Etiqueta: intriga
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...
In the mid-17th century, D’Artagnan arrives in Paris with an old horse and very little money. His dream is to become a Musketeer, one of the King’s guards. He becomes friendly with three of the Musketeers – Porthos, Aramis and Athos – and together they have many adventures. This...
West Hill School is just an ordinary school, but one day a new teacher arrives and some very strange things start to happen. The teacher comes to work in a car that has no driver. He carries a newspaper dating from 1935. And he always seems to punish the...
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...
Amy and her friends arrange to meet after school one day to explore an abandoned house. But things don't go quite according to plan. Ken Harris tells us in this amazing storie that Amy doesn't arrive at the meeting place and an exciting adventure unfolds as her friends set...
John is a school security guard. It’s a routine job, but one day, strange things start to happen. He has listened “Footsteps”, Mary, one of the teachers, disappears; then John loses his job unexpectedly. He decides to discover what’s happening. But can he find Mary? Who is the mysterious...
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...
