Christie Agatha: Taken at the Flood
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: A full-cast dramatisation of Agatha Christies novel featuring Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot.
Miss Marple's Final Cases
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: «The new-look series of Miss Marple books for the 21st century. First, the mystery man in the church with a bullet-wound... then, the riddle of a dead mans buried treasure... the curious conduct oif a caretaker after a fatal riding accident... the corpse and a tape-measure... the girl framed for theft... and the suspect accused of stabbing his wife with a dagger. Six gripping cases with one thing…
Christie Agatha: Sleeping Murder
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: «The owner of a seaside villa is plagued by strange feelings about its past... Soon after Gwenda moved into her new home, odd things started to happen. Despite her best efforts to modernise the house, she only succeeded in dredging up its past. Worse, she felt an irrational sense of terror every time she climbed the stairs! In fear, Gwenda turned to Miss Marple to exorcise her ghosts. Between…
Christie Agatha: Dead Man's Folly
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Sir George and Lady Stubbs hit upon the idea of staging a mock murder mystery. Ariadne Oliver, a well known crime writer, agrees to organize their murder hunt. Despite weeks of planning, Ariadne calls in Hercule Poirot, as instinctively she senses that something sinister is about to happen.
Christie Agatha: Sparkling Cyanide
Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: «A new signature edition of Agatha Christies thriller, featuring the recurring character of Colonel Race from «Death on the Nile», «Cards on the Table» and «The Man in the Brown Suit». Six people sit down to dinner at a table laid for seven. In front of the empty place is a sprig of rosemary — in solemn memory of Rosemary Barton who died at the same table exactly one year previously. No one…
Dick Philip K.: Counter-Clock World
Скачать книгу (размер 1 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 236) Аннотация: «Pre-empting novels such as the Booker Prize-winning «Time's Arrow» by as much as twenty years, Counter-Clock world is a story of racial tensions told against the background of the year 1998 in which time flows in reverse as people are born old only to grow younger and younger.»
Tolkien J.R.R.: The Shaping of Middle-Earth
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: «The fourth volume that contains the early myths and legends which led to the writing of Tolkiens epic tale of war, «The Silmarillion». In this fourth volume of «The History of Middle-earth», the shaping of the chronological and geographical structure of the legends of Middle-earth and Valinor is spread before us. We are introduced to the hitherto unknown Ambarkanta or Shape of the World, the…
Tolkien J.R.R.: The Treason of Isengard
Скачать книгу (размер 2 564 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 504) Аннотация: «This is the seventh volume of «The History of Middle-earth». The story reaches the beginning of «The Lord of the Rings» and ends at the point where the author halted in the story as the «Company of the Ring», still lacking Legolas and Gimli, stood before the tomb of Balin in the «Mines of Moria».»
Tolkien J.R.R.: The War of the Ring
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: «This takes up the story of the writing of «The Lord of the Rings» with the Battle of Helms Deep and the drowning of Isengard by the Ents. It is the next volume in a series which looks at the ideas behind the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien.»
Tolkien J.R.R.: The War of the Jewels
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: «The second of two companion volumes which documents the later writing of «The Silmarillion», Tolkiens epic tale of war. In «The War of the Jewels» Christopher Tolkien takes up his account of the later history of «The Silmarillion» from the point where it was left in Morgoths Ring. The story now returns to Middle-earth, and the ruinous conflict of the High Elves and the Men who were their allies…
C.S. Lewis: The Chronicles of Narnia — The Last Battle
Скачать книгу (размер 871 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 172) Аннотация: The Narnia Chronicles, first published in 1950, have been and remain some of the most enduringly popular children’s books ever published. The best known, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, has been translated into 29 languages! “To my side, all true Narnians! Would you wait till your new masters have killed you one by one?” A false Aslan is commanding all Narnians to work for the cruel…
C.S. Lewis: The Chronicles of Narnia — The Silver Chair
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: The Narnia Chronicles, first published in 1950, have been and remain some of the most enduringly popular children’s books ever published. The best known, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, has been translated into 29 languages! “We’ve got to go north”, said Edmund, “and reach the ruins of a giant city”. Prince Rilian, Caspian’s beloved son, has mysteriously disappeared, and Jill and Eustace…
C.S. Lewis: The Chronicles of Narnia — The Horse and His Boy
Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: The Narnia Chronicles, first published in 1950, have been and remain some of the most enduringly popular children’s books ever published. The best known, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, has been translated into 29 languages! “I’m dreaming”, thought Shasta. “I could have sworn that horse spoke”. Bree, the talking horse, has been kidnapped from Narnia, and longs to return. Shasta, on the…
C.S. Lewis: The Chronicles of Narnia — The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Скачать книгу (размер 962 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 190) Аннотация: The Narnia Chronicles, first published in 1950, have been and remain some of the most enduringly popular children’s books ever published. The best known, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, has been translated into 29 languages! Eustace found himself standing on the picture frame. In front of him was not glass, but real sea. When Lucy, Edmund and their awful cousin Eustace are suddenly swept…
Agatha Christie: 4:50 from Paddington
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: Agatha Christie’s audacious mystery thriller, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. For an instant the two trains ran together, side by side. In that frozen moment, Elspeth witnessed a murder. Helplessly, she stared out of her carriage window as a man remorselessly tightened his grip around a woman’s throat. The…
Agatha Christie: Clocks
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: A typist uncovers a man’s body from behind the sofa… As instructed, stenographer Sheila Webb let herself into the house at 19 Wilbraham Crescent. It was then that she made a grisly discovery: the body of a dead man sprawled across the living room floor. What intrigued Poirot about the case was the time factor. Although in a state of shock, Sheila clearly remembered having heard a cuckoo clock…
Agatha Christie: Third Girl
Скачать книгу (размер 1 136 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 224) Аннотация: A perplexed girl thinks she might have killed someone… Three single girls shared the same London flat. The first worked as a secretary; the second was an artist; the third who came to Poirot for help, disappeared convinced she was a murderer. Now there were rumours of revolvers, flick-knives and blood stains. But, without hard evidence, it would take all Poirot’s tenacity to establish whether the…
Isabel Allende: Portrait in Sepia
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: Best selling international author, Isabel Allende tackles her homeland head-on in this staggering, epic romance. ‘Portrait in Sepia’ is both a magnificent historical novel set at the end of the nineteenth century in Chile and a marvellous family saga peopled by characters from ‘Daughter of Fortune’ and ‘The House of the Spirits’, two of Allende's most celebrated novels. As a young girl, Aurora…
Agatha Christie: Towards Zero
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: An elderly widow is murdered at a clifftop seaside house… What is the connection between a failed suicide attempt, a wrongful accusation of theft against a schoolgirl, and the romantic life of a famous tennis player? To the casual observer, apparently nothing. But when a houseparty gathers at Gull’s Point, the seaside home of an elderly widow, earlier events come to a dramatic head. It’s all part…
Neal Stephenson: Cryptonomicon
Скачать книгу (размер 5 950 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1168) Аннотация: A remarkable epic adventure of soldiers and secrets, spies and code breakers, cryptography and high-tech finance. When the adult grandchildren of two men once involved in code-breaking espionage in World War II find a sunken Nazi submarine, they're led to a massive conspiracy, the effects of which can either enhance freedom — or subjugate the world.