The Dark Street - formato ePub

CALLAGHAN turned the corner into Chancery Lane. A gust of cold wind met him, blowing back the flaps of his not-so-clean raincoat, sending the rain through his threadbare trouser legs. He was five feet...

CALLAGHAN awoke and looked at the ceiling. The fire sent grotesque shadows flickering across the white expanse above him. He yawned, turned over, kicked off the bedclothes, swung his legs to the floor....

Affare fatto (Your Deal, My Lovely) è un thriller del 1941 dello scrittore britannico Peter Cheyney. È il settimo della sua serie di romanzi con protagonista l'agente dell'FBI Lemmy Caution. Gran parte...

Pubblicato nel 1940 con il titolo You’d be surprised, e in edizione italiana, nei Gialli Mondadori, nel 1948, Roba da matti! è il sesto romanzo della serie di Lemmy Caution, il detective dell'FBI creato...

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KALEIDOSCOPIC pictures of last night's party presented themselves between myself and the ceiling. One or two faces— one of them was certainly Sammy's face, the other that of an attractive woman— flashed...

THE office was a small, square room on a third floor near Golden Square. It was sombre and unassuming. The furniture was nondescript. A suggestion of efficiency was provided by a steel filing-cabinet....

A FILM director, seeking a ghostly scene for some macabre film, would have acclaimed the location of the Box of Compasses. It stood, set back fifty yards from the deserted cross-roads, one arm of which...

SHAUN ALOYSIUS O'MARA came round the shadow of the low wall that bounded the end of the little church. He stepped unsteadily over the wall; began to walk through the small graveyard towards the yew-tree...

THE yellow mist seeped into the Place des Roses; bringing an almost evil quality to the cul-de-sac; rising only a few feet from the ground; creating the impression that there were no foundations to the...

Mai un momento di quiete! (Never a Dull Moment) è un romanzo thriller del 1942 dello scrittore britannico Peter Cheyney e rappresenta l’ottava storia in cui è protagonista il detective federale Lemmy...

È arrivato Lemmy Caution! è uno dei più famosi romanzi “gialli” di Peter Cheyney, pubblicato in Italia nel 1947. Lemmy Caution, un impertinente ma simpatico detective (agente federale), si trova a investigare...

Lemmy Caution e il Drago Blu è uno dei più famosi romanzi “gialli” di Peter Cheyney, pubblicato in Italia nel 1952. Lemmy Caution, un impertinente ma simpatico detective (agente federale), si trova a...

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Rosie Redbrush, a travel agent working for Wanderlust Wishes travel agency, is someone who sells holidays but never takes them. At twenty-nine, she lives a quiet, comfortable life in the town she grew...

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Nick Cutter, author of #HorrorBookTok sensation The Troop, returns with a heart-pounding novel of terror about a young woman searching for her missing friend and uncovering a shocking truth.On a sunny...

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From the author of The North Wind comes a darkly reimagined tale of forbidden love, inspired by the Greek myth of Hero and Leander and the Scottish ballad Tam Lin. Brielle of Thornbrook has dedicated...

An old house turns out not to be as empty as its new owners supposed. A nobleman barters his soul for arcane knowledge. A stranger with a terrible curse looks for an unsuspecting victim to take her place....

The astronomer falls off the flatbed truck, the falconer is afraid of a lion. Mona Lisa worries about red spots. Being "degenerate" hurts. The artworks themselves know best what it feels like to be systematically...

Alexis (24) is a young man with mild disabilities. Intelligent, but opinionated, passive and very introverted. During an ordinary December week, he is confronted with an avalanche of surprising experiences...

Rick causes a car accident in the middle of Munich and nothing is the same afterwards. At first, no one believes him that his traffic light was green when he drove into the intersection without braking....

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After the sudden death of her boyfriend, Vera would have been happy to spend the rest of her days curiously unnoticeable, washing bed sheets and cleaning toilets in present day Glastonbury. But when the...

Growing up in Roath Park, Cardiff, John Richards never envisaged a career in the cut-throat corporate 'City' – London, the world-renowned hub of trading, retail and financial marketing. Spending his childhood...