How does a detective learn his job? How long does a police dog hold a thief? Which was the fingerprint that led to a killer?
Lewis Jones tell us the answers in this book titled "The Story of Scotland Yard "
‘It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife...’
“Pride and Prejudice” is a novel of manners by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story follows the main character, Elizabeth Bennet, as she deals with...
Washington Irving fue un viajero apasionado que tenía una habilidad única para capturar el alma de los lugares que visitaba, con una sensibilidad tremenda. Fascinado por la magia de Andalucía, en “Tales of the Alhambra” (“Cuentos de la Alhambra”) reinventa leyendas populares de la época en que los árabes...
The titles in this series are mainly new editions of titles in the Longman Simplified English Series. They are suitable for students at upper intermediate level, including those preparing for the Cambridge First Certificate.
Spiral into a dimly lit world, down streets lined with madmen and their black deeds, through...
«It was in the spring of the year 1894 that all London was interested, and the fashionable world dismayed, by the murder of the Honourable Ronald Adair under most unusual and inexplicable circumstances...».
“The Return of Sherlock Holmes” is a collection of 13 Sherlock Holmes (three in this book) stories,...
Reconocido unánimemente como fundador de la novela autóctona norteamericana, sobre todo a través de esas dos obras maestras que son "Las aventuras de Tom Sawyer" y "Las aventuras de Huckleberry Finn", la vida y las numerosas actividades de Mark Twain (1835-1910) se solaparon en gran medida con los años...
For thousands of years the dead body of the young king Tutankhamun slept under the sands of Egypt. Then, in the autumn of 1922, Howard Carter and his friends find and open his tomb door. These are exciting times, and Carter's young helper Tariq tells the story in his...
Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's capabilities. United by the theme of the circle, these stories are set in the UK, the USA and Singapore. From the discovery...
“Three Singles to Adventure” takes the reader to south America, where he meets the sakiwinki and the sloth clad in bright green fur, where he can hear the horrifying sound of piranha fish on the rampage, or learn how to lasso a galloping anteater. Novel by Gerald Durrell.
There is a climate of secrecy and fear at the Paris Opera. People are dying and a beautiful, talented young singer has disappeared. Is this the work of the Opera ghost? Is the ghost a man or a monster? And what else will he do to get what he...
