French Classic Mysteries

At the dawn of the French Revolution, the men, women, and children of Paris have one hope to escape the guillotine: the masked and mysterious Scarlet Pimpernel. But who is this daring swordsman and quick-thinking master of disguise? London’s privileged, self-obsessed Sir Percy Blakeney. When his estranged wife, Marguerite, falls prey to French envoy Chauvelin’s blackmail, she unwittingly exposes the Pimpernel and imperils the covert league he commands.

Arthur Conan Doyle, le créateur du personnage de "Sherlock Holmes", le détective privé par excellence, était un écrivain prolifique. Il s'est aussi attelé à l'écriture de nombreux romans, historiques ou policier. On découvre ici une autre facette de son talent : l'écriture de nouvelles fantastiques, d'anticipation et d'horreur.

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 Mlle Stangerson et, surtout, par où l'assassin a-t-il pu quitter la chambre jaune ? C'est le jeune reporter Rouletabille, limier surdoué et raisonnant par " le bon bout de la raison, ce bon bout que l'on reconnait à ce que rien ne peut le faire craquer ", qui va trouver la solution de cet affolant problème, au terme d'une enquête fertile en aventures et en rebondissements.

The twistiest murder mystery you are ever likely to read? A story about a family that does the unthinkable? Both? Or something else altogether? You think it will never happen to you. The doorbell. The policeman. The words that turn your world inside out: I'm afraid there’s been an incident...

From the internationally bestselling author of Serenade for Nadia, a powerful story of love and faith amidst the atrocities committed by ISIS against the Yazidi people. Disquiet transports the listener to the contemporary Middle East through the stories of Meleknaz, a Yazidi Syrian refugee...

Helen Eustis’s The Horizontal Man (1946) won an Edgar Award for best first novel and continues to fascinate as a singular mixture of detection, satire, and psychological portraiture. A poet on the faculty of an Ivy League school is found murdered, setting off ripple effects of anxiety...

Lizzie Borden took an ax And gave her mother forty whacks When she saw what she had done, She gave her father forty-one. Or did she? In this riveting debut novel, See What I Have Done, Sarah Schmidt recasts one of the most fascinating murder cases of all time into an intimate story of a...

Le professeur Challenger, zoologiste célèbre et colérique, est revenu d'une expédition en Amérique du Sud avec une étrange histoire...

She was about twenty, with long blond hair, and her body was found a few days after she fell from the cliffs to her death on the rocks below. No one identified her; no one reported a missing girl. All the police knew was her rough age, that she’d had a child recently, and that she was very...

Ce recueil de 12 nouvelles captivantes dévoile les exploits inégalés du génie de la déduction, Sherlock Holmes, et de son fidèle compagnon, le Dr John Watson. Ensemble, ils se lancent dans une série de mystères intrigants et de crimes apparemment insolubles, naviguant à travers les rues sombres et les somptueuses demeures de l'Angleterre victorienne.

The author of the New York Times Notable The Great Glass Sea (“The most unexpected second book by a writer of note to appear in years.” —John Freeman, The Boston Globe) returns with a gripping adventure story that probes the expansive, shifting wilds of the Sierra Nevada during the Gold...

George Lamming—one of the Caribbean’s most powerful literary voices—reimagines the age of European exploration to expose the deep scars of conquest, in a novel that Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, perennial contender for the Nobel Prize, called “one of the great political novels in modern...

The first ever collection of short stories from the New York Times bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of The Friend Over the course of thirty years, Sigrid Nunez has become one of contemporary fiction’s most distinctive voices, producing nine penetrating, profound novels...

“Ahmad’s compassion, her deep care for the psychological and emotional nuances of her characters, never wavers.” – The New York Times Book Review In a searing collection by the award-winning author of The Return of Faraz Ali, characters seek to make their futures their own in a Pakistan...

The daughter of an automotive magnate escapes to an artistic retreat that holds more secrets—and more intrigue—than she could have ever imagined, in this Prohibition-era novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Salt to the Sea. Detroit, 1927. A city of smoke and ambition, where...

Elle n'avait pas quitté des yeux le voyageur et c'était à lui plutôt qu'à moi qu'elle lança les syllabes de ce nom inquiétant. Il baissa son chapeau sur son nez. Était-ce pour masquer son trouble ou, simplement, se préparait-il à dormir ? Je fis cette objection : - Arsène Lupin a été condamné hier, par contumace, à vingt ans de travaux forcés. Il est donc peu probable qu'il commette aujourd'hui l'imprudence de se montrer en public. En outre, les journaux n'ont-ils pas signalé sa présence en Turquie, cet hiver, depuis sa fameuse évasion de la Santé ?

"La Vie de Lazarillo de Tormes" est un roman épistolaire espagnol publié anonymement en 1554 et qui est généralement considéré comme étant le premier roman picaresque. Il raconte l'histoire de Lazaro, surnommé Lazarillo, un jeune garçon issu d'une famille modeste. Son père est mort et sa mère l'abandonne ; s'ensuit une série d'aventures où Lazarillo passe du service d'un maître à celui d'un autre. Il vit en marge de la société et dépeint celle-ci avec ironie et dérision.

Nous poursuivons dans ce deuxième tome les aventures du Vicomte de Kergaz aux prises avec l'infâme Andréa. Nous les avions quittés alors qu'Andréa semblait triompher sur tous les points : Fernand Rocher était prisonnier, Cerise et Jeanne séquestrées et Baccarat enfin, enfermée comme folle. Comment Armand de Kergaz pourra-t-il retrouver la trace des héritiers de feu M. le baron Kermor de Kermarouet dans ces conditions ?

With some trepidation Nigel Derry approaches the country house of his enigmatic and unpredictable aunt Gwenny for an Easter holiday visit. After a tense few days in which her guests' interactions range from awkward dinners to a knife fight, a disgruntled aunt Gwenny departs for Europe. Receiving a telegram from Le Touquet inviting him to join Gwenny in the south of France, Nigel finds himself on a vacation cut short by murder as a cold shadow of suspicion eclipses the sunny beauty of the Côte d'Azur.

Emile Gaboriau first introduced the young police officer and detective Monsieur Lecoq in his novel L'Affaire Lerouge. He based his character on an actual thief who later became no less than the head of the Paris police -- Eugine Francois Vidocq. As a character, Lecoq would later influence Arthur Conan Doyle in his creation of Sherlock Holmes. In this, his first foray into detection, Lecoq reveals his mastery of the art of disguise and his zeal for detection. Monsieur Lecoq: Volume I is the first of a two-part novel and details the crime and ensuing investigation.