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Arthur Hastings, amigo del famoso detective Hercule Poirot, visita Marsdon Manor, una mansión inglesa, donde ocurre un misterioso asesinato. El señor Maltravers, un hombre rico y enfermo, es encontrado muerto en su habitación, aparentemente de un ataque al corazón. Sin embargo, Poirot sospecha que hay más de lo que parece y comienza a investigar.

Un valioso bono del gobierno de Estados Unidos por un millón de dólares es robado durante un viaje en barco a Nueva York. El ladrón es desconocido y se plantea un enigma aparentemente insoluble. El famoso detective privado Tommy y Tuppence Beresford son contratados para resolver el caso. Tommy y Tuppence investigan a los diversos pasajeros del barco, descubriendo una red de intrigas y sospechas.

1918. Fleeing from her past, Cathy Carmichael is new to the Sixteen Streets. She has nothing to her name, no plan and nowhere to go. Cathy thinks she's struck gold when she runs into Mrs Sturrocks, an elderly lady who offers her a room at her boarding house. Her son, Noel, might be strange and sulky, but he gives her a job at the Robin Hood pub and before long, Cathy is thriving as the new barmaid. The Sixteen Streets was only meant to be a temporary stop for Cathy...but could it become home instead?

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He helped you move on... Until you discovered what he did. Louisa Adams has done her best to hold herself together in the years since she lost her husband in a car accident. But each morning she wakes up alone is more painful than the last. She hopes moving into the crumbling seaside guest house her daughter just bought in Devon will help put what’s left of her broken family back together... There, Louisa is offered a final chance to save her career by writing an article on a local sand artist, Isaac.

Si encara no tens clar si ets pijo o no, aquest és el teu llibre; si ho tens clar, també.

Tenim tan poca idea dels pijos, del seu món i del seu modus vivendi que el Marc Giró s'ha vist en l'obligació d'escriure aquest nou llibre, desobeint el principi més bàsic de la vida regalada, que diu que el més important a la vida de tot pijo és no pencar mai, sota cap concepte, que això és cosa de les classes proletàries de la Lower-Diagonal.

Val a dir, en la nostra defensa, que avui, en temps de Zara, qualsevol persona per quatre duros pot vestir-se de pijo...

Qui són, què fan i on trobar-los. Però, també, què els fa feliços, què els angoixa, què els posa calents. PIJOS és un llibre necessari, és un llibre que ens acosta ­a nosaltres, els mortals que habitem la Lower Diagonal o, Déu no ho vulgui, l'extraradi­ a aquest grup de gent tan selecte i exclusiu com mal entès i pitjor comprès, i ens revela una vida sovint més complexa del que cap de nosaltres pot arribar a imaginar.

Eugene Schieffelin es rico, singular y aficionado a los pájaros. Su hermana y su mujer, devotas amantes de Shakespeare. Sus amigos, miembros de una Sociedad más desfasada que científica que sueña con llenar los cielos neoyorquinos de pájaros europeos. Nueva York, una ciudad que aún no se parece a ella misma, el escenario ideal para cualquier locura, por descabellada que sea.

In a quiet provincial Danish town, something is afoot. The volunteers of the local second-hand shop keep dying. Since they’re all OAP's, the police can’t see the problem. It’s the inevitable – if unfortunate – circle of life. However, resident busy-body, and force-to-be-reckoned-with, Anne-Maj Mortensen is not so sure. She may be newly retired herself, but she still has her wits about her and knows when something needs a little investigating. Scandi crime, but not as you’ve ever seen it before.

I know many things about Larissa. I know what she eats, which must-have brands she applies to her face, and the price of each carefully selected ‘piece’ in her multi-million-pound home in Belgravia. Because Ris, as she is known to her many followers, likes to share. And now I’m here, in her home, watching her every move. Entrusted with her secrets and running her diary from the bijou basement flat, I’m on hand to fulfil Ris’ every need. Her right-hand woman. But what she doesn’t know is why I’m really here.

A dark, many-gabled mansion in a small New England village—haunted by fraudulent dealings, accusations of witchcraft, and sudden death—houses the distinguished Pyncheon family. They are plagued by a centuries-old curse that casts the shadow of ancestral sin on its last four members. The arrival of Phoebe Pyncheon from the country breathes fresh air and sunshine into their musty, decaying home, but will her arrival come too late to rescue the family from a gloomy future?

After months on the run, sneaking onto a luxury cruise liner wouldn’t be easy, but she’d done worse things to survive. The ship is owned by Roslyn Travel Co, the sole proprietor of a mysterious vacation destination exclusively for the filthy rich.

J.B. Morton took over the 'By The Way' column in the Daily Express in 1924 - succeeding his friend D.B. Wyndham-Lewis as Beachcomber - and continued writing it for over 50 years. Anarchic, absurdist and profoundly influential, it had a huge cult following, and paved the way for a great deal of modern humour.

The town of Oak Hollow is very eager to welcome Tracey...and her baby. Soon after 17-year-old Tracey Parks found out she was pregnant, she was sent off to live with her grandmother in Oak Hollow. It was a painful transition, but she learned to love the quaint town and the people who live there. But now, as the birth of her son approaches, the once-friendly town seems much more ominous. Could it be that the residents of Oak Hollow have been waiting for her—and her unborn baby—all along? And what role will her baby play in this macabre nightmare?

Un empresario minero contrata a Poirot para resolver el brutal asesinato de su hija y el robo de sus joyas a bordo del expreso de Plymouth.

El doctor Oldfield tiene un problema grave del que no sabe cómo deshacerse. Su esposa murió hace aproximadamente un año, y los chismes abundan: muchos en el pequeño pueblo creen que mató a su esposa para casarse con su médico. Oldfield, por lo tanto, le pide a Poirot que lo ayude.

En esta maravillosa obra, Miguel Hernández nos habla del sufrimiento de los pobres debida a la opresión causada por los líderes políticos. Y por otro lado se entristece contándonos como el el amor pasa desapercibido porque ya no es dirigido sólo a una mujer sino también al hombre y a la naturaleza.

Mientras Poirot está de visita en la campiña inglesa, tiene un problema mecánico con el motor de su automóvil. Se llama el reparador Ted Williamson, quien le confía que se enamoró de una joven, llamada "Nita", doncella de una bailarina de ballet rusa. Pero esta joven ha desaparecido misteriosamente, para su consternación. Hercule Poirot promete hacer todo lo posible para encontrar a la joven de forma voluntaria

La historia se centra en un protagonista anónimo que decide pasar la noche en el remoto castillo Lorraine. El narrador pretende descansar en una habitación que se dice está embrujada, en un intento por refutar las diversas leyendas que la rodean.

El detective Hércules Poirot es contratado por la señorita Violeta Marsh para resolver un extraño caso. La muchacha ha sido desafiada por su tío fallecido, Andrew Marsh, y sólo recibirá la enorme fortuna que debe heredar si logra probar su inteligencia.