El oasis secreto

El cómico, casi ridículo, aspecto de Hércules Poirot hacía variar la idea que se había hecho de él. ¿Sería capaz de realizar las maravillas que se le atribuían con aquella cabeza de huevo y aquellos enormes y engominados bigotes? Estos ocho casos prueban que sí.

The #1 New York Times bestselling author returns to the world of Mistborn with his first novel in the series since The Alloy of Law. With The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson surprised readers with a New York Times bestselling spinoff of his Mistborn books, set after the action of the trilogy, in a period corresponding to late 19th-century America. The trilogy's heroes are now figures of myth and legend, even objects of religious veneration. They are succeeded by wonderful new characters, chief among them Waxillium Ladrian, known as Wax, hereditary Lord of House Ladrian but also, until...

A scientist Professor, interested in the laws of heredity, impregnates a prostitute in a laboratory with the semen of a hanged murderer. The prostitute conceives a child who has no concept of love, whom the professor adopts. The girl Alraune suffers from obsessive sexuality and perverse relationships throughout her life. She learns of her unnatural origins and she revenges herself against the scientist, her "father."

Pedro Velázquez es un profesor de arqueología en horas bajas: no tiene vida social ni familiar y acaba de divorciarse. Su mayor enemigo le obliga a un traslado a Jerusalén. Desanimado y hundido, Pedro cree haber tocado fondo. Daniela, su hija, acude en su rescate. Juntos en Jerusalén sobreviven a un atentado que desemboca en un descubrimiento arqueológico de primera magnitud.