When Detective Sime Mackenzie is sent from Montreal to investigate a murder on the remote Entry Island, 850 miles from the Canadian mainland, he leaves behind him a life of sleeplessness and regret.
If you want to write a murder mystery, you have to do some research...
In a luxury flat in Monaco, John Houston's supermodel wife lies in bed, a bullet in her skull.
Komedie plná zvratů o souboji mezi přátelstvím a láskou. Do pošetilého jednání "kavalírských" milenců pozoruhodně vstupují i dva sluhové a jeden pes. Ženy tu sice hrají prim, ale svému údělu se nevyhnou. Dvojjazyčné vydání.
Inovovaná, česko-slovenská verze původní české dětské knížky z prvorepublikového období obsahuje vedle povědomých příběhů i neznámé starší pohádky. Půvabně ilustrovanou publikaci doplňuje praktický slovníček rozdílných výrazů a dvě CD.
Dvojjazyčné vydání Bulgakovových raných groteskně-satiristických povídek obsahuje ústřední fantasmagorický příběh z moskevského prostředí 20. let minulého století, pojatý jako "obludný" sen, v němž hlavní hrdina Korotkov připomíná Kafkova Josefa K.
Výbor několika pohádek ze známé pohádkové knížky pro děti Kinder und Hausmärchen od bratří Grimmů. Pohádky jsou v původním znění (tedy v německém jazyku), pouze s malými úpravami některých archaismů.
A half-starved young Russian man in a long black overcoat is smuggled into Hamburg at dead of night. He has an improbable amount of cash secreted in a purse round his neck.
As a favour to an old friend, Hercule Poirot finds himself at a summer fete in Devon, taking part not in a Treasure Hunt, but a Murder Hunt, in this never-before-published novella version of Dead Man’s Folly.
The Great War changes everything. In this epic tale, spanning over a decade, war turns the world of privileged, English aristocrat Christopher Tietjens upside down.
A lonely government clerk - shy, awkward, blundering - finds himself pursued by a mysterious stranger. Somehow he looks familiar. In fact, he realizes, he looks exactly like him. He even has the same name.
Life is strange for Patrick Fort - being a medical student with Asperger’s Syndrome doesn’t come without its challenges. And that’s before he is faced with solving a possible murder.
Prague Soundscapes is the first book focusing on music in Prague from other than musical-historical perspectives. It approaches musical events in present-day Prague from an ethno-musicological position, sometimes called musical anthropology.
Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis.
Explosive, subversive, wild and funny, 50 years on the novel's strength is undiminished. Reading Joseph Heller's classic satire is nothing less than a rite of passage.
Readers first encountered Tobias Eaton as "Four" in Divergent. His voice is an integral part of Allegiant. Readers will find more of this charismatic character's backstory told from his own perspective in Four: A Divergent Collection.
Tim Burton is one of the great modern-day visionaries of cinema, a director who has fabricated his own deliciously nightmarish universe in movies as extraordinary as Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Mars Attacks! and The Nightmare before Christmas.