Oblivion - formato ePub

Por primera vez unidos en un solo volumen, los tres primeros libros de la popular serie del inspector Erlendur: LAS MARISMAS, LA MUJER DE VERDE Y LA VOZ.«El rey de la novela negra». EL PAÍS«Esta serie...

SI CREES QUE BETTÝ NO TE PUEDE ENGAÑAR, YA HAS CAÍDO EN SU TRAMPABettý es de esas mujeres con un magnetismo hipnótico, acostumbradas a utilizar su atractivo para conseguir todo lo que se proponen. Mientras...

UN NUEVO TÍTULO DE ARNALDUR INDRIDASON, REFERENTE DE LA MEJOR NARRATIVA NEGRA EUROPEA.En una antigua zona de marismas de la capital islandesa, aparece flotando en un estanque el cadáver de un vagabundo....

En un apartamento del barrio de Las Marismas, en Reikiavik, yace el cadáver de un anciano que ha sido golpeado con brutalidad. Hay muchos indicios que apuntan a un homicidio improvisado. ¿Quién podría...

«Como tantas otras veces en aquellos oscurísimos días del año, pensó en cómo la gente pudo sobrevivir en el campo durante cientos de años en medio de una naturaleza tan hostil».El niño tendría unos diez...

«Los cardiólogos estuvieron hablando de eso. De la vida después de la muerte. Algo que había sucedido hacía poco. Un hombre que estuvo muerto durante dos minutos en la mesa del quirófano. Dijo que había...

En la zona de los fiordos orientales, todos conocen la historia de la salvaje tempestad que en enero de 1942 tuvo trágicas consecuencias para un grupo de soldados británicos. También aquel día, la joven...

Un cóctel fuerte que combina crimen, crueldad, historia, militares y... espiritismo.Dos asesinatos. Setenta años los separan, pero hay extraños vínculos que unen a las víctimas. Y también a los investigadores...

CRIMEN Y CASTIGO EN LA GÉLIDA ISLANDIA.El cadáver de un joven degollado aparece en su casa del centro de Reikiavik. No ha habido lucha. No hay arma. Los únicos indicios que encuentra la policía son un...

En 1979 Erlendur, ya divorciado, lleva dos años trabajando como detective para Marion Briem. Ambos investigan el hallazgo del cuerpo de un hombre que fue encontrado en una laguna. Al parecer, la víctima...

A los pies de la tumba de Jón Sigurðsson, el histórico héroe de la independencia islandesa, yace el cadáver de una joven desnuda. Nadie sabe quién es ni por qué la han abandonado en un lugar tan emblemático...

NO SE PUEDE SILENCIAR LA VOZ DE UN MUERTO.Será la última Navidad para el solitario portero de un conocido hotel de Reikiavik. Lo han apuñalado en el sótano donde vivía, vistiendo el traje de Papá Noel...

EL PASADO DEJA UN RASTRO DE TRAICIONES Y SUEÑOS ROTOS.El nivel del lago Kleifarvatn ha bajado tras un terremoto y dejado al descubierto un esqueleto con un agujero en el cráneo. A modo de lastre, el cadáver...

Un hombre confecciona una máscara de cuero con un clavo fijado en la frente. Se trata de una "máscara infernal" usada antiguamente por los granjeros islandeses para sacrificar terneros. Al mismo tiempo,...

En la última planta de un decadente sanatorio mental de Reikiavik, un paciente esquizofrénico se lanza al vacío ante los ojos de su hermano. Casi al mismo tiempo, en otra parte de la ciudad, un profesor...

En 1972, se celebra en Reikiavik el mayor duelo de la historia del ajedrez. El mundo entero espera con impaciencia el enfrentamiento entre el estadounidense Bobby Fischer y el soviético Boris Spassky....

Victoria Finney has always been the planner. So, when she's blindsided by a terminaldiagnosis, she's not just worried about her own future—she's worried about herhusband, Troy. Determined to ensure he's...

Alan Thurston was an immunologist at Midwestern University Medical School. Like most men in the teaching trade, he also had a research project. If it worked out, he'd be one of the great names in medicine;...

Whose Body? is a 1923 novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, which introduced the character of Lord Peter Wimsey. CHAPTER I "Oh, damn!" said Lord Peter Wimsey at Piccadilly Circus. "Hi, driver!" The taxi man,...

The Pit and The Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe "The Pit and the Pendulum" is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1842 in the literary annual The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's...

Eldorado is a sequel book to the classic adventure tale, The Scarlet Pimpernel. It was first published in 1913. The novel is notable in that it is the partial basis for most of the film treatments of...

The Warden, published in 1855, is the first book in Anthony Trollope's Chronicles of Barsetshire series of six novels. It was his fourth novel.The Warden concerns Mr Septimus Harding, the meek, elderly...

The Mirror of the Sea is a collection of autobiographical essays originally published variously in several magazines between 1904 and 1906. In discussing the work, Conrad described it as "a very intimate...

Glenn Killbourne and his fiancee Carley Burch find a strange test of their love in the mountains and canyons of Arizona. What subtle strange message had come to her out of the West? Carley Burch laid...

The senator took an elevator directly to the helicopter landing on the roof of the building. It was several minutes before he had located the little runabout he had bought for his wife the previous Christmas....

Mme. Vauquer (nee de Conflans) is an elderly person, who for the past forty years has kept a lodging-house in the Rue Nueve-Sainte-Genevieve, in the district that lies between the Latin Quarter and the...

"A Daughter of the Snows" is Jack London's first novel. The novel features a strong female heroine, Frona Welse. Frona was born into a wealthy family and educated at Stanford but she takes to the Yukon...

You will, I know, permit me to address you these essays which are more the product of your erudition than of my enthusiasm. With the motives of their appearance you are familiar. We have wondered together...

This don't pretend to be "Literature." This is just a tale for red-blooded folks who want a story and not just a lot of "psychological" stuff or "analysis." Boy, you'll love it! Read it here, see it...

The Purloined Letter Edgar Allan Poe The Purloined Letter" is a short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe. It is the third of his three detective stories featuring the fictional C. Auguste Dupin,...

This collection contains translations of Roumanian tales which, however, comprise but a small portion of the inexhaustible treasure that exists in the nation. The originals are scattered throughout Roumanian...

On the second day of July in the year 1863 the Civil War in America was at its height. Late in the preceding month Lee had turned his face northward, and, with an army of a hundred thou-sand Confederate...

Unseen Genius follows the journey of Jabari, a young inventor with dreams bigger than his circumstances. In each installment, Jabari grapples with the challenges of balancing his family obligations, friendships,...

FIRE MOUNTAIN IS "A THRILLING SEA STORY BY "NORMAN SPRINGER", AUTHOR OF "THE BLOOD SHIP" Years. Bright, aslant eyes, and a suave and ever-ready smile that broke immediately Martin met his gaze. "You...

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "This has got to be one of the most out loud funniest books I've read all year."⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "Any women that are going through menopause need to read this. Such a great book and it's laugh out loud funny." For...

Mr. Greene, a wealthy Englishman on a European holiday with his family, carried his money and his wife's jewels in one of their many boxes. On transferring from the boat on Lake Como to their hotel, the...

"We heard the tecbir, so the Arabs call Their shout of onset, when with loud appeal They challenge heaven, as if commanding conquest." Hugh de Payens, having now laid in Europe the foundations of the...

The Return of the Native is English author Thomas Hardy's sixth published novel. It first appeared in the magazine Belgravia, a publication known for its sensationalism, and was presented in twelve monthly...

For half a century the housewives of Pont-l'Eveque had envied Madame Aubain her servant Felicite. For a hundred francs a year, she cooked and did the housework, washed, ironed, mended, harnessed the...

All they want for Christmas is ...Breanna Henderson lives by lists, strict schedules, and preparations galore. Being pregnant while climbing up a ladder into her best friend Billy's bedroom was definitely...

The year 146 B.C. was an annus mirabilis in the development of Roman dominion. Of course it had long been a foregone conclusion that Carthage and Corinth must fall before her, but the actual time of their...

The highly anticipated follow-up to bestselling BIG HORN, WALKER PRAIRIE is a thrilling Jenn Herrington legal mystery set in Wyoming's rugged Bighorn Mountains. When former prosecutor and mystery writer...

We is a dystopian novel by Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin, written 1920-1921. The novel was first published as an English translation by Gregory Zilboorg in 1924 in New York. The novel describes a world...

The beautiful scenery of the Moselle has too long been left without notice. It is true, some of our Artists have presented to us scenes on the banks of this river; but English travellers are, for the...

One more point deserves notice. Butler often refers in "Life and Habit" to Darwin's "Variations of Animals and Plants under Domestication." When he does so it is always under the name "Plants and Animals."...

AS you open this book you will probably ask, "What is a golden deed?" Let me tell you. It is the doing of something for somebody else doing it without thought of self, without thought of reward, fearlessly,...