Résultats pour "Disappearances" dans Classiques

تُعد أجاثا كريستي أكثر الروائيات انتشارًا، حيث نُشرت أعمالها على نطاق واسع على مر العصور وبكل اللغات، ولم يتفوق عليها في المبيعات سوى مؤلفات شكسبير؛ فلقد بيعت أكثر من مليار نسخة من رواياتها باللغة الإنجليزية ومليار نسخة أخرى بمائة لغة أجنبية. كتبت أجاثا كريستي ثمانين رواية من أدب الجريمة ومجموعات قصصية قصيرة وتسع عشرة مسرحية وكتابَيْ سيرة ذاتية وست روايات أخرى كتبتها تحت اسم مستعار، هو ماري ويستماكوت".

Lady Dyke disappears mysteriously, and barrister and hobby detective Claude Bruce appears to be one of the last persons to have seen her. A short time later a dead body is found in the river, and Bruce follows the trails. Who is Sydney H. Corbett? Why did the Lady's maid disappear shortly after her Lady? And what business did Lady Dyke have at Sloane Square? If Bruce can find the answer to these questions, he will find the solution to the mystery.

Hector Hugh Munro (1870-1916) is better known by the pen name Saki. He remains hugely popular as a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirised Edwardian society and culture. 'The Disappearance of Crispina Umberleigh' is a tale recounted by a traveller on a train to a fellow passenger. It concerns the bizarre circumstances of the mysterious disappearance...and reappearance after eight years...of his formidable and tyrannical aunt.

This is the unabridged audio recording of M R James' excellent ghost story "The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance". Read by David Collings, this is sure to scare and delight in equal measure.

The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance is a strange tale told in the form of four mysterious letters. The writer's uncle, the rector in a small market town, has mysteriously disappeared in the days before Christmas. The writer of the letters has been summoned to help the search for the missing man. He writes every day to his brother to update him on events...and describes a series of most bizarre and inexplicable happenings.