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"The stars are dark" is a spy thriller by the British writer Peter Cheyney, known for fast, tense stories and hard-boiled characters.
Mistakenly kidnapped and tied to a ceiling beam, Sam Jones tries to remember her special love adventure. The painful blows, along with her innate humor, will encourage the heroine to focus all her peace of mind on solving life's problems.
The book consists of several stories that explore the complexity of human behavior, often through an ironic and satirical depiction of everyday life.
These stories deal with different topics, although most deal with different criminal acts, from fraud and fortune-telling to marriage fraud and murder.
Susan Sontag's latest novel, inspired by the real-life Polish woman Helena Modjeska. Sontag, through an ironic, erudite style, explores emigration as an existential escape: America is not a paradise, but a mirror of European weaknesses.
Do you like "lovelies"? Whatever you think about them, you'll enjoy this superb pastiche of trivial romance novels.