Fergus Hume was renowned as the bestselling mystery writer of Victorian times after his first book, The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, broke all records. In 1901 he returned to form with this ingenious tale, selected to represent Hume's prolific output by Collins' Detective Club panel in 1930.

 Cicero Gramp was, according to himself, a 'professor of elocution and eloquence' - to anyone else he was no more than an engaging and extremely craft vagabond. Hence it was that he found himself awakened from his sleep in the corner of the churchyard, the cheapest available lodging, by men's voices at an hour past midnight. Two dark figures silhouetted for an instant against the white mausoleum where lay the body of the millionaire Richard Marlow. Then the turning of a key in the iron door of the vault. Silence. Two figures moving back into the night carrying a sinister burden - what Gramp guessed was the body of Marlow. But when a search was made in the vault, Marlow's coffin was found shut, and not empty: only the body in it was not Marlow's but that of another man - murdered! And that is only the first puzzle in The Millionaire Mystery .

The Millionaire Mystery

Cette anthologie de 18 nouvelles policières, pour la plupart inédites, réunit les plus grands écrivains irlandais : James Joyce, William Trevor, Liam O'Flaherty, Elizabeth Bowen, Brendan Behan, Lord Dunsany, Flann O'Brien, Sean O'Faolain, Nicholas Blake (alias le poète Cecil Day Lewis) sans oublier Peter Cheyney. Crimes passionnels, histoires de détectives, meurtres et cambriolages sont illustrés ici par des textes allusifs, cruels, humoristiques, poétiques, ou parfois tragiques qui réjouiront les amateurs à l'affût de curiosités littéraires.ContentsIntroduction · Peter Haining1 FOUL PLAY: Stories of Murder and DeathEvents at Drimaghleen · William TrevorThe Hand and the Word · Gerald GriffinThe Hanging of Myles Joyce · James JoyceTelling · Elizabeth BowenA Study in White [“The Snow Line”] · Nicholas BlakeRats · Rearden Connor2 LAW BREAKING: Cases of Theft and RobberyThe Curse of Kishogue · Samuel LoverNegative Evidence · Richard DowlingA Lunatic at Large · George A. BirminghamThe Glass Panel · Eimar O’DuffyThe Sting · Flann O’BrienThe Informers [from The Scarperer, as by Emmet Street] · Brendan BehanFoxer · Brian Cleeve3 CRIME PASSIONEL: Tales of Jealousy and RevengeMurder at Cobbler’s Hulk · Sean O’FaolainTwo Bottles of Relish [Mr. Linley] · Lord DunsanyGirl of My Dreams · Peter CheyneyAll in the Way You Look at It [Gervase Fen] · Edmund CrispinIn the Train · Frank O’ConnorMaiden’s Leap · Benedict KielyTHE DETECTIVES: Police and Private InvestigatorsThe Law Is the Law · Liam O’FlahertyThe Vanishing Diamonds [Paul Beck] · M. McDonnell BodkinJustice Evaded [Mervyn Henderson] · Dorothea ConyersEast Wind [Insp. Joseph French] · Freeman Wills CroftsChailey’s Folly · L. A. G. StrongMurder in Repose [Sister Fidelma] · Peter TremayneMugging in Harcourt Street · Cathal Ó Sándair; trans. by Séamas Ó CoileáinSolution to “A Study in White” by Nicholas Blake

Petits Romans Noirs Irlandais

Following on from the hilarious collection of typos, gaffes and howlers in Portico's A Steroid Hit the Earth, comes Wrotten English - a fabulously funny collection of literary blunders from classic, and not-so classic, works of literature. This book is an anthology of side-splitting authors' errors, publishers' boobs, printers' devils, terrible titles, comical clangers and all manner of literary lunacy dating back since the invention of the printing press.

 Painstakingly researched and tapping in to the public's insatiable general interest with the written word, Wrotten English contains curious opening lines, fantastic fictions whose titles are too terrible to be true and some of the most suggestive double entendres committed by those who really should know better!

Wrotten English

Le propos de cette anthologie est de montrer que les contes « noirs », les récits dits d'étrangeté, d'horreur, d'épouvante, ne ressortissent pas exclusivement, comme on l'a trop souvent pensé au domaine d'écrivains spécialisés. Aussi ressemble-t-elle treize nouvelles, écrites par des auteurs anglais et américains contemporains qui doivent néammoins leur célébrité à des oeuvres d'un tout autre genre. Ce qui prouve que personne n'échappe jamais entièrement à la fascination des « ténèbres intérieures et extérieures », — et que nous ressentons une sorte d'inquiétant plaisir à en sonder, un jour ou l'autre, les redoutables profondeurs.Au menu:1 - Peter HAINING, Préface, Préface2 - Gilbert Keith CHESTERTON, La Rue en colère (The angry street), trad. Pierre ROCHERON3 - Agatha CHRISTIE, Dans un battement d'ailes (The call of wings), trad. Maxime BARRIÈRE4 - Lawrence DURRELL, Les Cerises (The cherries), trad. Pierre ROCHERON5 - John Boynton PRIESTLEY, Les Gris (The other place), trad. Pierre ROCHERON6 - Graham GREENE, Le Petit cinéma d'Edgware Road (All but empty), trad. Marcelle SIBON7 - Francis Scott FITZGERALD, Le Bal (The dance), trad. Pierre ROCHERON8 - Raymond CHANDLER, La Porte de bronze (The bronze door), trad. Janine QUET9 - John Ernst STEINBECK, L'Affaire du 7 rue de M. (The Affair at 7 Rue de M.), trad. Pierre ROCHERON10 - Patricia HIGHSMITH, L'Amateur d'escargots (The snail watcher), trad. Alain DELAHAYE11 - Paul (William) GALLICO, La Terrible réponse (The terrible answer), trad. Pierre ROCHERON12 - Truman CAPOTE, Miriam (Miriam), trad. Maurice-Edgar COINDREAU13 - William Seward BURROUGHS, L'Exterminateur (Exterminator), trad. Mary BEACH & Claude PIELU14 - John UPDIKE, Au temps du jurassique (During the Jurassic), trad. Georges MAGNANE

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