Download or read book Sherlock Holmes e l illusionista di Highgate written by Dick Gillman and published by Delos Digital srl. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giallo - racconto lungo (38 pagine) - Un patto segreto stretto tra il governo e Julia Moriarty minaccia di dare inizio a una guerra in Europa e il solo agire repentino di Holmes può impedire che qualcuno venga ucciso pubblicamente. Racconto appartenente alla Trilogia di Julia Moriarty Convinto che Julia Moriarty sia stata giustiziata dopo un giudizio di colpevolezza, Holmes è assalito dalla rabbia quando, nel 1897, scopre la verità. La scomparsa dell'assistente di un illusionista lo conduce, insieme a Watson, nell'oscuro universo dello spionaggio internazionale. Un pianista tedesco risentito, un diplomatico che lavora per il Kaiser, nega a Holmes di soddisfare un'ambizione segreta ma, nel fare ciò, gli salva inavvertitamente la vita. Nonostante questo, un patto segreto stretto tra il governo e Julia Moriarty minaccia di dare inizio a una guerra in Europa e il solo agire repentino di Holmes può impedire che qualcuno venga ucciso pubblicamente. Da amante fedele di Sherlock Holmes, Dick Gillman ha saputo cogliere l'essenza dei personaggi di Conan Doyle in uno stile paragonabile a quello del loro creatore. Gillman ha lavorato nell'industria manufatturiera e nella pubblica amministrazione, prima di dedicarsi all'insegnamento. È stato insegnante di scienze in una scuola secondaria inglese per 25 anni, fino alla pensione nel 2005. Ha ammesso in più occasioni la sua ossessione per i congegni tecnologici. Nella sua vita da pensionato, nei momenti in cui non è alle prese con qualcosa da smantellare, si è dedicato alla creazione di situazioni enigmatiche che mettono alla prova il formidabile ingegno di Sherlock Holmes. Vive con sua moglie, due cani e un gatto soriano, nella regione francese della Bretagna. A oggi ha scritto, e pubblicato con successo, più di venti racconti brevi sul personaggio di Sherlock Holmes. Questo racconto appartiene alla raccolta "The Julia Moriarty Trilogy" nella quale l'autore ci permette di conoscere il nuovo affascinante personaggio di Julia Moriarty. Julia è la vendicativa sorella del defunto professor James Moriarty e il suo obiettivo è niente meno che l'annientamento di Sherlock Holmes.

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Download or read book Change of Heart written by Laura Abbot and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is she too smart to fall in love? It was a hard lesson, but Libby Cameron learned it…twelve years ago. Now her ex-husband has moved to town, but Libby's too smart to go down that road again. Doing the smart thing isn't easy, though, once she discovers that Trent is caring for a sweet and sad little girl all by himself. Kylie Baker needs her, and Libby can't ignore that fact. Nor can she ignore the long-dormant feelings that Trent has awoken. But how can she forget their previous life together or the times he let her down? Has Trent really changed? Can the wrong man ever become the right one?

Download or read book The Last Mermaid written by Shana Abé and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2008-04-29 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shana Abé has entranced countless readers with her passion-filled novels of adventure, intrigue, and romance. Now the author of The Secret Swan delivers a gift from the sea: three hauntingly beautiful tales connected by a legend, a locket, and a love beyond time. 531 a.d.: The tiny island of Kell is said to be enchanted, inhabited by an extraordinary creature who comforts shipwrecked sailors passing into the next world. Prince Aedan of the Isles believes in no such nonsense—until he awakens on Kell itself and meets the sensuous siren who rescued him from the sea. 1721: Ronan MacMhuirich, Earl of Kell, is the target of an unlikely assassin: Leila, a mysterious woman from an exotic land. But his irresistibly beautiful would-be slayer is in just as much danger as Ronan when she falls for this man with a magic of his own. 2004: What do you do when you inherit a Scottish island you never knew existed—and find yourself pursued by a handsome stranger who wants to buy it from you? That’s what happens to Ruri Kell when she accepts Iain MacInnes’s invitation to visit her birthright, and listens to a proposition as sinfully tempting as everything else about him. Three seductive love stories, three passionate couples, all linked by one of the most romantic myths of all.

Download or read book Veil of Midnight written by Lara Adrian and published by Dell. This book was released on 2008-12-30 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bound by blood, addicted to danger, they'll enter the darkest—and most erotic—place of all. A warrior trained in bullets and blades, Renata cannot be bested by any man—vampire or mortal. But her most powerful weapon is her extraordinary psychic ability—a gift both rare and deadly. Now a stranger threatens her hard-won independence—a golden-haired vampire who lures her into a realm of darkness…and pleasure beyond imagining. A combat-loving adrenaline junkie, Nikolai dispenses his own justice to enemies of the Breed—and his latest quarry is a ruthless assassin. One woman stands in his way: the seductive, cool-as-ice bodyguard, Renata. But Renata’s powers are put to the test when a loved one, a child, is threatened and she’s forced to turn to Niko for help. As the two join forces, as desire fans the flames of a deeper hunger, Renata’s life is under siege by a man who offers the exquisite pleasure of a blood bond—and a passion that could save or doom them both forever.…

Download or read book While the Shark is Sleeping written by Milena Agus and published by Saqi. This book was released on 2013-01-03 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sevilla Mendoza family, long-time residents of the Sardinian coast, are not quite what you'd call conventional'. At the heart of the family is a girl in the throes of a dangerous affair with a married man. With a nervous mother, a dreamer for a father and an obsessive piano player for a little brother, she finds herself living a double life: one as a good daughter, the other on an erotic journey that will change her forever. 'While the Shark is Sleeping is an enchanting story of the loss of innocence and the desire to be loved. Extraordinary and startling' Grazia 'The most irresistible, untamed and imaginative sex' writer today' Il Corriere della Sera

Download or read book Murder Suicide written by Keith Russell Ablow, MD and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2005-06-13 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only forensic psychiatrist writing suspense, Keith Ablow is being hailed as the heir to Thomas Harris. Keith Ablow's novels delve deep into that dark and deadly place that Ablow, one of the nation's leading forensic psychiatrists, knows best: the psyche of a killer. Ablow has explored the catacombs of the criminal mind to find out what makes them tick, and he brings that expertise to his new novel, a chilling and emotionally compelling story of the lengths to which one man will go to leave his own life behind. In Murder Suicide, Ablow and his alter-ego, Dr. Frank Clevenger, return to take on a murder case like no other. John Snow is a brilliant inventor who has made millions from his genius in aeronautics. He has everything a man could desire: wealth, family, even a beautiful mistress. But he also has a brain disease, a rare form of epilepsy, that threatens his most valuable possession -- his mind. Only one doctor may be able to cure it surgically, but at a terrible cost, one that Snow reveals to no one: Snow will have no memory whatsoever of his past - of its emotional entanglements or its secrets. He will be abandoning everyone he has ever known. But the night before he is scheduled to undergo the operation, he is found near the Massachusetts General Hospital, dead of a gunshot wound. Did he commit suicide, as the police suspect - or was he murdered? Forensic psychiatrist Dr. Frank Clevenger delves into Snow's complex past and tortured relationships to unlock the identity of Snow's killer: Was it the wife who can never forgive what he's done to their child and their marriage, the son who loathes him, the beautiful mistress who loves him so deeply but can never have him, or the business partner intent on taking control of his inventions? Only Frank Clevenger can unlock the door to Snow's startling past. And only Keith Ablow can take readers even further into the mind of a killer.

Download or read book The Nun written by Simonetta Agnello Hornby and published by Europa Editions. This book was released on 2011-12-27 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Italian PEN Prize: A tale of illicit love and a girl forced into a convent in the early nineteenth century. 1839, Messina, Italy: Agata is the daughter of an aristocrat, albeit an impoverished one, and she has fallen in love with wealthy Giacomo Lepre. Their families, however, view their romance as unacceptable and tawdry—and when Agata’s father dies, her mother decides to ferry her daughter far away, to Naples, where she hopes to garner a stipend from the king. The only boat leaving Messina that day is captained by young Englishman James Garson. Following a tempestuous passage to Naples, during which Agata confesses her troubles to James, Agata and her mother find themselves rebuffed by the king, and Agata is forced to join a convent. The Benedictine monastery of San Giorgio Stilita is rife with rancor and jealousy, illicit passions and ancient feuds. But Agata remains aloof, devoting herself to the cultivation of medicinal herbs, calmed by the steady rhythms of monastic life. She reads all the books James sends her and follows the news of the various factions struggling to bring unity to Italy. She has accepted her life as a nun, but she is divided between her yearnings for purity and religiosity and her desire to be part of the world. And she is increasingly torn when she realizes that her feelings for James, though he is only a distant presence in her life, have eclipsed those for Lepre . . . “Hornby enriches her story with sensuous details of food, fashion, furnishings, and the rules of an extravagant society, savoring local color and personality quirks.” —Publishers Weekly “An historical novel, a coming-of-age novel, a perfect portrait of family dynamics, The Nun also gives us, in Agata, an unforgettable heroine.” —Gazzetta di Mantova

Download or read book Under an Orange Sky written by Manuel Alfonseca and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the year 2041, the government of the Earth has decided to start the colonization of Mars. On October 3rd, the ship Adventure leaves the Earth, taking Irene Pinedo as a reporter, who will transmit to the Earth the incidents of the travel. After arriving on Mars and getting installed in the Martian bubble, Irene makes two sensational discoveries that make her confront the leaders of the colony and the government of the Earth in a conflict of interests.

Download or read book Death in Persia written by Annemarie Schwarzenbach and published by Seagull Books - The Swiss List. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the rediscovery of her work in the late 1980s, Annemarie Schwarzenbach--journalist, traveler, archaeologist, opium addict, and antifascist novelist--has become a European cult figure among free spirited bohemians. Available in English for the first time and beautifully translated by Lucy Renner Jones, Death in Persia is a collage of the political and the private, documenting Schwarzenbach's intimate feelings and public ideas during four trips to Persia between 1933 and 1939. From her reflections on individual responsibility in the lead-up to World War II to her reactions to accusations from her friends of having deserted Europe and the antifascist cause for Tehran, Schwarzenbach recorded a great deal about daily life in Persia, and, most personally, her ill-fated love affair with Jalé, the daughter of the Turkish ambassador. Chronologically preceding Schwarzenbach's exquisite travelogue All the Roads are Open, an account of her automobile journey from Geneva to Afghanistan in 1939, Death in Persia is the enthralling diary of an astute observer standing at the crossroads of major events in history and a gorgeous new addition to Annemarie Schwarzenbach's growing English-language oeuvre.

Download or read book Embedded written by Dan Abnett and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HE'D DO ANYTHING TO GET A STORY. When journalist Lex Falk gets himself chipped into the brain of a combat soldier, he thinks he has the ultimate scoop - a report from the forbidden front line of a distant planetary war, live to the living rooms of Earth. When the soldier is killed, however, Lex has to take over the body and somehow get himself back to safety once more... broadcasting all the way. Heart-stopping combat science fiction from the million-selling Warhammer 40,000 author. File Under: Science Fiction [ Future Warefare | Chipped-In | Anything For a Story | Get Out Alive! ]

Download or read book The Marriage Act written by Elissa Ambrose and published by New York : Silhouette Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY ... After a brazen midnight encounter with a handsome stranger, shy Linda Mailer returned to her quiet life working for Walter Parks. Until she learned she was expecting a baby. And that her mystery lover-the baby's father-was Detective Tyler Carlton, the man in charge of the scandalous investigation into her boss! Tyler insisted they marry and give their child a real family. The longer they lived together, the deeper their passion grew. But Linda was wary of Tyler's thirst for revenge against Walter, and feared he was only using her for information. Could Tyler finally.

Download or read book The Countesses of Castello written by Milena Agus and published by Scribe Publications. This book was released on 2010-10-25 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three sisters live in three flats in an aristocratic palazzo in Cagliari’s ancient Castello quarter, where rich and poor are mixed together just as they were in the past. The eldest, Noemi, dreams of lost splendours, while the second, Maddalena, dreams of having a child. The third, known as Countess Ricotta ‘because she’s clumsy — she’s got ricotta hands — and because everything about the real world hurts her weak heart, which is also made of ricotta’, dreams of love. Countess Ricotta is the only one with a child, Carlino, a little livewire and a fine pianist. Around the family and its persistent illusions there are characters who are more solid but no less fleeting, because after all it is only illusion that does not flee: the old nanny, the shady neighbour, the shepherd Elias. Milena Agus’ latest novel takes us back into that world all her own, where enchantment and disenchantment are blended without her ever passing judgement or dissolving the mystery.