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Il use souvent de tous les poncifs de la litt rature populaire du xixe si cle, mais ses meilleurs romans, men es tambour battant, offrent une succession presque ininterrompue d'actions et de revirements. Nombre d'entre eux sont adapt s au cin ma, dont Red Aces (1929) et The Squeaker... Read Full Overview

Extrait: CHAPITRE PREMIER Une fichue nuit pour arpenter la grande avenue qui traverse les terrains vagues de Putney Commons: du vent, de la pluie, du gresil. Les gants les plus epais n'y resistaient pas. Une nuit si noire, que malgre les becs de gaz places a intervalles reguliers,... Read Full Overview

Both Scotland Yard and the criminal community of London are trying to discover the identity of "the Squealer". This mysterious fence forces criminals to sell him their wares for a pittance. When some object, he "squeals" to the police.

Both Scotland Yard and the criminal community of London are trying to discover the identity of "the Squealer". This mysterious fence forces criminals to sell him their wares for a pittance. When some object, he "squeals" to the police.

Londres un myst rieux informateur de la police, la Mouche, receleur de haut vol, n'h site pas tuer ceux qui le g nent. Qui est-il? Serait-ce le capitaine John Leslie, directeur commercial de la maison d'exportation dont Frank Sutton est le propri taire ador de tous ses collaborateurs?... Read Full Overview

IT WAS not a night that normal people would choose for a stroll across Putney Common. A night of wind and sleet and a cold that penetrated through soddened gloves. So dark it was, in spite of the lights set at long intervals along the highway, that Larry Graeme was compelled... Read Full Overview

IT WAS not a night that normal people would choose for a stroll across Putney Common. A night of wind and sleet and a cold that penetrated through soddened gloves. So dark it was, in spite of the lights set at long intervals along the highway, that Larry Graeme was compelled... Read Full Overview

De sa touchante naissance parmi les immondices jusqu' sa d lirante conqu te du monde, en passant par une histoire d'amour et un combat arachn en, quelques instants de la vie d'une mouche, en noir et blanc et sans paroles. D'abord publi e au Japon dans une version dulcor e,... Read Full Overview