Otto Bayer Książki

Edith Hahn, a law student in Vienna, faced the horrors of the Nazi regime when the Gestapo forced her and her mother into a ghetto, marking their papers with a "J." After being taken to a labor camp, she managed to convince officials to spare her mother, but upon returning home, she found her mother had been deported. Realizing she was now a hunted woman, Edith removed her yellow star and went underground, struggling for food and safety each night. Her boyfriend, Pepi, was too frightened to assist her, but a Christian friend provided identity papers, allowing her to escape to Munich. There, she met Werner Vetter, a Nazi party member who fell in love with her. Despite her protests and eventual confession of her Jewish identity, he married her and kept her secret. Edith recounts her life filled with fear, detailing encounters with German officials questioning her lineage, her refusal of painkillers during childbirth to protect her secret, and the harrowing experience of hiding with her daughter while Russian soldiers ravaged the streets. Throughout her ordeal, Edith meticulously preserved her survival records, including real and falsified papers, letters from Pepi, and photographs from labor camps. These documents, now exhibited at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., weave a complex and ultimately triumphant narrative of resilience.

Morderstwo w Orient Expressie to wciąż jedna z najpopularniejszych powieści detektywistycznych autorstwa Agaty Christie. W czym tkwi jej fenomen? Choć wydano ją w 1934 roku, wciąż uwodzi niezwykłością przedstawionej w niej historii. Herkules Poirot, po zakończeniu śledztwa na wschodnim kontynencie, rusza w podróż Orient Expressem. Trafia do jednego przedziału z amerykańskim miliarderem, usilnie proszącego Belga o pomoc, ponieważ obawia się o swoje życie. Poirot początkowo nie traktuje go poważnie i odmawia mu swojej pomocy, ale jego nastawienie ulega diametralnej zmianie, gdy jego towarzysz zostaje znaleziony martwy. Wszyscy podróżujący Orient Expressem mają niezbite alibi, kto więc popełnił tę zbrodnię? Herkules Poirot proponuje dwa rozwiązania tej zagadki i tylko czytelnicy dowiedzą się, które z nich jest prawdziwe

Harriet Vane has never dared to return to her old Oxford college. Now, despite her scandalous life, she has been summoned back . . . At first she thinks her worst fears have been fulfilled, as she encounters obscene graffiti, poison pen letters and a disgusting effigy when she arrives at sedate Shrewsbury College for the 'Gaudy' celebrations. But soon, Harriet realises that she is not the only target of this murderous malice - and asks Lord Peter Wimsey to help. 'I admire her novels ... she has great fertility of invention, ingenuity and a wonderful eye for detail' P. D. James

This is another novel by the author of Foreign Affairs.

The fourteenth book in the classic British detective series featuring amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey, with a new introduction by crime writer Elizabeth George.