The Tales of Terror and Detection

Sebagai seorang pewaris dari English Romantic, Edgar Allan Poe (19 Januari 1809 – 7 Oktober 1849) adalah kekuatan sastra yang hebat melalui usahanya sendiri. Tak hanya seorang tokoh yang sangat penting dalam dunia sastra Amerika, dia juga seorang master kesusastraan yang diakui, baik yang ber-setting horor, misteri atau detektif. Tiga kisah dalam Tales of Terror and Detection, yaitu Naskah …

Taxi of Terror

from the back cover: 'How does it work?' Jack asks when he opens his present - a mobile phone. Later that night, Jack is a prisoner in a taxi in the empty streets of the dark city. He now tries his mobile phone for the first time. Can it save his life? FROM THE READERS: "I love taxi of terror, the characters Jack and the Policeman are funny." --Radya, Year 1

Dorothy Must Die

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ISBN/ISSN

9780062347046

Collation

452p; bw; pbk

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Call Number

823 PAI D

The Cuckoo's Egg

Before the Internet became widely known as a global tool for terrorists, one perceptive U.S. citizen recognized its ominous potential. Armed with clear evidence of computer espionage, he began a highly personal quest to expose a hidden network of spies that threatened national security. But would the authorities back him up? Cliff Stoll's dramatic firsthand account is "a computer-age detective …

The Snake

It took Mike Hammer seven years to find out that Velda, the girl he loved, was still alive. They came together in passion, but it wasn't long before Mike discovered that being with Velda still meant danger. Velda had offered protection to a girl who was convinced she was to be killed. Mike Hammer had to shoot and fight his way out of many desperate situations before he was able to solve the …

Child 44

In a country ruled by fear, no one is innocent. Stalin's Soviet Union is an official paradise, where citizens live free from crime and fear only one thing: the all-powerful state. Defending this system is idealistic security officer Leo Demidov, a war hero who believes in the iron fist of the law, but when a murderer starts to kill at will and Leo dares to investigate, the State's obedient s…

Deja Dead

Her life is devoted to justice; for those she never even knew. In the year since Temperance Brennan left behind a shaky marriage in North Carolina, work has often preempted her weekend plans to explore Quebec. When a female corpse is discovered meticulously dismembered and stashed in trash bags, Temperance detects an alarming pattern and she plunges into a harrowing search for a killer. But her…

Cyberstalker : The Return of William White, Part 1

When the Virtual Reality Fair arrived on the SVU quad, Elizabeth Wakefield thought it sounded like an extreme waste of time. That was before Elizabeth's twin sister, Jessica, convinced her to give virtual reality a try. That was before Elizabeth saw him. He appeared out of nowhere, a glowing figure with an achingly beautiful face. A man she once loved--and feared. A man she thought was dead. Bu…

The Litigators

The partners at Finley & Figg often refer to themselves as a “boutique law firm.” Boutique, as in chic, selective, and prosperous. Oscar Finley and Wally Figg are none of these things. They are a two-bit operation of ambulance chasers who bicker like an old married couple. Until change comes their way—or, more accurately, stumbles in. After leaving a fast-track career and going on a serio…

The Litigators

The partners at Finley & Figg—all two of them—often refer to themselves as “a boutique law firm.” Boutique, as in chic, selective, and prosperous. They are, of course, none of these things. What they are is a two-bit operation always in search of their big break, ambulance chasers who’ve been in the trenches much too long making way too little. Their specialties, so to speak, are quic…