Widely regarded as one of the essential Latin American writers of our age, Bolano’s exotic and highly imaginative literary masterpiece takes place over the course of a single night when a priest, believing himself to be dying, recalls some of the crucial events and personages of his life.

Widely regarded as one of the essential Latin American writers of our age, Bolano’s exotic and highly imaginative literary masterpiece takes place over the course of a single night when a priest, believing himself to be dying, recalls some of the crucial events and personages of his life.

In a deathbed confession a Jesuit priest pours out self-justifying dark memories of Opus Dei and Pinochet.

In a deathbed confession a Jesuit priest pours out self-justifying dark memories of Opus Dei and Pinochet.

We are thrilled to welcome John Dickson Carr into the Crime Classics series with his first novel, a brooding locked room mystery in the gathering dusk of the French capital. In the smoke-wreathed gloom of a Parisian salon, Inspector Bencolin has summoned his allies to discuss a peculiar case. A would-be murderer, imprisoned for his attempt to kill his wife, has escaped and is k...(展开全部)

Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder With an introduction by Martin Edwards and featuring the Dickson Carr short story "The Shadow of the Goat" We are thrilled to welcome John Dickson Carr into the Crime Classics series with his first novel, a brooding locked room mystery in the gathering dusk of the French capital. In the smoke-wreathed gloom of a Parisian...(展开全部)

Two young women in a land shattered by war test the limits of their strengthLovely Julia Hoffman has always enjoyed the carefree life of her well-to-do Philadelphia family. But when she fails to attra

Joe Coughlin is nineteen when he meets Emma Gould. A smalltime thief in 1920s Boston, he is told to cuff her while his accomplices raid the casino she works for. But Joe falls in love with Emma - and his life changes for ever. That meeting is the beginning of Joe's journey to becoming one of the nation's most feared and respected gangsters. It is a journey beset by violence, do...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Hello Room Service, this is me Eloise. We're going to Paris. France goodbye! And so, our favourite enfant terrible (sporting her foreign identification travel tag) says au revoir to the Plaza and embarks with Nanny and Weenie on a Parisian adventure, which is rawther extraordinaire. While whizzing through the streets, sights, and shops of Paris, Eloise comes to a few im...(展开全部)

A closely guarded room in a paris gambling house, a mangled body on the floor, a severed head staring from the centre of the carpet.. someone had entered that room, killed and escaped all within ten minutes.