Anthony Horowitz
Author
Series
Daniel Hawthorne novels volume 4
Language
English
Description
"“I’m sorry but the answer’s no.” Reluctant author, Anthony Horowitz, has had enough. He tells ex-detective Daniel Hawthorne that after three books he’s splitting and their deal is over. The truth is that Anthony has other things on his mind. His new play, a thriller called Mindgame, is about to open at the Vaudeville Theater in London’s West End. Not surprisingly, Hawthorne declines a ticket to the opening night. The play is panned by...
Author
Series
Daniel Hawthorne novels volume 1
Language
English
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Description
One bright spring morning in London, Diana Cowper - the wealthy mother of a famous actor - enters a funeral parlor. She is there to plan her own service. Six hours later she is found dead, strangled with a curtain cord in her own home. Enter disgraced police detective Daniel Hawthorne, a brilliant, eccentric investigator who's as quick with an insult as he is to crack a case. Hawthorne needs a ghost writer to document his life; a Watson to his Holmes....
Author
Series
Daniel Hawthorne novels volume 3
Language
English
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Description
"When Ex-Detective Inspector Daniel Hawthorne and his sidekick, author Anthony Horowitz, are invited to an exclusive literary festival on Alderney, an idyllic island off the south coast of England, they don't expect to find themselves in the middle of murder investigation--or to be trapped with a cold-blooded killer in a remote place with a murky, haunted past. Arriving on Alderney, Hawthorne and Horowitz soon meet the festival's other guests--an...
Author
Series
Daniel Hawthorne novels volume 2
Language
English
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Description
"You shouldn't be here. It's too late . . . " These, heard over the phone, were the last recorded words of successful celebrity-divorce lawyer Richard Pryce, found bludgeoned to death in his bachelor pad with a bottle of wine - a 1982 Chateau Lafite worth 3,000, to be precise. Odd, considering he didn't drink. Why this bottle? And why those words? And why was a three-digit number painted on the wall by the killer? And, most importantly, which of the...
7) Nightrise
Author
Series
Gatekeepers (Anthony Horowitz) volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
As fourteen-year-old telepathic twins struggle to escape the clutches of the Nightrise Corporation, one of them travels through dreams to a time when the evil Old Ones ruled and learns the role that he, his brother, and three other Gatekeepers must play to keep the world safe from the Old Ones' return.
10) Oblivion
Author
Series
Gatekeepers (Anthony Horowitz) volume 5
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
Matt. Pedro. Scott. Jamie. Scar. Five Gatekeepers have finally found one another. And only the five of them can fight the evil force that is on the rise, threatening the destruction of the world
11) Evil star
Author
Series
Gatekeepers (Anthony Horowitz) volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Having locked the Raven's gate, fourteen-year-old Matt travels to Peru where he meets the second of the five gatekeepers and works with him to try to stop the opening of a second gate somehow related to the Nazca Lines.
12) Groosham Grange
Author
Series
Groosham Grange series volume 1
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
After being expelled from school, thirteen-year-old David Eliot is sent to Groosham Grange, a spooky and sinister boarding school where nothing seems quite right.
13) Necropolis
Author
Series
Gatekeepers (Anthony Horowitz) volume 4
Publisher
Levithan/Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
To stop the evil corporation Nightrise from unleashing its devastating power around the globe, fifteen-year-old Matt and three other Gatekeepers travel to Hong Kong to find Scarlet, the final Gatekeeper, whose fate is inextricably joined to their own.
Author
Series
Alex Rider (Graphic novels) volume 1
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
After the death of the uncle who had been his guardian, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is coerced to continue his uncle's dangerous work for Britain's intelligence agency, MI6.
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"After learning a terrible secret about his father, teen spy Alex Rider travels to Venice to uncover the truth about his past. But the truth lies with a criminal organization known as Scorpia. When he agrees to train as an assassin and is given a target that he knows well, Alex must make a choice: work with MI6 once more or betray everything he believes in"--Amazon.
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventure volume 4
Publisher
Cadlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A bold and stylish reissue of the groundbreaking and hugely popular graphic adaptation of Alex Rider's fourth mission.Relaxing in the south of France, reluctant MI6 agent Alex Rider is finally able to feel like any ordinary fourteen-year-old - until a sudden, ruthless attack on his hosts plunges him back into a world of violence and mystery. And this time, MI6 don't want to know. Alex is determined to track down his friends' attackers, even if he...
Author
Series
Alex Rider (Graphic novels) volume 3
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
On a routine mission at the Wimbledon tennis championships, reluctant teenage spy Alex Rider gets caught up in Chinese gangs, illegal nuclear weapons, and the suspect plans of his Russian host, General Sarov.
Author
Publisher
Ediciones B
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"Susan Ryeland ha sido durante a�nos la editora del exc�entrico escritor superventas Alan Conway. Los lectores adoran al protagonista de su serie m�as famosa, el detective Atticus P�und, que se dedica a resolver cr�imenes en la d�ecada de los cincuenta por pueblecitos ingleses aparentemente tranquilos. Sin embargo, la �ultima novela que ha entregado Conway, y a la que le faltan los �ultimos cap�itulos, no es como las dem�as y est�a...
20) Collision
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
After a major accident leaves two dead, two critically wounded, and the surviving victims' lives changed forever, the father of one of the victims files a suit against the police department. Detective Inspector John Tolin must come to terms with his own past, and with his partner in the investigation if he has any hope of untangling the carnage, and understanding what caused the accident that threw so many lives together.
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