El presagio del vampiro

Todos los cuentos reúne los más de 80 relatos cortos del padre de la novela negra estadounidense, Dashiell Hammett. Este tesoro literario cuenta con los ya clásicos personajes, Sam Spade y el Agente de la Continental , como protagonistas de la mayoría de los relatos.

La vida y la muerte en una carrera que de tan lenta parece precipitada, a través de la mirada de amigas tejiendo, como en un juego de cartas, su vida, sus amores, sus descubrimientos, sus miedos, guardando siempre un naipe de valor especial para el siguiente movimiento. De pronto, amistades que parecen graníticas se desmoronan entre seducciones y abandonos, romances forzados y odios gratuitos, secretos que todas saben o verdades a medias que todas intuyen, paternidades que de tan comunes son extrañas, junto con la presencia de Pau, como aguja y como grieta, tejiendo vínculos y también...

Nixon I'm a fighter. It's the only thing I've ever excelled at. Being the best takes more than skill and strength. Attitude and focus keeps me at the top of my game. No distractions are allowed. Not from a family that doesn't understand me. And especially not from some woman who walks into my gym and turns my whole damn world upside down. Brooklyn ​Nixon "Viper" Bennett is a cocky bastard who thinks he's God's gift to women and has the reputation to go with his inflated ego. He's also an amazing fighter and I'm in desperate need of his help. I have to learn to fight and quick. I will not...

In a house he is restoring, builder Don Lark meets a woman squatter who turns out to be a ghost. But Sylvie Delaney does not realize she is a ghost, thinking she is alive. Lark learns she was murdered and goes searching for the killer. As he sinks his teeth into his new project, Lark's new neighborhood starts to work its charms on him. He strikes up a romance with the real estate agent who sold him the house. His neighbors, two charming, chatty old ladies, ply him endlessly with delicious Southern cooking. Even Sylvie, the squatter Lark was once desperate to evict from the old house, is now...