Dr Deakin and Professor Quigley, working within a government laboratory near Cambridge, discovered that it was the aim of MI6 with the support of the CIA, to assassinate all leaders of ISIS, Al-Qaeda and Boko Haram by means of their patient, Leonard Selby, code named “The Porcupine Man”. Following Selby's ingestion of poisonous substances in a suicide attempt, a deadly virus developed within Selby's bloodstream that finally manifested itself within a lesion on his right palm. When Dr Deaki...

In settings as diverse as a struggling advertising agency, a book store, and a large computer company, the protagonists in Kickback and Other Stories find duplicity, betrayal, and sudden violence. As so often in life, there are no heroes, and it's often hard to tell who is the greater villain. A four-time nominee for the Crime Writers of Canada's Arthur Ellis Award for Best Short Story, and winner of the 2001 Ellery Queen Readers' Award, Sellers' stories have appeared in Alfred Hitchcock M...

En apparence, Cliff et Leann Capshaw forment un couple parfait. En réalité, ce sont de parfaits escrocs qui s’en prennent aux personnes âgées vulnérables. Leur nouvelle proie s’appelle Willa Bennington, mais l’inoffensive vieille dame a plus d’un tour dans son sac. Lui, c’est Mose Donato De Luca, et il est dans le couloir de la mort, attendant son exécution. Alors qu’il croit son âme perdue, on lui fait une proposition inusitée. Et si le don posthume de ses yeux à un enfant aveugle lui ass...

Que feriez-vous si vous saviez qu’il y a un cadavre dans le congélateur, mais que, parce que vous êtes une vieille dame acariâtre en fauteuil roulant, personne ne vous croit ? Comment réagiriez-vous si, au casino, un individu vous proposait une façon sûre et infaillible de vous emparer du jackpot ? Et comment prouveriez-vous votre innocence si, alors que vous n’avez aucun alibi sous la main, tous les indices s’accordaient pour faire de vous l’auteur du sordide assassinat d’une jeune fille ...

Cerca de doze ou treze anos atrás, seu navio chegou e você pode nem ter percebido. Veja, foi nessa época que os computadores pessoais começaram a aparecer nas casas ao redor do mundo, e todos nós começamos a acessar a Internet. Na época, muitos de nós não percebemos, mas o campo de jogo estava totalmente nivelado e coisas que você nunca pensou que seriam possíveis tornaram-se possíveis. Sua nave chegou. Se você não percebeu que seu navio havia chegado naquela época, temos boas notícias. Vo...

Phill Jupitus looks back at the career of one of our most remarkable funny men, as broadcast on BBC Radio 4. In the course of a career which spanned five decades, Peter Sellers rose from aspiring television mimicry to international fame and fortune. He was one of our biggest stars, loved for his role as Inspector Clouseau in the 'Pink Panther' films and his appearances in 'The Goon Show'. Yet his formative years, in the world of travelling show people, almost put him off the theatre for ev...

About twelve or thirteen years ago, your ship came in, and you may not have even realized it. You see, that was about the time that personal computers started appearing in homes around the world, and we all started accessing the Internet. At the time, many of us didn’t realize it, but the playing field had just been totally leveled, and things that you never thought would be possible became possible. Your ship came in. If you didn’t realize that your ship had arrived back then, there is go...

Un ancien soldat d’élite apprend par son médecin traitant que, en raison de sa leucémie, il n’a plus que quelques mois à vivre. Puis le spécialiste lui fait une étrange proposition : pourquoi ne profiterait-il pas de ses derniers instants pour éliminer un trafiquant de drogues notoire que la justice n’arrive pas à coincer ? C’est votre dernier jour de travail comme convoyeur d’argent pour les casinos de Las Vegas et votre dossier professionnel est sans tache depuis vingt-deux ans. Mais voi...

This One’s Trouble offers a collection of some of the best hard-hitting crime stories from acclaimed writer Peter Sellers. Hailed as "one of the key figures in the Canadian mystery renaissance" in the pages of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Peter Sellers' entertaining and offbeat crime fiction stories have appeared in every major mystery magazine including Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine and Hardboiled. In This One’s Trouble, readers will discover characters...

'A fascinating, tragic and instructive story, vividly told' Sunday TelegraphRoger Lewis, in his no-holds-barred biography, exposes a Peter Sellers the world little knows. Recognized as the greatest British comic since Charlie Chaplin, Sellers was the grand master of fifty-five films - from Dr. Strangelove, to Being There and the Pink Panther hits.But shadowing his phenomenal career was a history of increasingly bizarre behaviour involving psychotic...

La biografia definitiva di uno dei più grandi comici di sempre, nonché prima biografia mai pubblicata in Italia su questo incredibile artista. Universalmente noto per alcuni dei personaggi più iconici della storia del cinema, dall'ispettore Clouseau al dottor Stranamore, Peter Sellers viene qui raccontato attraverso le parole dei suoi amici e colleghi, fonti fino a oggi inesplorate e foto private inedite. La sua tragica figura viene raccontata anche attraverso molti film oggi persino dimen...

In more than 500 episodes of Parkinson between 1971 and 1982, Michael Parkinson interviewed some of the greatest show-business talents.In Parkinson's interview with The Goons, Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe remember their "love/hate; let's get one over the BBC" relationship. Spike Milligan joins them from his sick bed in Australia, where he was suffering from the Lurgi.Slipping instantly from accent to accent, Yorkshire to Yiddish, Bluebottle to Bloodnok, Guinness to Gielg...