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Ethan Gage adventures volume 2
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Expatriate Ethan Gage, in the Holy Land to save his former lover Astiza and to search for the revered legendary Book of Thoth, is in danger again as Napoleon's army marches towards Jerusalem.
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"...she left her son the sum of four hundred million francs." When the heirs to a tremendous fortune are nowhere to be found, Don Luis Perenna, a friend to the deceased, must track them down. But it isn't long before someone turns up dead and the investigation turns into a murder case. And where is master thief Arsène Lupin in all this? He's believed to be dead, but are things what they seem?
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Aventures extraordinaires d'Arsène Lupin volume 06
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"Lupin," I said, "tell me something about yourself." Arsène Lupin is known as a friend to the poor and an enemy of the rich. but how did he gain his formidable reputation?
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"Why should Lupin, who has never resorted to murder, kill a man?" Falsely accused of murder after one of his burglary victims is found dead, gentleman thief Arsène Lupin is determined to solve the case. However, things are never as they seem, and Lupin must juggle pseudonyms, disguises and mysterious clues, all while evading an unknown enemy who wants to bring him down.
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Master detective Niccolo Benedetti hunts down a killer in the French Alps. Niccolo Benedetti is many things: a professor, philosopher, painter, charmer, and a sterling, world-class detective, too. For Benedetti, a murder is not just a crime, but also a means of dissecting the nature of evil. It's a problem demanding as much art as it does science. In this second installment in the Benedetti series, the detective travels to a ski resort in the French...
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"The Chichester is making a routine journey across the English Channel on a pleasant afternoon in June, when the steamer's crew notice something strange. A yacht, bobbing about in the water ahead of them, appears to have been abandoned, and there is a dark red stain on the deck... Two bodies later, with no sign of a gun, there certainly is a mystery in the channel. Inspector French soon discovers a world of high-powered banking, luxury yachts and...
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Aventures extraordinaires d'Arsène Lupin volume 02
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"Sholmes? Oh! I confess he is a worthy foe." When a writing desk containing a winning lottery ticket goes missing, fingers soon point to gentleman thief Arsène Lupin. Lupin leaves the French police stumped, so famous English detective Herlock Sholmes and his friend Wilson are called upon to bring Lupin down. Will Sholmes' wits stand up against the master of disguises?
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Aventures extraordinaires d'Arsène Lupin volume 08
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"Little Morther Coralie is threatened with a fresh danger..." When Captain Belval rescues his nurse, Coralie, from tragedy, they are thrown into a conspiracy involving murder, money and bags of gold. Disguised as Don Luis Perenna, Arsène Lupin returns to get to the bottom of all their secrets and, more importantly, to get his hands on some of the gold.
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Pierre Chambrun mystery novels volume 19
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A group of thugs storms the Beaumont Hotel, and only Pierre Chambrun can stop the chaos There has been trouble in Central Park. Free concerts given on the great lawn have been ending in upheaval as gangs of toughs maraud through the crowd with bats, chains, and knives-taking what they want and crushing those who stand in their way. During a performance by red-hot diva Donna Ward, the park is peaceful. But afterward, the horde descends on the Beaumont...
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Une édition de référence du Mystère de la chambre jaune de Gaston Leroux, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques.
« "Est-ce qu'elle va encore nous empêcher de dormir, cette nuit ?" pensai-je, car il faut que je vous dise, monsieur, que, jusqu'à fin octobre, j'habite dans le grenier du pavillon, au-dessus de la chambre jaune, à seule fin que mademoiselle ne reste pas seule toute la nuit au fond du parc. C'est...
« "Est-ce qu'elle va encore nous empêcher de dormir, cette nuit ?" pensai-je, car il faut que je vous dise, monsieur, que, jusqu'à fin octobre, j'habite dans le grenier du pavillon, au-dessus de la chambre jaune, à seule fin que mademoiselle ne reste pas seule toute la nuit au fond du parc. C'est...
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George Surridge, director of the Birmington Zoo, is a man with many worries: his marriage is collapsing; his finances are insecure; and an outbreak of disease threatens the animals in his care. As Surridge's debts mount and the pressure on him increases, he begins to dream of miracle solutions. But is he cunning enough to turn his dreams into reality - and could he commit the most devious murder in pursuit of his goals? This ingenious crime novel,...
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Several local residents have disappeared in suspicious circumstances at the Hog's Back ridge in Surrey. When a doctor vanishes, followed by a nurse with whom he was acquainted, Inspector French deduces murder, but there are no bodies. Can he eventually prove his theory and show that murder has been committed?
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A beautiful new clothbound edition of Alexandre Dumas's classic novel of wrongful imprisonment, adventure and revenge. Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of the Château d'If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and becomes determined not only to escape but to unearth the treasure and use it to plot the destruction of the three men responsible...
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Extrait : "La vérité est qu'il font les deux choses à la fois. Ils veulent atteindre avant d'être atteints !... - En avant ! en avant ! crie Rouletabille. Que fait donc, "entre deux feux", le jeune reporter de l'Epoque et quelle est cette sorte de rage qui l'anime ?"
17) La corde au cou
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Extrait : "Dans la nuit du 22 au 23 juin 1871, vers une heure, le faubourg de Paris, qui est le principal et le plus populeux faubourg de la jolie ville de Sauveterre, fut mis en émoi par le galop frénétique d'un cheval sonnant sur les pavés pointus."
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Une édition de référence de Le fauteuil hanté de Gaston Leroux, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques.
« Une tempête sembla entourer la Coupole… La vague populaire battit les murs, fit claquer des portes… des soldats, des gardes reculèrent jusque dans la salle… Et l'on commença de distinguer, parmi tant de tumulte, une sorte de grondement particulier. C'était comme un infini gémissement lugubre.
M. Hippolyte...
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Extrait : "Croyez-vous au Merveilleux ? On a déjà tant dit, écrit, argumenté sur la question qu'il semble que le sujet soit épuisé. Et pourtant, non!... Épuiser un sujet c'est le connaître à fond, et qui peut se flatter d'avoir approfondi l'Inconnu ? Pour moi, je crois au Merveilleux. Qu'on l'appelle comme on voudra, il n'y a point d'effet sans cause... Or, j'ai vu l'effet, qu'importe si la cause doit être provisoirement classée sous ce...
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Découvrez les oeuvres et la vie du grand romancier noir Léo Malet
Léo Malet (1909-1996) est le père de Nestor Burma, le premier grand détective privé de la littérature française, immortalisé à l'écran et en bande dessinée. Son parcours, de la poésie surréaliste au roman d'énigme noir, se caractérise par une personnalité littéraire hors du commun. Véritable figure tragique, c'est seulement à la fin de sa vie, abandonné par l'envie...
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