Dante Club, Pearl Matthew

Автор: Matthew Pearl
Название: Dante club
ISBN: 034549038X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780345490384
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 735.00 р.
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Описание: The New York Times Bestseller
Boston, 1865. A series of murders, all of them inspired by scenes in Dante’s Inferno. Only an elite group of America’s first Dante scholars—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, and J. T. Fields—can solve the mystery. With the police baffled, more lives endangered, and Dante’s literary future at stake, the Dante Club must shed its sheltered literary existence and find the killer.

"From the Trade Paperback edition."

Автор: Pearl, Matthew
Название: Last Dickens, The
ISBN: 0099548666 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099548669
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 923.00 р.
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Автор: Pearl Matthew
Название: Last Dickens
ISBN: 0099512750 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099512752
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 2243.00 р.
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Описание: With his livelihood - indeed his life - in jeopardy, Dickens` publisher sets out to unravel the mystery. The trail leads him from bustling West End theatres, through grimy East End backstreets, into the fug of illicit opium dens, as the crime he hopes to solve ensnares him.

Автор: Matthew Pearl
Название: The Technologists
ISBN: 0099512769 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099512769
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Цена: 2375.00 р.
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Описание: A race against time. Spring 1868, and the population of Boston is being terrorised by a series of mysterious attacks: first a magnetic storm causes ships in the harbour to collide in flames, then in another bizarre catastrophe every piece of glass in the financial district spontaneously melts - clocks, windows, eyeglasses.

Автор: Matthew Pearl
Название: Poe shadow
ISBN: 0099507242 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780099507246
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
Цена: 791.00 р.
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Описание:

Baltimore, 1849. The body of Edgar Allan Poe has been buried in an unmarked grave. The public, the press, even Poe's family and friends accept the conclusion that Poe was a second-rate writer who died a drunkard.

But none of this deters a young Baltimore lawyer named Quentin Clark, an ardent admirer who risks his own career and reputation in a passionate crusade to salvage Poe's.

Clark discovers that Poe's last days are riddled with vital unanswered questions. The police, it seems, may be concealing things. But just when Poe's death looks destined to remain a mystery Quentin realises he must find the one person who can solve this strange case: the real-life model for Poe's brilliant fictional detective character, C.

Auguste Dupin, the hero of ingenious tales of crime and detection.

Clark successfully recruits the man he believes to have inspired Poe's Dupin only to be confronted by another claiming to be the true model and a dangerous race between the two master detectives begins, each seeking to prove he is the real 'Dupin' by solving the mystery of Poe's death. In short order, Clark finds himself enmeshed in sinister machinations involving international political agents, a female assassin, the corrupt Baltimore slave trade and the lost secrets of Poe's final hours. With his own future hanging in the balance, he must turn master investigator himself to unchain his now imperiled fate from that of Poe.

The Poe Shadow is a beautifully detailed, ingeniously plotted tale of suspense which opens a thrilling new window on the truth behind Poe's demise, literary history's most persistent enigma.