Hugh Greene Livres

FRAUD, MURDER, POLITICAL INTRIGUE AND HORROR IN FOUR STORIES OF VICTORIAN VILLAINY. The Great Tontine, considered to be Hawley Smart's best book, concerns the unforeseen dangers of trying to make money in a lottery. Arthur Griffiths made a special study of the French police, and his sardonic amusement over their methods is evident in the classic train thriller The Rome Express. In the Fog, Richard Harding Davis's ingeniously plotted novel, is one of the very best accounts of foggy Victorian London. Haunted by figures of strange horror, Richard Marsh's The Beetle shed fascinating sidelights on forgotten aspects of the Victorian age. All in all, a splendid selection of works rescued from dusty oblivion - a rare treat!

Au n°3 de Lauriston Garden, près de Londres, dans une maison vide, un homme est trouvé mort. Assassiné ? Aucune blessure apparente ne permet de le dire, en dépit des taches de sang qui maculent la pièce alentour. Sur le mur, griffonnée à la hâte, une inscription Rache ! Vengeance ! Vingt ans p lus tôt, en 1860, dans les gorges de la Nevada, Jean Ferrier est exécuté par de sanguinaires Mormons chargés de faire respecter la loi du prophète. Sa fille, Lucie, est séquestrée dans le harem du fils de l'Ancien. Quel lien entre ces deux événements aussi insolites que dramatiques ? Un fil ténu, un fil rouge que seul Sherlock Holmes est capable de dévider. Une intrigue tout en subtilités où, pour la première fois, Watson découvre le maître...

She drew off her left glove, a delicate, crinkled suede affair, and offered her bare hand to the surgeon...from the polished pink nails of the tapering fingers to the firm, well-moulded wrist, it was distinctly the hand of a woman of ease - one that had never known labour, a pampered hand, Dr Prescott told himself. "The forefinger," she explained calmly, "I should like to have it amputated at the first joint, please." - from Jacques Futrelle's The Superfluous Finger, just one of the stories from this first-rate collection of Edwardian tales of cosmopolitan crime. Cover design: Ivan Holmes

This work contains the following stories: Max Pemberton: 'The Ripening Rubies' Arthur Morrison: 'The Case of Laker, Absconded' Guy Boothby: 'The Dutchess of Wiltshire's Diamonds' Arthur Morrison: 'The Affair of the "Avalanche Bicycle and Tyre Co. Ltd"' Clifford Ashdown: 'The Assyrian Rejuvenator' L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace: 'Madame Sara' Clifford Ashdown: 'The Submarine Boat' William Le Queux: 'The Secret of the Fox Hunter' Baroness Orczy: 'The Mysterious Death on the Underground Railway' R. Austin Freeman: 'The Moabite Cipher' Baroness Orczy: 'The Woman in the Big Hat' William Hope Hodgson: 'The Horse of the Invisible' Ernest Bramah: 'The Game Played in the Dark'

Perkis, C.L. The Redhill sisterhood. -- Morrison, A. The loss of Sammy Throckett. -- Donovan, D. The problem of Dead Wood Hall. -- Morrison, A. The case of Janissary. -- Bodkin, M. McD. Murder by proxy. -- Hume, F. The amber beads. -- Bodkin, M. McD. How he cut his stick. -- Meade, L.T. and Halifax, C.A race with the sun. -- Fletcher, J.S. The contents of the coffin. -- Futrelle, J. The mystery of room 666. -- Marsh, R. The man who cut off my hair. -- Whitechurch, V.L. The affair of the German dispatch-box. -- Bramah, E. The tragedy at Brookbend Cottage