DilemmaandThe Shape of the Table.A valuable mural is discovered in a church in war-torn Eastern...

A nostalgic and subversive trip rife with sly nods to H. P. Lovecraft and pop culture, in the vein of It and Stranger ThingsA nostalgic celebration of horror, friendship and many-tentacled, interdimensional...

Turkestan – the great landmass of Central Asia and Western China – is an intriguing meeting point of civilizations. Four major invasions – Greek, Arab, Mongol and Russian – together with Persian, Turkic...

Jim Bartholomew, ein junger Bankdirektor erlebt den Schock seines Lebens. Aus dem Tresor der Bank wird ein 120'000 Pfund schweres Diamanten-Collier geraubt und sein Stellvertreter erschossen. Dazu kommt...

J G Reeder is a shabby little man with red hair and weak eyes. However, his extraordinary mind is rapier sharp. Here are three thrilling episodes torn from his casebook: Red Aces about a man who gambles...

IN the dusk of the evening the waterman brought his skiff under the overhanging hull of the Baltic steamer and rested on his oars, the little boat rising and falling gently in the swell of the river....