John D. Carr Livres

Voodoo Drums! Dennis's dreams vibrated with their message of death... Suddenly a hand touched his heaving body. He was shocked awake. Beryl West was standing over him. "Bruce has disappeared," she sobbed. Dennis stared at the girl. Her cry echoed in the eerie light of the half-darkened room. An unknown author had written a play about a murderer and sent it to actor Bruce Ransom. Bruce like it, but his friends Beryl West and Dennis Foster thought the ending unreal. To prove that they were wrong, Bruce proceeded to impersonate the killer in real life. Suddenly his part got out of hand. He had rung up the curtain on a scene called Murder!

Miles Despard, un vieux garcon de cinquante-six ans, a ete enterre dans un caveau scelle au milieu de sa propriete, en presence de dizaines de temoins, a Crispen, aux portes de Philadelphie. Mais voila que des soupcons pesent sur sa mort. Maladie ou empoisonnement ? Pour couper court aux rumeurs et eviter le scandale, son neveu decide d'exhumer le corps et de pratiquer une autopsie. Le caveau est descelle, le cercueil ouvert et... rien ! Le cadavre a disparu. Peu a peu les langues se delient: la femme du gardien pretend avoir vu, la nuit de la mort de Miles, une femme dans sa chambre, conversant avec lui, puis cette derniere serait sortie de la piece en traversant le mur. Il semble bien que l'irrationnel soit au coeur de l'affaire... Traduit de l'anglais (Etats-Unis) par Maurice Bernard Endrebe

From the son of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and one of America's greatest mystery writers, John Dickson Carr, comes twelve riveting tales based on incidents or elements of the unsolved cases of Sherlock Holmes. The plots are all new, with painstaking attention to the mood, tone, and detail of the original stories. Here is a fascinating volume of mysteries for new Sherlock fans, as well as for those who have read all the classics and crave more!

A Doubter's Guide to World Religions presents each of the world's five major religions and carefully outlines the history, belief systems, and spiritual practices of Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam so that the interested and curious doubters can explore their similarities and differences.

John Dickson gives an honest account of the mixed history of Christianity, the evil and the good. He concedes the Christians’ complicity for centuries of bullying but also shows the myriad ways the beautiful teaching of Christ has enriched our world and the lives of countless individuals.

A Doubter's Guide to Jesus is an introduction to the major portraits of Jesus found in the earliest historical sources.

In A Doubter's Guide to the Ten Commandments, bestselling author John Dickson explores how these ten ancient instructions have changed our world and how they show us what the Good Life looks like. Whether or not one quite believes in the Bible, these ten ancient instructions open up a window to the Western world and on our own soul.