Peter Haining Libros

1993

What better way to do away with an enemy than at the dinner table? Arsenic in the porridge, cyanide in the cocoa, a sauce laced with strychnine, or the chef with a cleaver in his back - the choices are boundless. This collection brings together great crime stories from all eras.

This collection of crime stories set in London contains stories by P.D. James, Ruth Rendell, Graham Greene, Dorothy L. Sayers and Agatha Christie. The city provides a backdrop to their mysteries.

Horse Racing may be known as the `Sport Of Kings`, but it also has a long association with crime, corruption and murder. Murder At The Races presents a worldwide selection of stories by famous authors including Dick Francis, John Francome, Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Leslie Charteris and Steve Donoghue. This omnibus features all aspects of racing - the race meetings themselves, the countries they are held in where racing has long been a popular sport. There are stories about the jockeys and their mounts, and the special pressures and temptations they face, as well as a section on the bookies and punters who are such an essential element in racing.

"A wide-ranging collection of the most illuminating and amusing items from this wealth of material. It provides a unique portrait of the 'Great Detective', his cases, his faithful assistant Watson and of course his chief adversary - the arch-villain Moriarty."--Jacket.

Para los empleados de la Ópera de París, la existencia del Fantasma es un hecho. Lo que para la policía es el suicidio de uno de los tramoyistas del teatro desembocará en una serie de accidentes y muertes sin motivo aparente, y en una espectacular desaparición en pleno escenario: la de la joven cantante Christine Daaé, que recibe clases del Fantasma. La inocente muchacha le considera el Ángel de la Música, hasta que descubre sus verdadero rostro… En su bajada a los infiernos, ella no sabe que contará con la ayuda de Raoul, el joven vizconde enamorado de ella desde la infancia, y de un misterioso personaje, el Persa, que intentarán liberarla de los lazos que la atan al Fantasma. A través de un tenebroso y cruel personaje, Erik, atormentado por la deformidad de su rostro y su pasión por la belleza, y de los recovecos de un edificio, la Ópera de París, Leroux nos introduce en ese desconocido mundo del otro lado del telón. Llevada con enorme éxito al cine y al teatro, " El Fantasma de la Ópera " sigue fascinando al lector por su mezcla de romanticismo tardío, novela gótica y novela policíaca.

Collects and comments on drawings, paintings, engravings, and sometimes convincing photographs of ghosts and other apparitional figures

Sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll--writings from the psychedelic era by the people who lived it.