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Lawyer Lennox Kemp’s newly-wed happiness is slowly being eroded by a series of anonymous threats. Is it an aggrieved past client? A criminal he has helped put away?His friend Detective Inspector John Upshire points out that there is a multiplicity of enemies from which to choose. But then a colleague of Kemp’s is murdered and Lennox is convinced that he was the intended victim. Weighed down by guilt, he feels disinclined to investigate the matter further, so it is left to his feisty wife Mary to follow the confusing clues.Is the murder connected to the anonymous threats and sabotage attempts against Kemp? or does it relate to the victim’s own affairs? A mysterious commission in London, an arrogant property dealer, an unbalanced young woman, are only some of the elements of the mystery which Mary must disentangle. But is she on the right path? And will Lennox regain his interest in the affair before another murder is committed?The return of Lennox Kemp, M. R. D. Meek’s popular lawyer sleuth, is an intricate and suspenseful puzzler that will delight his many fans. Получить ссылку |
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Автор: Эдгар Аллан По
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"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in Graham's Magazine in 1841. It has been claimed as the first detective story; Poe referred to it as one of his "tales of ratiocination".
Panopticon: postscript. Part 2
Автор: Jeremy Bentham
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Полный вариант заголовка: «Panopticon: postscript : Part II : containing a plan of management for a Panopticon penitentiary-house / by Jeremy Bentham».
Panopticon: postscript. Part 1
Автор: Jeremy Bentham
Год издания:
Полный вариант заголовка: «Panopticon : Part 1 : postscript : containing further particulars and alterations relative to the plan of construction originally proposed : principally adapted to the purpose of a Panopticon penitentiary-house / by Jeremy Bentham».
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Автор: Эдгар Аллан По
Год издания:
A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Jennifer Bassett.
The room was on the fourth floor, and the key on the inside. The windows were closed and fastened – on the inside. The chimney was too narrow for a cat to get through. So how did the murderer escape? And whose were the two angry voices heard by the neighbours as they ran up the stairs? Nobody in Paris could find any answers to this mystery.
Except Anguste Dupin, who could see further and think more clearly than other people. The answers to the mystery were all there, but only a clever man could see them.
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