Narratorem tej brawurowej, pełnej specyficznego humoru powieści kryminalnej jest Janek – prowadzący dość hulaszczy tryb życia, student medycyny – który zostaje wplątany w kryminalną aferę. Chodzi oczywiście o morderstwo, bo czyż istnieje dobry kryminał bez choćby jednego trupa?! Co prawda milicja, w osobie niezmordowanego kapitana Stefana Buli (dla którego jest to ostatnia obecność w literackiej przestrzeni) prowadzi intensywne śledztwo, ale główny bohater, Janek, zmuszony ok...

NOWE ŚLEDZTWO MARTINA SERVAZA! „Myślę, że ktoś tutaj zachowuje się tak, jakby uważał się za Boga…” W jednej z pirenejskich dolin dochodzi do serii straszliwych morderstw. Podejrzewa się, że jakąś rolę w sprawie odgrywa pobliskie opactwo kryjące wiele sekretów. Miasteczko ogarnia chaos, mieszkańcy postanawiają wziąć sprawy w swoje ręce. Do akcji wkracza Martin Servaz, były komisarz policji w Tuluzie, którego przeszłość przywiodła do tego odciętego od świata miejsca. Ni...

Największa zagadka w karierze Martina Servaza. Pirenejach mieszka, ukryty przed światem, kultowy reżyser filmów grozy Morbus Delacroix. To uwielbiany przez rzesze fanów mizantrop i ekscentryk. Judith, studentka filmoznawstwa, znawczyni i miłośniczka jego dzieł, pisze pracę poświęconą jego twórczości. Ku jej zdziwieniu mistrz, który unika kontaktów z ludźmi, zgadza się na spotkanie, a nawet zaprasza ją do swojej górskiej samotni. Tymczasem w Tuluzie zostaje zamordowany spe...

Grudzień 2008 roku, dolina w Pirenejach. Wczesnym rankiem pracownicy elektrowni wodnej znajdują na górnej stacji kolejki linowej okaleczone ciało konia. Tego samego dnia młoda absolwentka psychologii obejmuje posadę w ściśle strzeżonym zakładzie psychiatrycznym dla przestępców, położonym w tej samej dolinie. W ciągu kilku dni okolicą wstrząsają kolejne zbrodnie. Śledztwo prowadzi komendant Martin Servaz, czterdziestoletni policjant z Tuluzy, znany ze swej przenikliwoś...

Bernard Konrad Świerczyński, uhonorowany medalem Sprawiedliwy wśród Narodów Świata, pisze o swoich przeżyciach i kreśli sylwetki znajomych wywodzących się ze środowiska handlarzy warszawskiego bazaru, którzy w obliczu wojny stają się szmuglerami na granicy getta. Wspomnienia napisane są żywym, barwnym językiem.Autor wspomnień, jako nastoletni chłopak, mieszkając przy słynnym warszawskim bazarze Kercelego, poznał środowisko tamtejszych handlarzy, cwaniaków, ale te...

“Cashel Byron's Profession” is a novel by George Bernard Shaw, an Irish playwright who became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.Cashel Byron's Profession is George Bernard Shaw's fourth novel. Shaw wrote five novels early in his career and then abandoned them to pursue politics, drama criticism, and eventually playwriting. The novel follows Cashel Byron, a world champion prizefighter, as he tries to woo wealthy...

“The Doctor’s Dilemma” is a play by George Bernard Shaw, an Irish playwright who became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.The Doctor's Dilemma is a play by George Bernard Shaw. It is a problem play about the moral dilemmas created by limited medical resources, and the conflicts between the demands of private medicine as a business and a vocation.

“Getting Married” is a play by George Bernard Shaw, an Irish playwright who became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.Getting Married is a play by George Bernard Shaw. First performed in 1908, it features a cast of family members who gather together for a marriage. The play analyses and satirises the status of marriage in Shaw's day, with a particular focus on the necessity of liberalising divorce laws.

“Fanny's First Play” is a play by George Bernard Shaw, an Irish playwright who became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.Fanny's First Play is a play by George Bernard Shaw. It was first performed as an anonymous piece, the authorship of which was to be kept secret. However, critics soon recognised it as the work of Shaw. The mystery over the authorship helped to publicise it. It had the longest run of any of Shaw's ...

“Great Catherine” is a play by George Bernard Shaw, an Irish playwright who became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.“Great Catherine” is a play by George Bernard Shaw. The plot focuses on Captain Charles Edstaston, a very prim and proper British military attaché who, in 1776, is assigned to the Imperial Russiancourt in Saint Petersburg, and brings his equally prim fiancée, Claire, with him. In the midst of court in...

“Pygmalion” is a play by George Bernard Shaw, an Irish playwright who became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw, named after the Greek mythological figure. In ancient Greek mythology, Pygmalion fell in love with one of his sculptures, which then came to life. The general idea of that myth was a popular subject for Victorian era British playwrights.

“Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress” is a play by George Bernard Shaw, an Irish playwright who became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.“Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress” is a one-act play by George Bernard Shaw, written in 1917.The play is obviously influenced by the Russian Revolution that year. It takes place in an imaginary country which has recently experienced a similar revolution. The two main characters are ...

“Mrs. Warren's Profession” is a play by George Bernard Shaw, an Irish playwright who became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.The play is about a former prostitute, now a madam (brothel proprietor), who attempts to come to terms with her disapproving daughter. This is one of three plays Shaw published as Plays Unpleasant in 1898. They were termed "unpleasant" because they were intended, not to entertain their audien...

“The Devil's Disciple” is a play by George Bernard Shaw, an Irish playwright who became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.“The Devil's Disciple” is Shaw's eighth play, and it was his first financial success, which helped to affirm his career as a playwright. Set in Colonial America during the Revolutionary era, the play tells the story of Richard Dudgeon, a local outcast and self-proclaimed "Devil's disciple". In a ...

“The Admirable Bashville” is a play by George Bernard Shaw, an Irish playwright who became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.“The Admirable Bashville” is a short play based loosely on Shaw’s novel “Cashel Byron's Profession”. The play was written to protect American copyrights after the novel became unexpectedly successful in the United States.

“How He Lied to Her Husband” is a play by George Bernard Shaw, an Irish playwright who became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.How He Lied to Her Husband is a one-act comedy play by George Bernard Shaw, who wrote it, at the request of actor Arnold Daly, over a period of four days while he was vacationing in Scotland in 1904. In its preface he described it as "a sample of what can be done with even the most hackneye...

“Misalliance” is a play by George Bernard Shaw, an Irish playwright who became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.Misalliance is a play written by George Bernard Shaw. The play takes place entirely on a single Saturday afternoon in the conservatory of a large country house in Hindhead, Surrey in Edwardian era England.It is a continuation of some of the ideas on marriage that he expressed in his play, Getting Married....