Se produce el bárbaro asesinato de dos mujeres, madre e hija, en un apartamento de una populosa calle de París. Las primeras investigaciones no dan resultado alguno, evidenciándose la impotencia de la policía para esclarecer los hechos. Finalmente se hace cargo del asunto un detective aficionado, M. Dupin, que tras intensa y brillante investigación, ofrece una explicación extraordinaria.
The Tower of Myriad Mirrors is the only novel of Tung Yüeh (1620–1686), a monk and Confucian scholar.
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The 'first detective' of fiction steps out 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' by Edgar Allan Poe is widely considered to be the first true detective story; also in this volume are the author's two other detective fiction classics featuring the ...
A former editor and scriptwriter , Hamer's directing debut was the impressive ' Haunted Mirror ' episode in Ealing's compendium horror film Dead of Night ; interestingly , its disturbing tale of a complacent young couple whose purchase ...
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From Luc Besson to Quentin Tarantino, Fifty Contemporary Film-makers offers an up-to-date guide to the individuals who are shaping modern cinema.
The enthusiast's essential handy reference to who directed what, with each entry providing a concise summary of the director's career.
With feature boxes on experimental novels, female novelists, short reviews of interesting film and TV adaptations, and information on how the novel began, this guide will point you to all the classic literature you’ll ever need.
This new edition of this bestselling Vox title has been expanded with 32 additional pages and has been revised and updated from front to back.
60 Danny Rose” (1984). In “Crimes and Misdemeanors,” the darkness of human behavior, so central a theme for Bergman, manifests itself in the ophthalmologist who gets away with commissioning the murder of his mistress.