Showing results for "Bonnie" in Anthologies & Short Stories

"Ich saß verloren in meiner Wohnung und fragte mich, was ich hier eigentlich sollte. Mein Hund war gestorben und hatte mich in die Einsamkeit entlassen. Ich brauchte einen neuen Hund." Die unvergessliche Geschichte von Bonnie Propeller, dem Hund mit den zwei Namen, handelt von unerfüllbaren Erwartungen und unverhofftem Glück; von Freude, Liebe - und von der selbstverordneten Notwendigkeit, dreimal am Tag das Haus zu verlassen.

Set during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, we meet Max Carrados, the celebrated blind detective who can read a newspaper headline with the touch of his fingers and shoot a villain by aiming at the sound of his beating heart...and Norman Conquest, the fast talking, hard hitting adventurer with a nose for trouble and a hell-rake disregard for danger, who keeps up good cheer while he biffs the baddies...and not forgetting Ben, the chivalrous and perky non-descript little man, whose thumbs itch just before ‘something ‘orrible ‘appens’.

A man finds himself surrounded by women who are becoming paler, more silent and literally smaller; a woman's intimate life is strangely dominated by the fear of nuclear warfare; a melancholy teenage love is swept away by a hurricane, while a tired, middle-aged affection is rekindled by the...