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"Due giovani avventurieri offronsi qualsiasi lavoro ovunque, dietro buon compenso". Questo singolare annuncio viene pubblicato dall'ex ufficiale Tommy e dall'infermiera Tuppence, smobilitati, senza un soldo e bisognosi di un impiego. Entrambi amano l'avventura ed il rischio, e non dovranno attendere molto per mettersi alla prova.

Mas Arai's best friend, Haruo, is getting married, and he has grudgingly agreed to serve as best man. But when an ancient Japanese doll display of Haruo's fiance goes missing, the wedding is called off with fingers pointed at Haruo. To solve the mystery and to save Haruo's life, Mas must untangle a web of secrecy, heartbreaking memories, and murder.

Drew Maclane was a star agent - until the day the killing had to stop. He withdrew, and for six years lived the life of a hermit in a monastery. But someone has tracked him down, leaving a trail of corpses...someone who knows all about him, who knows how to draw him back into that electrifying world where no one is as he seems, and where life's most horrifying and harrowing game is played.

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes are overshadowed by the event with which they close - the meeting of the great detective and Moriarty, the Napoleon of Crime. When "The Final Problem" was first published, the struggle between Holmes and his arch nemesis, seemingly to the death, left many readers desolate at the loss of Holmes, but it also led to his immortality as a literary figure.

World-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a cryptic symbol seared into the chest of a murdered physicist. What he discovers is unimaginable: a deadly vendetta against the Catholic Church by a centuries - old underground organization - the Illuminati.

Five years after the crashof TWA Flight 800, the government has declared it a result of mechanical failure. But John Corey, an ex-NYPD detective who is now a contract agent with the Federal Anti-Terrorist Task Force, is persuaded by Kate Mayfield, his wife and task force partner, that the case deserves a second look.

In the wake of her husband's inexplicable suicide - and the equally mysterious deaths of scores of other exemplary individuals - Jane picks up the trail of a secret cabal of powerful players who think themselves above the law and beyond punishment. But the people bent on hijacking America's future for their own monstrous ends never banked on a highly trained FBI agent willing to become the nation's most wanted fugitive in order to derail their insidious plans.

September 1858: An Antarctic whaler stumbles across an aged wreck, her frozen crew guarding a priceless treasure.

Delia Spark is caught in a maelstrom. Her former life as a London theatre director is on the brink of implosion amid a scandalous divorce, a tarnished reputation, and, for reasons she cannot fathom, things keep spontaneously combusting around her. Her sixties were supposed to be peaceful, but now even her grown daughter won't return her calls. Escape is the only option.

Zehn Männer und Frauen aus ganz unterschiedlichen Kreisen bekommen eine Einladung, die sie auf eine abgeschiedene Insel lockt. Der Gastgeber bleibt unsichtbar. Erst als die Gesellschaft beim Dinner zusammensitzt, ertönt seine Stimme aus einem alten Grammophon und verheißt Unheil. Ein Gast nach dem anderen kommt zu Tode, während die Verbleibenden verzweifelt versuchen, den Mörder zu enttarnen.

江戸川乱歩の「赤い部屋」に似たような趣旨で始まる短編ですが、話の展開の仕方は、やはり小酒井浮木独特と言っていいでしょう。饒舌な表現がなくコンパクトな展開に一気に引き込まれてしまいます。

作者名を知らずに聴いたら江戸川乱歩作と信ずるであろう展開です。不木と乱歩の出会いが日本の探偵小説の始まりだったと言えます。

Who hasn’t wondered for a split second what the world would be like if a person who is the object of your affliction ceased to exist? But then you’ve probably never heard of The McMasters Conservatory, dedicated to the consummate execution of the homicidal arts. To gain admission, a student must have an ethical reason for erasing someone who deeply deserves a fate no worse (nor better) than death. The campus of this “Poison Ivy League” college—its location unknown to even those who study there—is where you might find yourself the practice target of a classmate.

「なるほどそう来たか」。最後の10秒であなたは唸るでしょう。小酒井浮木の息もつかせぬ短編はオーディオブックならではです。

Após uma tacada especialmente ruim, Bobby Jones lança sua bola de golfe em um precipício. Ao procurá-la, encontra um homem acidentado que parece estar em seus momentos finais. Pouco antes de morrer, o moribundo abre os olhos e proclama suas últimas palavras: "Por que não pediram a Evans?" Assombrados pela pergunta, Bobby e sua amiga Frankie tentam descobrir quem é Evans e o que exatamente não lhe foi pedido. Porém, os dois logo percebem que, por mais que não sejam detetives profissionais, os perigos dessa investigação são muito reais.

Barcelona, 1909. Durante un fastuoso baile de máscaras en el Liceo, Victoria, condesa de Cardona, aparece asesinada. Tiene una herida mortal en la cabeza y en la mano un valiosísimo rubí desaparecido tiempo atrás. No será la única muerte en el Gran Teatro. El inspector Ignasi Requesens se pone al frente de la investigación, pero nadie parece haber visto nada. Nobles, coristas, empresarios, vividores, tramoyistas, madames, bastardos, médiums y arribistas...

Después de sorprendernos con los cuatro títulos de la Saga Casasola y con los cuentos que conforman la Trilogía del Terror, Bernardo Esquinca nos entrega una novela que expande los límites y paisajes de su escritura. En un ejercicio audaz que es a la vez homenaje y acercamiento, Edgar Allan Poe, el padre del relato policiaco y del cuento de terror norteamericanos, se muestra en estas páginas como un ser humano, todavía lejos de la grandeza que lo consagraría y del abismo que lo consumiría.

After Viv's Desert Doula agency goes bottom up, she’s eager to put the work into rebuilding. Unfortunately, Rex Redondo keeps getting in the way. Ever since the pair solved a mystery together, Viv is convinced his only interest in her is as a partner in the private investigator business he’s determined to launch. Little does she know, his feelings for her run far deeper than friendship.

Viele träumten schon den großen Traum vom Fliegen. So auch die Brüder Quimby aus Texas, die in Paris das Luftschiff Ikarus bauen lassen. Von Frankreich aus begibt es sich auf seine Jungfernfahrt nach New York. Mit an Bord befinden sich auch der Abenteurer Phileas Fogg, seine Frau Aouda und ihr gemeinsamer Diener Passepartout. Zunächst sieht alles nach einer reibungslosen Fahrt aus, doch schon bald werfen entsetzliche Ereignisse ihre Schatten voraus. An Bord ist offensichtlich nicht jeder, der er vorgibt zu sein.

Sunning himself in the south of France, Johnny has started to believe that his life is finally on the up. But the arrival of a face from his past drags him back down to earth with a harsh dose of cold reality. Johnny Klein once again finds himself walking the tightrope between redemption and despair. When his daughter is in danger of getting consumed by the sins of Johnny’s own past, and a dark secret threatens to engulf people he holds dear, light at the end of the tunnel feels further away than ever.