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„Titan” is the second part of Theodore Dreiser’s famous „Trilogy of Desire”, which is based on the life story of the American millionaire C. Yerkes, who played a significant role in the development of the public transport system in Chicago and the London Underground.
Ottawa, January 2010. Canada’s historic Dominion Archives. Junior archivist Jess Kendall is struggling to find her footing in her new role. Her colleagues undermine her, her boss hates her, and her only romantic prospect hides a whiskey bottle in his desk. Desperate to make a good impression, her luck begins to change when she discovers a series of mysterious letters chronicling life in Paris at the start of the Great War. Thinking she has landed her ticket to career advancement, she dives into research in Dominion’s art vault, where she stumbles upon the body of one of her colleagues. As if finding a corpse isn’t frightening enough, Jess soon notices she is being stalked by a menacing figure. It’s only when she makes the connection between the letters, the murder, and a priceless Rembrandt that she realizes just how high the stakes are. Can she salvage her career, unravel a World War I–era mystery, shake off her ominous stalker, solve a murder, and—oh yeah—save her own life before it’s too late?Mostra libro
Father Michael Grabowski, a Franciscan priest who has tended the spiritual needs of Detroit’s Mexicantown for forty years, has suddenly retired. Ex-Detroit PD officer August Snow—the son of a Black cop and a Mexican American painter—grew up in the welcoming melting pot of Father Grabowski’s version of Catholicism, and has known the priest his whole life. August finds the abrupt retirement troubling—especially in light of the criminal scandal brewing at another local diocese. What dark history is Father Grabowski hiding? The situation takes a turn for the deadly with the appearance at the Detroit diocese of a mysterious priest and combat vet calling himself Francis Dominioni Petra. The man comes from the Vatican, and as his armored guard circles closer and closer to Father Grabowski and his friends, August wants to know why. A terrible crime has been committed in the name of faith—but who is seeking justice, and who is trying to bury the truth and its witnesses? August grapples with his own ideas about faith and his chosen family in this action-packed fourth installment in the Hammett Prize–winning series.Mostra libro
People call Ray Infantino when they need a private investigator to find a missing person.But what happens when someone with bad intentions comes looking for him? PI Ray Infantino searches for a missing girl in San Francisco, the city he abandoned years ago after his fiancé was killed. Thrust into his old city haunts, Ray finds that Tania may not be lost at all. Tania saw a murder; and a criminal gang, the Black Fist Triad, wants to make sure she never sees anything again. Ray enlists help from an old flame, Dominique, but now he has three women on his mind. Meeting with various witnesses—ex-cops, prostitutes, skinheads—he relentlessly tracks the evidence. But the hunt for Tania fires his obsession with avenging the murder of his fiancé. When the triad retaliates, and blood begins to flow, Ray must walk the knife edge between revenge and redemption on the streets of San Francisco. If you enjoy Robert B. Parker's Spenser, Sue Grafton's Kinsey Milhone, and James Lee Burke's Dave Robicheaux, you will want to join the thrilling investigations of Ray Infantino.Mostra libro
"The Adventure of the Empty House", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes. Public pressure forced Conan Doyle to bring the sleuth back to life, and explain his apparently miraculous survival of a deadly struggle with Professor Moriarty. This is the first Holmes story set after his supposed death at the Reichenbach Falls, as recounted in "The Final Problem". The Hound of the Baskervilles had seen the return of a pre-Reichenbach Falls Sherlock Holmes, which only served to whet readers' appetites. Doyle ranked "The Adventure of the Empty House" sixth in his list of his twelve favorite Holmes stories.Mostra libro
Offers the closest literary approximation to real submarine experience during the Cold War. “I was mesmerized by this remarkable tale of derring-do.”— Captain George W. Jackson USN (Ret.) Recovering from his Operation Arctic Sting injuries, USS Teuthis Executive Officer Mac McDowell is tasked with laying acoustic arrays in the southern Atlantic and off Thurston Island, Western Antarctica. Teuthis tangles with Argentine subs in the south Atlantic, then confronts a ChiCom sub off Thurston Island. Mac and his team experience serious setbacks at the hands of the ChiComs while installing a relay transmitter on a nearby mountain peak. Teuthis discovers an underwater oil operation off Thurston Island and is tasked with escorting a Taiwanese sub and underwater tanker under the cover of the largest military marine exercise since World War II: PacEx89. Teuthis is attacked by a Chinese Han-class sub and a previously unknown North Korean AIP sub despite the protection provided by three U.S. fast-attack subs. Will Mac and Teuthis complete their mission, or will they finally meet their watery graves on the Pacific Ocean abyssal plain?Mostra libro
Just when Aly thinks she understands her psychic powers, a new mystery puts them to the test. Life in Shady Grove is looking up. Aly's excited to start classes at Maloney College, she loves her job, and her unrequited crush might be starting to turn into an actual flirtation. If only she could figure out how her sister-in-law died and help her brother move on, everything would be awesome. Then, Aly's academic advisor and favorite professor turns up dead. Professor Zimm was a beloved teacher. Who would want to kill her? Could it be the colleague who stands to make tenure in her absence, the athlete who resents having to retake the class, the husband who is rarely around, the rich girl determined to get an A at all costs? There's no shortage of suspects, but Aly's running out of time to find the killer before they find her.Mostra libro
