Author: Sharon Sala
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 1408955628
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Cat Dupree would love nothing more than to settle down and build a life with fellow bounty hunter Wilson McKay.
Bad Penny Blues
Author: Cathi Unsworth
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 1913689158
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
A gripping crime novel inspired by the "Jack the Stripper" killings in 1960s London. Bad Penny Blues is the latest gripping crime fiction from Cathi Unsworth, London's undisputed queen of noir. Set in late 1950s and early 1960s London, it is loosely based on the West London "Jack the Stripper" killings that rocked the city. The narrative follows police officer Pete Bradley, who investigates the serial killings of a series of prostitutes, and, in a parallel story, Stella, part of the art and fashion worlds of 1960s "Swinging London," who is haunted by visions of the murdered women.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 1913689158
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
A gripping crime novel inspired by the "Jack the Stripper" killings in 1960s London. Bad Penny Blues is the latest gripping crime fiction from Cathi Unsworth, London's undisputed queen of noir. Set in late 1950s and early 1960s London, it is loosely based on the West London "Jack the Stripper" killings that rocked the city. The narrative follows police officer Pete Bradley, who investigates the serial killings of a series of prostitutes, and, in a parallel story, Stella, part of the art and fashion worlds of 1960s "Swinging London," who is haunted by visions of the murdered women.
Bad Penny (A Cat Dupree Novel, Book 3)
Author: Sharon Sala
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 1408955628
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Cat Dupree would love nothing more than to settle down and build a life with fellow bounty hunter Wilson McKay.
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 1408955628
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Cat Dupree would love nothing more than to settle down and build a life with fellow bounty hunter Wilson McKay.
A Bad Penny
Author: Pat McDonald
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN: 194826014X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
A bad penny always turns up, so the saying goes. A Bad Penny is the third book in a series by Pat McDonald. In her first book, A Penny for Them, Benjamin Matthews (nee Pollock), discovers after several startling revelations that he isn’t who he thought he was, which stops him from leaving with his wife and children for the United Arab Emirates. Determined to join them, Ben manages to escape the clutches of Sergeant Daphne Johnson, when in book two, The Penny Drops, he sneaks out of the UK to “live the dream” in the desert country’s opulent culture. Feeling sheer relief upon arrival, and lured by his new exotic surroundings and the mysteries of the desert, Ben sees no point in telling his wife who he really is. Believing him to be an orphan, she remains blissfully ignorant of both his families, until his two mothers show up together, complete with suitcases. This sparks the beginning of another inevitable run of bad luck for Ben. Just when things seem to be going okay, something always turns up to spoil it! In A Bad Penny, Ben’s easy escape to United Arab Emirates is short lived, when, like a bad penny, everyone turns up!
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
ISBN: 194826014X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
A bad penny always turns up, so the saying goes. A Bad Penny is the third book in a series by Pat McDonald. In her first book, A Penny for Them, Benjamin Matthews (nee Pollock), discovers after several startling revelations that he isn’t who he thought he was, which stops him from leaving with his wife and children for the United Arab Emirates. Determined to join them, Ben manages to escape the clutches of Sergeant Daphne Johnson, when in book two, The Penny Drops, he sneaks out of the UK to “live the dream” in the desert country’s opulent culture. Feeling sheer relief upon arrival, and lured by his new exotic surroundings and the mysteries of the desert, Ben sees no point in telling his wife who he really is. Believing him to be an orphan, she remains blissfully ignorant of both his families, until his two mothers show up together, complete with suitcases. This sparks the beginning of another inevitable run of bad luck for Ben. Just when things seem to be going okay, something always turns up to spoil it! In A Bad Penny, Ben’s easy escape to United Arab Emirates is short lived, when, like a bad penny, everyone turns up!
A Bad Penny
Author: John Tyler Wheelwright
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fathers and sons
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fathers and sons
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Bad Penny
Author: Sharon Sala
Publisher: MIRA
ISBN: 1426823657
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Cat Dupree would love nothing more than to settle down and build a life with fellow bounty hunter Wilson McKay. But Soloman Tutuola—the man who murdered her father and slashed her throat when she was thirteen—haunts her even from the grave. An investigator from Mexico is tracking down the person who is responsible for Tutuola's death—and the trail leads directly to Cat. To add to her bad luck, a junkie with a vendetta is stalking Wilson and is willing to kill anyone who gets in the way of his revenge. Desperate to start their future together, Cat and Wilson turn the manhunt around—vowing to do whatever it takes to find freedom from the past and the scars that have damaged them both.
Publisher: MIRA
ISBN: 1426823657
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Cat Dupree would love nothing more than to settle down and build a life with fellow bounty hunter Wilson McKay. But Soloman Tutuola—the man who murdered her father and slashed her throat when she was thirteen—haunts her even from the grave. An investigator from Mexico is tracking down the person who is responsible for Tutuola's death—and the trail leads directly to Cat. To add to her bad luck, a junkie with a vendetta is stalking Wilson and is willing to kill anyone who gets in the way of his revenge. Desperate to start their future together, Cat and Wilson turn the manhunt around—vowing to do whatever it takes to find freedom from the past and the scars that have damaged them both.
The Bad Penny
Author: Susan Fox
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780263793536
Category : Ranch life
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780263793536
Category : Ranch life
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
The Bad Penny
Author: Katie Flynn
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 144641082X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
One wild night midwife Patty Peel is called to attend a birth on the opposite side of Liverpool. She pedals off into the storm and delivers a baby girl in a filthy slum dwelling, just as the mother dies. The drunk and violent father tells Patty to get rid of it, so she takes the child away, meaning to deliver it to the nearest orphanage. But Patty had spent her entire childhood in an institution and cannot bear to hand the baby over. However, there are rough waters ahead. Patty has few friends, and fears and despises men, including her next door neighbour, Darky Knight, so how can she hope to bring up the child alone? She has no idea how the baby will affect the attitude of those around her, nor how her life will change as a result... The Bad Penny is a heartwarming tale of love and courage in hard times from the hugely popular storyteller Katie Flynn.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 144641082X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
One wild night midwife Patty Peel is called to attend a birth on the opposite side of Liverpool. She pedals off into the storm and delivers a baby girl in a filthy slum dwelling, just as the mother dies. The drunk and violent father tells Patty to get rid of it, so she takes the child away, meaning to deliver it to the nearest orphanage. But Patty had spent her entire childhood in an institution and cannot bear to hand the baby over. However, there are rough waters ahead. Patty has few friends, and fears and despises men, including her next door neighbour, Darky Knight, so how can she hope to bring up the child alone? She has no idea how the baby will affect the attitude of those around her, nor how her life will change as a result... The Bad Penny is a heartwarming tale of love and courage in hard times from the hugely popular storyteller Katie Flynn.
A Bad Penny
Author: John Tyler Wheelwright
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Bad Penny at Bow Bridge
Author: Mac Wellman
Publisher: Sun and Moon Press
ISBN: 9781557131164
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Publisher: Sun and Moon Press
ISBN: 9781557131164
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
A Dictionary of Confusable Phrases
Author: Yuri Dolgopolov
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786459956
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Covering over 10,000 idioms and collocations characterized by similarity in their wording or metaphorical idea which do not show corresponding similarity in their meanings, this dictionary presents a unique cross-section of the English language. Though it is designed specifically to assist readers in avoiding the use of inappropriate or erroneous phrases, the book can also be used as a regular phraseological dictionary providing definitions to individual idioms, cliches, and set expressions. Most phrases included in the dictionary are in active current use, making information about their meanings and usage essential to language learners at all levels of proficiency.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786459956
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Covering over 10,000 idioms and collocations characterized by similarity in their wording or metaphorical idea which do not show corresponding similarity in their meanings, this dictionary presents a unique cross-section of the English language. Though it is designed specifically to assist readers in avoiding the use of inappropriate or erroneous phrases, the book can also be used as a regular phraseological dictionary providing definitions to individual idioms, cliches, and set expressions. Most phrases included in the dictionary are in active current use, making information about their meanings and usage essential to language learners at all levels of proficiency.