Résultats pour "Charles Dickens" dans Fiction criminelle

Murder comes in two familiar forms. Whether as a crime of passion with high emotions or a cold dispassionate plot to take life in order to gain in some way, the act strikes us all as somehow inhuman. Beneath us as civilised beings. But however we cloak our animal instincts the need to remove a human being and gain relief from abuse or gain from money, the term is just the same – MURDER. Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, J M Barrie, W W Jacobs and many others bring their literary heft to bear in as calculating a way as any killer could.

Step back into the streets of Victorian London, as the case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce brings together a strange group of people, including Ada Clare and Richard Carstone who are at the heart of the legal battle, orphan Jo and Inspector Bucket. Oscar-winning actor Sir John Gielgud transports you to the criminal slums of the poor and the drawing rooms of the rich in Dickens’ riveting portrayal of a corrupt society.

Mr. Sampson ist Bürovorsteher einer Versicherungsgesellschaft in London. Schon bei ihrer ersten Begegnung im Kontor ist ihm Julius Slinkton unsympathisch, der für seinen Nachbarn Formulare für eine Lebensversicherung abholen will. Sampson kann nicht glauben, dass er sich in dem Scheitelträger so getäuscht haben soll. Er behält Slinkton im Auge.