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Los mejores libros jamás escritos. El presente volumen recoge las dos primeras colecciones de relatos del canon holmesiano: Las aventuras de Sherlock Holmes (1892) y Las memorias de Sherlock Holmes (1894). Aquí se dan cita algunos de los más célebres cuentos de misterio protagonizados por el célebre detective y su ayudante, el doctor Watson: «La aventura de la banda de lunares», en el que las únicas pistas son las últimas palabras de una mujer y un inexplicable silbido en la noche; «Las cinco pepitas de naranja», donde una carta desvela una conspiración atlántica; o «El problema final», clímax genuino de las hazañas del personaje, que se enfrentará dramáticamente con su perverso archienemigo, el profesor Moriarty, en la catarata de Reichenbach. Esta edición, que se abre con un estudio introductorio de Andreu Jaume, pretende homenajear el empeño editorial de Esther Tusquets, quien tradujo magistralmente estos relatos en su proyecto de publicación del canon holmesiano al completo. «La vida es infinitamente más extraña que cuanto pueda inventar la mente humana.»

Buried in the shadows of the city, there’s an abandoned hotel called The Pope, surrounded by a mystery about the hidden twelfth floor and the guest who never checked out. Banks knows the local legend, but Kai Mori believes the myth around the hotel. He and his friends think they know her, think they can scare her, but Banks knows something they don’t. Even though she struggles to hide everything she feels when Kai looks at her, the person he seeks is much closer than he’ll ever realize.

Emily Walker hates having her carefully crafted world disrupted by anyone, most of all her legendary nemesis, Jack Bennett. He’s the opposite of the wonderful heroes she dreams up in her double life as a romance writer, which is why Emily was perfectly happy when Jack left Rome, Kentucky, mid-school year with his fiancée. The last thing Emily saw coming was Jack’s return at the start of the summer after calling off the wedding and ending his relationship, but he’s here to stay—as her colleague and her neighbor. Jack is glad to be back, eager to renovate his house and work on the next mystery novel under his bestselling pen name. But when he realizes he’s now neighbors with the one woman who has always pushed his buttons, he discovers something he’s even more excited about—thwarting Emily and her petty plans to sabotage his return. With their chemistry-fueled animosity at an all-time high, Emily accidentally sends an email to their school’s principal that could reveal her secret literary side hustle. She needs to steal back her manuscript, and Jack—she hates to admit—is just the man to help her. Surprisingly, he agrees. Will their unlikely alliance put an end to their rivalry? Or could it lead to a steamy plot twist they never saw coming?

he’s out for adventure. He’s out for blood. Tess Rosenbloom is no stranger to the dark. An assault survivor and grad school dropout, Tess spends her nights managing a chic Brooklyn hotel and her days reading her favorite vampire novels, Blood Feud. She even dabbles in online conspiracies claiming Blood Feud is real—it’s fun to hunt for clues! But deep down, Tess doesn’t believe vampires actually exist . . . until one walks through her door. It turns out the sexy villain of Blood Feud is trapped, and only Tess can rescue him. Eager to escape her life, Tess agrees to help, and soon she’s on a secret island where the sun never shines, surrounded by deadly vampires—and most terrifying of all, she's falling in love with one of them. (Meanwhile, back in New York, Tess’s estranged best friend is having a sapphic paranormal affair of her own.)

Esta obra narra la apasionada historia de amor entre Diego Pacheco ?un donjuán?, y Asís Taboada, marquesa de Andrade ?viuda, atractiva y respetable?, que se fragua durante las fiestas madrileñas de San Isidro. Al conocer a Pacheco, Asís se da cuenta de que, para poder recuperar su vida, antes debe atender a sus necesidades, huyendo del decoro y las exigencias sociales. Un canto a la sensualidad y la libertad de las mujeres, en una novela soberbia, fresca y amena, que no deja indiferente.

Publicada al principio de la Gran Guerra, cuando muchos jóvenes se encaminaban a un destino incierto en el frente, La línea de sombra cuenta la historia de un capitán que, poco después de asumir el mando de su primer barco, queda varado en un mar sin viento, con una tripulación atacada por la fiebre. La crisis lo obligará a cruzar la frontera difusa que separa la juventud de la edad adulta, pero también acabará revelándole las inspospechadas fortalezas de su carácter. Basada en la experiencia del autor, la novela se ha leído como un homenaje a los atributos personales y colectivos que demostraba toda una generación enfrentada al desastre.