Resultados para "The Express" en Novela histórica

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.

A murdered heiress. Missing jewels. A killer hidden among the passengers. When wealthy American heiress Flossie Halliday boards the Plymouth Express carrying a fortune in precious jewels, she expects nothing more than an ordinary journey. Instead, her body is discovered concealed beneath a train...

The orders given to Isabeau Agarwal and her partner are simple: ensure the safety of all passengers and crew until the point of destination. But on the maiden voyage of this luxury train, nothing is quite what it seems. Isabeau soon discovers why her unique professional skills are needed when the passengers are threatened with a possible monster hiding among them.

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.

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.

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.

Paris, 1928: Agatha Christie and fellow writer Dorothy L Sayers board the Orient Express, bound for Constantinople. Christie in particular is looking forward to a break from recent dispiriting events in both her work and private life – the finalisation of her divorce from her philanderous husband Archie, and the miserly reception of her latest book.

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.

In America Latina è scomparsa una frontiera che portava nei territori della felicità. Benché non comparisse su alcuna cartina, una volta chiunque sapeva come trovarla. Poi sono giunti tempi terribili, e la strada è diventata un labirinto senza uscita. Ma c'è un giovane che non è ancora stanco di cercare quella frontiera scomparsa, e con essa le proprie radici, che affondano lontano, nel villaggio andaluso da cui il nonno anarchico è fuggito agli inizi del secolo per difendere il suo amore per la libertà. Il giovane ha uno zaino in spalla e tutto il tempo del mondo a disposizione.

When Ebenezer Halliday's daughter's body is found stuffed underneath a train seat, the wealthy American industrialist hires Hercule Poirot to locate the murderer and over one hundred thousand dollars' worth of stolen jewels...

In this riveting historical thriller, a deadly plot unfolds aboard a train hurtling towards Paris. From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Room, Emma Donoghue takes you on a heart-pounding ride in The Paris Express. 'Ratchets up the pace until it's hurtling along as fast as the train itself'...

This book contains three individual stories, set between 1861 and 1867. The first story "Pony Express" is about a 14-year-old boy, Ben O'Brien, and his 17-year-old sister, Margaret, who have lost their parents and all the horses on the horse ranch due to a Paiute Warrior attack.

When Chantilly Walsh’s older brother is gunned down outside a Carson City saloon, she’s determined to save her younger brother from the same fate and keep him safe. Wealthy rancher Daniel Braddock sets his sights on her, offering stability and security. Then the adventurous Pony Express rider, Blaze Steele, gallops into town and captures Chantilly’s heart—until a terrible misunderstanding changes everything.

Un train. Aucun arrêt. Un jeu mortel de vengeance et de survie. En 1942, six personnes ont détruit la famille d'Anna Matheson. Douze ans plus tard, elle est décidée à les faire payer. Sous de faux prétextes, Anna a invité les responsables de la ruine de sa famille dans un luxueux train de...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the bestselling and “soul-stirring” (Oprah Daily) author of Room, a sweeping historical “nail-biter” (People) of a novel about the infamous 1895 disaster at the Paris Montparnasse train station. Based on an 1895 disaster that went down in history when it was...

Als sich an einem unbehaglichen Dezembertag des Jahres 1856 der Geschäftsmann und Reisende William Langford doch noch ärgerlicherweise ein schon für sich geglaubtes privates Abteil des Vier-Fünfzehn-Schnellzugs mit einem weitläufigen Bekannten teilen muss, ahnt er noch nicht, dass diese Begegnung ihn alsbald in ein unerklärliches Rätsel involvieren wird ... Ein Rätsel, an dem sich die englische Polizei bereits seit Monaten die Zähne ausbeißt.

Cleo’s holiday with her family to the seaside resort town of Brighton is everything she hoped it would be…until she receives a blackmail note. The blackmailer demands Cleo help her or a story revealing Cleo’s investigating will appear in the newspaper. With her uncle warning her to keep her detecting activities private, Cleo agrees to meet the blackmailer when they return to London. But when the woman is seen getting on the train but not off, Cleo grows concerned.

Steigen Sie ein zur ersten Reise im sagenhaften Orient-Express! Paris 1883. Für Georges Nagelmackers steht alles auf dem Spiel: Seine neueste Unternehmung, der Orient-Express, startet zur ersten Fahrt quer durch die verfeindeten Staaten Europas. Der luxuriös ausgestattete Zug will ein Symbol des Friedens sein. Mit dabei: ein Dutzend Diplomaten, die ihre politischen Differenzen beilegen sollen. Nur ein Erfolg kann den verschuldeten Georges vor dem Ruin retten. Und er würde damit das Herz der jungen Frauenrechtlerin Hubertine Berthier zurückgewinnen.

Cressida’s hopes for a relaxing journey are dashed when a gunshot resounds through the carriages. Industrial tycoon Lewis Warriner has been shot dead in his cabin. And as this train has been racing through the countryside, the culprit must be among Cressy’s fellow passengers. Teaming up with Detective Andrews of Scotland Yard, also on his way back to London, they work their way through the suspects. Did Warriner’s mistress, a famous dancer, see his death as her ticket on to the silver screen? Or was it the mysterious man who can’t take his eyes off Lewis’s close companion?

Die gefeierte Krimiautorin Agatha Christie steigt heimlich und unter falschem Namen in den legendären Orient-Express, um nach Bagdad zu reisen. Sie steckt in einer Krise, will den Skandal um ihre Scheidung vergessen und möchte auf keinen Fall erkannt werden. Erst als sie im Zug die Archäologin Katharina und die junge Nancy kennenlernt, spürt sie, dass die Reise für sie zu einem Neuanfang werden könnte.