London, 1946: An actress is murdered, not just on camera but in full view of a crowded film set. Only six people had an opportunity to administer the poison yet not one of them had a conceivable motive.

Boxing Day circa 1935. A snowed-in manor on the very edge of Dartmoor. A Christmas house-party. And overhead, in the attic, the dead body of Raymond Gentry, gossip columnist and blackmailer, shot through the heart. But the attic door is locked from the inside.

'The Dreamers' is about a young American student who comes to Paris in 1968. Obsessed with film, he becomes involved with two fellow cineastes. Cocooned in their apartment, the three of them push themselves further until the violence in the streets invades their lives with violent consequences.

The TimesGilbert Adair adopta postura de scriitor britanic sadea, cu morga, monotonia fermecatoare si incapatanarea unui romancier care nu a auzit inca de James Joyce, dar care il admira pe Chesterton si-l aduleaza pe Conan Doyle. Rezulta un regal de mister si deductivism, o sarbatoare a inteligent ei si o excelenta evocare a atmosferei provinciale din batrana Anglie de odinioara. -- The IndependentUn omagiu minunat adus varstei de aur a romanului politist englez si maestrei Agatha...

The writer and professional controversialists Gustav Slavorigin is murdered in the small Swiss town of Meiringen during its annual Sherlock Holmes Festival, his body discovered with an arrow through the heart. With a price of ten million dollars on Slavorigin's head, almost none of the Festival's guests can be regarded as above suspicion.