Danny Miller vuelve a sacar a las calles de Londres a su detective Vince Treadwell, envuelto en esta ocasión en una historia de pasiones ambiguas y amenazas latentes.Ya era oficial: había entrado en zona de mala suerte y tenía pocas posibilidades de salir de ahí. Los hay que creen que ganar o perder en el póquer tiene poco que ver con la suerte, que es todo cuestión de talento. Y una y otra vez se viene a demostrar que están equivocados. Porque la suerte tiene mucho que ver con tod...

NOW AN EBOOK BESTSELLERDenton, 1984. After a morning’s betting at the races, bookmaker George Price is found in his car, barely alive with a bullet in his head. As he’s rushed to hospital, Detective Inspector Jack Frost and the Denton police force start their hunt for the would-be murderer.But with a long list of enemies who might want the bookie dead, the team have got their work cut out for them. And with a slew of other ...

DI Jack Frost is back – and this time, the life of a dead man could be his downfall.When art dealer Ivan Fielding is found dead of a heart attack in his home, surrounded by the treasures he’s collected all his life, it doesn’t initially seem like a case for Detective Inspector Frost and the Denton police force. But then signs of a burglary are discovered, and Frost senses there’s more to the story than meets the eye – even though the only thing taken was a worthles...

It's the Swinging Sixties but not all barriers have come down - the aristocrats and financial power players still gather around the exclusive gaming tables of the Montcler Club in Berkeley Square while the rest slum it in the underground ska clubs and elicit drinking dens in Notting Hill.And it's against this background of London society and villainy that detective Vince Treadwell enters when investigating the seemingly unrelated murder of a young black woman in Notting Hill and bl...

«Oscura y envolvente».Daily ExpressDurante el largo fin de semana festivo de Pentecostés de 1964 las bandas de mods y rockers se retan en Brighton, al sur de Inglaterra. También llega a la localidad el joven y ambicioso detective Vince Treadwell de la Policía de Londres. Vince ha sido alejado de la capital por sus superiores por obstaculizar el cierre de una investigación, y ha sido enviado a Brighton, su ciudad natal, para ocuparse del macabro ha...

When Vince Treadwell spots a famous jewel thief in Soho one night and the next day reads about a daring robbery at the Ritz, he takes it upon himself to investigate the case as the missing jewels belong to the beautiful French movie star Capuchine, with whom Vince is smitten.But it soon leads to murder - and he is the chief suspect. In prison and looking at a life sentence, Vince is offered a lifeline from his old friend at Interpol, Ray Dryden. He wants Vince to go undercover and ...

Set in Brighton over the bank holiday weekend of 1964, an ambitious and handsome young detective named Vince Treadwell is sent down to solve a murder and catch the elusive and powerful gangster, Jack Regent. In the tangled web of the crime, Vince falls for Jack's beautiful girlfriend, Bobbie LaVita, and discovers the truth about their own dark pasts.Kiss Me Quick goes behind the headlines of rioting Mods and Rockers, and into the deadly world of a secret Corsican crime org...

When art dealer Ivan Fielding is found dead of a heart attack in his home, it doesn't initially seem like a case for Detective Inspector Frost and the Denton police force. But then signs of a burglary are discovered, and Frost senses there's more to the story than meets the eye – even though the only thing taken was a worthless amateur painting. Then a young girl is abducted outside the school, an infamous gangster fresh from prison arrives in the area, and dead bodies start turning up in ...

Denton, 1984. After a morning's betting at the races, bookmaker George Price is found in his car, barely alive with a bullet in his head. As he's rushed to hospital, Detective Inspector Jack Frost and the Denton police force start their hunt for the would-be murderer. But with a long list of enemies who might want the bookie dead, the team have got their work cut out for them. And with a slew of other crimes hitting the area, from counterfeit goods to a violent drugs gangs swamping Denton ...

When Vince Treadwell spots a famous jewel thief in Soho one night and the next day reads about a daring robbery at the Ritz, he takes it upon himself to investigate the case as the missing jewels belong to the beautiful French movie star Capucine, with whom Vince is smitten. But it soon leads to murder - and he is the chief suspect...

L’architecture de la simplicité ! À l’issue d’un long parcours suivant le cheminement intellectuel de Danny Miller, il nous semble que ce titre, emprunté à l’une de ses publications, est celui quireflète in fine le mieux sa contribution à l’analyse des organisations : la réussite génère une focalisation des organisations sur ce qui l’a favorisé, elles se concentrent « sur la recette de leur succès » et en termes de choix, d’activités, de structures notamment ; cette simplification...

Dottie Ponedel knows how to amuse with rouge. Her autobiography, the story of a pioneering woman make-up artist, whose career spanned the entire length of Hollywood’s Golden Era from silent movies to the great films of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, puts a new foundation on the stars.Sinners and saints without greasepaint make for memorable close-ups. Enjoy Dottie’s confidential revelations about Judy Garland, Marlene Dietrich, Mae West, Carole Lombard, Clark...