Ergebnis für "Poe" in Politik & Spionage

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons, Inferno, and The Secret of Secrets—comes a lightning-fast thriller about an astonishing NASA discovery that uncovers a vicious conspiracy leading all the way to the White House. When a new NASA satellite spots...

The Pit and the Pendulum is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1842  in the literary annual The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present for 1843. The story is about the torments endured by a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition, though Poe skews historical facts. The narrator of the story describes his experience of being tortured. The  story is especially effective at inspiring fear in the reader because of its heavy focus on the senses, such as sound, emphasizing its reality, unlike many of Poe's stories which are aided by the supernatural.

New York Times bestselling author of Dead Time Disgraced Boulder detective Sam Purdy, FBI counter-terrorism specialist Christopher Poe, and CIA analyst Deirdre Drake are drawn to Yale University to investigate the disappearances of several students—including the sons of both the Secretary of...

Kriminalassistent Washington Poe er i retten og kæmper for at kunne beholde sit elskede, øde landsted, da han pludselig kaldes ud til et bordel i Carlisle, hvor en mand er blevet tævet ihjel med et baseballbat. Poe undrer sig: Han jagter normalt seriemordere, så hvad skal han på en tilsyneladende banal drabssag? Men det viser sig, at højtplacerede, hemmelighedsfulde personer har ønsket at få netop ham på sagen.

El sargento detective Washington Poe puede contar a sus amigos con los dedos de una mano, y una de ellos es Estelle Doyle, la mordaz patóloga forense a la que acude cada vez que tiene preguntas sobre algo húmedo y orgánico. Cuando el padre de Estelle aparece muerto en su domicilio con dos...

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This is a story from the Fall of the House of Usher collection. The horrors of the Spanish Inquisition, with its dungeon of death, and the overhanging gloom on the House of Usher demonstrate unforgettably the unique imagination of Edgar Allan Poe. Unerringly, he touches upon some of our greatest nightmares - premature burial, ghostly transformation, words from beyond the grave. Written in the 1840s, they have retained their power to shock and frighten even now.

The dazzling sequel to The Inside Ring finds Joe DeMarco, the Speaker of the House’s all-purpose “fixer,” in a battle of wits against a lethal female spy. On a tip from his nephew, the Secretary of the Navy asks House Speaker John Mahoney to send his troubleshooter, Joe DeMarco, to check...