O Caso das Joias Roubadas de Du Barry - Ao Serviço de Maria Antonieta 1 - formato ePub

Recém casada com Luís XVI, Maria Antonieta sente-se aborrecida com o seu novo papel. Os bailes, rendas e folhos não são suficientes para a entreter. Mas, por detrás do seu leque, a Rainha está atenta...

Dans un pays où le thé est presque aussi sacré que Confucius, mener l’enquête chez les maîtres du thé n’est pas une mince affaire. Aussi le juge Ti est-il fort surpris de se voir nommer "commissaire du...

L’été 1789 est une époque bénie pour les assassins. À dix-huit ans, Laure de Sade tente de survivre aux bouleversements qui agitent Paris, mais aussi de démanteler un trafic de pierres précieuses en montgolfière,...

Un corps décapité a été découvert dans une maison close élégante de Pou-yang, la ville administrée par le juge Ti.Cette enquête dans le milieu de la prostitution ne va pas sans lui créer des problèmes...

Notre juge préféré se voit convoqué à la capitale des Tang pour répondre de sa dernière enquête. À peine a-t-il embarqué sur le fleuve Jaune qu’il reçoit un nouvel ordre de mission énigmatique : assurer...

Lorsque Arsène Lupin apprend qu’un vieux collectionneur de diamants rouges, de retour d’Argentine, loue une suite à l’année dans un palace parisien, il saute sur l’occasion de s’emparer des pierres précieuses....

Qui a bien pu poignarder M. Cherpoulet lors de la vente aux enchères de l’hôtel Drouot ? Et pour un tas de vieilleries inutiles  ? Aux yeux de la police, la jeune héritière Eulalie de Ballancourt et sa...

Auteur Depuis la parution de son premier roman Les fous de Guernesey en 1991, Frédéric Lenormand a été lauréat de la Fondation Del Duca, de la Villa Médicis Hors les Murs, de la Fondation Beaumarchais...

Nicolas-Joseph Lecacheur est commissaire de police sous le Directoire. Sorte de Maigret d'une Révolution finissante, il tente de faire régner l'ordre à Châlons-sur-Marne entre sa femme, qui vient de profiter...

A l'article « Police » de l'Almanach de l'An II (1793) - sorte de who's who de l'Ancien Régime -, figure la liste des douze administrateurs chargés d'assurer la sécurité des Parisiens. Rien ne prédispose...

Rose et Léonard, les agents très spéciaux de la Reine Marie-Antoinette, tirent leur révérence lors d’une dernière enquête ! Le moral est en berne à Versailles ! La reine Marie-Antoinette peine à recruter...

Le tribunal de Han-yuan est en émoi : victime d’une chute de cheval, le juge Ti est cloué au lit pour plusieurs semaines au moment où un cadavre est découvert dans une clairière.Avec la complicité du...

En pleine fête traditionnelle des fantômes, une série de meurtres est commise dans la ville administrée par le juge Ti. Chaque fois, une effigie de démon chinois est retrouvée près de la victime. C'est...

Qui supprime un à un les princes de la dynastie Tang ? Qui s’acharne contre les quatre cent mille habitants de la capitale qu’un tirage au sort a condamnés à s’exiler dans une autre ville ? Tandis que...

Dur temps pour le juge TI !Une étrange épidémie frappe Han-yuan, la ville qu'il est chargé d'administrer. En proie à une panique superstitieuse, les habitants sont persuadés que l'âme vengeresse d'un...

Dépêché dans une province lointaine, au climat rigoureux, aux habitants incultes et à la cuisine immangeable, le juge Ti regrette amèrement le luxe de la capitale. Un seul raffinement très en vogue est...

Agatha-nominated series! A madcap mystery set in the off, off, OFF Broadway world of theater (#4 in the Ivy Meadows Mystery series)There's a new sheriff in town—and she can sing! When Gold Bug Gulch's...

Have you ever felt that itch in the back of your brain you just can't scratch? A particular gnawing on your mind biting away your best thoughts? Meet Wormy: the literal brain worm residing inside the...

Children are not brought up in society to focus on politics. They are often encouraged to enjoy their life and their childhood. It is often said that kids should just be kids. But when there is a political...

Tales From the Tomes: Vol. 1 is a collection of four mystical stories of magic and science. Lance Kehisato weaves the future and the past together, creating a string of four stories in different worlds,...

Emmaline has been in a coma for two crucial years of her teenage life. Waking life is almost as disorienting, but finally she is reunited with her sister and father. Now she must make up for lost time,...

Aidan Black left the Marine Corps to skip the red tape, but it's a woman from his past he's now trying to avoid… one who believes him capable of murder. Briar Sutton is the last person I expect to see...

Cillian is no stranger to the pull of dark magic as he is the son of both the Dark realm Princess and the Light realm Prince. What doesn't help is that he may have been further infused with dark magic...

The Stygian Lepus Magazine is a thrilling foray into dark speculative fiction. In each new edition, readers explore the depths of imagination, where fear and fascination intertwine.Offering diverse genres...

This is a collection of ten horror microfiction tales, sometimes called bite-sized fiction or 'drabbles'. These stories are limited to precisely one-hundred words and aim to pack a punch, all the while...

SAMSARA'S DEAD HAVE CHOSEN NEL. AND THE CACOPHONY CALLED FOR JUSTICE. Archaeologist Dr. Nel Bently has never been farther from home. With a tenuous ceasefire from Lin's rebellion force and genocidal Harris...

Nina Rosethorn, a university student, survives a lightning strike and returns home to Vancouver. But the incident triggers a haunting ability: premonitions manifest in her nightmares. Determined to prevent...

Dangerously good-looking. Dangerously breathtaking. This dangerously sinful cowboy is going to steal her heart. When the outback's bare-knuckle champion, Dex Riggs, arrives in Sophie's emergency room,...

The "Love on the Ice" series delivers a pulse-pounding journey through five heart-stopping books that redefine love on and off the hockey rink!Book #1: Melting the Ice Between Us (Novella)I'm not sticking...

Star Maker, regarded as one of the true classics of science fiction, Star Maker is a poetic and deeply philosophical work. The story details the mental journey of an unnamed narrator who is transported...

MYTH: ITS BIRTH AND GROWTH. "Unchecked by external truth, the mind of man has a fatal facility for ensnaring, entrapping, and entangling itself. But, happily, happily for the human race, some fragment...

The contents of the work which gave such pleasure to this learned antiquary are as follows:I. IntroductionSimilarity of Arts and CustomsSimilarity of NamesOrigin of the WorkImitationCasual CoincidenceMiltonDante.II....

he Brothers Karamazov, is the final novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Dostoyevsky spent nearly two years writing The Brothers Karamazov, which was published as a serial in The Russian Messenger...

In offering this study to a public accustomed only to the unquestioning acceptance of the home as something perfect, holy, quite above discussion, a word of explanation is needed. First, let it be clearly...

This is the third, and probably the last, of the Fairy Books of many colours. First there was the Blue Fairy Book; then, children, you asked for more, and we made up the Red Fairy Book; and, when you...

When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true, too. She had a little thin face and a little...

The "Times.""For its rapid action, in fact, we have seldom read a better story, or one which is more full of incidents, sanguinary, trenchant, and robust."The "Daily Telegraph.""A true and a wonderfully...

The SCENE is the Exterior of a Cottage in West Issacshire on a desperately Arcadian afternoon in August. MR. ICKY, quaintly dressed in the costume of an Elizabethan peasant, is pottering and doddering...

COMMON opinion said that Lord Lynborough ought never to have had a peerage and forty thousand a year; he ought to have had a pound a week and a back bedroom in Bloomsbury. Then he would have become an...

Tales of Space and Time, A collection of short stories: "The Crystal Egg", "The Star", "A Story of the Stone Age", "A Story of the Days to Come" & "The Man who could Work Miracles" Some Books of...

The stories begin with those which children like bestthe old Blue Beard, Puss in Boots, Hop o my Thumb, Little Red Riding Hood, The Sleeping Beauty, and Toads and Pearls. These were first collected, written,...

Quite aside from its natural characteristics, there is an atmosphere about a college town, especially a New England college town, that is unmistakable. It is not so much actively intellectual as passively...

"Eugene Witla, wilt thou have this woman to thy wedded wife, to live together after God's ordinance in the holy estate of matrimony? Wilt thou love her, comfort her, honour her, and keep her in sickness...

Then came a glimmer of daylight that grew and grew, and presently ended in another arch that looked out over a scene so like a picture out of a book about Italy that everyone's breath was taken away,...

In giving to the world the record of what, looked at as an adventure only, is I suppose one of the most wonderful and mysterious experiences ever undergone by mortal men, I feel it incumbent on me to...

Jaime Febrer arose at nine o'clock. Old Antonia, the faithful servant who cherished the memory of the past glories of the family, and who had attended upon Jaime from the day of his birth, had been bustling...