Найти книгу: "A Study in Murder - A Victorian Book Club Mystery, Book 1 (Unabridged)"

Bath, England, 1890. Mystery author Lady Amy Lovell receives an anonymous letter containing shocking news: her fiance, Mr. Ronald St. Vincent, has been dabbling in something illegal, which causes her to promptly break their engagement. Two evenings later, as Lady Amy awaits a visit from Lord William Wethington, fellow member of the Bath Mystery Book Club, her former fiance makes an unexpected and most unwelcome appearance at her house. She promptly sends him to the library to cool his heels but later discovers the room seemingly empty-until she stumbles upon a dead Mr. St. Vincent with a knife in his chest. Lord Wethington arrives to find Lady Amy screaming and sends for the police, but the Bobbies immediately assume that she is the killer. Desperate to clear her name, Lady Amy and Lord Wethington launch their own investigation-and stir up a hornet's nest of suspects, from the gardener who served time in prison for murder to a vengeful woman who was spurned by St. Vincent before he proposed to Lady Amy. Can they close the book on the case before the real killer gets away with murder?

In the debut of literature's most famous sleuth, a dead man is discovered in a bloodstained room in Brixton. The only clues are a wedding ring, a gold watch, a pocket edition of Boccaccio's Decameron, and a word scrawled in blood on the wall. With this investigation begins the partnership of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

Если вы изучаете английский язык или свободно на нем говорите, у вас есть замечательная возможность услышать на языке оригинала захватывающий рассказ доктора Ватсона о его первой встрече с Шерлоком Холмсом, а затем проверить свое понимание произведения, прослушав русский перевод. Текст неадаптирован. Английскую версию читает Joseph Samuel Bagley (Великобритания)

Комплект из книги и аудиофайлов предлагает вам погрузиться в захватывающий мир детективов Артура Конан Дойля. Вы сможете услышать и прочитать на языке оригинала один из самых запоминающихся рассказов писателя о блестящих расследованиях Шерлока Холмса – «Этюд в багровых тонах». Свое понимание неадаптированного текста можно проверить, прочитав или прослушав перевод произведения на русский язык. Читая и слушая тексты на английском языке, сравнивая их с переводом на русский, можно по достоинству оценить мастерство писателя и одновременно улучшить свои навыки чтения, а также восприятия на слух иностранной речи. Для работы над текстом в конце книги предлагаются упражнения и словарь. Книга будет интересна и полезна школьникам, абитуриентам, студентам, преподавателям, а также всем, кто изучает английский язык самостоятельно.

Although new ventures’ competitive positioning and their founders’ social networks are both recognized as important in the context of transition economies, not much is known about their multiplicative effect on performance. We build on the strategic management literature and social network theory to develop theoretical predictions about the role of competitive strategies and social capital for entrepreneurial performance. These are tested with survey data from Bulgaria. We find that both the venture’s competitive strategic positioning and the founder’s networking positively influence performance. The hypothesized moderating effect of networking for the relationship between differentiation strategy and performance received only tentative support. Contrary to expectations, we find a negative moderating effect of networking for the relationship of cost leadership with performance. These results suggest that the entrepreneur’s network plays a role in shaping how strategies influence performance by possibly upholding differentiation and deemphasizing cost leadership strategy. Implications for managerial practice and public policy are discussed.

"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".