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Бенджамин Блэк

Benjamin Black

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Бенджамин Блэк – лучшие книги

  • Тайна Кристин Фоллс Бенджамин Блэк
    ISBN: 978-5-373-04544-5
    Год издания: 2012
    Издательство: Олма Медиа Групп
    Язык: Русский
    Дублин 50-х годов. Город, тихие улочки которого порой напоминают лабиринт жестоких и мрачных секретов. Здесь ограбления и убийства происходят каждый день, а человеческая жизнь стоит совсем недорого. В этом твердо уверен талантливый патологоанатом Квирк, пятнадцать лет назад потерявший жену. Однажды ночью он застает в своем кабинете сводного брата Мэла, подделывающего свидетельство о смерти молодой женщины. Квирк выясняет, что диагноз был поставлен абсолютно неверно, и несчастная умерла при родах. Роковая врачебная ошибка? Неужели Мэл, известный в городе акушер, пытался спасти свою профессиональную карьеру? Или дело тут совсем в другом? Квирк начинает собственное расследование - и вскоре понимает: за всем происходящим стоят богатые и влиятельные люди, которые пойдут на все, лишь бы их тайны никогда не увидели свет...
  • Wolf on a String Benjamin Black
    ISBN: 9781627795180
    Год издания: 2017
    Издательство: Henry Holt and Company
    Язык: Английский
    Bestselling author Benjamin Black turns his eye to sixteenth century Prague and a story of murder, magic and the dark art of wielding extraordinary power
    Christian Stern, an ambitious young scholar and alchemist, arrives in Prague in the bitter winter of 1599, intent on making his fortune at the court of the Holy Roman Emperor, the eccentric Rudolf II. The night of his arrival, drunk and lost, Christian stumbles upon the body of a young woman in Golden Lane, an alley hard by Rudolf’s great castle. Dressed in a velvet gown, wearing a large gold medallion around her neck, the woman is clearly well-born—or was, for her throat has been slashed.

    A lesser man would smell danger, but Christian is determined to follow his fortunes wherever they may lead. He quickly finds himself entangled in the machinations of several ruthless courtiers, and before long he comes to the attention of the Emperor himself. Rudolf, deciding that Christian is that rare thing—a person he can trust—sets him the task of solving the mystery of the woman’s murder. But Christian soon realizes that he has blundered into the midst of a power struggle that threatens to subvert the throne itself. And as he gets ever nearer to the truth of what happened that night in Golden Lane, he finally sees that his own life is in grave danger.

    From the spectacularly inventive Benjamin Black, Wolf on a String is a historical crime novel that delivers both a mesmerizing portrait of a lost world and a riveting tale of intrigue and suspense.
  • The Black-Eyed Blonde (Philip Marlowe Novels) Benjamin Black
    ISBN: 978-0805098143
    Год издания: 2014
    Издательство: Henry Holt & Company
    Язык: Английский
    Raymond Chandler’s incomparable private eye is back, pulled by a seductive young heiress into the most difficult and dangerous case of his career.
  • Even the Dead Benjamin Black
    ISBN: 0241197341, 9780241197349
    Год издания: 2015
    Издательство: Viking
    Язык: Английский

    A suspicious death, a pregnant woman suddenly gone missing: Quirke's latest case leads him inexorably toward the dark machinations of an old foe Perhaps Quirke has been down among the dead too long. Lately the Irish pathologist has suffered hallucinations and blackouts, and he fears the cause is a brain tumor. A specialist diagnoses an old head injury caused by a savage beating; all that's needed, the doctor declares, is an extended rest. But Quirke, ever intent on finding his place among the living, is not about to retire. One night during a June heat wave, a car crashes into a tree in central Dublin and bursts into flames. The…

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  • The Secret Guests Benjamin Black
    ISBN: 1250133017
    Год издания: 2020
    Издательство: Henry Holt and Co.
    Язык: Английский
    As London endures nightly German bombings, Britain's secret service whisks the princesses Elizabeth and Margaret from England, seeking safety for the young royals on an old estate in Ireland.

    Ahead of the German Blitz during World War II, English parents from every social class sent their children to the countryside for safety, displacing more than three million young offspring. In The Secret Guests, the British royal family takes this evacuation a step further, secretly moving the princesses to the estate of the Duke of Edenmore in "neutral" Ireland.

    A female English secret agent, Miss Celia Nashe, and a young Irish detective, Garda Strafford, are assigned to watch over "Ellen" and "Mary" at Clonmillis Hall. But the Irish stable hand, the housemaid, the formidable housekeeper, the Duke himself, and other Irish townspeople, some of whom lost family to English gunshots during the War of Independence, go freely about their business in and around the great house. Soon suspicions about the guests' true identities percolate, a dangerous boredom sets in for the princesses, and, within and without Clonmillis acreage, passions as well as stakes rise.

    Benjamin Black, who has good information that the princesses were indeed in Ireland for a time during the Blitz, draws readers into a novel as fascinating as the nascent career of Miss Nashe, as tender as the homesickness of the sisters, as intriguing as Irish-English relations during WWII, and as suspenseful and ultimately action-packed as war itself.
  • Prague Nights Benjamin Black
    ISBN: 9780241197387
    Год издания: 2018
    Издательство: Penguin
    Язык: Английский
    'The emperor's mistress had been murdered, and the world had been taken hold of and turned upon its head'

    Prague, 1599. Christian Stern, a young doctor, has just arrived in the city. On his first evening, he finds a young woman's body half-buried in the snow.

    The dead woman is none other than the emperor's mistress, and there's no shortage of suspects. Stern is employed by the emperor himself to investigate the murder. In the search to find the culprit, Stern finds himself drawn into the shadowy world of the emperor's court - unspoken affairs, letters written in code, and bitter rivalries. But there's no turning back now...
  • The Black Eyed Blonde Benjamin Black
    ISBN: 9781447236702
    Год издания: 2015
    Издательство: Picador
    Язык: Английский
    Maybe it was time I forgot about Nico Peterson, and his sister, and the Cahuilla Club, and Clare Cavendish. Clare? The rest would be easy to put out of my mind, but not the black-eyed blonde . . . It is the early 1950s. In Los Angeles, Private Detective Philip Marlowe is as restless and lonely as ever, and business is a little slow. Then a new client arrives: young, beautiful, and expensively dressed, Clare Cavendish wants Marlowe to find her former lover, a man named Nico Peterson. Soon Marlowe will find himself not only under the spell of the Black-Eyed Blonde; but tangling with one of Bay City’s richest families – and developing a singular appreciation for how far they will go to protect their fortune . . . In this gripping and deeply evocative crime novel, Benjamin Black returns us to the dark, mesmerising world of Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye and his singular detective Philip Marlowe; one of the most iconic and enduringly popular detectives in crime fiction.
  • Prague Nights Benjamin Black
    ISBN: 0241297850, 9780241297858
    Год издания: 2017
    Издательство: Viking
    Язык: Английский
    'The emperor's mistress had been murdered, and the world had been taken hold of and turned upon its head'

    Prague, 1599. Christian Stern, a young doctor, has just arrived in the city. On his first evening, he finds a young woman's body half-buried in the snow.

    The dead woman is none other than the emperor's mistress, and there's no shortage of suspects. Stern is employed by the emperor himself to investigate the murder. In the search to find the culprit, Stern finds himself drawn into the shadowy world of the emperor's court - unspoken affairs, letters written in code, and bitter rivalries. But there's no turning back now...
  • Holy Orders Benjamin Black
    ISBN: 9781447202196
    Год издания: 2014
    Издательство: Picador
    Язык: Английский

    She looked at him and smiled sadly. ‘You’ve lived too long among the dead, Quirke,’ she said. He nodded. ‘Yes, I suppose I have.’ She was not the first one to have told him that, and she would not be the last. 1950s Dublin. When a body is found in the canal, pathologist Quirke and his detective friend Inspector Hackett must find the truth behind this brutal murder. But in a world where the police are not trusted and secrets often remain buried there is perhaps little hope of bringing the perpetrator to justice. As spring storms descend on Dublin, Quirke and Hackett’s investigation will lead them into the dark heart of the organisation that…

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  • Vengeance Benjamin Black
    ISBN: 978-0-330-54582-2
    Год издания: 2013
    Издательство: Picador
    Язык: Английский

    Why would suicide need a witness? On the east coast of Ireland, Victor Delahaye, one of the country's most prominent citizens, takes his business partner's son out sailing. But once at sea, Davy Clancy is horrified to witness Delahaye take out a gun and shoot himself dead. This strange event captures the attention of Detective Inspector Hackett and his friend, Pathologist Doctor Quirke. The Delahayes and Clancys have been rivals for generations and when a second death occurs, one even more shocking than the first, Quirke begins to realise that terrible secrets lie buried within these entangled families; and that in this world of…

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  • Elegy for April Benjamin Black
    ISBN: 9781447237334
    Год издания: 2013
    Издательство: Picador
    Язык: Английский

    April Latimer, giovane medico di buona famiglia e dubbia reputazione, sembra svanita nel nulla: gli amici non la sentono da giorni, al lavoro la credono malata, nulla nel suo appartamento lascia presagire una partenza programmata. Nell’indifferenza generale, solo la sua amica Phoebe, figlia dell’anatomopatologo Quirke, sembra porsi delle domande, sorretta nella sua ostinazione da un brutto presentimento che le circostanze non fanno che incoraggiare. Troppe, infatti, le resistenze inaspettate, le zone d’ombra, l’imbarazzo contro cui si scontrano i suoi cauti tentativi di saperne di più. Forse April non è quella che ha fatto credere di…

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  • The Silver Swan Benjamin Black
    ISBN: 9781447237327
    Год издания: 2013
    Издательство: Picador
    Язык: Английский

    The Silver Swan The second novel in the Quirke mysteries, now a major TV series starring Gabriel Byrne Full description

  • A Death in Summer Benjamin Black
    ISBN: 978-0-3305-0915-2, 0330509152
    Год издания: 2012
    Издательство: Picador
    Язык: Английский

    When newspaper magnate Richard Jewell is found dead at his country estate, clutching a shotgun in his lifeless hands, few see his demise as cause for sorrow. But before long Doctor Quirke and Inspector Hackett realise that, rather than the suspected suicide, DIAMOND DICK has in fact been murdered. Suspicion soon falls on one of Jewell`s biggest rivals. But as Quirke and his assistant Sinclair get to know Jewell`s beautiful, enigmatic wife Francoise d`Aubigny, and his fragile sister Dannie, as well as those who work for the family, it gradually becomes clear that all is not as it seems ...Against the backdrop of 1950`s Dublin, Benjamin Black…

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