Haus & Garten

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No stranger to sprawling country estates, well-heeled Daisy Dalrymple is breaking new ground at Wentwater Court to cover a story for Town & Country magazine. But her interview gives way to interrogation when suave Lord Stephen Astwick meets a chilly end on the tranquil skating pond.

With evidence that his death was anything but accidental, Daisy joins forces with Scotland Yard so the culprit can't slip through their fingers like the unfortunate Astwick slipped through the ice ...

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When a young woman returns from holiday to find her elderly neighbour dead, she immediately alerts the police. Commissario Brunetti is called to the scene but, though there are signs of a struggle, it seems the woman has simply suffered a fatal heart attack. Vice-Questore Patta is eager to dismiss the case as a death from natural causes, but Brunetti believes there is more to it than that. His suspicions are further aroused when the medical examiner finds faint bruising around the victim?s neck and shoulders, indicating that someone might have grabbed and shaken her. Could this have caused her heart attack? Was someone threatening her? Conversations with the woman?s son, her upstairs neighbour, and the nun in charge of the old-age home where she volunteered, do little to satisfy Brunetti?s nagging curiosity. With the help of Inspector Vianello and the ever-resourceful Signorina Elettra, Brunetti is determined to get to the truth and find some measure of justice.Insightful and emotionally powerful, Drawing Conclusions reaffirms Donna Leon?s status as one of the masters of literary crime fiction.

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This collection bring together all the Father Brown mysteries of G.K. Chesterton in a single, convenient, high quality, but extremely low priced Kindle volume!

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (29 May 1874 ? 14 June 1936) was an English writer whose prolific and diverse output included philosophy, ontology, poetry, play writing, journalism, public lecturing and debating, literary and art criticism, biography, Christian apologetics, and fiction, including fantasy and detective fiction, namely with his exceedingly popular Father Brown short stories.

Father Brown, a short, stumpy Catholic priest with shapeless clothes and a large umbrella, has uncanny insight into human evil.
Father Brown solves his crimes through a strict reasoning process more concerned with spiritual and philosophic truths rather than scientific details, making him an almost equal counterbalance with Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, whose stories Chesterton read and admired. Father Brown was the perfect vehicle for conveying Chesterton's view of the world and, of all of his characters, is perhaps closest to Chesterton's own point of view, or at least the effect of his point of view.


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"Six people sat around a small table, seeming almost as incongruous and accidental as if they had been shipwrecked separately on the same small desert island. At least the sea surrounded them; for in one sense their island was enclosed in another island, a large and flying island like Laputa. For the little table was one of many little tables dotted about in the dining saloon of that monstrous ship the Moravia, speeding through the night and the everlasting emptiness of the Atlantic. The little company had nothing in common except that all were travelling from America to England. Two of them at least might be called celebrities; others might be called obscure, and in one or two cases even dubious.

The first was the famous Professor Smaill, an authority on certain archaeological studies touching the later Byzantine Empire. His lectures were accepted as of the first authority even in the most authoritative seats of learning in Europe. His literary works were so steeped in a mellow and imaginative sympathy with the European past, that it often gave strangers a start to hear him speak with an American accent. Yet he was, in his way, very American; he had long fair hair brushed back from a big square forehead, long straight features and a curious mixture of preoccupation with a poise of potential swiftness, like a lion pondering absent-mindedly on his next leap.

There was only one lady in the group; and she was (as the journalists often said of her) a host in herself; being quite prepared to play hostess, not to say empress, at that or any other table. She was Lady Diana Wales, the celebrated lady traveller."


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Erscheinungsjahr: 1992
Gewicht: 148 gr / Abmessung: 20 cm
Von Wilde, Oscar

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Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Translated from the Swedish by Reg Keeland
Gewicht: 385 gr / Abmessung: 18 cm
Von Larsson, Stieg / Übersetzt v. Keeland, Reg

Meister-Hackerin Lisbeth Salander plant ihre Rache: Gegen den Mann, der die töten wollte und gegen die Menschen, die fast ihr Leben zerstört hätten. Es gibt da nur drei kleine Probleme: Erstens liegt sie auf der Intensivstation, zweitens ist sie des Mordes angeklagt und drittens hat die schwedische Regierung nur sehr geringes Interesse an einer tatsächlichen Aufklärung des Falles.... Mit der Hilfe des Journalisten Mikael Blomquist kämpft sie, um die Wahrheit sowohl über das ihr angelastete Verbrechen als auch über Korruption in höchsten Kreisen ans Licht zu bringen! Letzter Teil der Millenium-Trilogie des 2004 verstorbenen Larsson.

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Winner of Schwedischer Krimipreis 2006
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Gewicht: 340 gr / Abmessung: 18 cm
Von Larsson, Stieg

Im 2.Teil der Millennium Trilogy wird Lisbeth Sander gesucht. Doch Millenniums Ermittlungen ergeben, dass Lisbeth weniger hilfloses Opfer als teuflischer Engel zu sein scheint.

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