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Brought to you by Penguin. The Phantom of the Opera is Gaston Leroux's exquisite blend of Gothic horror and tragic romance, which formed the basis for a world-renowned stage musical. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with notes by Mireille Ribiere, and an introduction by Jann Matlock...

SSA Rain Christiansen used to be the agency's golden boy. It just takes one moment of weakness, one tiny paranormal sighting, and all of a sudden, he's the agency's embarrassment. His boss gives him one last chance to redeem himself - go down to Brickell Bay, play nice with the local police, and leave the ghost sightings behind. Rain is determined to do exactly that, even if it kills him. Cold-case Detective Daniel McKenna's latest investigation is going nowhere fast. Daniel is glad to finally have the FBI help his department requested, even if it does come in the form of his ex.

Sie verwenden kein Telefon, kein Internet, keine Banktransaktionen. Niemand weiß, wer sie sind, sie hinterlassen keine Spuren. Sie sind ein Phantom. Solveigh Lang von der Europapolizei ECSB und Kriminalhauptkommissar Paul Regen vom LKA Bayern sind auf der Jagd nach einer Gruppe gewaltbereiter Terroristen, die sich allen modernen Ermittlungstechniken entzieht. Sie müssen ihre Arbeit vollkommen neu erfinden. Und dabei dürfen sie keine Zeit verlieren, denn der nächste Anschlag steht unmittelbar bevor...

Winter 1944: Months after the Liberation of France, ex-Boston cop Billy Boyle finds himself in a Paris reeling from the carnage it has endured but hopeful that an end to war is in sight. When Billy finds a rare piece of artwork after a tense shoot-out in the Père Lachaise Cemetery, he thinks it could be connected to the Syndicat du Renard, a shadowy network of Nazi sympathizers known to be smuggling stolen artwork out of France. Trailing the Syndicat, Billy discovers that someone with a high level of communications clearance may be using his position to aid the thieves.

Inspektor Lestrade muss gegenüber Holmes eingestehen, dass die Polizei über keinerlei Spuren oder Zeugen verfügt. Indessen scheint klar, dass der Täter an seinen willkürlich ausgewählten Opfern Spiegelstrafen vollzieht, die mit ihren Lastern korrelieren.

Eric possessed many truly brilliant and extraordinary abilities including musical genuis. Being outcast from society for his ugliness, Eric was forced to wander from one country to another. When in France, he worked at fairs demonstrating tricks and ventriloquism. Later he became a bricklayer and was engaged in building the Paris Opera House. Upon completion of the construction, Eric decided to hide from the world in the cellars of the Opera and turned this great building into his own empire.

Blotto and Twinks are off on another adventure - and this time they're bound for the Alpine village of Luzvimmen in Switzerland, where Blotto participates in racing the prestigious and very fast Croissant Run, though someone seems determined to sabotage his chances. Twinks, on the other hand, is on a mission to rescue her friend's sister from the sinister finishing school she is trapped in - the Convent of the Sacred Icicle.

Emilia und Eric finden heraus, dass hinter dem Unfall des Tenors Emilio vielleicht mehr steckt als eine unglückliche Verkettung tragischer Ereignisse. Bei einer meisterhaft improvisierten Premiere ohne Gesang provozieren die Stewarts mithilfe von Erics mangelnder Musikalität und Emilias Beschwörungskunst den ruhelosen Geist auf der Bühne – und vor einem vielhundertköpfigen Publikum kommt es zu einem Showdown zwischen Fluch und Geisterjägern.

Happily married for over a year and more in love than ever, Darcy and Elizabeth can’t imagine anything interrupting their bliss-filled days. Then an intense snowstorm strands a group of travelers at Pemberley, and terrifying accidents and mysterious deaths begin to plague the manor. Everyone seems convinced that it is the work of a phantom - a Shadow Man who is haunting the Darcy family’s grand estate.

An influential shipping firm, Goldwaters, pays Eric Ward a large retainer to work for them, much to his surprise. Then one of the Goldwaters fleet, the Sierra Nova, is “arrested” and is unable to leave port. The reason? A crew member, Edwards, has been caught in possession of drugs and is accused of smuggling—but now he’s been removed from the ship, why can’t the voyage go ahead? Then Edwards is murdered on his way to the courtroom. Ward soon finds himself sinking into the dangerous world of international conspiracy and modern-day piracy.

The quaint coastal town of Paramour Bay is once again hosting their annual garage sale, and Raven Marigold is happily participating for the first time with two tables of gently used items and select pieces of clothing. She's taken special care to ensure that no magical auras remain on the items that she's included for sale, and she is quite confident that her first time joining in on the sale will go off without a hitch.

A secret government unit is formed under the oversight of Adam Harrison, famed paranormal investigator. The six members he’s gathered know a little of the otherworldly — each has honed a psychic talent of their own. Jackson Crow, part English, part Cheyenne, heads the group. Haunted by his experience with an ancestral ghost who saved his life as a child, and the recent murders of two previous teammates, Jackson can’t tell if Adam’s demoted him or given him an extraordinary opportunity.

Ghost stories date back centuries, but those written in the Victorian era have a unique atmosphere and dark beauty. Michael Sims, whose previous Victorian collections Dracula’s Guest (vampires) and The Dead Witness (detectives) have been widely praised, has gathered twelve of the best stories about humanity’s oldest supernatural obsession. The Phantom Coach includes tales by a surprising and often legendary cast, including Charles Dickens, Margaret Oliphant, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, and Arthur Conan Doyle, as well as lost gems by forgotten masters such as Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and W. F. Harvey. Amelia B. Edwards’s chilling story gives the collection its title, while Ambrose Bierce ("The Moonlit Road"), Elizabeth Gaskell ("The Old Nurse’s Story"), and W. W. Jacobs ("The Monkey’s Paw") will turn you white as a sheet. With a skillful introduction to the genre and notes on each story by Sims, The Phantom Coach is a spectacular collection of ghostly Victorian thrills.

Psychologist and police consultant Daniel Rinaldi's new patient - a former Hollywood starlet now married to a ruthless business tycoon - is kidnapped right outside his office. Through a bizarre sequence of events, he's forced to deliver the ransom demand himself, drawing him into a deadly cat-and-mouse game with a brilliant, lethal adversary. Complicating things is the victim's own family, whose members have dark secrets of their own and whose loyalties are suspect.

Riki Maddox is not your average tomb-raiding treasure hunter. Her targets are carefully chosen to wound her father’s killers, the Japanese Yakuza. Working for the Department of Homeland Security, Special Agent Dallas Landry is a rare breed. He had a perfect success rate recovering stolen art and antiquities—until he came up against a menace known as Riki Maddox. The two will cross paths once again in Australia—on a quest for the legendary Phantom Pearl, a priceless mammoth tusk carved by 15th century monks.

The Phantom Hearse means death. Death always comes to the house where it’s sighted on moonlit evenings. But why does wicked old Jones love to talk about it so much?

Warwickshire, 1934. Deep in a hamlet in the Warwickshire countryside, Red Hollow Hall is a male-only sanitorium run by the charismatic psychiatrist Dr Moon. However, all is not well, and Dr Moon's patients are leaving Red Hollow in droves. Recent disturbances, which originally appeared to be pranks, have descended into something more sinister, and now the men believe they have a malevolent visitor - the mermaid of Red Hollow. The ghost of a murdered girl, they believe the mermaid, wreaks bloody revenge on unsuspecting men each time the hamlet floods.

In den Bergen von Colorado beobachtet der Ranger Tim Flatstone wie ein schwarzer Truck einen anderen Truck von der Straße abdrängt und ihn in die Tiefe abstürzen lässt. Tim Flatstone bemerkt sofort, dass das kein gewöhnlicher Unfall war, sondern ein geplantes Vorgehen. Denn der Fahrer des schwarzen Trucks macht keine Anstalten, Hilfe zu rufen und fährt, ohne sich weiter am Unfallort aufzuhalten, unbekümmert davon. Tim Flatstone ist entsetzt.

Charlie receives an enigmatic letter from her namesake aunt, her father's estranged sister, whom she's never met. Soon she's off to England. In the charming medieval Suffolk town of Bury St. Edmunds it isn’t only slightly eccentric Aunt Louisa’s beliefs in the occult or her spooky "haunted sites" tours that pique Charlie’s interest. When a friend of Louisa's is plagued by a series of pranks, Charlie and Louisa offer to find out what's behind them. But Charlie soon discovers that something sinister is brewing and she finds herself drawn into an investigation of crimes that are far too real.

Seasoned investigator Inspector Einar Magnusson boards the ferry in search of solitude, only to find himself thrust into a deadly game of cat and mouse. The tranquil voyage turns treacherous as each new dawn reveals another victims, and The Phantom Passenger, elusive and enigmatic, moves among them like a ghost, leaving only whispers of dread in their wake.