In the early hours of the morning, a woman is found in the elevator of a plush apartment block on Santa Fe Road, Buenos Aires. She’s young, gorgeous and dead. With this opening image starts one of the greatest crime novels ever written in...
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Laura's trip to her native Scotland--accompanying Dame Beatrice for a conference, the secretary finds the venture more pleasure than business--begins ominously when she witnesses at Inverness a man thrown into the path of a speeding lorry. A...
Автор: Куин (Квин) Эллери
Серия: Ellery Queen Detective #23
Язык: английский
Год: 1952
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Armed men invade the Queen apartment. At their head is Abel Bendigo, brother of one of the world’s most powerful men, King Bendigo of Bodigen Arms, industrial monster whose tentacles embrace the planet. Someone is threatening to kill King Bendigo,...
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Гілберт Кіт Честертон (1874—1936) – англійський християнський мислитель, журналіст і письменник кінця ХІХ – початку ХХ століття. Він...