Książka, która stworzyła słynnego Mocka. Debiut mistrza polskiego kryminału. Maj 1933 roku. Wrocław. Wstrząsająca zbrodnia. Zmasakrowane zwłoki dwóch kobiet znalezione w salonce. Tajemnicze zdanie napisane krwią ofiar. Skorpiony. Idealna sprawa dla Eberharda Mocka. W mrocznym i posępnym Wrocławiu, gdzie w każdym zaułku złodzieje i mordercy czekają na ofiarę, gdzie po zmierzchu nie należy wychodzić z domu, rządzi brutalne prawo przetrwania. W mieście, gdzie wysoko postawieni notable i arystokracja oddają się hazardowi i rozpuście, przekupna policja walczy o władzę, a społeczeństwo zainfekowane jest doktryną hitlerowską, pewien komisarz oddaje się dość nietypowej rozrywce. W jednym z lepszych burdeli grywa w szachy (według własnych zasad) z dwiema pięknymi roznegliżowanymi pannami. To najsłynniejszy komisarz polskiego kryminału, Eberhard Mock. Sprawę tajemniczych zabójstw ze skorpionem w tle komisarz poprowadzi wraz z Herbertem Anwaldtem, młodym policjantem z Berlina. Prawda, którą odkryją, na zawsze zmieni życie wszystkich osób związanych ze śledztwem.

Fatted Calves

The new body culture is finally bringing its rewards, thanks to a hormone treatment that rapidly restructures body fat to muscle - all overnight, during a true beauty snooze.

But it's way-out expensive, and only the rich and famous can indulge. After all, what's a thousand bucks a day when the result is a body to die for?

There are some side effects - no pain, no gain! But when innocent people start paying a steep price for the star's self-improvement regimens, CURE's Dr. Smith sends Remo and Chiun to infiltrate the Lycra crowd and the hallowed halls of the legalized drug trade. Soon their investigation is blocked by a greedy corporation, but the worst challenge is from an army of celebrities - lean, mean products of a killer diet...

Leo Kerslake necesitaba una novia y estaba preparado para pagar por ello. Serena aceptó su oferta… incluso le pidió un adelanto. Leo pensaba que ella era una mercenaria, pero Serena tenía sus razones por las que necesitaba el dinero. Pero no era ningún perjuicio que Leo fuera tan atractivo.

Patrick Wallingford no tiene la culpa de que las mujeres lo encuentren irresistible. Aunque su pasividad vital y su desdibujada personalidad sean irritantes, todas desean acostarse con él, y lo cierto es que no les cuesta mucho conseguirlo. Wallingford es periodista en un canal televisivo peligrosamente decantado hacia el sensacionalismo hasta que, en un tragicómico episodio laboral pierde la mano izquierda y se convierte de pronto en noticia mundial.

Dr Gary Lasch is found dead at his desk. The murder stuns his elite Connecticut community – especially when his beautiful young wife, Molly, is arrested and charged with his murder. Six years later, on Molly's release from prison, she reasserts her innocence in front of reporters gathered at the prison gates. Among them is an old schoolfriend, Fran Simmons, who is currently working as an investigative reporter for a true crime television series. Determined to prove her innocence, Molly convinces Fran to research and produce a programme on Gary 's death. Fran agrees, but in doing so, she has a second agenda – to learn the truth about her own father's suicide fourteen years earlier. Fran soon finds herself enmeshed in a tangled web of intrigue and menace – more deaths and more unanswered questions about Gary Lasch's death. As her investigation proceeds, there are those who know they must make a choice: face ruin, or eliminate Fran.

On April 1, 1930, Jonathan Ketchem's wife Jane walked from her house to the police department to ask for help in finding her husband. The men, worn out from a night of chasing bootleggers, did what they could. But no one ever saw Jonathan Ketchem again… Now decades later, someone else is missing in Miller's Kill, NY. This time it's the physician of the clinic that bears the Ketchem name. Suspicion falls on a volatile single mother with a grudge against the doctor, but Reverend Clare Fergusson isn't convinced. As Clare and Russ investigate, they discover that the doctor's disappearance is linked to a bloody trail going all the way back to the hardscrabble Prohibition era. As they draw ever closer to the truth, their attraction for each other grows increasingly more difficult to resist. And their search threatens to uncover secrets that snake from one generation to the next-and to someone who's ready to kill.

Москва, 1957 год. Издательство "Известия". Приложение к журналу "Дружба народов". Издательские переплеты. Сохранность хорошая. В сокровищнице отечественной культуры литературное наследие писательницы Марко Вовчок (1833-1907) занимает почетное место. Свыше пятидесяти лет своей жизни она посвятила литературному творчеству. В настоящий трехтомник выдающейся украинской писательницы включены вошли избранные произведения. Том I Рассказы из украинского быта ("Сестра", "Казачка", "Отец Андрей" и др.) Рассказы из русского народного быта ("Надежда", "Катерина", "Купеческая дочка" и др.) Повести ("Институтка", "Червонный король", "Тюленевая баба" и др.) Том II Сказки ("Невольница", "Кармелюк", "Совершенная курица" и др.) Том III Романы ("Записки причетника", "В глуши")

Book restoration expert Brooklyn Wainwright returns home to San Francisco to teach a bookbinding class. Unfortunately, the program director Layla Fontaine is a horrendous host who pitches fits and lords over her subordinates. But when Layla is found shot dead, Brooklyn is bound and determined to investigate-even as the killer tries to close the book on her for good.

Smart, socially gifted, and chronically impatient, Adam and Cynthia Morey are so perfect for each other that united they become a kind of fortress against the world. In their hurry to start a new life, they marry young and have two children before Cynthia reaches the age of twenty-five. Adam is a rising star in the world of private equity and becomes his boss's protégé. With a beautiful home in the upper-class precincts of Manhattan, gorgeous children, and plenty of money, they are, by any reasonable standard, successful. But the Moreys' standards are not the same as other people's. The future in which they have always believed for themselves and their children – a life of almost boundless privilege, in which any desire can be acted upon and any ambition made real – is still out there, but it is not arriving fast enough to suit them. As Cynthia, at home with the kids day after identical day, begins to drift, Adam is confronted with a choice that will test how much he is willing to risk to ensure his family's happiness and to recapture the sense that the only acceptable life is one of infinite possibility. The Privileges is an odyssey of a couple touched by fortune, changed by time, and guided above all else by their epic love for each other. Lyrical, provocative, and brilliantly imagined, this is a timely meditation on wealth, family, and what it means to leave the world richer than you found it.