Resultados para "The Express" en Literatura y ficción

En un lugar aislado de la antigua Yugoslavia, en plena madrugada, una fuerte tormenta de nieve obstaculiza la línea férrea por donde circula el Orient Express. Procedente de la exótica Estambul, en él viaja el detective Hércules Poirot, que repentinamente se topa con uno de los casos más desconcertantes de su carrera: en el compartimiento vecino ha sido asesinado Samuel E. Ratchett mientras dormía, pese a que ningún indicio trasluce un móvil concreto.

Los muchos miles de lectores de Luis Sepúlveda ya conocen su gran pasión: viajar, deambular por el mundo, observar a sus gentes y escuchar sus historias. Pero Sepúlveda tiene también otra pasión, podría decirse que en simbiosis con la anterior, que es la de contar él mismo, a su modo, esas historias oídas y otras que, gracias a su desbordante capacidad de fabulación, enriquecen la realidad convirtiéndola en literatura. Pues bien, esta vez Sepúlveda nos invita a acompañarle, codo con codo, en algunos de sus periplos por las solitarias tierras de Patagonia y Tierra del Fuego.

Peluquerías, postizos, tinturas, cortes y extensiones, quirófanos, clínicas, lipos, liftings, flotadores, operaciones estéticas, residuos patógenos. Los ámbitos en que transcurre y el vocabulario que ilumina esta siniestra historia protagonizada por Ruth Epelbaum –la detective creada por Krimer en Sangre kosher– nos anticipan que en esta novela, como siempre, las mujeres se hacen cargo, padecen, disfrutan, ponen el cuerpo. Y lo pone sobre todo la entrañable Ruth.

London, 1898. Held captive by a diabolical criminal mastermind and his gang of thugs, Watson overhears an assassination plot that not only endangers the life of Sherlock Holmes, but threatens to ignite a war. If he has any hope of foiling his kidnappers’ nefarious plans, he must escape - and quickly. Eluding the familiar foe proves challenging, however. Watson is soon caught and awakens in jail, the prime suspect for two murders, dressed in the clothes of a missing man, one Lord Harwell.

El primero de los elaborados crímenes de esta recopilación de cuentos policiales tiene lugar en el Lusitania Express mientras alguien lee la revista "Misterio y delito". Los siguientes relatos narran los casos que se exponen en los artículos de la revista. Con esta obra, Mariano Sánchez Soler se identifica sin prejuicios con los escritores "negros" de los que en 1992 Manuel Vázquez Montalbán dijo: "como reacción a la literatura merodeante [...] nos salieron historias en las que intervenían la aventura y el delito".

When Aubrey’s fiancé dumps her – literally at the altar – just days before Christmas, her first thought is for the honeymoon. A luxury snow train, winding through Europe’s most beautiful Christmas markets, stopping in places like Paris and Stockholm, before ending in Lapland, to stay in igloos under the Northern Lights. It was meant to be the most romantic ten days of her life. And now she has to go it alone.

"CHILLINGLY THOUGHT PROVOKING..." Are you ready for one hell of a bumpy ride? A man's daily commute becomes a hellish nightmare in this harrowing account of a horrific bus crash that transforms a fateful ending into a painful beginning for an unlucky lot forced to endure. Based on an age-old premise with a fresh perspective, it visits the undesirable side of life after death. R. K. Howard is an American author. His "Black Machetes" has been in Amazon Top 100 psychological thriller several times.

Lucius Asgren, fresco di Accademia, viene mandato per il suo primo incarico a Gardoue, uno sperduto paesino sulle Alpi francesi. L'ispettore non fa neanche in tempo ad ambientarsi che viene coinvolto in un'indagine per omicidio: a bordo dell'Occident Express, che ogni primo giovedì del mese passa da Gardoue, è stato trovato un cadavere. Tra false piste, sostituzioni di persona, rocamboleschi inseguimenti, e con l'aiuto della giovane Violette, Asgren dovrà risolvere il suo primo caso.

When Chris Lawler is left adrift by the sudden loss of her partner, she heads west on a cross-country road trip—but no GPS can navigate her loneliness or the guilt over her part in Sally’s accident. Struggling to find belonging among Utah’s red rocks and in the Texas Hill Country, she meets two remarkably different people who begin to kindle her healing. She is smitten by one of them, but past rejection renders her insecure and awkward. Adding to her isolation, her judgmental kin in Texas rebuff her attempts to reconcile.

When William Langford boards the 4:15 express on a damp December evening, he expects nothing more than a quiet journey to his friend’s country estate. But his solitary compartment is unexpectedly intruded upon by a familiar traveler—a reserved, pale-faced gentleman carrying a heavy deed-box and an unsettling air. By the time the train slows into Blackwater station, the stranger disappears into the swirling mist. And then—he is gone. Not merely from sight, but from the world.

Alva bukan sekadar teman lama. Dia laki-laki yang selalu bikin jantung Shera berdebar nggak keruan sewaktu di kampus. Dan setelah sekian tahun, reaksi debar jantungnya masih sama. Tapi lamunan Shera langsung buyar setelah Alva bilang dia mau memakai jasa Honeymoon Express—biro perjalanan bulan...

Vulture City is home to a prosperous gold mine and every bad man in the Arizona Territory knows it. Nearly every stagecoach attempting to deliver the gold to the railroad at Maricopa has been ambushed on the trail - a trail known as the Gunpowder Express for the bullet-riddled bodies along the way. With gold piling up and a lack of volunteers to transport it, the mine owner hires Newt "Widowmaker" Jones to ride shotgun on the next stage.

A lifetime spent fighting other people’s wars had earned John Winter a comfortable early retirement. But when the CIA seizes his money, they quickly realise that their former employee is not a man you want to try to push around. When the former combat pilot and SAS man turned gun-for-hire gives Langley a deadline for its return, the agency think it holds all the cards. An F-4 Phantom jet fighter, an audacious plan to fly halfway round the world, and a threat to dramatically alter the balance of power in the Middle East says they don’t.

The marines have seized control of the Japanese airfield on Guadalcanal, but this isn’t the end of their troubles…it’s only the beginning. The Japanese bomb them by day, attack from the forbidding darkness of the jungles by night, and their ships, like hungry sharks, prowl just offshore after the sun goes down. Whoever controls the canal controls the war. The Japanese know this, so they concoct a plan to send men and equipment ashore using fast destroyers—ships that can come by night and leave before the Cactus Airforce or Admiral Fletcher’s carrier planes can stop them.

Part expression, part confession, part question, it is an intimate look at the impact of mental illness, trauma, and neglect. A critical dissection of the interconnected roles that family, religion, society, education, and government play, as well as their impacts upon an individual. A commentary on current affairs, historical trends, and the bleak potential of our collective future, Can’t Quite Express is also both an example of, and an encouragement for, writing therapy.

Stories matter in our lives, and we live them every day, every moment. Aren't we all the protagonists of our own stories moving between past present and future? This book is a collection of stories from various paths of life that depict new beginnings, thriving middles, and memorable departures.

Dolce Vita und Mord am Mittelmeer! Die Blumen-Riviera mit ihren palmengesäumten Stränden, dem tiefblauen Meer und der farbenprächtigen Architektur wird von einem spektakulären Mord erschüttert: Im Garten der Villa von Alfred Nobel wird der leblose Körper eines stadtbekannten Rechtsanwalts gefunden—mit einer Stange Dynamit im Mund. Der neue Chef der Kripo, Commissario Tomas Gallo, nimmt die Ermittlungen auf. Schnell wird ihm klar, dass sich zwischen den malerischen Hügeln im Hinterland und den vibrierenden Küstenorten der Riviera ein Fall ungeahnten Ausmaßes entspinnt.

After growing up as an orphan, Josiah English wants nothing more than to own his own ranch and raise Arabian horses. Riding for the Pony Express seems like the ticket to his dream. And when he meets the stationmaster’s beautiful sister, it seems he may be within reach of the happy life he craves.

Mark Vonnegut set out in search of Eden with his VW bug, his girlfriend, his dog, and his ideals, but genetic predisposition and a whole lot of shit going down made him crazy in a culture that told him mental illness is a myth and schizophrenia is a sane response to an insane society. Describing his experiences during the late '60s and early '70s, Eden Express reveals how Mark went from being a recent college grad who was in love and living communally on a farm to having nervous breakdowns.

Hoping to make a clean break from a fractured marriage, Agatha Christie boards the Orient Express in disguise. But unlike her famous detective Hercule Poirot, she can't neatly unravel the mysteries she encounters on this fateful journey. Her cabinmate Katharine Keeling's first marriage ended in tragedy, propelling her toward a second relationship mired in deceit. Nancy Nelson - newly married but carrying another man's child - is desperate to conceal the pregnancy and teeters on the brink of utter despair.