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Arthur Conan Doyle Een studie in rood

Met de publicatie van Een studie in rood maakt de wereld voor het eerst kennis met twee onvergetelijke karakters uit de wereldliteratuur. Arthur Conan Doyle introduceert de excentrieke detective Sherlock Holmes en zijn trouwe vriend Dr. Watson. Onmisbaar voor iedere detectiveliefhebber. Het eerste deel van de roman beschrijft de ontmoeting van Dr. Watson met Sherlock Holmes. Watson raakt al snel gefascineerd door het opmerkelijke karakter van Holmes en zijn uitzonderlijke werkzaamheden. Hij kijkt...

Nederlands | 4 uur 13 minuten (364 MB) | OORkracht 8, Amsterdam | 2023

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Joanna Goodman De school voor afgeschreven kinderen

Dankzij een studiebeurs kan Kersti naar een prestigieuze kostschool waar de rich and famous hun kinderen heen sturen omdat ze hun ouders in de weg lopen. Daar raakt Kersti bevriend met de populaire Cressida. Als Cressida van een balkon valt – springt? geduwd wordt? – stopt de school de affaire in de doofpot. Schandalen kosten immers geld, en de ouders van deze scholieren willen niet lastiggevallen worden. Twintig jaar later organiseert de school een reünie en nodigt bestsellerauteur Kersti uit als...

Nederlands | 11 uur 19 minuten (652 MB) | De Fontein Romans & Spanning, Utrecht | 2020

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Arthur Conan Doyle De hond van de Baskervilles

Een mysterie in het Engelse Dartmoor. Een bloeddorstige hond dwaalt rond door de mistige heuvels. Hij heeft het schijnbaar gemunt op de Baskervilles. Nadat Charles Baskerville op raadselachtige wijze om het leven is gekomen, vreest zijn erfgenaam Henry Baskerville voor zijn leven. Zijn de lokale volksverhalen juist en rust er een vloek op de adellijke familie? De excentrieke detective Sherlock Holmes onderzoekt de zaak, daarbij geholpen door zijn goede vriend Dr. Watson. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle schreef...

Nederlands | 5 uur 31 minuten (555 MB) | OORkracht 8, Amsterdam | 2018

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Isa Maron Eindspel

De Noordzeemoorden 4

In een kleine woning in Amsterdam-Noord worden de gruwelijk toegetakelde lichamen van een hoogbejaard stel gevonden. Rechercheur Maud Mertens stort zich op de zaak, terwijl ze samen met haar collega Niels werkt aan een zaak waarbij er hoofden zijn gevonden in de tuin van de villa. Kyra Slagter vertrekt naar Londen, de seriemoordenaar die meer lijkt te weten van de verdwijning van haar zus wil praten. Ze komt steeds dichterbij, gevaarlijk dichtbij... Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

Nederlands | 12 uur 41 minuten (731 MB) | The House of Books, Amsterdam | 2017

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Thomas van Slobbe Handvest antropoceen, of De liefde van Toby Zonderveld

Een onderzoeker doet ten tijde van het antropoceen een uitvinding voor kunstmatige klimaatcorrectie en wordt vervolgens slachtoffer van achtervolging en bedreiging.

Fictie

Nederlands | 223 pagina's | KNNV Uitgeverij, Zeist | 2017

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Toon Tellegen Wij alleen

Fictie

Nederlands | 95 pagina's | Em. Querido's Uitgeverij BV, Amsterdam | 2017

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Alex Bergmans Maîtresse

Emmy is de maîtresse van een rijke zakenman. Als hij haar probeert te verkrachten gebeurt er iets dat de haar verdere leven voor altijd bepaalt.

Fictie

Nederlands | 160 pagina's | Calbona Uitgeverij, Rotterdam | 2017

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Elizabeth Gaskell The Grey Woman

Anna, a German mill-owner‘s daughter, marries a French aristocrat and moves to France. She discovers that her husband killed his previous wife and that he is trying to kill her as well. Quick, intriguing, and with an extremely interesting plot, `The Grey Woman‘ (1861) is a short story by Elizabeth Gaskell for anyone who enjoys a good gothic shudder. Incredibly progressive for its time, it is about the survival of the ill-treated woman who has decided that enough is enough. Elizabeth Cleghorn...

Engels | 2 uur 12 minuten (101 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Anna Katharine Green The Millionaire Baby

Five thousand dollars is offered in reward to whomever finds the six-year-old heiress, Gwendolen Ocumpaugh, who has disappeared mysteriously from her home. Mr. Trevitt, a private detective, is on the case and when he discovers two lost shoes in the surrounding are – both for the same foot! – he suspects a conspiracy is at play. `The Millionaire Baby‘ (1905) is a story by American crime writer Anna Katharine Green; a delightful mystery with fascinating characters and twist after twist after twist....

Engels | 7 uur 27 minuten (350 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Joseph Conrad Youth, a Narrative

Youth' is an autobiographical short story by Joseph Conrad. It was written in 1898, first published in Blackwood's Magazine, and included as the first story in the 1902 volume Youth, a Narrative, and Two Other Stories. The volume also included Heart of Darkness and The End of the Tether, which are concerned with maturity and old age, respectively. 'Youth' depicts a young man's first journey to the East. It is narrated by Charles Marlow who is also the narrator of Lord Jim and Chance. Mr. Marlow seems...

Engels | 1 uur 16 minuten (59 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Anna Katharine Green The Amethyst Box

On the night before his wedding, Sinclair finds that his precious amethyst box containing a tiny flask of deadly poison is missing. And he knows it can only have been taken by either of two people: his soon-to-be wife or her cousin. Together with his friend Mr. Worthington, he must find who stole the poison and stop them before they use it. ‘The Amethyst Box’ (1905) is a short story by American crime writer Anna Katharine Green; a suspenseful "whodunit" with a dash of romance, which concludes thoroughly...

Engels | 2 uur 50 minuten (132 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Anna Katharine Green The Leavenworth Case

The wealthy businessman Horatio Leavenworth is found dead in his private library with a bullet in his head. Nothing in the house is broken. Nothing is stolen. All signs point to an inside job. But who did it? With the help of the young lawyer, Everett Raymond, Investigator Ebenezer Gryce examines the clues. And there are many. And they are contradictory. A maid has mysteriously disappeared, and one of the two young cousins living with Leavenworth, who, unlike the other, is set to inherit nothing,...

Engels | 10 uur 26 minuten (485 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Anthony Hope Rupert of Hentzau

’Rupert of Hentzau’ (1898) picks up three years after ‘The Prisoner of Zenda’ ended with Rudolf Rassendyll sadly leaving behind his love, Queen Flavia. Now unhappily married, Flavia writes Rassendyll to reconcile, but the letter is stolen and before long, Rassendyll once again finds himself forced to impersonate the king. Only this time, the ploy promises to leave behind several fatalities. A decidedly darker sequel, this novel once again asks the question, Duty or love? And the answer might surprise...

Engels | 8 uur 38 minuten (385 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Anthony Hope The Prisoner of Zenda

The Prisoner of Zenda is an adventure novel by Anthony Hope, published in 1894. The king of the fictional country of Ruritania is drugged on the eve of his coronation and thus unable to attend the ceremony. Political forces are such that in order for the king to retain his crown his coronation must go forward. An English gentleman on holiday who fortuitously resembles the monarch, is persuaded to act as his political decoy in an attempt to save the situation. The books were extremely popular and...

Engels | 5 uur 35 minuten (250 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Alexandre Dumas The Black Tulip

The Black Tulip is a historical novel written by Alexandre Dumas. The story begins with a historical event - the 1672 lynching of the Dutch Grand Pensionary (roughly equivalent to a modern Prime Minister) Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis, by a wild mob of their own countrymen - considered by many as one of the most painful episodes in Dutch history, described by Dumas with a dramatic intensity. It then unfold around The city of Haarlem, Netherlands, that has set a prize of 100,000 guilders...

Engels | 7 uur 33 minuten (338 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Edgar Rice Burroughs The Return of Tarzan

This follow-up to `Tarzan of the Apes‘ begins where the first novel ended, with Tarzan‘s beloved Jane set to marry his cousin. Disappointed in love, Tarzan leaves for Europe, and after a bit of trouble, becomes a spy for the French government. Soon, he finds himself back in the same jungle, in which he grew up, and coincidentally, so does Jane. Duals, attempted murders, espionage, suicide, ancient treasure, a shipwreck, lion attacks and numerous escapes, `The Return of Tarzan‘ (1915) does not lack...

Engels | 9 uur 8 minuten (421 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Henry Rider Haggard Allan Quartermain

Allan Quatermain is the protagonist of H. Rider Haggard's 1885 novel King Solomon's Mines and its various prequels and sequels. Allan Quatermain was also the title of a book in this sequence. H. Rider Haggard's Quatermain, adventure hero of King Solomon's Mines and sequel Allan Quatermain, was a template for the American film character Indiana Jones, Henry Rider Haggaard (1856-1925) was an English author of Danish decent. Following his debut non-fiction book on South Africa, he helped introduce...

Engels | 13 uur 2 minuten (599 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Frances Hodgson Burnett In the Closed Room

One summer, a fragile and shy little girl and her working-class parents move in as caretakers for a large house in the suburbs that has been hastily abandoned by its owners. After getting settled comfortably in the servants’ apartments, the girl sets out to explore the house. A single room is locked, however, but for some reason the girl has access to it. Inside, she meets another little girl ... just as delicate as herself ... ’In the Closed Room’ (1904) is an eerie ghost story by the author of...

Engels | 1 uur 16 minuten (57 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Joseph Conrad Lord Jim

Lord Jim is a novel by Joseph Conrad originally published as a serial in Blackwood's Magazine from October 1899 to November 1900. An early and primary event is the abandonment of a ship in distress by its crew including the young British seaman Jim. He is publicly censured for this action and the novel follows his later attempts at coming to terms with his past. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Lord Jim #85 on its list of the 100 best English language novels of the 20th century. Joseph Conrad...

Engels | 14 uur 18 minuten (658 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Rudyard Kipling Puck of Pook's Hill

Puck of Pook's Hill is a children's book by Rudyard Kipling, published in 1906, containing a series of short stories set in different periods of history. The stories are all told to two children living near Pevensey by people magically plucked out of history by Puck. Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English author, journalist, poet, and novelist. His most famous work is "The Jungle Book" (1894), inspiring two Disney adaptations; the 1967 animated feature and the 2016 live-action film...

Engels | 5 uur 55 minuten (273 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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