Miss Emily was old, rich, and afraid and now, she's dead. Her terrified plea to Hercule Poirot came a little too late. All that's left is a house full of greedy heirs, and a very strange letter that could solve the mystery or add to it...
Inheritance and succession
- Auteur:Christie, AgathaSommaire:
- Auteur:Christie, AgathaSommaire:
As Hercule Poirot sifts through his post one particular morning, he alights upon a letter from an elderly and (as it transpires), exceedingly rich spinster - Miss Emily Arundell. She is clearly in great distress and seeking his help,...
- Auteur:Brenner, JamieSommaire:
An unexpected inheritance, a promise broken, and four lives changed forever: the newest page-turner from USA Today bestselling author Jamie Brenner. Summer has started in idyllic Sag Harbor, and for Emma Mapson that means greeting...
- Auteur:Ryan, JenniferSommaire:
Noah Cordero is a modern-day cowboy who loves three things: ranching, his younger sister, and his stepfather. John Cordero groomed Noah to take over the Montana spread where he learned to ride and work the land. But when John...
- Auteur:Kleypas, LisaSommaire:
"I'm Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent. I can't be celibate. Everyone knows that." Desperate to escape her scheming relatives, Evangeline Jenner has sought the help of the most infamous scoundrel in London. A marriage of convenience is the...
- Auteur:Slade, ArthurSommaire:
Prince Conn will never be king. And that's just fine with him. He's ninth in line for the pirate throne and is quite happy to sail the skies in his airship with his crew of cheery misfits, plundering as they go. But one by one...
- Auteur:Deveraux, JudeSommaire:
In 1766 Scotland, Angus McTern leads a life of humble respectability--until Edilean Talbot arrives, pleading for his help. Angus can't deny the ache in his heart for the beautiful heiress, so when she tells him how her fortune was...
- Auteur:Miranda, MeganSommaire:
Her father was the town detective. Her mother its most notorious criminal. Now the secrets of Mirror Lake are coming to the surface...and changing everything. "[A] stunning psychological thriller from one of the most insightful...
- Auteur:Gregory, PhilippaSommaire:
Named a Best Book of the Month by CNN and MSNBC. Named a Most Exciting New Book of Fall by PopSugar. Number one New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory's new historical novel tracks the rise of the Tidelands family in London...
- Auteur:TinneanSommaire:
Ashton Laytham giunse a Fayerweather, la tenuta di suo zio, come orfano all’età di sette anni. La famiglia e i servi lo vedevano come un bambino scontroso e lo evitavano; da adulto, a parte qualche scappatella occasionale, Ashton è...
- Auteur:Trollope, AnthonySommaire:
Henry Jones, an insurance clerk, knows that his uncle has disinherited him. The will, made out at the last minute in favour of Henry's charming cousin, lies neatly folded in a volume of sermons in the uncle's book-room. Only...
- Auteur:Kendrick, SharonSommaire:
True, Constantine Karantinos has only the faintest memory of a romantic dalliance with a waitress named Laura. But when he learns she's mothered his heir, he summons her to Greece, where she insists on paying her way as his housekeeper...
- Auteur:Rotenberg, DavidSommaire:
On the Hua Shan (the Holy Mountain) 250 years before Christ, the most powerful man in the world, the First Emperor, bequeaths a talisman - a narwhal tusk with carvings depicting the growth of Shanghai for the next 2500 years - to his...
- Auteur:Couturier, GraciaSommaire:
Deux frères que tout oppose endurent tant bien que mal l’existence de l’autre. La succession du père, qui a fondé une scierie prospère, vient cristalliser leur rivalité. Incapable de prendre la relève, l’aîné camoufle sa jalousie dans...
- Auteur:Williams, TennesseeSommaire:
The definitive text of this American classic—reissued with an introduction by Edward Albee (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and A Delicate Balance) and Williams' essay "Person-to-Person." Cat on a Hot Tin Roof first...
- Auteur:Osborne, TomSommaire:
From the author of Dead Man in the Orchestra Pit and Foozlers comes another tale of madcap human folly. Louella Debra Poule is doing an eighteen-month stint on a weapons charge at a minimum-security institution up the Fraser Valley. Her...
- Auteur:Taylor, William B.Sommaire:
Alex Tinsdill never thought a simple DNA test would lead to a $250 million inheritance and Cove Point Manor, a massive estate built during the Gilded Age on the Gold Coast of Long Island, New York. Alex's inheritance doesn't come...
- Auteur:TinneanSommaire:
Ashton Laytham came to Fayerweather, his uncle’s estate, as an orphan at the age of seven. Family and servants alike perceived Ashton as an unlovable child and shunned him; as an adult, the occasional illicit rendezvous aside, Ashton...
- Auteur:Dickens, CharlesSommaire:
Bleak House follows the fortunes and relationships of three characters whose fates are tied to the obscure inheritance case of Jarndyce v. Jarndyce, which is tied up in endless litigation. While many deserving and undeserving claim the...
- Auteur:Dickens, CharlesSommaire:
Bleak House opens in the twilight of foggy London, where fog grips the city most densely in the Court of Chancery. The obscure case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce, in which an inheritance is gradually devoured by legal costs, the romance of...
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