Résultats pour "Seven" dans Historique

A lavish weekend party, a practical joke that goes murderously wrong, and stolen state secrets all transpire in The Seven Dials Mystery, by Agatha Christie. Full of her usual sly wit this clever murder mystery is a classic detective story featuring some of the characters from an earlier novel, The Secret of Chimneys: Lady Eileen (Bundle) Brent, Lord Caterham, Bill Eversleigh, George Lomax, Tredwell, and Superintendent Battle.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom is an account written by T.E. Lawrence, or Lawrence of Arabia as he became known, regarding the Arab revolt against the Turks and his own part in those events, transcribed from extensive notes which he kept at the time. Like Wilfred Owen and Robert Graves, Lawrence is a...

The New York Times best-selling author continues his colonial-era thriller series with eight tales of mystery, adventure, and supernatural suspense.

Soon to be a new Netflix drama series starring Mia McKenna-Bruce “It’s odd, isn’t it, why farce so often seems to get mixed up with tragedy?” In the sequel to The Secret of Chimneys, Superintendent Battle must solve a practical joke gone horribly wrong. Gerald Wade is among the many...

On the trail to Hangtree, a gang of bandits give chase to a teenage gunslinger. Young Bill is bracing for the end when the crack of a Winchester scatters the bandits. Sam Heller, Hangtree lawman, has saved another life. And Bill will beg Heller to save one more.... Bill rode in from East Texas, where Cullen Baker, the original quick-draw artist, fights a life-and-death battle with a corrupt robber baron for control of the Torrent River. Bill came seeking help from Cullen’s old pal, Johnny Cross, who agrees to ride east to lend a bullet or two.

When a member of the Order of the Black Sun asks for assistance in rescuing a relative, David Purdue finds himself going undercover to infiltrate a criminal organization that is in search of the Seven Cities of Gold. Under completely new aliases and surrounded by dangerous enemies led by a leader with a love of poisons, Purdue and his colleagues find themselves entangled in a game of deception where one wrong word could expose them. Through fiery battles and thrilling chases, Purdue may find that the Seven Cities of Gold are not exactly what he expected.

Once he was a young, happily married businessman. Then he lost his wife to human madness and that young man was gone, replaced by the Loner, the wandering son of legendary gunfighter Frank Morgan and the current occupant of a cell in Hell Gate prison. The Loner’s crime? He looked too much like an outlaw who escaped from this very prison. So the Kid teams up with a fellow inmate with an escape plan, vowing to hunt down a look-alike killer on the loose.

Blood & Sugar is the thrilling debut historical crime story from Laura Shepherd-Robinson. June, 1781. An unidentified body hangs upon a hook at Deptford Dock – horribly tortured and branded with a slaver’s mark. Some days later, Captain Harry Corsham – a war hero embarking upon a promising...

Madrid. Año 1940. El paso de la guerra ha dejado la capital en un estado desolador. Aunque ya se trabaja en reconstruir los desperfectos, hay asuntos más importantes que hacen que la supervivencia sea todo un reto. El hambre, las enfermedades, el miedo y la represión campan a sus anchas sin que nadie pueda hacer nada. En medio de todo esto, Juan, un joven republicano se ve obligado a emigrar allí. Atrás deja un oscuro secreto que podría traerle la peor de las desgracias tanto a él como a su familia.

Madrid. Año 1940. El paso de la guerra ha dejado la capital en un estado desolador. Aunque ya se trabaja en reconstruir los desperfectos, hay asuntos más importantes que hacen que la supervivencia sea todo un reto. El hambre, las enfermedades, el miedo y la represión campan a sus anchas sin que nadie pueda hacer nada. En medio de todo esto, Juan, un joven republicano se ve obligado a emigrar allí. Atrás deja un oscuro secreto que podría traerle la peor de las desgracias tanto a él como a su familia.

Murphy's 14th book is equal parts military thriller and suspense, as well as a psychological investigation into Operator Syndrome, and the mind of those elite-level soldiers who have to navigate it. This book is written for both entertainment and education.

MURPHY'S ELEVENTH BOOK SHOWCASES HIS FLAIR FOR TURNING ESTABLISHED GENRES INSIDE OUT AND ON THEIR HEAD. WHERE THIS BOOK STARTS IS NOWEHERE NEAR WHERE IT FINISHES, WITH AN ENDING GUARANTEED TO SURPRISE YOU AND TERRIFY YOU WITH IT'S IMPLICATIONS. EQUAL PARTS SUSPENSE AND PHILOSOPHY MIXED WITH PSYCHOLOGY AND TECHNOLOGY. THIS TALE IS A ROMANTICIZED IDEALIZATION OF SIMPLER TIMES AS WELL AS A WARNING AGAINST WHERE HUMANITY IS HEADING.