Résultats pour "The Priest" dans Détectives traditionnels

Christmas, 1141 A.D. Abbot Radulfus returns from London, bringing with him a priest for the vacant living of Holy Cross (known as the Foregate), a man of presence, scholarship and discipline, but neither humility nor the common touch. When he is found drowned in the mill-pond, suspicion is cast in many directions, not least toward a young man who came in the priest's train, sent to work in Brother Cadfael's garden. For he has little obvious priestly calling. Indeed, he soon attracts the friendship of a girl both beautiful and formidable. To Brother Cadfael, once wordly, now dedicated, if gently cynical, is left the familiar task of sorting the complicated strands which define guilt and innocence.

She was leaning against the door. Her smile was a sickly twisted grimace; the sort a prisoner gives a judge when he's asked if he has anything to say before he's sentenced. Russell Haxby is a ruthless used-car salesman obsessed with manipulating and cavorting with married women. In this classic of hard-boiled fiction, Charles Willeford crafts a wry, sardonic tale of hypocrisy, intrigue, and lust set in San Francisco in the early '50s.

Watson erreicht die anglikanische Kirche von Saint Mary. Der dortige Priester nimmt ihn freundlich auf und weiß einiges über die familiäre Vergangenheit von Bruder Emanuel zu berichten.

Watson erreicht die anglikanische Kirche von Saint Mary. Der dortige Priester nimmt ihn freundlich auf und weiß einiges über die familiäre Vergangenheit von Bruder Emanuel zu berichten.

Detective fans of all races and creeds, of all tastes and fancies will delight in the exploits of this wise and whimsical padre. You will be enchanted by the scandalously innocent man of the cloth, with his handy umbrella, who exhibits such uncanny insight into ingeniously tricky human problems. This collection includes 12 mysteries solved by Father Brown.

Eigentlich sollte die Eröffnung der 800 Jahrfeier von Gutts Hill ein Tag für die Gemeinde werden, an den sich jeder noch lange Zeit erinnern würde...

This is a story from the Canterbury Tales II: Modern Verse Translation collection.