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Zwei Dinge stapelten sich in Bob Hendersons Dachgeschosswohnung in London. Das waren unbezahlte Rechnungen und - alte Bücher. Und beides hing mit seinem Beruf zusammen, der zwar ganz Bob Hendersons Vorstellungen entsprach, jedoch nur wenig Geld abwarf. Bob war Geschichtsforscher und Privatgelehrter, eine interessante und brotlose Tätigkeit. Das änderte sich schlagartig, als Bob Henderson eine Kiste auspackte, angefüllt mit uralten Büchern, die er bei einem Trödler zum Altpapierpreis erstanden hatte - auf Kredit natürlich.

"Marcel! Ich kann nicht mehr! Das Böse ist stärker - die Geister aus dem Jenseits haben mich besiegt. Ich schreibe Dir noch diese Zeilen, damit Du weißt, warum ich von Dir gehe. Sobald diese grauenhaften Schauergestalten wiederkommen, mache ich Schluss! Ich habe die Hölle durchlitten, schlimmer kann es nicht mehr werden. Ich glaube, ich fühle sie bereits! Ich werde..." An dieser Stelle brach der Abschiedsbrief von Odile Vincent an ihren Mann ab.

Für den Privatdetektiv Danny Potter ist sein neuer Auftrag reine Routinesache. Er soll ein zweijähriges Kind suchen, das auf mysteriöse Art und Weise verschwunden ist. Als er nach Furness kommt, einem kleinen Dorf, in dem seine Auftraggeber leben, wird er Zeuge eines verheerenden Waldbrandes. Zuerst erscheint es ihm wie ein "normaler" Unglücksfall, doch schon bald muss er erkennen, dass zwischen dem Feuer und seinem Auftrag ein enger Zusammenhang besteht.

Thomas Anterberry fühlt seinen Tod herannahen. Ihm bleibt gerade noch Zeit, seinen teuflischen Plan zu verwirklichen, bevor er seinen letzten Atemzug tut. Und dann beginnt eine Kette von unerklärlichen Ereignissen. Ein Mord geschieht - und der Mörder weiß nichts von seiner schrecklichen Tat. Kurz darauf findet man wieder einen Toten. Die Polizei steht vor einem Rätsel.

San Cristobal, Galapagos-Inseln. Montag, 3. August, 12.00 Uhr. Niemand der zweihundertfünfzig Passagiere der SARDONIA achtete auf die drei Männer, die in letzter Minute an Bord gingen. Auch die Besatzung war ahnungslos, wer den Luxuskreuzer betrat. Nur der Kapitän war eingeweiht. Unbehaglich blickte er den Neuankömmlingen entgegen. Schließlich war einer von ihnen ein gefährlicher Mörder. Der Kapitän übernahm es persönlich, gemeinsam mit seinem Zahlmeister den ungebetenen Fahrgästen ihre Kabine zu zeigen. Noch lag die SARDONIA im Hafen von San Cristobal.

A language barrier is no match for love. Lauren Collins discovered this firsthand when, in her early thirties, she moved to London and fell for a Frenchman named Olivier—a surprising turn of events for someone who didn’t have a passport until she was in college. But what does it mean to love...

Dad's Down Under chronicles the tumultuous - and often humorous - funeral of an emotionally abusive husband told from the point of view of the man’s 18-year-old son. Present are the distant relatives and immediate family, all of whom have different recollections of what kind of man he was. His immediate family views him as a monster, while his side of the family remembers him as a kind, loving, and generous man.

In Does Capitalism Have a Future?, a global quintet of distinguished scholars cut their way through to the question of whether our capitalist system can survive in the medium run. Despite the current gloom, conventional wisdom still assumes that there is no real alternative to capitalism. The authors argue that this generalization is a mistaken outgrowth of the optimistic nineteenth-century claim that human history ascends through stages to an enlightened equilibrium of liberal capitalism.

Jay and Amber were hookup buddies in high school, but she was never more than that. He just didn't like short girls. Fast forward 10 years, and he's walking down the hallway of his old high school, the reunion in full swing. When he turns around, he bumps into someone - his old fling who, mysteriously, has shot up to seven feet tall!

Wilkie Collins' follow-up to The Woman in White and No Name is an innovative take on mistaken identity, the nature of evil, and the dark underbelly of Victorian England. The story concerns two distant cousins, both named Allan Armadale, and the impact of a family tragedy, which makes one of them a target of the murderous Lydia Gwilt, a vicious and malevolent charmer determined to get her hands on the Armadale fortune. Will the real Allan Armadale be revealed, and will he survive the plot against his life?

Who is Lucky Saint? She's a fifteen year old wild child who discovered her mother's murdered body floating in the family swimming pool when she was only five years old. In Confessions of a Wild Childyou will follow Lucky as she navigates her teen years - boys, drugs, family dramas, and many...

The rarest of scrolls from the days of Ghengis Khan, shadowy villains, and an ancient organization with ties to modern organized crime are just the start. For this case will take Charlie Chan across the Pacific in search of answers...and to the edges of the human psyche!

Published in instalments in 1859, The Woman in White is often considered to be one of the very first detective novels. Although critics weren’t impressed at the time, the novel proved to be a hit with the public and has since gone on to become one of the timeless classics of the Victorian era. Following the adventures of Walter Hartright, this is a story of sleuthing, inheritance, ghosts and mistaken identity and was recently the subject of a hit TV adaptation by the BBC.

"Wake up, Matt, wake up", an insistent voice repeats in my head. From that moment, Matt McGregor's life will never be the same. Upon awaking from cold sleep, Matt, co-captain of the space freighter, HC7 McGregor-15, discovers the ship has been abandoned and life support is failing. Once he gets the systems started, he finds out his brother and co-captain, Mike, has been captured by space pirates. Matt immediately sets out to rescue Mike, aided by the disembodied voices.

Space freighter captain Matt McGregor and his fiancee, Tracy Warren, must rescue her mother, held prisoner by Marinas Christiansen Sorenson, a charismatic faith healer and leader of a religious commune, on a private planet called Eden. They enlist help from Matt's brother Marc, and sister Maddie, along with Jake Stevens, a Federation Detective. Can this unlikely group invade a foreign, possibly hostile planet, defeat Sorenson's army, and bring Tracy's mother to safety?

Space freighter co-captain Matt McGregor is worried. His father’s ship, the McGregor-7, has not returned from the Triangulum Galaxy. A cryptic message from the Federation battle cruiser Majestic warns of an attack and an alien virus. Matt, his bride Tracy, older brother Marc, sister Maddie, and Federation investigator Jake Stevens push their modified freighter to its limit to reach the far galaxy.

Rick is a Gamerunner. His job is to test there are no glitches or bugs in The Maze - the computer game where you physically become your avatar. You fight, run and loot, all the time avoiding the deadly slicing traps - whirling blades that appear from nowhere. Rick has known nothing outside The Maze and his life at the headquarters of Crater, the company that created The Maze. When Rick’s father falls out of favour and Rick is faced with being thrown out of Crater HQ into the outside world - a world of flesh-dissolving acid rain and ferocious, feral roving gangs....

A captivating anthology of some of the more unusual short stories written by well-known classic writers. 1. "A Witch in the Peak" by R. Murray Gilchrist. 2. "War" by Sherwood Anderson. 3. "Self-Help" by W. W. Jacobs. 4. "The Wolf" by Guy de Maupassant. 5. "Makes the Whole World Kin" by O. Henry. 6. "The Stone Dragon" by R. Murray Gilchrist. 7. "The New Englander" by Sherwood Anderson. 8. "Berenice" by Edgar Allan Poe. 9. "The Man with the Watches" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. 10. "The Adventure of the Diamond Necklace" by G. F. Forest.

A terrifying and macabre collection of anatomically inspired stories by the masters of gruseome fiction.

A fascinating collection of travellers' tales, featuring weird innkeepers, ghouls and ghosts, robbers and murderers, card sharpers and confidence tricksters, dead bodies in odd places....the very thing for anyone busy planning a vacation this year....