Libri gialli e mistery
Libri mistery, romanzi gialli e storie del mistero
The Man Who Was ThursdayA Nightmare. E-book. Formato EPUB Gilbert Keith Chesterton - Rea Multimedia, 2026 -
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare is a 1908 novel by G. K. Chesterton. The book has been described as a metaphysical thriller.Chesterton prefixed the novel with a poem written to Edmund Clerihew Bentley, revisiting the pair's early history and the challenges presented to their early faith by the times.In Victorian-era London, Gabriel Syme is recruited at Scotland Yard to a secret anti-anarchist police corps. Lucian Gregory, an anarchistic poet, lives in the suburb of Saffron Park. Syme meets him at a party and they debate the meaning of poetry. Gregory argues that revolt is the basis of poetry. Syme demurs, insisting the essence of poetry is not revolution but law. He antagonises Gregory by asserting that the most poetical of human creations is the timetable for the London Underground. He suggests Gregory is not really serious about anarchism, which so irritates Gregory that he takes Syme to an underground anarchist meeting place, under oath not to disclose its existence to anyone, revealing his public endorsement of anarchy is a ruse to make him seem harmless, when in fact he is an influential member of the local chapter of the European anarchist council.The central council consists of seven men, each using the name of a day of the week as a cover; the position of Thursday is about to be elected by Gregory's local chapter.
The Sign of the Four. E-book. Formato EPUB Arthur Conan Doyle - Rea Multimedia, 2025 -
The Sign of the Four is an 1890 detective novel, and it is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes by British writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle wrote four novels and 56 short stories featuring the fictional detective.In 1888 Miss Mary Morstan arrives with a case. She explains that, ten years earlier, her father Captain Arthur Morstan disappeared immediately after arriving in London from his military service abroad. Mary contacted his friend, Major Sholto, who denied having seen him. Four years later, she received a valuable pearl in the post, a gift repeated once a year for six years. With the sixth pearl, she received a letter asking for a meeting, claiming that she is a "wronged woman".Holmes takes the case, and soon discovers that Major Sholto had died a week before Mary received the first pearl. The only further clue Mary can give Holmes is a map of a fortress found in her father's desk, appended with the words "The Sign of the Four: Jonathan Small, Mahomet Singh, Abdullah Khan, Dost Akbar," and four small cross-like symbols.
Le avventure di Sherlock Holmes. E-book. Formato EPUB Arthur Conan Doyle - Rea Multimedia, 2023 -
Nei tre racconti presenti in questo volume, che hanno come protagonista Sherlock Holmes e il suo aiutante, il dottor John Watson, vengono risolti con logica impeccabile e strabiliante acutezza psicologica anche i casi più difficili, con la consueta grazia narrativa di cui è maestro Arthur Conan Doyle.Di Holmes e Watson ci sono rimasti 58 racconti e 4 romanzi; quelli raccolti in questo volume furono pubblicati fra i primi.