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Stage 2 What does the name ‘Agatha Christie’ mean? To many people, it means a book about a murder mystery – a ‘whodunnit. ‘I’m reading an Agatha Christie,’ people say. ‘I’m not sure who the murderer is – I think it’s...’ But they are usually wr[...]texte imprimé
Edited by the critically acclaimed author Joyce Carol Oates, "The Best American Mystery Stories" brings together the genres finest from the past year. With stories from mystery veterans and newly discovered talents, this thrilling collection is [...]texte imprimé
Olav lives the lonely life of a fixer. When you ‘fix’ people for a living – terminally – it’s hard to get close to anyone. Now he’s finally met the woman of his dreams. But there are two problems. She’s his boss’s wife. And Olav’s just been hire[...]texte imprimé
Stage 4 It was a very inconvenient time for murder. Florence was full of Christmas shoppers and half the police force was already on holiday. At first it seemed quite an ordinary murder. Of course, there are always a few mysteries. In this case[...]texte imprimé
Charlie Parker is a former NYPD detective shattered by the brutal slaying of his wife and child. The Traveling Man is aserial killer, an artist of death, making human bodies his canvas and taking faces as his prize. Now a man who has lost every[...]Nouveautétexte imprimé
Oliver Marks has just served ten years for a murder he may or may not have committed. On the day of release, he is greeted by the detective who put him in prison. Detective Colborne is retiring, and he wants to know what really happened a decade[...]Nouveautétexte imprimé
Charlotte Brontë, Auteur ; Clare West, Adaptateur | Oxford University Press | Oxford Bookworms | 2008Stage 6 A classic love story which was first published in 1847. Numerous plays, films and television adaptations have been made of this great novel. Jane works as a governess in the house of the mysterious Mr Rochester. Despite some misgivings[...]texte imprimé
Quentin Jacobsen has always loved Margo Roth Spiegelman, for Margo (and her adventures) are the stuff of legend at their high school. So when she one day climbs through his window and summons him on an all-night road trip of revenge he cannot he[...]texte imprimé
About the relationship between parents and children, love and loss. Mila has an exceptional talent for reading a room—sensing hidden facts and unspoken emotions from clues that others overlook. So when her father’s best friend, Matthew, goes mi[...]texte imprimé
Luke is in trouble. Skin and his gang have a job for him. They want him to break into Mrs Little's house and steal the jewellery box. They want him to prove that he's got what it takes. That he's part of the gang. But Luke finds more than just[...]texte imprimé
Paul Auster's signature work, The New York Trilogy, consists of three interlocking novels (City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room) that exploit the elements of standard detective fiction and achieve a new genre that is all the more gripping [...]texte imprimé
In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to discuss unsolved crimes; together they call themselves The Thursday Murder Club. Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron might be pushing eighty but they still h[...]Nouveautétexte imprimé
Four short stories of murder and mystery, in which Edgar Allan Poe wrote about terrible people who lead strange lives.texte imprimé
When Commander Dalgliesh is persuaded by an old friend to visit the Dupayne, a small private museum on the edge of Hampstead Heath, he can have no idea that he will return to it one week later under very different circumstances. One of the famil[...]texte imprimé
Robert Louis Stevenson, Auteur ; Rosemary Border, Adaptateur | Oxford University Press | Oxford Bookworms | 2008Stage 4 You are walking through the streets of London. It is getting dark and you want to get home quickly. You enter a narrow side-street. Everything is quiet, but as you pass the door of a large, windowless building, you hear a key turning in[...]