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Quando Agatha scopre che Charles, suo amico ed ex amante, sta per sposare Mary Brown-Field, una donna tanto ricca quanto misteriosa, fa l’unica cosa (in)sensata che le viene in mente: s’imbuca al loro matrimonio e la cosa sfocia in un alterco tra lei e la sposa. E, il mattino successivo, si...

Un uomo nudo sbuca d’improvviso da dietro una siepe e si mette a correre lungo una strada di campagna. Comincia così uno dei casi più bizzarri di Agatha Raisin, che sta guidando proprio lungo quella strada: l’uomo, terrorizzato, ferma Agatha e le rivela di aver visto un cadavere in un...

Si può finire ammazzati in molti modi, però ritrovarsi cadavere in mezzo a un bosco, con una freccia nel petto e i pantaloni abbassati, è un modo di certo assai originale… L’ispettore Wilkes non ha dubbi che si sia trattato di un terribile incidente: la vittima è stata colpita da una...

Das Hörbuch zum Film erzählt den Netflix-Erfolg KPop Demon Hunters nach! Rumi, Mira und Zoey sind die weltberühmte Girlgroup HUNTR/X. Wenn sie nicht gerade für ausverkaufte Stadien sorgen, beschützen sie die Welt vor der Gewalt mächtiger Dämonen, die unsere Erde seit Jahrhunderten...

Dieses Hörbuch nach dem Netflix-Animationsfilm-Hit »K-Pop Demon Hunters« wird Dämonenjäger und Dämonenjägerinnen jeden Alters begeistern! Rumi, Mira und Zoey sind Popstars bei Tag und Jägerinnen bei Nacht! In diesem Hörbuch werden sie zusammen mit den Saja Boys, der heißtesten neuen...

Out of the mixture of Latin and Germanic paganism and the Christianity of the Early Middle Ages has sprung one of the world's supremely great pieces of literature. J.R.R. Tolkien, author of The Lord of the Rings, delivered a famous lecture to the British Academy in 1936 in which he maintained that Beowulf was a poem all of a piece, and not (as had been suggested) a jumble of fragments for pedantic scholars to paw over.

Now an esoteric of legal and criminal history, A Hangman's Diary gives a year-by-year breakdown on all of Master Franz Schmidt's executions, which included hangings, beheadings, and other methods, as well as details of each capital crime and the reason for the punishment.

The moral cesspool that Rome had become in the first century AD is the subject of The Satyricon by Petronius. The work itself was originally quite a long one, perhaps as long as a thousand pages. The extant portion, however, is only a small fraction of the original. The work contains a mixture of prose and verse, serious and comic elements, and erotic and decadent passages. It possesses a sophisticated humor and a very ironic tone. It is the creation of a Roman gentleman whose insights were keen.