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Charles Marlow is a steamboat captain on the River Thames near Gravesend, England. He and his crew work for an ivory trading company. One day he recounts to his fellow crew the story of his life and how he became a captain for the steamboat company. The focus of his story involves the journey Marlow undertook to the outer reaches of the company's operations. Here he tells of his wild encounters with Mr. Kurtz, a man with a great reputation for bringing in the most ivory for the company.

Ed Exley, Bud White e Jack Vincennes sono tre anime in pena in quella bolgia che è il Dipartimento di polizia di L.A. all'inizio degli anni '50. Il caso di un pestaggio a sangue in cella, opera di agenti ubriachi, svelerà gli sporchi segreti su cui si fondano le loro carriere di detective, trascinandoci in una spirale di morte, potere e corruzione. Un gorgo da incubo in cui nessuno, vittime e aguzzini, può dirsi pulito e dal quale nessuno è sicuro di poter uscire vivo.

Kayleigh Morris is just trying to survive her first year at St. Kellum’s University. Freshers’ Week is a blur of social anxiety, parties, and the weight of trying to fit in. But when Kayleigh’s panic attack becomes the talk of the campus, she retreats into herself, shutting herself away in her room. Everything changes when she’s selected for a mysterious new module, led by Professor Lady Marian, who introduces her and a group of misfits to a psychedelic drug believed to cure anxiety and promote productivity.

Brought to you by Penguin. THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE CHESTNUT MAN IS BACK WITH A BLOCKBUSTER NEW THRILLER, SOON TO BE A MAJOR NETFLIX ADAPTATION Count to one, count to two… A strange voice from inside the woods, repeating a child’s counting rhyme. Count to four, count to...

Cuatro cadáveres. Un sospechoso. Ninguna pista … Primera novela de la serie de misterio del detective Roy Grace, un hombre atormentado por el recuerdo de su mujer muerta. A Michael Harrison pretenden gastarle una broma inolvidable en su despedida de soltero; algo que jamás pueda olvidar: enterrarlo vivo durante unas horas. Todo se complicará cuando sus amigos, que son los únicos que conocen el verdadero paradero de Michael, mueran esa misma noche en un accidente de tráfico.

Exhumation, a new HarperVoyager book, full description to follow when available...

A classic California noir with a feminist twist, this prescient 1947 novel exposed misogyny in post-World War II American society, making it far ahead of its time. Los Angeles in the late 1940s is a city of promise and prosperity, but not for former fighter pilot Dix Steele. To his mind nothing...

El 15 de junio del año 2025 desapareció Valèria Costa, una preciosa niña de siete años. Dos semanas antes, sus padres habían decidido irse a vivir todos juntos a un pequeño pueblo del Pirineo; un paraíso rural lleno de sombras, que rápidamente sumirá a la pareja en una investigación trepidante y los obligará a confesar hasta el último de sus secretos.

Als eines kalten Dezembermorgens in Essex der Nebel sich lichtet, offenbart sich ein Albtraum. Die Leiche der 17-jährigen Lily Monteith wird auf einem Feld gefunden, ihr Mord erschreckend einzigartig-nur für sie entworfen. DS Tomek Bowen, der zwischen einer anspruchsvollen Ermittlung und seinem Leben als alleinerziehender Vater jongliert, deckt eine beunruhigende Verbindung zwischen Lilys Tod und einer Reihe ungelöster Morde aus vergangenen Jahren auf. Die Tötungen hörten abrupt auf-aber jetzt scheint der Raubtier zurück zu sein.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Um homem traído contrata um matador de aluguel para dar cabo de sua esposa infiel e do amante dela...

El 15 de juny de l any 2025 té lloc la desaparició de la Valèria Costa, una nena encisadora de set anys. A partir d aquest plantejament, els seus pares es veuran immersos en una investigació que no deixarà d assenyalar-los directament, obligant-los a confessar fins a l últim secret que s han estat ocultant.

Automne 1880. Le Dr John Watson rentre d'Afghanistan. Blessé et prêt à tout pour oublier son passé, Watson voit sa vie changer lorsqu'il rencontre Sherlock Holmes. Le détective enquête sur une série de décès survenus dans le quartier londonien de Shadwell. Des victimes qui semblent mortes d'avoir été affamées pendant des semaines ont été retrouvées, alors qu'elles ont été vues en bonne santé à peine quelques jours plus tôt. Holmes établit un lien entre les morts et un sinistre baron de la drogue qui cherche à étendre son empire criminel.

이동욱, 김혜준 주연! 디즈니플러스 오리지널 시리즈 〈킬러들의 쇼핑몰〉 원작 소설! 수상한 쇼핑몰을 둘러싼 약탈 누아르 어느 날 전화 한 통이 걸려온다. 삼촌이 자살했다는 믿을 수 없는 소식. 깜짝 놀란 나는...

Red Harvest is a hardboiled classic that set the standard for gritty, no-nonsense crime fiction. Written by Dashiell Hammett, this explosive novel follows an unnamed detective—referred to only as “The Continental Op”—as he arrives in a corrupt industrial town known as “Poisonville.” Hired to clean up the city, he quickly finds himself in the middle of a brutal gang war. Betrayals, double-crosses, and brutal power plays spiral into chaos as the Op’s relentless quest for justice leads to a blood-soaked reckoning.

Pochi romanzi hanno inciso nell'immaginario collettivo come questo. Nel crime, c'è un prima e un dopo American Tabloid . Una rottura che è una sorta di perdita dell'innocenza: con le sue frasi cadenzate come raffiche di mitra, la vastità dell'impianto e la durezza dello sguardo, James Ellroy ha portato il noir nell'età adulta e costretto i suoi lettori a fare i conti con il passato. American Tabloid mette in scena gli uomini e le donne che hanno contribuito all'ascesa e alla caduta di John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

A man with dark thoughts on his mind is racing along the remote snowy roads of Hurmevaara in Finland when there is flash in the sky and something crashes into the car. That something turns about to be a highly valuable meteorite. With euro signs lighting up the eyes of the locals, the unexpected treasure is temporarily placed in a neighbourhood museum, under the watchful eye of a priest named Joel.

Part noir, part psychedelic romp, all Thomas Pynchon--Private eye Doc Sportello surfaces, occasionally, out of a marijuana haze to watch the end of an era In this lively yarn, Thomas Pynchon, working in an unaccustomed genre that is at once exciting and accessible, provides a classic...

It's 1985, and Joe Stone is excited to be joining his old school friend, and lifelong crush, Chris, for a long weekend in London's Soho—home to a vibrant, developing gay scene, and a million miles from the small town where Joe and Chris grew up. When Chris is found brutally murdered, the...

Revenge waits patiently for the wicked. In Cork, the young female employees of the glamorous cosmetics counter at Green Matthews are too scared to report what happens during their ‘training sessions’ with the wealthy owner. But when two of them vanish and are later found dead, their bodies...

Cally’s Kingdom is a standout piece of contemporary noir. It is a story about the terrifying efficiency of the modern mind and the realization that while you can launder money and identities, you can never truly launder the soul. It leaves the reader with a chilling thought: the most dangerous men in the world aren't the ones hiding in the shadows of the council flats; they are the ones sitting behind glass walls, managing the "logistics" of our lives.