Résultats pour "The Cinema" dans Policier

Substance D - otherwise known as Death - is the most dangerous drug ever to find its way on to the black market. It destroys the links between the brain's two hemispheres, leading first to disorentation and then to complete and irreversible brain damage. Bob Arctor, undercover narcotics agent, is trying to find a lead to the source of supply, but to pass as an addict he must become a user, and soon, without knowing what is happening to him, he is as dependent as any of the addicts he is monitoring.

Brought to you by Penguin. In the Burning Ghats of Calcutta where the dead are laid to rest, a man is found murdered, his throat cut from ear to ear. The body is that of a popular patron of the arts, a man who was, by all accounts, beloved by all: so what was the motive for his murder? Despite...

Lucie Girard ermittelt wieder. Regisseur Olivier Borbet lädt zu einem Treffen seiner ehemaligen Schauspiel-Kommilitonen in die Provence ein. Er will sie für einen Autorenfilm gewinnen, in dem sie sich selbst spielen. Obwohl die Sechs ein tragischer Vorfall verbindet, willigen sie ein. Der Dreh wird zu einer Abrechnung, jeder gegen jeden. Commissaire Lucie Girard gerät in ein Schauspiel, das sie an ihren detektivischen Fähigkeiten zweifeln lässt. Was war? Was ist? Und was wird geschehen?

An extraordinary debut novel—dark, fast-paced, thrilling—set in contemporary and nineteenth-century Europe, the United States, and Scotland, involving the true inventor of moving pictures; his lost film made in Edinburgh in 1888; and a shocking series of crimes terrorizing the city in...