The book you always wanted to read, but you never had the time.
How many times have you left a book on the bedside table with the excuse of tiredness, an intense period of work, the desire to devote yourself to other activities in the little free time you have available. Now that the days have gotten longer, why not take advantage of them for some reading that lets us travel via the imagination?
Today we offer you a timeless literary genre, bringing into play three authoritative authors of the genre: Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Phillips Oppenheim and Edgar Wallace.
Reading crime fiction is much more than just reading. A thriller is a perfect combination not only of intrigue and mystery, of crimes and murderers to be exposed, but also of passion, love, regrets and revenge. It encompasses par excellence all the different shades of feeling of human nature.
If normally when reading a book we risk getting tired, losing concentration and having to go back a few pages to actually understand what we are reading, with a thriller this hardly ever happens.
Here are 4 free suggestions created in collaboration with Project Gutenberg, for a simple, fast and intriguing read.
THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE - EDGAR ALLAN POE
Two women are mysteriously and brutally murdered in their Rue Morgue home in Paris. Nothing different from many other cases that investigator Dupin has managed to solve, except that apparently all the doors and windows of the house are closed from the inside. So who is the killer, and how did he disappear into thin air?
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THE BLACK CAT - EDGAR ALLAN POE
An unprecedented point of view, not the traditional one of the investigator, but that of the murderer, who on the point of being sentenced to death, decides to tell the story of his crime. An apparently banal murder of his wife, but one that hides a mystery bordering on the paranormal. The protagonist of this mystery? The cat, Pluto.
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THE DUKE IN THE SUBURBS - EDGAR WALLACE
More comedy with intricate developments than a real crime story, The Duke in the Suburbs recounts the transfer of Duke Montviller, a Frenchman of noble descent, from Texas to a suburb of London, where he will face old enemies, plots and intrigues. Perfect humour underlies the story, giving the reader an engaging narrative.
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THE VANISHED MESSENGER - EDWARD PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM
Mister Fentolin is an elderly man, restricted to using a wheelchair, apparently harmless, surrounded by devoted people who support him and indulge his vices. Page after page, Mister Fentolin's personality becomes increasingly nebulous: who is he really? What is he hiding? And what is he prepared to stay in control of his everyday habits and interests? A great dichotomous character, perpetually divided between good and evil, for a book emblematic of Oppenheim's work, disturbing and upsetting.
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