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Arthur Conan Doyle Het avontuur van de inwonende patiënt
Sherlock Holmes krijgt bezoek van de jonge arts Percy Trevelyan. Hij is bezorgd over het merkwaardige gedrag van de heer Blessington met wie hij een zakelijke overeenkomst heeft. Blessington is financier van zijn dokterspraktijk in ruil voor drie vierde van zijn inkomen en verblijf als inwonend patiënt. Na een reeks incidenten vertoont Blessington plotseling paranoïde trekken. Het avontuur van de inwonende patiënt is een van de 56 verhalen over Sherlock Holmes van de hand van Arthur Conan Doyle....
Nederlands | 49 minuten (94 MB) | OORkracht 8, Amsterdam | 2023
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Arthur Conan Doyle Het avontuur van Charles Augustus Milverton
Sherlock Holmes schiet de jonge debutante Eva Blackwell te hulp. Ze staat op het punt in het huwelijk te treden met de graaf van Dovercourt als ze te maken krijgt met de gevreesde Charles Augustus Milverton. Hij eist een bedrag van zevenduizend pond. Mocht ze niet betalen dan zal hij een voor haar schadelijke brief openbaar maken. Samen met Dr. Watson probeert Sherlock Holmes dit te voorkomen. Het avontuur van de Charles Augustus Milverton is een van de 56 verhalen over Sherlock Holmes van de...
Nederlands | 44 minuten (85 MB) | OORkracht 8, Amsterdam | 2023
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M.R.C. Kasasian The Horror of Haglin House
Home is where the horror is... Jilted thriller writer Lady Violet Thorn has withdrawn to the Suffolk market town of Montford with two servants and her leading character, the adventuress Ruby Gibson, for company. Violet’s peace is disturbed when a stranger asks her for help, claiming that a friend is being kept prisoner in her own home. Her visitor seems so afraid that Violet, despite her scepticism, is persuaded to investigate. A woman is killed outside Violet’s house, then another murdered in...
Engels | 13 uur 1 minuut (587 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Pauline Rowson The Chale Bay Murders
Meet DI Andy Horton. He’s a risk-taking Harley-Davidson-riding detective who doesn’t always play by the rules . . . which often lands him in trouble with his bosses. Suspicious lights at sea, decomposing bodies and an old flame send Horton down a rabbit hole in this captivating crime thriller. An elderly man obsessively watches the coast from his Victorian house high on the hill above Ventnor. When he observes mysterious lights out at sea, he reports them to the police. The local police think...
Engels | 8 uur 20 minuten (369 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Pauline Rowson The Isle of Wight Murders
A cold, grey January morning. A woman with a gun in her hand. A corpse on an abandoned golf course. Detective Inspector Andy Horton is taking a break on the Isle of Wight. But even when he’s on holiday trouble follows him... On an abandoned golf course, Horton finds a distraught, young woman with a gun in her hand, crouching over one of the derelict bunkers. Then the smell hits him. A dead man lies there. Dressed in walking gear, his body decomposing. The woman with the gun says she’s his sister....
Engels | 8 uur 18 minuten (369 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Cara Hunter In het donker
De bewoners van de keurige buurt in Oxford geloven hun oren niet wanneer ze van de schokkende ontdekking horen. Jarenlang zaten een vrouw en kind opgesloten in de kelder van een van de huizen. De huiseigenaar is net zo ontdaan als de rest van de buren. Rechercheur Adam Fawley krijgt de zware taak op zijn schouders om de identiteit van de jonge vrouw en de jongen te achterhalen, maar ieder spoor ontbreekt. Plotseling vindt Fawley een link met een oude, onopgeloste vermissingszaak van een vrouw. Maar...
Nederlands | 12 uur 31 minuten (561 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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C.J. Tudor Brandende meisjes
Zijn we allemaal in staat tot onuitsprekelijke daden om degenen van wie we houden te beschermen? Welkom in het lieflijke plaatsje Chapel Croft. Vijfhonderd jaar geleden werden hier acht protestantse martelaren terechtgesteld op de brandstapel. Dertig jaar geleden verdwenen twee tienermeisjes spoorloos. Twee maanden geleden pleegde de dominee van de lokale parochie zelfmoord. Dominee Jack Brooks, alleenstaande ouder van de veertienjarige Flo, arriveert in het dorp om een nieuwe start te maken...
Nederlands | 11 uur 22 minuten (655 MB) | A.W. Bruna Uitgevers, Amsterdam | 2021
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R.D. Shah The Dark Temple
A brutal cult. A gruesome rite. A primal evil... At a remote farmhouse outside Turin, a mysterious religious exorcism goes horribly wrong, setting in motion a series of catastrophic events, that threatens to bring the world to its knees... Meanwhile, Professor Alex Harker is settling into his new life in the Templar Brotherhood, when he is suddenly whisked away to the Tower of London. There he learns of a disturbing murder, and a strange riddle hinting at a sinister truth. Now the fate of the...
Engels | 12 uur 22 minuten (552 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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R.D. Shah The Shadow Conspiracy
A brutal foe, an ancient mystery... The explosive new Templar thriller. Cambridge Archaeology Professor Alex Harker is drawn back into the twisted clutches of the Mithras, who are seeking to unearth a knowledge lost to humankind since the dawn of civilization. His journey will take him from the Bay of Bengal to the murky depths of the Gibraltar strait, from the Swiss Alps to an island untouched for over 30,000 years, all in pursuit of this fateful knowledge. In a diabolical game of cat and mouse...
Engels | 9 uur 46 minuten (429 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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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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Alex Kane The Angels
Amber. As the top performer at Angel Silk gentleman’s club, she’s seen it all, been forced to do things she never wanted to do. She’s tired of this life... but can she escape it? Lizzy. To the women at Angel Silk, she’s the strong queen bee, mother to the girls. But she’s hiding her own dark secrets - and if they come to light, her life could be destroyed. Jade. The newest dancer at Angel Silk, she’s innocent, beautiful... and trapped. She’s in over her head – but does she have the strength to...
Engels | 10 uur 33 minuten (473 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Sophie Flynn Keep Them Close
She trusted a stranger with her secrets. Now she's paying the price. Frazzled mum, Emily, loves her four-year-old twin daughters. Amidst trying her best to be the perfect mum all while keeping her sanity intact, she finds solace in the anonymous internet forum MumsOnline during her darkest days. But when a newfound friendship takes a dark turn, and her past is exposed, Emily's perfect life is threatened. Can she protect her family from a dangerous stalker? Praise for "Keep Them Close": ´A splendidly...
Engels | 10 uur 11 minuten (452 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Heather J Fitt Open Your Eyes
Can you see danger when it's right in front of you? When Edinburgh reporter Frankie is assigned a high-profile crime story about a series of sexual assaults, she relishes the prospect of her big break. As she begins uncovering the truth behind women's safety, online trolls known as incels start threatening her very existence. Will Frankie uncover the truth, or will she become the next target? This intense and unsettling thriller about resentment and rage is perfect for fans of Pascal Engman's...
Engels | 8 uur 21 minuten (372 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Victoria Holt Geluk in gevaar
Laat je meeslepen naar de mysterieuze tombes van eeuwenoude Egyptische farao’s, een dodelijke vloek en hartstochtelijke romantiek. Wanneer twee archeologen de dood vinden tijdens hun onderzoek in de pyramide, weet Judith het zeker. De tombe is vervloekt. Al gauw komt ze direct in aanraking met de beruchte plek, omdat ze verliefd wordt op de zoon van de overleden archeoloog. Hij is vastberaden om het levenswerk van zijn vader te voltooien, dus besluiten ze samen naar Egypte af te reizen. Wordt deze...
Nederlands | 11 uur 12 minuten (491 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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A. Frank. Pinkerton Dyke Darrel the Railroad Detective Or, The Crime of the Midnight Express
In this High Victorian detective novel, Dyke Darrel investigates the robbery of the Central Railroad’s midnight express, during which Dyke’s friend Arnold Nicholson, a messenger, was murdered. He is helped by his sister Nell, with whom he was supposed to go on holiday. Dyke Darrell turns "the Gotham of the North" - as he calls Chicago - upside down in search of the culprit. On the way he encounters old ennemies, kidnappers and masquerades, as he tries to solve "the most audacious crime of my remembrance."...
Engels | 3 uur 58 minuten (179 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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H.G. Wells War of the Worlds
This classic, early 19th century science fiction masterpiece serves as both a wonderful period presentation of the time as well as a cautionary tale. Called by many a "chilling novel account of a Martian invasion of London in the nineteenth century – a science fiction classic for all time." It was made famous by Orson Welles Mercury Theatre mid 20th Century adaptation that literally had thousands of people running for their lives at the time in the Northeast U.S. H. G. Wells was an English writer,...
Engels | 4 uur 38 minuten (201 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Mary Shelley Frankenstein
Told in the form of a series of letters ‘Frankenstein’ follows a young and charismatic Victor Frankenstein as he attempts to make his mark on the world of science. Taking a number of body parts from various corpses, he brings a monstrous creation to life which instead of being his crowning glory, terrifies him. The nameless monster escapes from his lab, taking many innocent lives before Frankenstein can track it down again. Shelley took inspiration from her trips through Germany and the legends of...
Engels | 7 uur 59 minuten (430 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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Sax Rohmer B.J. Harrison Reads The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu
"The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu" is the second novel in the Fu-Manchu series, in which the villainous doctor returns to Britain in order to undermine the country's power. He has survived the previous novel’s deadly attackand is now on the move against the forces of good, embodied by detective Smith and Dr. Petrie, who always disrupt his plans. Fu-Manchu’s fanatical devotion to world domination and all things evil make Rohmer’s novel a joyride through the actions and thoughts of his superbly-crafted...
Engels | 8 uur (351 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Victoria Holt Gevangene van de Pasja
Hoe belandde de zeventienjarige Rosetta, een zorgeloos meisje uit Engeland, als schipbreukeling voor de westkust van Afrika? Samen met haar ouders komt ze in een vreselijke storm terecht wanneer ze een wereldreis maken. Ze overleeft het met twee andere passagiers, de mysterieuze Simon en de aantrekkelijke Lucas, maar ze worden vervolgens schaamteloos verkocht door piraten. Moederziel alleen belandt Rosetta in een harem in Constantinopel, maar door haar overweldigende kracht weet ze te ontsnappen...
Nederlands | 14 uur 10 minuten (618 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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