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THE MULTIMILLION-COPY BESTSELLING QUEEN OF CLASSIC CRIME, DOROTHY L SAYERS _____________________________________________________________________ 'An all-time classic whodunnit' Reader Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'The best detective story writer of her generation' Reader Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐...

A young medical student named Fettes is assisting his professor in procuring cadavers to be dissected by his fellow students. He knows many of the bodies that are sold to him were stolen from graves—but he needs his job and keeps his silence. To remain silent, however, is to invite worse...

One drop. Millions of lives. And a countdown to absolute chaos. When a brilliant scientist reveals a sample of "bottled cholera" to a mysterious, pale-faced visitor, he unknowingly hands over the ultimate weapon of terror. The guest is a radical anarchist - and in a heartbeat, the lethal...

There is something about the number 3. The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two. Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating.

"With the roar of thunder and the speed of a galloping horse comes the tide to Mont St. Michel", goes the old nursery song. So when the aged patriarch of the du Rocher family falls victim to the perilous tide, even the old man's family accepts the verdict of accidental drowning. But too quickly, this "accident" is followed by a bizarre discovery in the ancient du Rocher chateau: a human skeleton, wrapped in butcher paper, beneath the old stone flooring. Professor Gideon Oliver, lecturing on forensic anthropology at nearby St. Malo, is asked to examine the bones.

Amenazados por la Muerte Roja, una terrible plaga con síntomas espantosos que se ha extendido sobre la tierra, el príncipe Próspero y otros mil nobles se han refugiado en su fortificada abadía. Con la intención de esperar al fin de la plaga, se recluyen rodeados de lujo y de seguridad, y con una total indiferencia hacia la muerte y el sufrimiento de la población en general.