Resultados para "The Passenger" en Literatura y ficción

Reporter Kate Kilroy accepts an assignment to travel on the Valkyrie, a German ship veiled in secrecy for decades after it was discovered adrift in 1939 with only one passenger aboard, a baby boy named Isaac Feldman. Obsessed with understanding his origins, Feldman has spent a small fortune restoring the Valkyrie to try to solve the mystery. Assembling a team of experts and sparing no expense, he aims to precisely recreate the circumstances of the Valkyrie's doomed final voyage.

Étienne Séguin n'a pas trente ans. Originaire de Drummondville, demeurant depuis quelques années à Montréal, il vient d'accepter un poste de professeur de littérature au cégep de sa ville natale. Qu'à cela ne tienne, il fera l'aller-retour par l'autoroute 20 ; le trajet ne prend pas plus d'une heure, cela lui permettra d'écouter la radio et, surtout, d'oublier sa récente séparation ! Peu de temps après, Étienne remarque un autostoppeur, toujours posté au même endroit au moment où il passe. Pourquoi ne pas le faire monter afin de rompre la monotonie de la route ?

Onboard the RMS Titanic, Professor Dennis Parker believes he's taking with him to New York the archeological discovery of a lifetime. As the voyage progresses, passengers and crew become the victims of several grisly murders - not seen since the infamous Jack the Ripper. All clues point to the impossible: the murderer is a 3,000-year-old mummy named "Ka-Re." Amid all the death and chaos, Parker forces himself to choose between preserving his lifelong discovery and saving himself.

Com cada divendres després de sortir de la vella llibreria on treballa, Pedro realitza un trajecte amb autobús per visitar la seva nòvia, Rosane, que viu als afores de la ciutat. Durant el viatge, marcat pel congestionat trànsit de lhora punta, Pedro sentreté llegint un relat sobre el pas de Darwin per Brasil, escoltant rum ors sobre revoltes als afores, observant la ciutat i als passatgers de lautobús.

One lonely night, a cabbie discovers that his intoxicated passenger has been suffocated with a handkerchief saturated in chloroform. The murderer, the victim, and the motive are all unknown. Fergus Hume's first literary attempt, became the best-selling mystery novel of the 19th century.

The Mercury Theatre on the Air, a radio series created by Orson Welles, presented adaptations of classic literary works. These were performed by actors from Welles' celebrated Mercury Theatre repertory company, with music composed or arranged by Bernard Herrmann.