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Charles Dexter Ward decide buscar los rastros de un misterioso antepasado, Joseph Curwen. En su investigación, se encuentra con fuerzas insospechadas y terribles, que le acarrearán consecuencias nefastas. Esta novela clásica de terror, con elementos de vampirismo, golems, conjuros e invocaciones, no hace sino advertirnos de un peligro real y trascendente: "No invoquéis nada que no podáis controlar".
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2000
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Essays on American writers whose lives and careers span the history of hard-boiled writing, from its birth in American pulp magazines of the 1920s to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Characteristic of this writing is an objective viewpoint, impersonal tone, violent action, colloquial speech, touch characters and understated style, usually but not limited to detective or crime fiction.
83) Inherent vice
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Legendary author Thomas Pynchon, winner of the National Book Award for his classic Gravity's Rainbow, applies his inimitable style to the mystery novel. As the marijuana haze of the free-love 1960s begins to fade, Doc Sportello drifts in and out of awareness. He hasn't seen his girlfriend in a long time. Then one day she shows up and rattles off a fantastic story about a plot to kidnap a billionaire land developer, and Doc can't help but get drawn...
84) Grifter's Game
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Your name's Joe Marlin, but you change it almost as often as you change your shirt. It's David Gavilan when you skip a hotel bill and head for Atlantic City. You left empty-handed, and you need luggage to check into a decent hotel, so you grab two checked bags before the owner turns up to claim them. They're monogrammed L.K.B.-so now your name is Leonard K. Blake.
But you're not the only L.K.B. in Atlantic City. L. Keith Brassard is the owner of...
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It's 1975. Johnny Riles leads a lonesome, whiskey-soaked existence on Colorado's high prairie. Abandoned by his parents, who moved away after Johnny accidentally shot his father, and absent his buffoonish younger brother, who has left home to star in the American Basketball Association, Johnny is an uncommonly unhappy man.
Johnny is awoken from a depressive stupor after an autumn snowstorm leads him to cross paths with a brutal killer. Thus do his...
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In this poetic and haunting tale set in contemporary Appalachia, New York Times bestselling author Ron Rash illuminates lives shaped by violence and a powerful connection to the land. Les, a long-time sheriff just three-weeks from retirement, contends with the ravages of crystal meth and his own duplicity in his small Appalachian town. Becky, a park ranger with a harrowing past, finds solace amid the lyrical beauty of this patch of North Carolina....
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Crime. Vengeance. Love. Physics.
The infamous Deadbomb Bingo Ray is a high level fixer in the City of Brotherly Love. He's the man you call when you've crossed the line into hopeless and there's no way back to anywhere.
Three years have passed since Ray burned a hedge fund manager on behalf of a pool of retirees, and now the money man is back for revenge. While Ray unravels the plot and orchestrates some payback of his own, he unwittingly steps into...
88) The Priest
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If you were going to die, who would you kill?A hard-nosed former US Marine/retired cop receives a terminal prognosis. But when a local priest is accused of molesting children, he hears the calling of another mission. He enlists a coterie of like-minded patients to seek his own brand of vigilante justice.Tommy Borata has cancer. He realizes he can kill without consequences, and he's got a list. A pedophile priest, a corrupt cop, a fascist political...
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"After surviving a brutal attack and with a price on his head, undercover FBI Agent John Adderley investigates a high-profile cold case involving a young heiress. He is determined to solve this case while hiding-out and until he can testify against the drug cartel he infiltrated back in the States."--
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c2002
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Young, rich, bedridden Barbara Stanwyck dials a telephone number one night and overhears two men plotting the murder of an unidentified woman. She becomes frantic. Her terror is intensified by mysterious calls from an old college rival and a friend of her father. With time running out, Stanwyck pieces evidence together that leads her to suspect that it is her husband who wants her murdered
91) Foreign Bodies
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Today translated crime fiction is in vogue-- but this was not always the case. A century before Scandi noir, writers across Europe and beyond were publishing detective stories of high quality. Often these did not appear in English and they have been known only by a small number of experts. This is the first ever collection of classic crime in translation from the golden age of the genre in the 20th century. Many of these stories are exceptionally...
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Now a major motion picture directed by Giuseppe Capotondi, with Claes Bang, Elizabeth Debicki, Mick Jagger and Donald Sutherland
Fast-talking, backstabbing, womanizing, and fiercely ambitious art critic James Figueras will do anything-blackmail, burglary, and beyond-to make a name for himself. When an unscrupulous collector offers Figueras a career-making chance to interview Jacques Debierue, the greatest living-and most reclusive-artist, the critic...
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Spencer perdió su trabajo como cantante de rock en Los Ángeles. Continuando con su vida, se corta el cabello y acepta el puesto de encargado de un motel. Cuando aparece la señorita Rose, las cosas se tornan salvajes. El detective Miller de Long Beach, investiga un asesinato, un caso de drogas, a la mafia y a todos los demás en el motel Villa. Spencer se vuelve amigo de Miller. Juntos cazan al asesino que está detrás de un tesoro. Scarface, Reagan,...
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Voted one of the Sunday Times 100 Best Crime Novels 'Classic suspenseful noir from "the French Graham Greene"' The Times Dany Longo is blonde, beautiful- and thoroughly unpredictable. After doing a favor for her boss, she finds herself behind the wheel of his exquisite Thunderbird on a sun-kissed Parisian morning. On impulse, she decides to head south. What started as an impromptu joyride rapidly takes a turn for the chilling when strangers all along...
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A terrible crime occurs in Elect H. Mouse State Judge.
Two young girl are abducted and held hostage by a band of religious fanatics. The girls' anxious father, a politician on the eve of an important election, has reasons of his own not to go to the police, so he hires a pair of shady private eyes to investigate. All the elements of a classic noir-except that the kidnapped girls are mice, the abductors are Sunshine Family dolls, and the detectives...
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Identical twins Sylvie and Betty Allard loathe each other. They loathe the outside world more. Estranged for ten years, their worlds collide. A shared competitive streak leads them to derail each other as they embark on a killing spree of celebs and wannabes to make the world a better place. As the net and the Met closes in on them, the twins might need to work together, for the first time ever. A crime noir literary romp.
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In this short story entitled Take the apple, Adam!, an idea wrapped around the tragic condition of humanity is brought before the readers. Through the roller coaster of the storyline, and the vivid descriptions and analogies, the readers are invited to follow and feel together with the characters, finding at least one familiar aspect of their own life experiences.Every reader can find his or her own message in the story, having a lot of thoughts and...
98) De barro
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¿Podrías ser tú? ¿Se pueden complicar tanto las cosas para que todo se desmorone y acabes matando? De barro es una novela donde se refleja que los actos no obedecen a los pensamientos y las equivocaciones se acaban pagando. ¿De qué serías capaz cuando la situación es insostenible? ¿El amor lo justifica todo?
En los campos de L'Horta Nord, donde el Mediterráneo y la industria química dibujan el horizonte, un hombre llega al límite. Cuando...
99) August
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Carla Turner has been drifting for all her thirty-two years. Worn down by the banality of rural life with an abusive husband and resigned to simple existence, she hardly seems capable of recognizing new adventure in the form of a man, even one as gorgeous as Brian DeCanto. But Brian understands the need for escape all too well. After accidentally shooting his boss, he is forced to take the murder's sole witness – his boss's ten-year-old son –...
100) Horror Stories
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"Truly chilling, Flynn's stories will stick with you long after reading"-Matthew Hutton, The Scare Room Podcast Horror Stories is a ghastly collection of tales, full of odd surprises and gruesome occurrences.Prepare to meet a deranged killer with a taste for autopsy, an eccentric stalker who's been following a victim for decades, a sectioned professor who lost his mind after witnessing an atrocity in the jungle, and much more.If you yearn for macabre...
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