Patricia WENTWORTH - Libros y biografía

Fauché, dans l'incapacité d'épouser celle qu'il aime, Carthew Fairfax pensait avoir touché le fond... C'était sans savoir que quelqu'un, dans l'ombre, a juré sa perte. Et quand il s'en rend compte, il...

(Re)découvrez tous les grands succès de Patricia Wentworth chez 12-21, l'éditeur numérique ! A la fin des années 30, le jeune écrivain, espion à ses heures, Peter Talbot, se lance à la poursuite d'un...

(Re)découvrez tous les grands succès de Patricia Wentworth chez 12-21, l'éditeur numérique ! " Allez, c'est l'heure exquise où l'on choisit un fauteuil et où l'on s'offre une heure ailleurs. Du côté...

(Re)découvrez tous les grands succès de Patricia Wentworth chez 12-21, l'éditeur numérique ! " Au-delà des intrigues extrêmement bien menées, on retrouve chez Patricia Wentworth l'attachement de beaucoup...

(Re)découvrez tous les grands succès de Patricia Wentworth chez 12-21, l'éditeur numérique ! Quelque part parmi la poussière et les toiles d'araignée de la propriété familiale des Benevent se dissimule...

CLASSIC GOLDEN AGE MYSTERY, PERFECT FOR FANS OF AGATHA CHRISTIEWhen a blackmailer is stabbed at his own celebration, Miss Silver must find the guilty party'Ranks with the best of the golden-age detectives'...

The Everton murder case has long been closed. The culprit has been charged with the murder of his uncle and has served a year of his sentence already. Or has he?The evidence against Geoffrey Grey is convincing...

There were times when Rachel Treherne fervently wished that her beloved father had left his fortune to somebody else, so overburdened did she feel with the administration of her estate. And never more...

Tanis Lyle was one of those passionate women who always get their own way. Her cousin Laura hated her. Most women did. But men found her irresistible and she used them mercilessly.So when Tanis was found...

Tilling Green was a charming little village nestling in the Ledshire countryside. Not at all the sort of place you would expect to find an anonymous letter writer. And when one of the recipients, a young...

For Althea Graham, suffering the whims of her malevolent invalid of a mother, the old family home is a prison. So when two strangely competitive offers for the Graham's house are made to her it suggests...

James Cray was always a cruel man . . .When he was 21 James Lessiter told Henrietta Cray that he loved her before all things and so broke Catherine Lee's heart. But James has a side to him that most people...

It's nearing the end of WWII, and Michael Harsh has been working for the government on a secret project for years. Finally he is ready to hand over the formula. But the next morning he is dead. It looks...

A classic mystery novel from one of the mistresses of the genre.Things had never been quite the same at Latter End since Lois had taken over. Suddenly life seemed to be an endless succession of bitter...

A bloody curse fells four...Judy Elliot, meeting an old friend, Detective Sergeant Abbott tells him that, having been left the custody of her motherless little niece, she is taking a domestic job in the...

Anne Jocelyn had been a beautiful, wealthy young woman. She had died three years ago. At least, that was what her husband Philip and the rest of the family had always thought. But then a woman calling...

The Catherine-Wheel had once been a home for pirates and smugglers, but now is looked like it was harbouring a murderer.There was a certain heavy air of intrigue and mystery emanating from the old inn...

A classic mystery novel from one of the mistresses of the genre.When her fiancé, Giles Armitage, is lost at sea in the middle of the Second World War, Meade Underwood is left in the company of a middle-aged...

There is a curse on the Benevents . . .Somewhere among the dust and cobwebs of the sinister Benevent Mansion lies the legendary Benevent treasure. But a terrible death has been prophesied for whoever...

James and Carmona Hardwick are spending the summer playing host to numerous friends and relatives in an old Hardwick family residence by the sea. The arrival of Alan Field, a devastatingly handsome though...

A classic mystery novel from one of the mistresses of the genre.Bill Waring, collecting his wits in hospital after a train crash, receives only one letter from Lila Dryden, his fiancée. When he discovers...

Murder on haunted ground . . .Mary Stokes was walking through Dead Man's Copse one evening when she saw, in the beam of a torch, the corpse of a young woman dressed in a black coat, black gloves, no hat...

Martin Brand's relatives are furious that he's left his large estate to his niece, Marion, whom he had only met once. And Marion is upset that she has to share her new home with Martin's family. Then...

Quarante-huit heures. C'est le temps qu'il reste à Jervis pour trouver une nouvelle épouse. Une fois ce délai écoulé, l'héritage de son richissime grand-père passera entre les mains de Rosamund, son ex-fiancée...

Se réveiller au lendemain d'un naufrage pour apprendre que l'on est amnésique, soupçonné d'un passé de voleur et d'assassin, marié de surcroît à une femme terrifiante. Voilà la terrible histoire de Jim...

Sans le sou, Ann Vernon s'engage comme dame de compagnie auprès de la vieille Mrs Halliday. Elle est loin de se douter que le charmant fils de sa patronne en sait plus long qu'elle ne pourrait le croire...

Engagée pour tenir compagnie à une riche héritière de dix-sept ans, Sarah Trent découvre bien vite que ses tâches ne se limitent pas à jouer au tennis. Très vite, les accidents se succèdent. Quelqu'un...

The telephone bell rang, and went on ringing. Miss Agatha Hardwicke kept her instrument in the front hall where everyone could hear every single word that was said. If the postman came while you were...