Peter Haining Livres

1993

What better way to do away with an enemy than at the dinner table? Arsenic in the porridge, cyanide in the cocoa, a sauce laced with strychnine, or the chef with a cleaver in his back - the choices are boundless. This collection brings together great crime stories from all eras.

This collection of crime stories set in London contains stories by P.D. James, Ruth Rendell, Graham Greene, Dorothy L. Sayers and Agatha Christie. The city provides a backdrop to their mysteries.

Horse Racing may be known as the `Sport Of Kings`, but it also has a long association with crime, corruption and murder. Murder At The Races presents a worldwide selection of stories by famous authors including Dick Francis, John Francome, Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Leslie Charteris and Steve Donoghue. This omnibus features all aspects of racing - the race meetings themselves, the countries they are held in where racing has long been a popular sport. There are stories about the jockeys and their mounts, and the special pressures and temptations they face, as well as a section on the bookies and punters who are such an essential element in racing.

"A wide-ranging collection of the most illuminating and amusing items from this wealth of material. It provides a unique portrait of the 'Great Detective', his cases, his faithful assistant Watson and of course his chief adversary - the arch-villain Moriarty."--Jacket.

À l’Opéra des événements terrifiants se produisent. On accuse un personnage mystérieux qui apparaît et disparaît à sa guise et semble agir en maître des lieux.Le fantôme de l’Opéra, comme lui-même se nomme, commande aux trappes, au lustre, aux miroirs, dicte ses instructions et sème l’effroi. Monstre ou Ange, le fantôme demeure dans les dessous de ce temple de la musique et de la danse, est tendre ou impitoyable, toujours repoussant et parfois humain. Avec ce roman, Gaston Leroux, qui puise dans les croyances urbaines, fabrique un cocktail à dominante fantastique, teinté d’une touche policière, sentimentale et historique.

Collects and comments on drawings, paintings, engravings, and sometimes convincing photographs of ghosts and other apparitional figures

Sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll--writings from the psychedelic era by the people who lived it.