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Did Wealthy Fremont Sabin divorce his wife before his untimely death? That's the multimillion-dollar question. And the right answer will mean a windfall for either the dead man's angry son or headstrong widow. Each has accused the other of destroying Sabin's will - and murdering Sabin. But with no document declaring to whom the affable eccentric intended to leave his fortune, Perry Mason faces a prickly puzzle.

Juliet Bianchi was once just another working drone, struggling to survive in a world where megacorporations reigned, information was power, and that power was worth killing for. Then she stumbled upon a kidnapping gone wrong and ended up with a stolen AI chip that took her from the bottom of the barrel to a top-tier realm of mercs, freelancers, and assorted unsavory folk.

Parrots will repeat anything. They don’t talk sense—or do they? When Pru Marlowe is called in to retrain a foulmouthed African gray after its owner’s death, she can’t help hearing the parrot’s words as a replay of a murder scene. But the doctor on call scoffs at the idea, and the heirs just want their late mother’s pet to stop cursing.

The story you’re about to hear is the second Charlie Chan novel, and it features a parrot named Tony who is witness to a crime. The unusual bird spoke Chinese and had a less-than-perfect use of English grammar but was killed by the criminals as a precaution. Chan himself was a friend of a family selling jewels and agreed to deliver them on his first trip to mainland California. While there he masquerades as a pidgin-speaking cook during his undercover investigation. His profound and original intelligence offers genial humor and witty dialogue.

Racing through the backwoods of Massachusetts and on the verge of being taken down for one of the biggest and most disastrous bank heists the state has ever seen, Parker runs right into the barrel of a gun pointed from the wrong side of the law. A quiet and angry recluse with only a silent parrot for company in his seclusion, Tom Lindahl saves Parker from the police dogs, but enmeshes him in yet another in a long line of dubious, highly dangerous, but seriously profitable jobs.

From its launch in 1920 until its demise in 1951, the magazine Black Mask published pulp crime fiction. The first hard-boiled detective stories appeared on its pages. Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, Erle Stanley Gardner and John D. MacDonald got their start in Black Mask. The urban crime stories that appeared in Black Mask helped to shape American culture.

A man and his wife are found strangled to death in a rooming house, and the killer has set fire to the room to cover his tracks. Also, a dead parrot, who's also been strangled, lies on the floor beside the bodies.

Après un séjour tumultueux à New York, Chan en sait d'avantage sur le passé turbulent de Noah. Leurs sentiments ont éclos, encore incertains, mais déjà intenses. Leur atterrissage à Bruxelles sonne un brusque retour à la réalité. On leur veut du mal avec hargne et détermination. En plus de la culpabilité que Chan ressent pour les dommages causés à la maison de Noah, la réapparition d'Aida n'a pas fini de mettre ses émotions à l'épreuve.

Tome 1 : Quand Chan, jeune femme épanouie mais coincée dans une relation plutôt monotone, fait la connaissance du ténébreux Noah, son monde va basculer. Face à sa meilleure amie tombée sous le charme de l'adonis, elle se retrouve dans un tourbillon de mensonges et de culpabilité. La stabilité de sa vie se voit ébranlée par ce mystérieux boxeur. Noah réveillera la sensualité de la jeune femme et révèlera des facettes enfouies qu'elle ne soupçonnait pas...