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La porte de la chambre fermée à clef « de l’intérieur », les volets de l’unique fenêtre fermés, eux aussi, « de l’intérieur », pas de cheminée... Qui a tenté de tuer Mademoiselle Stangerson et, surtout, par où l’assassin a-t-il pu quitter la chambre jaune ? C’est le jeune reporter...

Voilà Rouletabille envoyé par l’Epoque en reportage en Russie. Officiellement, du moins, car en réalité, le tsar a besoin de lui pour veiller à la sécurité de l’un de ses officiers les plus dévoués, le général Trébassof. Celui-ci, condamné à mort par le Comité Révolutionnaire pour...

My first case! — with what an agreeable thrill a professional man repeats the words to himself. With most men I believe it is as it was with me, not the case that he intrigues for and expects to get but something quite different, that drops out of Heaven unexpected and undeserved like most of the...

Enoch Strone is a book-loving rustic loner who lives in a remote hand-built cabin. He works as a mechanical engineer in the industrial town of Gascester. One evening he meets a poor factory girl, Milly, who has been abandoned by her friends during a walk in the woods. On the same day he is accosted...

Nan Davenport must make a choice between her own happiness and her father’s bond.

Beatrice Cenci was the son of Francesco Cenci, an aristocrat who, due to his violent temper and immoral behaviour, had found himself in trouble with the papal justice more than once. In Rome, they lived in a mid 16th century mansion in Regola district, built over the ruins of a previous medieval fortified...

Der verwitwete Fürst Botho von Rastenberg bangt um das Wohlergehen seines einzigen Sohnes und Erben. Prinz Herbert ist ein zartes, anfälliges Kind, dessen Gesundheit stets große Sorge bereitet. Umso glücklicher ist der Fürst, als Schwester Maria auf Schloss Lehnsdorf eintrifft und sich fortan...

When Jack Norman, who was earning twelve dollars a week, suddenly came into Silas Gyde's huge fortune, he thought he was in for a good thing. But somehow the fickle jade never does seem to deal out her favors quite as openhandedly as we would wish, and the mysterious Society, who vowed vengeance on...

Jack Chanty is a young man who romans the countryside in his river raft, singing songs. Then one day, he meets a young woman, and things change for him.

En 1672, Guillaume d’Orange prend le pouvoir en Hollande, profitant du massacre par le peuple des frères Jean et Corneille de Witt accusés de tractations secrètes avec la France. Pendant ce temps, loin des tumultes de la politique, le jeune Cornélius van Baerle (filleul de Corneille de Witt),...

Et si l’on vous proposait la richesse au prix d’un crime anonyme ? Comment faut-il être pour avoir un ami, un bienfaiteur ? Un ami et sa compagne ne s’entendent plus : faut-il vraiment s’en mêler ? Vous avez vu votre amie embrasser un autre homme : mais si tout le monde vous dit que vous...

Cuore infermo è la storia d’amore, o meglio del breve amore, tra Marcello Sangiorgio e Beatrice Revertera: Marcello, innamorato di Beatrice senza esserne ricambiato, si rifugia nell’amore per Lalla e provoca la gelosia e quindi l’amore di Beatrice. Fra i due nasce una intensa storia d’amore,...

Il libro è incentrato su una delle grandi passioni di Napoli: il gioco del lotto, con il quale molti cittadini, di ogni estrazione sociale, speravano di arricchirsi con un colpo di fortuna e approdare al leggendario “paese della cuccagna”. Il romanzo è una vera e propria denuncia degli effetti...

In the highest grounds of a park, almost an estate in itself, stood one of those noble old mansions that are so interwoven with the history of mother England, that their architecture alone is a record of national stability and ever-increasing civilization, written out in the strength of stone and...