Ergebnis für "Curtain Call" in Belletristik

The Bloodtones: up-and-coming heavy metal thrashers extraordinaire; a motley crew of diverse skills, mixed views, and different…species. But while their tastes might (literally) differ, there’s one thing they can all agree on: their music; their career; their goal. That was, at least, before Bekka - the voice and spirit of the Bloodtones - finds herself possessed (and in possession of) cosmic beings from another realm. Instead of spinning heads and speaking in tongues, however, this possession comes with superhuman powers….

Part-time thespian Griffith Williams can’t seem to do anything right in his parents’ eyes, especially compared to his brother, a missionary in the Dominican Republic. But if he can pull off the biggest play of the year, the Christmas play, he could win a job as a full-time director and prove to himself—and his family—that he hasn’t mistaken his calling to the arts.

The legendary detective saves his best for last as he races to apprehend a five-time killer before the final curtain descends in Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case, the last book Agatha Christie published before her death. The crime-fighting careers of Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings have come...

Jacqueline Keys was ostracized from her small hometown of Pine Springs, Texas, when she was 17, sent away because she was gay. Fifteen years later - long after she'd hitch-hiked to Los Angeles, put herself through college, and had written her first best seller - Jacqueline is persuaded to go back to the tiny town of Pine Springs after her father's death. The quick trip she'd envisioned for the funeral turns into weeks as she learns her father's business is suddenly hers to manage. And she is also again face-to-face with the woman who, as a teen, had been Jackie's first crush.

A country house murder, artistic insight and the postwar reunion of Alleyn and Troy combine in Ngaio Marsh’s wittiest and most readable novel. Agatha Troy, world-famous portrait painter, is inveigled into accepting a commission to paint the 70-year-old Sir Henry Ancred, Bart., the Grand Old Man of the stage. But just as she has completed her portrait, the old actor dies.