Katrina Kirby is a detective. People call her ‘K’. There has been a murder in a big country house. ‘K’ knows that one of five people murdered Sir Michael Gray. Who did it? How? Why? This is a detective story with a difference: ‘K’ needs your help with her...
“Dick Turpin” es uno de esos personajes situados entre la historia y la leyenda de los que pocas personas saben con certeza qué vicisitudes de su vida ocurrieron realmente y cuales no. Tony Barton nos ayuda recordándonos algunos datos de su vida.
"El libro de casos del Dr. Finlay" es una deliciosa colección de historias episódicas del Dr. Finlay y su vida en el pueblo ficticio escocés de Tannochbrae durante los años de entreguerras y basadas en las propias experiencias de A. J. Cronin como médico. La BBC pasó a dramatizar...
“In the beginning”, many, many years ago, there were two tribes. Dom is a boy from the hunting tribe, and Va is a girl from the farming tribe. The two tribes fight. But the story of Dom and Va is a love story. Longman American Structural Readers is a...
The first two short story collections from George P. Mac Callum, originally published in 1906 and 1907, filled with hauntings, strange nature tales, weird crimes and dark fantasy from one of the greatest writers of supernatural fiction in the 20th century. Includes the present “Ghost in the house and...
Who wants to live in a house, wear clean clothes, be good, and go to school every day? Not young “Huckleberry Finn”, that’s for sure. So Huck runs away, and is soon floating down the great Mississippi River on a raft. With him is Jim, a black slave who...
Each of the courtyards in Craigen Castle tells a tragic story. When Ed and Joan go to visit the castle, they discover that they cannot get out. As it gets darker, the past begins to come alive. Joan is terrified. It is all part of the plan.
“Craigen Castle Mystery”...
“Scouts”: Who They Are and What They Do. A Ladybird Book written by David Harwood.
Shows the organization and activities of “Scouts” ove the world.
Victor «Frankenstein» thinks he has found the secret of life. He takes parts from dead people and builds a new `man’? But this monster is so big and frightening that everyone runs away from him even Frankenstein himself! The monster is like an enormous baby who needs love. But...
The Otises are a practical American family. They don’t believe in “The Canterville Ghost”. They don’t believe in ghosts … until they move to Canterville Chase, an old English country estate inhabited by the ghost of Sir Simon de Canterville. The family is amused by Sir Simon’s failed attempts...
