Etiqueta: detectives

Smith said to the TV cameraman, 'You will now use your camera under my orders. If you do not, I'm sure you know what will happen to you'. The man said, 'I understand'... Smith said. 'I want to make a broadcast to the world: I have stolen the Eiffel...

Is Peter Riley a thief? It looks like he is … but Inspector Holt does not believe it! The builders are unhappy because they have lost a lot of wood and 200 sterling ponds from the office, and that's a lot of money... He'll Get His Man., written by John...

Jane Homeshaw tells us in her "Fastline UK" as Simon Parks sends electronic letters to his friends all over the world using his personal computer. One day he receives a message from someone who is not his friend. He is someone which wants to steal £20 million from Banks...

“The Moonstone” is a beautiful yellow diamond that was stolen from the statue of a Moon god in India. When Franklin Blake brings it to Rachel Verinder's house in Yorkshire for her birthday, it brings bad luck with it. How many people will the Moonstone hurt? How many must...

Ken Harris tells us in this amazing story called “The Body Snatchers” how Tom and Dylan, 13, see two suspicious men one day. They are putting a body into a van! Shocked, the boys follow the van to a dark building. They see the men put the body into...

Ten strangers are invited to an island off the Devon coast. Most are happy to be there. But then, very soon, one of them is dead. What is happening? Is it murder? Is the killer one of them–or the mysterious Mr Owen? And are the other guests in danger...

The Burlington Reader Series, offering over a lot of titles, is specially designed for ESO and Bachillerato students. It offers a wide variety of accessible and graduates adaptations and original stories that reflect the interests of students in these age groups. Un enmascarado busca protección ante un escándalo político, una...

Tras los casos de Styles y del Campo de golf, la fama de Poirot crece llegando a convertirse en el predilecto de los británicos. A esa época pertenecen estos relatos de Agatha Christie en los que “Poirot investiga” las misteriosas muertes que siguieron a la apertura de la tumba...

Durante unas placenteras vacaciones en Egipto, el detective Hércules Poirot coincide con Linnet y Simon, unos conocidos suyos que están de luna de miel en el país de los faraones, pero el encanto de tan maravillosos días se rompe cuando una mañana, en el transcurso de un crucero por...

Agatha Christie narra en “Pleamares de la vida” cómo pocas semanas después de su matrimonio con la joven viuda Underhay, Gordon Cloade fallece trágicamente tras un bombardeo alemán en Londres. Así, la flamante señora Cloade se convierte en la única heredera de la sustanciosa fortuna familiar. Poco tiempo después,...