14 книг
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Хрупкие фантазии обербоссиерера Лойса Анатолий Вишевский
ISBN: 978-5-6044580-9-9 Год издания: 2020 Издательство: Popcorn Books Язык: Русский РазвернутьЭта книга о жизни, страсти и смерти в просвещенном герцогстве Вюртембергском времен светлейшего герцога Карла Евгения, о старом обербоссиерере Людвигсбургской фарфоровой фабрики Иоганне Якобе Лойсе, который воспылал чувствами к юному торговцу апельсинами, о том, как юноша ушел на войну, а мастер мечтал и грезил о нем и воплотил его в своих статуэтках. Дождался ли мастер своей любви? И получилось ли все так, как представлял себе Иоганн Якоб? Эта история — без купюр и умолчаний — о его вдохновении, его любви, его боли и его счастье...
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Незримые фурии сердца Джон Бойн
ISBN: 978-5-86471-798-1 Год издания: 2018 Издательство: Фантом Пресс Язык: Русский РазвернутьСирил Эвери - не настоящий Эвери, во всяком случае, отец не устает ему это повторять. И никогда настоящим ему не стать. Но тогда кто же он? Мать Сирила, совсем еще девочку, изгнали из родной ирландской деревни, когда стало известно, что она ждет ребенка. Сирила усыновила богатая и чрезвычайно эксцентричная пара из Дублина. Он рос в достатке, но глубоко одинокий - пока не встретил Джулиана, взбалмошного и чрезвычайно обаятельного. Так началась история Сирила длиною в жизнь, полная удач и разочарований, невероятных совпадений и роковых поступков. Это будет путь к самому себе, к своей идентичности, к своим корням, пусть они и пытались его…
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Jack of Hearts (And Other Parts) Lev A.C. Rosen
ISBN: 9780241365014 Год издания: 2019 Издательство: Penguin Язык: Английский РазвернутьMeet Jack Rothman. He's seventeen and loves partying, makeup and boys - sometimes all at the same time. His sex life makes him the hot topic for the high school gossip machine. But who cares? Like Jack always says, 'it could be worse'. He doesn't actually expect that to come true. But after Jack starts writing an online sex advice column, the mysterious love letters he's been getting take a turn for the creepy. Jack's secret admirer knows everything: where he's hanging out, who he's sleeping with, who his mum is dating. They claim they love Jack, but not his unashamedly queer lifestyle. They need him to curb his sexuality, or they'll…
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The Case of the Misplaced Models Tessa BardingРазвернуть
Dr Watson arrives at his surgery one morning to find a stranger about to stable his own leg injury together. Days later, John Watson coincidentally accepts a flat-share with the same man; and before long is laughing, running, and falling in love with the endlessly-fascinating Sherlock Holmes. While the 'consulting detective' barely seems to notice John, he does agree to help when they learn of the sudden and curious death of Karim Halabi. John's friend Karim was accidentally shot during a game of laser tag. Case closed, say the police. But as John and Sherlock dig deeper it seems that Karim's death was no accident. It also becomes clear…
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My Dearest Holmes Rohase Piercy
ISBN: 9781999890117 Год издания: 1988 Rescued from oblivion by Rohase Piercy, here are two previously unknown stories about the great detective and his companion, throwing a fresh light upon their famous partnership, and helping to explain much which has puzzled their devotees ...
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Compound a Felony: A Queer Affair of Sherlock Holmes Elinor Gray
ISBN: 9781633701069 Год издания: 2015 Издательство: Full Fathom Five Digital РазвернутьConsulting detective Sherlock Holmes is a veritable whirlwind of intellect and perception, tearing through the fog of intrigue and criminal activity with tremendous force. But behind the locked sitting room door at 221B Baker Street, his biographer and intimate companion, ex-army doctor John Watson, holds the reins. Elinor Gray is re-imagining the best-loved, essential classics of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle through an erotic lens of domination and submission. As longtime fans have often identified, Holmes and Watson share an undeniable chemistry. Compound a Felony: A Queer Affair of Sherlock Holmes sheds light on their potential…
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The Adventure of the Colonial Boy Narrelle M. Harris
ISBN: 9780993513626 Год издания: 2016 Издательство: eBook Alchemy Pty Ltd Развернуть1893. Dr Watson, still in mourning for the death of his great friend Sherlock Holmes, is now triply bereaved, with his wife Mary's death in childbirth. Then a telegram from Melbourne, Australia intrudes into his grief. "Come at once if convenient." Both suspicious and desperate to believe that Holmes may not, after all, be dead, Watson goes as immediately as the sea voyage will allow. Soon Holmes and Watson are together again, on an adventure through Bohemian Melbourne and rural Victoria, following a series of murders linked by a repulsive red leech and one of Moriarty's lieutenants. But things are not as they were. Too many words lie…
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A Murmuring of Bees
ISBN: 9780993513664 Год издания: 2016 Издательство: Improbable Press РазвернутьThink of Sherlock Holmes and you think of mysteries, John Watson...and bees. While Arthur Conan Doyle sent the great detective to tend hives in retirement, here bees are front and centre in stories of love and romance, war and hope, of honey on the tongue and a sting in the tail. In tales of rare nectars, secret diaries, and the private language of lovers, bees may be the buzzing heart of the story...or as ephemeral as a murmur. What you'll find in every tale are John Watson and Sherlock Holmes helping one another, wanting one another, loving one another. To encourage a world where such love is seen for the precious thing it is, profits…
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The Watches of the Night Darcy Lindbergh
Night falls, and London comes alive. Sherlock Holmes has dedicated his life to uncovering the things that happen in the night, but he has his own secrets hiding in the shadows, too. As Dr John Watson begins to understand the shape of Holmes' secrets, he starts to understand his own, and together Holmes and Watson must navigate the dangers of the nights they spend together – and the ones they don't.
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Sherlock Holmes and John Watson: The Night They Met Atlin Merrick
ISBN: 978-0993513602 Год издания: 2015 Издательство: Clan Destine Press Some things belong together, the one with the other, natural pairs. Sherlock Holmes and John Watson. Holmes and Watson. Sherlock and John. Whether it's in an empty house during the Blitz, a West London strip club in the 70s, or deep in the heart of a Hong Kong computer lab, the meeting of these two legendary men is inevitable. Spanning one hundred and twenty-eight years, here are the stories of that destiny. Of how a detective meets a doctor, of how they change each other in heart and mind. Of how they fall in love.
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A Dream To Build A Kiss On Narrelle M. Harris
ISBN: 9780993513688 Год издания: 2018 Издательство: Improbable Press John Watson, invalided army doctor and sometimes artist, and Sherlock Holmes, consulting detective, become flatmates and friends in contemporary London. Love grows too, despite past betrayals and present dangers--for where you have Holmes and Watson, there too are Moriarty and Moran. A Dream to Build a Kiss On explores love and family, trust and betrayal, brothers and brothers-in-arms, forgiveness and revenge, in an ongoing tale told 221 words at a time.
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Death by Silver Мелисса Скотт
ISBN: 9781590210550 Год издания: 2013 Издательство: Lethe Press РазвернутьHis practice newly established, metaphysician Ned Mathey can’t afford to turn away any clients. But the latest Londoner to seek Ned’s magical aid gives him pause: Mr Edgar Nevett, an arrogant banker, is the father of the bully who made Ned’s life hell at boarding school. Nevertheless, Ned accepts the commission to ensure the Nevett family silver bears no ancient or modern curses, and then prepares to banish the Nevett family to unpleasant memory again. Until Edgar Nevett is killed by an enchanted silver candlestick—one of the pieces Ned declared magically harmless. Calling on his old school friend Julian Lynes—private detective and…
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A Death at the Dionysus Club Мелисса Скотт
ISBN: 9781590215302 Год издания: 2014 Издательство: Lethe Press РазвернутьIn the sequel to Lambda Literary Award-winning Death by Silver, metaphysician Ned Mathey and private detective Julian Lynes again challenge magical and murderous threats in a Victorian London not quite the city in our history books. Mathey is recruited by Scotland Yard to assist the new Metaphysical Crimes Squad in the case of a literally heartless corpse. Mathey soon discovers that the magic used to rob the man of his heart and life does not conform to the laws of modern metaphysics and then a second victim turns up. Meanwhile, a minor poet hires Lynes to track down and stop the blackmailer threatening to reveal him as the pseudonymous…
