Description:Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.
Jimmy Arnaud eulogizes his mother.
A wealthy society doctor decides to research the medical aspects of criminal behaviour by becoming one himself. He joins
Naive Stanley Windrush returns from the war, his mind set on a successful career in business. Much to his own dismay, he
Debt-ridden painter Michel is overcome with joy at discovering that he has just won 1 million florins in the Dutch lotte
When her father dies, Epifania Parerga, an Italian in London, becomes the world's richest woman. She feels incomplete wi
Julia and William were married and soon separated by his snobbish family. They meet again many years later, when their d
In September 2011 writer Michel Houellebecq briefly disappeared off the face of the earth. Wild rumours began circulatin
Jane Osgood runs a lobster business, which supports her two young children. Railroad staff inattention ruins her shipmen
A 22-year-old factory worker lets loose on the weekends: drinking, brawling, and dating two women, one of whom is older
Young Jim Hawkins, while running the Benbow Inn with his mother, meets Captain Billy Bones, who dies at the inn while it
A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle
Set during the period of growing influence of the Indian independence movement in the British Raj, the story begins with
Two friends, one a musician the other constantly depressed wander around Greece and France till they get to Paris withou
From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the reins of power away fr
This deceptively simple tale of a bored English couple travelling to Italy to find a buyer for a house inherited from an
One-armed war veteran John J. Macreedy steps off a train at the sleepy little town of Black Rock. Once there, he begins
Marty, a butcher who lives in the Bronx with his mother is unmarried at 34. Good-natured but socially awkward he faces c
When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family. After the f
A writer accidentally shoots his blackmailer and tries to hide the body.
A group of rogues steal a scroll granting its bearer the property of the land of Aurocastro in Apulia, a province in the