Résultats pour "He" dans Historique

Lucian Reeve never meant to reopen the past—but a single key demands its keeper. When a tarnished key is left mysteriously on his desk, archivist Lucian Reeve is drawn into a chilling mystery he thought he’d sealed away forever. As he investigates its origins, he uncovers a name long erased from the records, an ominous bell that rings only at dusk, and a silence too deliberate to ignore. Haunted by the past and driven by the need to understand the present, Lucian's search leads him to a collector with dark motives, an enigmatic estate, and a chilling connection to a long-forgotten case.

In her best-selling Amelia Peabody mysteries, author Elizabeth Peters has created an award-winning mixture of vivid archeological detail, finely-tuned suspense, and witty romance. This, the 12th Amelia Peabody mystery, opens in 1914. As the tides of war rise, Egypt is threatened by attacks. Espionage abounds, pulling in several members of the Peabody Emerson household even as they embark on a new archeological season.

You can't trust a man who's dressed as Mae West, especially not in Mae West's house. One of Hollywood's earliest sex symbols, the whip-smart blonde's star has fallen since the Hays Code cracked down on the racy repartee that made her famous. Her latest project is a thinly veiled autobiographical novel, whose only copy is stolen just after she finishes her first draft. Tonight she's having a Mae West party, with every guest a man dressed as her. The thief is among those in drag, and P.I. Toby Peters has come to tear off his wig. He's there as a favor to his brother, a brutal cop who had a fling with West when she first moved to Hollywood.

A British Prime Minister once said, "If you obey the law and pay your taxes, you can do anything you want to." Johnny Butler picked the part of his message he liked best–the one about doing anything he liked to. Even his mother thought him “the biggest fiddler” she’d ever met, and Johnny was chuffed. He thought that the best compliment he’d ever got.