Childhood, upbringing, family background, social relations, traumatic experiences…
We keep reviewing and seeking out the motives of criminals, exploring the subtlest emotions driving them. It’s not to put ourselves in their shoes and sympathize,...
Charteris's own stay in the Canary Isles and his command of Spanish allow him to portray this romp around pre-war Tenerife with a wealth of entertaining detail and local colour.
Following, from Madrid via Cádiz, the lead of some stolen...
Love goddess...or modern Medusa? Napoleon Solo was stunned when he first saw the exquisite Countess Anne-Marie Louise de St.-Denis in her private estate on the isle of Corfu. She was the head of the world-famous St.-Denis Laboratory in Paris, where...
Wszystko zaczęło się od tego, że rozleciał mi się samochód. Wracałam z Gdańska do Warszawy i za Pasłękiem wjechałam sobie do lasu, żeby nazbierać kwiatków. Ściśle biorąc, nie były to kwiatki, tylko jakieś badyle, zaczynające z...
England, 1813: Lady Arianna Hadley acts the part of a French chef in one of London's aristocratic households to find her father's murderer. But when the Prince Regent falls ill after consuming Arianna's special chocolate dessert, she finds...
A body is found hanging on a hook above the canals of Amsterdam's old town. In a remote coastal village, a doll lies in the ashes of a burnt down house. But the couple who died in the blaze were childless. Did a little girl escape the blaze? And if...