The lights of London seem bright to Kitty Miller, but their sparkle soon fades when she finds herself alone and destitute, at the mercy of those that inhabit the fog-bound streets and alleyways of the East End. Until the feisty young prostitute, Tibs Tyler, takes her under her wing, and the two
'A woman phoned to say she and her husband went to Paris for the weekend, leaving their children with a - well, teen-sitter, I suppose, got back last night to find the lot gone and naturally she assumes they've all drowned.' There hadn't been anything like this kind of rain in living memory. The
"Each of the opposing sides in any war always predicts victory." Armageddon has arrived, through the office of a megalomaniac arms dealer and an over-ambitious black magician. In one apocalyptic night,the major and minor devils are unleashed on the world. God is vanquished. And the City of Hell
The passionate saga of a 19th-century Lakeland girl, and her search for happiness in a web of conflicting emotions and loyalties.
Damaged children grow up in different ways. Some can shuffle of the horrors of the past. Others cannot change who they are, or will never know how. Teddy Grex became a handsome young man. Francine Hill grew up beautiful. But it was death that brought them together.
Uśmiechnięci sąsiedzi? Zadbane ulice? Żadnych przestępców? Miasteczko Pleasant Hill mogłoby być ucieleśnieniem amerykańskiego snu, gdyby nie skrywało mrocznej tajemnicy. Żeby odkryć, co naprawdę się w nim dzieje, trzej skłóceni bohaterowie muszą połączyć siły: Steve Rogers, Bucky Barnes oraz Sam
A murder without motive is the most chilling crime of all. And the twenty seemingly pointless murders described here are all the more horryfying because every one is true. The dissected body found still partly deep-frozen in the park, the corpse cooked through in the sauna, the murder of an elderly
Since its colonization by Earth, Pacifica has flourished. Now, under the guidance of Chairman Carlotta Madigan and her lover and Minister of Media, Royce Lindbold, it is the galaxy's supreme electronic democracy, a Utopian world where both sexes equally serve and are served by the Media. But there
"Men Without Women" was a milestone in Hemingway's career. "Fiesta" had already established him as a novelist of exceptional power, but with these short stories, his second collection, he showed that it is possible, within the space of a few pages, to recreate a scene with absolute truth, bringing
