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Agatha's husband has bought her a first-class ticket on the scenic six-hour train from Toronto to Montreal as a gift―a one-day writing retreat so she can get some serious work done on her new book, a highly-anticipated follow-up to Agatha's runaway bestseller debut novel. But Agatha has other plans for her day out…plans that are unexpectedly derailed when the train breaks down in the middle of the frigid Canadian woods and one of Agatha's fellow passengers dies quietly in his seat.

זהו תכשיט סודי מהספרות האירופאית של המאה התשע-עשרה. סיפור אהבה הכתוב באלגנטיות יחידה במינה. בסוף המאה התשע-עשרה, על חוף בים הצפוני, תיוולד תשוקה ייחודית בין אמיל...

In the Hugo Award nominee Forty, Counting Down, computer genius Justin Kloster travels to the past to stop himself from making a terrible mistake. But all actions have their consequences. Then, in Twenty-One, Counting Up, Kloster's college life and romantic dreams are rudely interrupted when the 40-year-old Justin arrives from the future to save him from himself.

An army surgeon must amputate a soldier's leg in a crude field hospital during the Civil War. The doctor is so skilled that he accomplishes most of the operation in a mere 40 seconds - an assistant times the procedure - yet his mind is consumed with thoughts of the personal toll the war has taken on him.

A young married couple with a baby is eking out a living while the husband, Roger, works to establish his own advertising company. His wife, Gretchen, is stunningly beautiful and unhappy with how much time Roger spends working. After an evening with Roger's old friend, George Tompkins, who suggests that Roger needs more of a work/life balance, a flirtation begins between George and Gretchen.

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オーディオブック シェイクスピアシリーズ第十九弾

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●解説
シェイクスピア初期の傑作で、稀代の悪党とされるリチャード三世が主人公。16世紀前半のマキャベリズムに影響を受けた専制君主を目指して、権謀術数に長けた人物が「目的のためなら手段を選ばず」権力欲を振り回す話。
この「リチャード三世」は、「ヘンリー六世」三部作に続く、シェイクスピア「第一・四部作（薔薇戦争もの）」の最後を飾る作品であるため、上演する際も組み合わせられることが多く、イギリスではバートン&ホール、映画ではローレンス・オリヴィエ、本邦でも木下順二が一連の劇を合成させており、本稿でも一部「ヘンリー六世」の筋書きや台詞を採り入れている。
なおシェイクスピア原典ではエドモンドが末子とされているが、クィーチ版では史実通りリチャードが末の子に修正されている。またリチャード三世は、史実ではこうした残虐な人物ではなかったという説もある。

●内容紹介
「おれか？...

Is Sydney gun city? It certainly seems so when Cliff Hardy is hired by entrepreneur and one-time pistol-shooting champion Timothy Greenhall to investigate the violent death of his troubled son. Soon Hardy is pitched into a world of crooked cops - former members of the Gun Control Unit - outlaw bikies and honest police trying to clean the stables quietly. Two more murders raise the stakes, and relationships are stretched to the breaking point.

When Maigret's .45 revolver is stolen from his home, he becomes embroiled in a murder in which the gun may have played a deadly role. Maigret is the victim of a burglary in which the .45 revolver he had received as a gift from the FBI is stolen. That evening Maigret attends a dinner where François Lagrange, an acquaintance of Maigret's friend, is expected but fails to appear due to ill health. Following his instincts, Maigret decides to investigate Lagrange's absence and uncovers a body stowed in a trunk....