Author: Robert Barnard
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476737282
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Death returns to a Yorkshire village when a museum opens on the site of an unexplained murder/suicide where a renowned author killed his sister with an ax and shot himself.
A Hovering of Vultures
Author: Robert Barnard
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476737282
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Death returns to a Yorkshire village when a museum opens on the site of an unexplained murder/suicide where a renowned author killed his sister with an ax and shot himself.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476737282
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Death returns to a Yorkshire village when a museum opens on the site of an unexplained murder/suicide where a renowned author killed his sister with an ax and shot himself.
Vulture View
Author: April Pulley Sayre
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805075571
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Introduces young readers to the world of the turkey vulture.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805075571
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Introduces young readers to the world of the turkey vulture.
Death of a Mystery Writer
Author: Robert Barnard
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476737266
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
From award-winning mystery writer Robert Barnard comes a classic British whodunit about a bestselling author who is murdered—and his latest unpublished manuscript has gone missing. Sir Oliver Fairleigh-Stubbs, overweight and overbearing, collapses and dies at his birthday party while indulging his taste for rare liquors. He had promised his daughter he would be polite and charitable for the entire day, but the strain of such exemplary behavior was obviously too great. He leaves a family relieved to be rid of him, and he also leaves a fortune, earned as a bestselling mystery author. But the manuscript of the unpublished volume left to Sir Oliver’s wife, a posthumous “last case” that might be worth millions, has disappeared. And Sir Oliver’s death is beginning to look less than natural.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476737266
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
From award-winning mystery writer Robert Barnard comes a classic British whodunit about a bestselling author who is murdered—and his latest unpublished manuscript has gone missing. Sir Oliver Fairleigh-Stubbs, overweight and overbearing, collapses and dies at his birthday party while indulging his taste for rare liquors. He had promised his daughter he would be polite and charitable for the entire day, but the strain of such exemplary behavior was obviously too great. He leaves a family relieved to be rid of him, and he also leaves a fortune, earned as a bestselling mystery author. But the manuscript of the unpublished volume left to Sir Oliver’s wife, a posthumous “last case” that might be worth millions, has disappeared. And Sir Oliver’s death is beginning to look less than natural.
Death and the Chaste Apprentice
Author: Robert Barnard
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1447239601
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
The Ketterick Festival revolves around the Saracen’s Head, a Jacobean inn with its inn-yard and balconies miraculously preserved intact, due to the sloth of successive landlords. Here in festival time are performed the lesser-known masterpieces of Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre. This year it is The Chaste Apprentice of Bowe (a play of uncertain authorship, since no one owned up at the time). But the actors find that the Saracen’s Head has been transformed by its new landlord – an Australian know-all with an insatiable curiosity and an instinct for power. The loathsome Des’s activities bring him into conflict with actors, committee, even the performers of Adelaide di Birckenhead, the little-known Donizetti opera that is the other lynchpin of the Festival programme. So adept is Des at fomenting friction and ferreting in the undergrowth of private lives that it is not surprising that it all ends in biers. Barnard’s festive romp spares no one in the arts world, and even suggests a solution to a long-felt operatic want, showing once again why he has been called ‘a specialist in snide japery’ (Time Magazine), whose mysteries are ‘among the best’ (New York Times).
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1447239601
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
The Ketterick Festival revolves around the Saracen’s Head, a Jacobean inn with its inn-yard and balconies miraculously preserved intact, due to the sloth of successive landlords. Here in festival time are performed the lesser-known masterpieces of Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre. This year it is The Chaste Apprentice of Bowe (a play of uncertain authorship, since no one owned up at the time). But the actors find that the Saracen’s Head has been transformed by its new landlord – an Australian know-all with an insatiable curiosity and an instinct for power. The loathsome Des’s activities bring him into conflict with actors, committee, even the performers of Adelaide di Birckenhead, the little-known Donizetti opera that is the other lynchpin of the Festival programme. So adept is Des at fomenting friction and ferreting in the undergrowth of private lives that it is not surprising that it all ends in biers. Barnard’s festive romp spares no one in the arts world, and even suggests a solution to a long-felt operatic want, showing once again why he has been called ‘a specialist in snide japery’ (Time Magazine), whose mysteries are ‘among the best’ (New York Times).
The Vulture Project
Author: Frank E Darrow
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595398316
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
The Vulture Project is a fast paced bio-medical thriller that will keep you turning the pages as Trish Morgan, a bio-chemist working for the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) becomes entangled in a sinister plot of greed, corruption, and murder as she investigates the mysterious disappearance of Dr. Calvin Wright, her best friend's husband who has been working undercover on a highly classified experiment for an unscrupulous pharmaceutical company called Bio-Med as she risks her own life following the clues left behind by Calvin. Time is running out for Trish as she tries to figure out what sinister force has been unleased on the small Colorado resort town of Mt. Wellingtion.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595398316
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
The Vulture Project is a fast paced bio-medical thriller that will keep you turning the pages as Trish Morgan, a bio-chemist working for the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) becomes entangled in a sinister plot of greed, corruption, and murder as she investigates the mysterious disappearance of Dr. Calvin Wright, her best friend's husband who has been working undercover on a highly classified experiment for an unscrupulous pharmaceutical company called Bio-Med as she risks her own life following the clues left behind by Calvin. Time is running out for Trish as she tries to figure out what sinister force has been unleased on the small Colorado resort town of Mt. Wellingtion.
Animals in Flight
Author: Robin Page
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547349149
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Wings carry tiny insects, fluttering butterflies, and backyard birds, and they even once propelled some dinosaurs up and through the skies. Find out how, when, and why birds and beasts have taken to the air, and discover how wings work in this informative and brilliantly illustrated book about flight.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547349149
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Wings carry tiny insects, fluttering butterflies, and backyard birds, and they even once propelled some dinosaurs up and through the skies. Find out how, when, and why birds and beasts have taken to the air, and discover how wings work in this informative and brilliantly illustrated book about flight.
A Sechuana Reader
Author: Daniel Jones
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tswana language
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tswana language
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Churchill's Bestiary
Author: Piers Brendon
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books
ISBN: 1789290511
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
In this fascinating and unique biography, Dr Piers Brendon looks deeper into Churchill's love of the animal kingdom, and at how animals played such a large part in his everyday life.
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books
ISBN: 1789290511
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
In this fascinating and unique biography, Dr Piers Brendon looks deeper into Churchill's love of the animal kingdom, and at how animals played such a large part in his everyday life.
No Place of Safety
Author: Robert Barnard
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439168067
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
Fifteen-year-old Katy Bourne and sixteen-year-old Alan Coughlan are missing. Though they are students at the same school, they hardly know each other, so it's strange that they should disappear together. Katy's mother, self-centered and unloving, doesn't mind if her daughter never comes home. Alan's solid working-class parents are pained and puzzled by their son's departure. There's not much the police can do about runaway teenagers, but Detective Constable Charlie Peace goes through the motions. He interviews the families, he visits the school. Alan had friends and had aspired to a good education. Katy had nothing, least of all self-esteem. The two teens could be anywhere, even living dangerously on the streets of Leeds, so it's with relief that Charlie discovers them in a hostel for homeless young people. But are they safe? And who is Ben Marchant, the man who runs the shelter? Whoever he is, he seems to be doing well. Young people beg or work as street musicians during the day, then eat and sleep at the hostel at night. They can remain there two weeks and then must leave for two weeks before beginning the cycle again. Only Katy and Alan stay longer. Only they have a special, mysterious understanding with Ben. But all is not well at the shelter. Neighbors complain about strange goings-on. Residents too often display feelings of jealousy and suspicion. A young woman flees from a violent family member, perhaps bringing danger with her. Emotions run high, ranging from love and gratitude to fear and hate. One person may even hate enough to murder. One person's hate may destroy this place that some regard as a haven of peace and safety and others fear as something more complex and diabolical. No Place of Safety combines brilliant social commentary with a mesmerizing mystery plot that will once again enthrall Robert Barnard's legion of fans. Recognized as one of the best of all contemporary crime writers, Barnard is in top form.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439168067
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
Fifteen-year-old Katy Bourne and sixteen-year-old Alan Coughlan are missing. Though they are students at the same school, they hardly know each other, so it's strange that they should disappear together. Katy's mother, self-centered and unloving, doesn't mind if her daughter never comes home. Alan's solid working-class parents are pained and puzzled by their son's departure. There's not much the police can do about runaway teenagers, but Detective Constable Charlie Peace goes through the motions. He interviews the families, he visits the school. Alan had friends and had aspired to a good education. Katy had nothing, least of all self-esteem. The two teens could be anywhere, even living dangerously on the streets of Leeds, so it's with relief that Charlie discovers them in a hostel for homeless young people. But are they safe? And who is Ben Marchant, the man who runs the shelter? Whoever he is, he seems to be doing well. Young people beg or work as street musicians during the day, then eat and sleep at the hostel at night. They can remain there two weeks and then must leave for two weeks before beginning the cycle again. Only Katy and Alan stay longer. Only they have a special, mysterious understanding with Ben. But all is not well at the shelter. Neighbors complain about strange goings-on. Residents too often display feelings of jealousy and suspicion. A young woman flees from a violent family member, perhaps bringing danger with her. Emotions run high, ranging from love and gratitude to fear and hate. One person may even hate enough to murder. One person's hate may destroy this place that some regard as a haven of peace and safety and others fear as something more complex and diabolical. No Place of Safety combines brilliant social commentary with a mesmerizing mystery plot that will once again enthrall Robert Barnard's legion of fans. Recognized as one of the best of all contemporary crime writers, Barnard is in top form.
The Strange Story of Ahrinziman
Author: Anita Silvani
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ahrinziman (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ahrinziman (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description