Abracadáver, mezcla de humor negro y ejemplar ejercicio de deducción, combina con gran habilidad la ambientación de época y el retrato de los personajes con una excelente intriga.
En el Londres del siglo XIX, el sargento Cribb y...
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“Here’s another of those delightful Victorian mysteries, featuring Sergeant Cribb and Constable Thackeray of the Yard. This one deals with peculiar accidents in various music halls, mishaps of a kind that would ruin a performer’s career; and...
When Abraham Lincoln was nine years old, his mother died from an ailment called the "milk sickness." Only later did he learn that his mother's deadly affliction was actually the work of a local vampire, seeking to collect on Abe's father's...
*Abraham Lincoln: A History* is a comprehensive multi-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln, written by his close associates and secretaries—John George Nicolay and John Hay.
The book provides a detailed account of Lincoln’s life — from his...
Indiana, 1818. Moonlight falls through the dense woods that surround a one-room cabin, where a nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln kneels at his suffering mother's bedside. She's been stricken with something the old-timers call "Milk Sickness."
"My...
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Sean Marrow is desperate to enter The Everlands, a recently released, ground-breaking VR game that is all everyone's talking about. He's so desperate that, despite being underage, he sneaks into a gaming lounge just for a chance to play. The...
This third book in William W. Johnstone's classic The First Mountain Man series finds Preacher leading a wagon train through the remote Rocky Mountain high country when he is attacked by Vic Bedell and his gang of cutthroats. But Preacher's...
The time is an unspecified modernity, the place possibly Europe. Absence follows four nameless people — the old man, the woman, the soldier, and the gambler — as they journey to a desolate wasteland beyond the limits of an unnamed...
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