Otto Bayer Livres

Edith Hahn, a law student in Vienna, faced the horrors of the Nazi regime when the Gestapo forced her and her mother into a ghetto, marking their papers with a "J." After being taken to a labor camp, she managed to convince officials to spare her mother, but upon returning home, she found her mother had been deported. Realizing she was now a hunted woman, Edith removed her yellow star and went underground, struggling for food and safety each night. Her boyfriend, Pepi, was too frightened to assist her, but a Christian friend provided identity papers, allowing her to escape to Munich. There, she met Werner Vetter, a Nazi party member who fell in love with her. Despite her protests and eventual confession of her Jewish identity, he married her and kept her secret. Edith recounts her life filled with fear, detailing encounters with German officials questioning her lineage, her refusal of painkillers during childbirth to protect her secret, and the harrowing experience of hiding with her daughter while Russian soldiers ravaged the streets. Throughout her ordeal, Edith meticulously preserved her survival records, including real and falsified papers, letters from Pepi, and photographs from labor camps. These documents, now exhibited at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., weave a complex and ultimately triumphant narrative of resilience.

1940. Tommy et Tuppence Beresford - as du contre-espionnage durant la Grande Guerre - bouillent d'impatience, se lamentant qu'on refuse de mettre à profit leurs compétences. Trop vieux! Ils ont dépassé la quarantaine... C'est à ce moment qu'un agent du 2e Bureau propose à Tommy une mission : débusquer un agent nazi, installé - soupçonne-t-on - dans une paisible station balnéaire. Bien entendu, Tommy accepte toutefois de révéler à sa femme le vrai but de sa mission. Tuppence, fine mouche, surprendra son secret. Quel beau tandem ils feront chacun sous un faux nom. Leur séjour dans cette pension au nom idyllique de " Sans Souci " ne sera pas de tout repos.

Harriet Vane has never dared to return to her old Oxford college. Now, despite her scandalous life, she has been summoned back . . . At first she thinks her worst fears have been fulfilled, as she encounters obscene graffiti, poison pen letters and a disgusting effigy when she arrives at sedate Shrewsbury College for the 'Gaudy' celebrations. But soon, Harriet realises that she is not the only target of this murderous malice - and asks Lord Peter Wimsey to help. 'I admire her novels ... she has great fertility of invention, ingenuity and a wonderful eye for detail' P. D. James

Polly Alter, eine frisch geschiedene Kunsthistorikerin, nimmt den Auftrag an, die Biographie der verschwundenen Malerin Lorin Jones zu schreiben, die unter mysteriösen Umständen starb. Dabei erkennt sie, wie gefährlich es sein kann, sich in das Leben anderer zu vertiefen, während man selbst in der Luft hängt.

A must-read for fans of Agatha Christie's Poirot and Margery Allingham's Campion Mysteries, Lord Peter Wimsey is the immortal amateur sleuth created by Dorothy L Sayers. All that was left of the garage was a heap of charred and smouldering beams. In the driving seat of the burnt-out car were the remains of a body . . . An accident, said the police. An accident, said the widow. She had been warning her husband about the danger of the car for months. Murder, said the famous detective Lord Peter Wimsey - and proceeded to track down the killer.