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SCH-11193 | The Green Mile Part Four: The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix | KING Stephen | Time has run out for one of the inmates at Cold Mountain penitentiary. Eduard Delacroix is set to take that final walk down the Green Mile. But first he must say goodbye to the guards, to his fellow inmates, and to a strange creature that forever changed his life. Little does he know of the terrible fate that awaits him, and of a devilish plan of revenge. |
Engelse romans |
SCH-11196 | The Green Mile Part Three: Coffey's Hands | KING Stephen | Welcome back to the E block, the deadliest place this side of the electric chair, where assaults are a daily grind and miracles are about to happen. Paul Edgecombe has become increasingly curious about John Coffey, the brutal killer of two girls. But Coffey is about to reveal something extraordinary, and life on the Green Mile may never be the same again. |
Engelse romans |
SCH-11197 | The Green Mile Part Two: The Mouse on the Mile | KING Stephen | Cold Mountain Penitentiary has been home to many troubled souls. E Block, where the electric chair waits for those who must pay the ultimate price, has been home to the most troubled of all. And here, not all the evil is behind bars. Sometimes it carries a gun and wears a badge. Cold Mountain is a place of the damned, but it can also be a place where salvation comes from the most unlikely source. |
Engelse romans |
SCH-11334 | Zusje van me | VOORS Barbara | De tweeling Saskia en Klara deelt alles met elkaar. Tot op een dag Klara spoorloos verdwijnt. Tien jaar later keert Saskia vanuit Amsterdam terug naar het zomerhuis van de familie nabij Stockholm. Ze vindt er de dagboeken van Klara. En een oud krantenknipsel waarin een verband wordt gelegd tussen Klara’s verdwijning en de moord op een man en een vrouw die Klara kende. Is Saskia in staat om alsnog de raadsels rond Klara’s verdwijning te ontrafelen? |
Nederlandse romans-volwassenen |
SCH-11340 | De vrouw die met vuur speelde | LARSSON Stieg | Twee tegenpolen, Mikael Blomkvist en Lisbeth Salander. Hij is een charmante man en een kritische journalist, en uitgever van het tijdschrift Millennium. Zij is een jonge, gecompliceerde, uiterst intelligente vrouw met zwartgeverfd haar, piercings en tatoeages én ze is een hacker van wereldklasse. |
Nederlandse romans-volwassenen |
SCH-11335 | De kinderen van Arthur | HEMMERECHTS Kristien | Met z'n tienen zijn ze, tien Belgische kinderen die in 1957 geboren zijn, het ene in welvaart, het andere in armoede, het ene met een sterk en gezond lichaam, het andere met een handicap. Het ene is gewenst, het andere wordt verwenst. Eén ding hebben ze met elkaar gemeen: ze zijn de kinderen van Arthur Goemaere, de televisiemaker die hen voor het 7plus-project heeft geselecteerd. Iedere zeven jaar zullen ze door hem worden geïnterviewd en gefilmd. Hun leven moet zo gewoon mogelijk verlopen, zodat het publiek door deze uitverkoren tien een spiegel krijgt voorgehouden. Maar ze zijn inmiddels geen gewone kinderen meer. Ze zijn de 7plus-kinderen, de kinderen van Arthur, die ook in het leven van hun regisseur een beslissende rol zullen gaan spelen. |
Nederlandse romans-volwassenen |
SCH-11337 | De bruiloft | SPARKS Nicholas | Wilson Lewis is zijn trouwdag vergeten, en als hij heel eerlijk tegen zichzelf is moet hij na dertig jaar helaas toegeven dat de romantiek uit zijn huwelijk is verdwenen. Toch houdt Wilson nog zielsveel van zijn vrouw Jane. En hij beseft dat hij iets moet doen om haar hart opnieuw te veroveren. Maar Wilson is niet zo goed in het uiten van zijn emoties. Hoe kan hij Jane weer verliefd op hem laten worden? Houdt zij eigenlijk nog wel van hem? Geïnspireerd door de aanstaande bruiloft van zijn dochter, zet Wilson alles op alles en verzint een prachtige list. |
Nederlandse romans-volwassenen |
SCH-11338 | Vlammen | COLLINS Suzanne | Katniss Everdeen heeft samen met Peeta Mellark De Hongerspelen gewonnen. Sinds hun terugkeer naar District 12 wordt er gefluisterd over een opstand tegen het Capitool. President Snow stelt Katniss persoonlijk verantwoordelijk voor het temperen van alle onrust. Ze raakt verstrikt in een angstaanjagend politiek web en twijfelt of ze de vlammen van de revolutie echt wil doven... |
Nederlandse romans-jeugd |
SCH-11163 | Spotgaai | COLLINS Suzanne | Het onmogelijke is gebeurd: Katniss Everdeen heeft de Hongerspelen twee keer overleefd. Maar ze mag dan wel levend uit de bloedige arena zijn gekomen, dat betekent nog niet dat ze veilig is. Het Capitool geeft haar de schuld van de onrust in Panem. En president Snow heeft bovendien meer dan duidelijk gemaakt dat Katniss niet de enige is die daarvoor zal boeten. Haar vrienden, haar familie; heel District 12 loopt gevaar. Dit bloedstollende slot van de Hongerspelen -trilogie verslaat alles. Wees gewaarschuwd: dit boek neemt je leven compleet over. |
Nederlandse romans-jeugd |
SCH-11169 | The Labors of Hercules | CHRISTIE Agatha | Like The Labors of Hercules, the twelve cases Poirot must solve in this captivating collection of short crime fiction stories are dangerous, demanding, and positively ingenious. |
Engelse romans |
SCH-11172 | Hercule Poirot's Christmas | CHRISTIE Agatha | Christmas a a time of goodwill and of family reunion - except for the Lee family. This year will be different. Millionaire twice over, tyrannical and ruthless - has Simeon Lee become sentimental about his children in his old age? Or does he have a more sinister motive in bringing them all together? With unseasonal trepidation, the family assembles. In a brilliantly created atmosphere of jealousy and suspicion, a brutal murder is committed. Hercule Poirot will need all his mastery to solve this audacious crime. |
Engelse romans |
SCH-11175 | Poirot's Early Cases | CHRISTIE Agatha | The greatest detective of the twentieth century begins his celebrated career in crime, unmasking murderers, swindlers, drug-dealers and thieves - with his faithful Hastings only a step behind... |
Engelse romans |
SCH-11178 | The Mysterious Mr Quin | CHRISTIE Agatha | A mysterious stranger appears at a New Year's Eve party, becoming the enigmatic sleuthing sidekick to the snobbish Mr Satterthwaite... So far, it had been a typical New Year's Eve house party. But Mr Satterthwaite - a keen observer of human nature - sensed that the real drama of the evening was yet to unfold. So it proved when a mysterious stranger arrived after midnight. Who was this Mr Quin? And why did his presence have such a pronounced effect on Eleanor Portal, the woman with the dyed-black hair? |
Engelse romans |
SCH-11179 | Three Act Tragedy | CHRISTIE Agatha | Sir Charles Cartwright, the distinguished actor, was giving a party. Around him, the guests stood talking and drinking. The Reverend Stephen Babbington sipped his coctail and pulled a wry face. The chatter continued all around. Suddenly Mr Babbington clutched at his throat and swayed... |
Engelse romans |
SCH-11180 | Poirot Investigates | CHRISTIE Agatha | The very first collection of superb short stories featuring Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings... First there was the mystery of the film star and the diamond... then came the suicide' that was murder... the mystery of the absurdly chaep flat... a suspicious death in a locked gun-room... a million dollar bond robbery... the curse of a pharoah's tomb... a jewel robbery by the sea... the abduction of a Prime Minister... the disappearance of a banker... a phone call from a dying man... and, finally, the mystery of the missing willl. What links these fascinating cases? Only the brilliant deductive powers of Hercule Poirot! |
Engelse romans |
SCH-11176 | Lord Edgware Dies | CHRISTIE Agatha | Actress Jane Wilkinson approaches Hercule Poirot and pleads with him to speak to her husband, Lord Edgware, who is refusing to divorce her. The next morning Lord Edgware is found murdered and witnesses tell Poirot that Jane Wilkinson was the last person to see him alive. However, Jane was at a dinner party miles away at the time with twelve other guests who will testify to her being there. When two murders are committed, including that of famous impersonator Carlotta Adams, Poirot finds himself in the midst of one his most perplexing cases. |
Engelse romans |
SCH-11167 | Murder in Retrospect | CHRISTIE Agatha | The startling story of a dissolute artist, who brought to his wife's home the beautiful girl he loved - and died for it! |
Engelse romans |
SCH-11166 | The Thirteen Problems | CHRISTIE Agatha | One Tuesday evening a group gathers at Miss Marple's house and the conversation turns to unsolved crimes... As each of her guests is mystified by the sinister tales they tell one another, the company is inclined to forget their elderly host. But there is a ruthless precision in Miss Marple's pursuit of the killers in each tale... and a few surprises in store for 'The Tuesday Night Club'. |
Engelse romans |
SCH-11198 | Death on the Nile | CHRISTIE Agatha | Volume 29 in the Agatha Christie Collection (1937) Limited edition of 800 copies worldwide The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway had been shot through the head. She was young, stylish and beautiful. A girl who had everything...until she lost her life. Hercule Poirot recalled an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: 'I'd like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger.' Yet in this exotic setting nothing was ever quite what it seemed... |
Engelse romans |
SCH-11168 | The ABC Murders | CHRISTIE Agatha | Alice Ascher, a poor, elderly shopkeeper, is murdered in Andover. Betty Barnard, a young waitress, is strangled with her own belt at Bexhill-on-Sea. Next comes Carmichael Clarke, collector of Chinese art, clubbed to death in Churston. Only in Doncaster does the pattern vary: the man found stabbed in the Regal Cinema is called George Earsfield. But each time, an ABC railway guide is found by the dead bodies, and each time, Poirot is warned in advance by a taunting letter from someone signed 'ABC'. Who is ABC? And can Poirot find out in time to prevent the death of a whole alphabet of victims? The police doubt him and the public are in a state of panic, but Poirot is convinced that the murderer's luck will turn, and sooner or later he will make a crucial mistake. And Poirot will be there when he does... |
Engelse romans |
SCH-11177 | Parker Pyne Investigates | CHRISTIE Agatha | A collection of short stories featuring the redoubtable heart specialist', Parker Pyne. This volume, in its contemporary Agatha Christie Collection livery, perfectly illustrates Agatha Christie's critically-acclaimed foray into light-hearted, romantic mysteries. Mrs Packington felt alone, helpless and utterly forlorn. But her life changed when she stumbled upon an advertisement in The Times which read: ARE YOU HAPPY? IF NOT, CONSULT MR PARKER PYNE'. Equally adept at putting together the pieces of a marriage or the fragments of a murder mystery, Mr Parker Pyne was possibly the world's most unconventional private eye - and certainly its most charming. |
Engelse romans |
SCH-11173 | Curtain: Poirot's Last Case | CHRISTIE Agatha | The Queen of Mystery has come to Harper Collins! Agatha Christie, the acknowledged mistress of suspense—creator of indomitable sleuth Miss Marple, meticulous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and so many other unforgettable characters—brings her entire oeuvre of ingenious whodunits, locked room mysteries, and perplexing puzzles to Harper Paperbacks. The legendary detective saves his best for last as he races to apprehend a five-time killer before the final curtain descends in Curtain: Poirot's Last Case. |
Engelse romans |
SCH-11164 | Double Sin and Other Stories | CHRISTIE Agatha | In one of London's most elegant shops, a doll in green velvet is found every morning, seated in a different chair... In a small country church, an uninvited stranger is discovered sprawled at the altar. In this superb collection of treats for mystery lovers, both the indomitable English gentlewoman, Miss Marple, and the intimitable Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, put their powers to the test. |
Engelse romans |
SCH-11170 | Hickory Dickory Dock | CHRISTIE Agatha | There's more than petty theft going on in a London youth hostel...An outbreak of kleptomania at a student hostel was not normally the sort of crime that aroused Hercule Poirot's interest. But when he saw the list of stolen and vandalized items - including a stethoscope, some old flannel trousers, a box of chocolates, a slashed rucksack and a diamond ring found in a bowl of soup - he congratulated the warden, Mrs Hubbard, on a unique and beautiful problem'.The list made absolutely no sense at all. But, reasoned Poirot, if this was merely a petty thief at work, why was everyone at the hostel so frightened? |
Engelse romans |
SCH-11171 | Miss Marple's Final Cases | CHRISTIE Agatha | A collection of Miss Marple mysteries, plus some bonus short stories... First, the mystery man in the church with a bullet-wound... then, the riddle of a dead man's buried treasure... the curious conduct oif a caretaker after a fatal riding accident... the corpse and a tape-measure... the girl framed for theft... and the suspect accused of stabbing his wife with a dagger. |
Engelse romans |