Showing results for "The Devil" in Contemporary Fiction

Hollywood can be a tough town, but its been awfully good to Danny Dennison. At 55, he's wealthy, successful, and although the movies he directs are more hot commerce than great art, he's respected throughout the film world. But Danny Dennison has been living a lie. His true identity is buried halfway around the world in the ruins of a Nazi concentration camp. Danny believes his secret to be safe - until he meets Luba, a young sensuous call girl.

Tigrane Forrest est le Vice-Président des Black Devils, un gang de motards sans foi ni loi. Tout le monde le décrit comme froid, insensible, létal... aussi bien ses frères, que les brebis qu'il consomme allégrement. Aimée Cabello était la meilleure amie de Tigrane avant qu'elle ne quitte Belford Price quelques années plus tôt, brisant le coeur de ce dernier. Sa haine envers cette bande de bikers est ancrée en elle depuis l'enfance.

"The Devil in the Belfry" is a satirical short story by Edgar Allan Poe. It was first published in 1839. In an isolated town called Vondervotteimittiss (wonder-what-time-it-is), the punctilious inhabitants seem to be concerned with nothing but clocks and cabbage. This methodical, boring and quiet little borough is devastated by the arrival of a devilish figure playing a big fiddle who comes straight down from a hill, goes into the belltower, brutally attacks the belfry-man and rings thirteen o'clock, to the horror of the town's inhabitants.

When Dr. Watson returns to London from a weekend seminar, he finds hat Sherlock Holmes has been arrested. Inspector Lestrade refers Watson to a questionable psychiatric hospital where Holmes is jailed for mental incapacity.

Ada, la protagonista está en el hospital esperando ser informada sobre el estado de su hermano Darío, que dicen que se ha pegado un tiro con su propia arma y está en coma. Todos creen que ha sido un intento de suicidio, pero Ada sabe que su hermano jamás pensaría en matarse porque se quiere demasiado: ¿quién pensaría en suicidarse por la tarde si se ha pasado toda la mañana poniéndose en forma el gimnasio?