LIBROS DEL AUTOR: gwen bristow

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  • The Invisible Host
    Bruce Manning / Gwen Bristow
    'The Invisible Host' is a chilling masterpiece of suspense and a foundational entry in the closed-circle mystery genre. Eight strangers receive mysterious invitations to a lavish penthouse party atop a New Orleans skyscraper, only to find themselves trapped in a deadly game of wits. Their anonymous host, speaking through a hidden speaker, reveals a sinister plan: by the end of ...
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    25,15 €

  • The Invisible Host
    Bruce Manning / Gwen Bristow
    'Do not doubt me, my friends; you shall all be dead before morning.'New Orleans, 1930. Eight guests are invited to a party at a luxurious penthouse apartment, yet on arrival it turns out that no one knows who their mysterious host actually is. The latter does not openly appear, but instead communicates with the guests by radio broadcast. What he has to tell his guests is chilli...
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    13,56 €

  • The Gutenberg Murders
    Bruce Manning / Gwen Bristow
    'Thou Shalt Not Kill.'All New Orleans is disturbed at the rumour that one of its civic treasures, a fragment of the Gutenberg Bible, has been stolen. But when the rumour becomes a fact and is followed by a series of murders so hideous that every paper’s headlines screamed each new phase of the case, the concern changes to panic. Each new crime centres on the same group of peopl...
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    13,50 €

  • Two and Two Make Twenty-Two
    Bruce Manning / Gwen Bristow
    'A woman in a red raincoat killed Linton Barclay.'Paradise Island, the brightest spot of all playgrounds edging the Gulf of Mexico, caters gladly to those who can afford to pay well for their entertainment. Twelve miles from the mainland, it has, under the suave management of Brett Allison, come to be known for sports, gaming tables, and the Peacock Club.For some time Federal a...
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    13,56 €

  • The Mardi Gras Murders
    Bruce Manning / Gwen Bristow
    'Murder and Mardi Gras together! Ain’t we got fun?'For years New Orleans has been enthralled by the secret society dedicated to Dis, Greek god of Inferno, whose membership of fifty is closely guarded from the press, and whose rites burlesque the proud tradition of the city’s Mardi Gras festival. Lovely Cynthia Fontenay gives Dis a ball each year, and no member of the order has ...
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    13,52 €

  • Deep Summer
    Gwen Bristow
    Bristow does “a grand job of storytelling” (the New York Times) in this memorable novel of the late eighteenth-century pioneers who settled the Louisiana wilderness, establishing a civilization of charm, luxury, and tragic injustice     For his service in the king’s army during the French and Indian War, Judith Sheramy’s father, a Puritan New Englander, is granted a parcel of l...
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    25,01 €

  • The Handsome Road
    Gwen Bristow
    New York Times–bestselling author Gwen Bristow brings to life Civil War–era Louisiana in the impassioned, poignant story of a plantation mistress and a poor seamstress—and the men they love—whose lives are irrevocably changed as the Old South fallsCorrie May Upjohn stands on the levee, watching men unload the riverboats and wishing she could travel far away. A poor preacher’s d...
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    25,01 €

  • This Side of Glory
    Gwen Bristow
    New York Times–bestselling author Gwen Bristow presents a captivating love story that dramatizes the struggle between the ways of the old Louisiana plantation families and those of the new twentieth-century SouthIn 1912, Eleanor Upjohn sits with her father near the work camp, overseeing the construction of a levee on the Mississippi. In a region shattered by war, levees mean st...
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    25,85 €

  • Tomorrow Is Forever
    Gwen Bristow
    Set in World War II–era Hollywood, New York Times–bestselling author Gwen Bristow presents an emotional tour de force about a woman haunted by the ghost of her husband who died in World War IFor two decades, Elizabeth Herlong has been a devoted Hollywood wife, watching as her husband Spratt built an empire in the budding motion picture industry. But part of her still yearns for...
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    22,60 €