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There will never be another Western writer like Louis L’Amour. A legendary author and indisputably the greatest storyteller in his genre of all time, L’Amour captivated millions of readers and has sold well over three hundred million copies of his works, which includes nearly ninety novels and countless short stories. Mistakes Can Kill You highlights an essential selection featuring nine of L’Amour’s earlier short stories, sometimes written under the pen name Jim Mayo, that exemplify the rugged morality of the best Western writing.

A collection of stories from the most famous Western author of all time! Desert Death-Song is a compilation of some of Louis L’Amour’s greatest stories, many of which might otherwise be difficult to find. Whether he was writing under his early pen name, Jim Mayo, or his own, L’Amour’s stories are unforgettable, touching on rough and rugged American ideals, and set in the untamable frontier of the Western United States.

A collection of stories capturing what it means to be a cowboy.

The New York Times best-selling author continues his colonial-era thriller series with eight tales of mystery, adventure, and supernatural suspense.

A rediscovered classic and international bestseller that recounts the gripping tale of a friendship destroyed at the hands of Nazi Germany In this searing epistolary novel, Kathrine Kressmann Taylor brings vividly to life the insidious spread of Nazism through a series of letters between Max, a...

A heart-stopping novel of adventure and suspense from #1 New York Times bestselling author James Rollins—the first in his critically acclaimed Sigma Force series A freak explosion in the British Museum in London ignites a perilous race for an earth-shaking power source buried deep beneath the...

Michael Irwin’s The Skull and the Nightingale is a chilling and deliciously dark, literary novel of manipulation and sex, intrigue and seduction, set in 18th-century England. When Richard Fenwick returns to London, his wealthy godfather, James Gilbert, has an unexpected proposition. Gilbert...

A sharp and prescient novel about women in the workplace, the power of Big Tech, and the looming threat of foreign espionage from Kathy Wang, “a skilled satirist of the northern California dream” (Harper’s Bazaar) In 2006 Julia Lerner is living in Moscow, a recent university graduate in...

A construction project beneath the National Mall reveals a dark secret dating back to the Civil War, something buried by a cabal of scientists, led by Alexander Graham Bell, who helped found the Smithsonian Institution. It is a cache of bones, preserved in amber, protecting a wonder like no...

Terzo romanzo della serie dei delitti della Royal society, anche in questo caso assistiamo ad una miscela di thriller, ragionamento investigavo, e accurata ambientazione storica della Londra della seconda metà del 1600, in fase di ricostruzione dopo il Grande Incendio. Ulysses Unt, l’investigatore che grazie alla soluzione del “caso del demone rosso” e del “caso Vaughan” ha acquistato grande credito presso la Royal Society, viene da questa incaricato di investigare sulla misteriosa morte di un piccolo erede al trono.

James has found himself at the fashionable resort Kimpton-on-Sea, all due to the persuasion of his girlfriend Grace, who during the last few months of their courtship has become more difficult to deal with. Among the upper echelons of society, including the Rajah of Maraputna, James feels...

At a séance, Sir Alington, a venerable expert of the mental condition, is pestered by Mrs. Eversleigh about the importance of the sixth sense. Soon, a young man named Dermot is drawn in and tells them both about the sixth sense he experiences, a red signal that spells danger. He is about to...

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (1842 - 1914) was an American writer famous for his dark and cynical writings, which earned him the nickname Bitter Bierce. He is famous also for his mysterious demise. He wrote a letter to a friend, which he closed by saying, "As to me, I leave here tomorrow for an unknown destination," and then he vanished without a trace, his disappearance becoming one of the most famous in American literary history.

Ambrose Bierce's collection of short stories of the supernatural and macabre Can Such Things Be? was first published in 1893 and republished in a revised edition in 1910. One of its most notable inclusions is "The Death of Halpin Frayser" a gothic tale of the murder of the fated hero by the reanimated corpse of his beloved mother.

Los mendigos se amontonaban en las calles y el alcalde de la ciudad recibía innumerables quejas de los vecinos. Hasta que una noche, algo extraño sucedió. Un silbido maligno planeó sobre la ciudad y enloqueció a sus habitantes hasta tal punto, que cometieron una atrocidad involuntaria. Un acto que marcaría la pequeña localidad para siempre.

Roma, 1938. Beniamino è appena venuto a conoscenza della morte del padre, un professore di fisica nucleare, ed è convinto che il suo assassino sia una persona a lui vicina poiché solo i figli, il nipote e il suo allievo favorito erano a conoscenza dei dettagli del suo piano di espatriare insieme alla famiglia. Nonostante la polizia abbia catalogato l'accaduto come incidente, Beniamino vuole indagare perché ci sono troppi elementi che non tornano: il padre riporta dei traumi pre-mortem, i soldi sono ancora nel portafoglio e gli unici oggetti scomparsi sono gli appunti che quella sera il professore era andato a recuperare nel suo studio.