Author: Allan Massie
Publisher: Quartet Books (UK)
ISBN: 9780704373280
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Winter, 1942-43. The war is turning against Germany on the Eastern Front. The Americans land in North Africa. Meanwhile in Bordeaux, Superintendent Lannes investigates the murder of a woman.
Cold Winter in Bordeaux
End Games in Bordeaux
Author: Allan Massie
Publisher: Quartet Books (UK)
ISBN: 9780704373761
Category : Bordeaux (Aquitaine, France)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In the early summer of 1944, France is in turmoil. The Allied invasion, bringing the promise of Liberation, is awaited, eagerly and nervously. The Vichy regime is in its death throes. Those who have served it and collaborated with the German Occupation fear the revenge of the Resistance. Atrocities are committed on both sides, and justice is blind. Superintendent Lannes, suspended from duty by order of the Boches, searches unofficially for a missing girl, and investigates cases of historic sex abuse. His marriage is experiencing difficulties and he worries about his sons, one with the Free French, the other in Vichy. The narrative of this tense economical novel switches between Lannes in Bordeaux and the young characters met in the first three books of this Vichy Quartet, now caught up in the terrible drama of these months in France, London and on the Eastern Front. The fourth and final chapter of the 'Bordeaux' novels, Allan Massie's acclaimed crime series featuring Superintendent Lannes
Publisher: Quartet Books (UK)
ISBN: 9780704373761
Category : Bordeaux (Aquitaine, France)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In the early summer of 1944, France is in turmoil. The Allied invasion, bringing the promise of Liberation, is awaited, eagerly and nervously. The Vichy regime is in its death throes. Those who have served it and collaborated with the German Occupation fear the revenge of the Resistance. Atrocities are committed on both sides, and justice is blind. Superintendent Lannes, suspended from duty by order of the Boches, searches unofficially for a missing girl, and investigates cases of historic sex abuse. His marriage is experiencing difficulties and he worries about his sons, one with the Free French, the other in Vichy. The narrative of this tense economical novel switches between Lannes in Bordeaux and the young characters met in the first three books of this Vichy Quartet, now caught up in the terrible drama of these months in France, London and on the Eastern Front. The fourth and final chapter of the 'Bordeaux' novels, Allan Massie's acclaimed crime series featuring Superintendent Lannes
Death in Bordeaux
Author: Allan Massie
Publisher: Quartet Books (UK)
ISBN: 9780704371903
Category : Bordeaux (Aquitaine, France)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In the spring of 1940, the mutilated body of a homosexual is discovered in a street near the Bordeaux railway station. It looks like a straight-forward sex crime, but when Superintendent Lannes is warned off the investigation, his suspicion that there is a political motive for the murder seems justified. In defiance of authority, he continues working on the case. And then another body is found...Meanwhile, the Superintendent has other troubles. His eldest son, Dominique, is at the Front, his wife, Marguerite, is depressed, and when the Battle of France breaks out, Bordeaux is filled with refugees fleeing the war. Suddenly civilian crime seems of little importance compared to the chaos that ensues. As Bordeaux becomes an occupied city, Lannes' chief suspect is untouchable, protected by a relative in the Vichy government. Lannes himself is threatened with blackmail on account of his Jewish friends and Dominique is taken prisoner. Common sense should make Lannes abandon the investigation, but honour and a natural obstinacy lead him to pursue it. However, as events turn increasingly bleak, Lannes begins to doubt it can ever be solved...
Publisher: Quartet Books (UK)
ISBN: 9780704371903
Category : Bordeaux (Aquitaine, France)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In the spring of 1940, the mutilated body of a homosexual is discovered in a street near the Bordeaux railway station. It looks like a straight-forward sex crime, but when Superintendent Lannes is warned off the investigation, his suspicion that there is a political motive for the murder seems justified. In defiance of authority, he continues working on the case. And then another body is found...Meanwhile, the Superintendent has other troubles. His eldest son, Dominique, is at the Front, his wife, Marguerite, is depressed, and when the Battle of France breaks out, Bordeaux is filled with refugees fleeing the war. Suddenly civilian crime seems of little importance compared to the chaos that ensues. As Bordeaux becomes an occupied city, Lannes' chief suspect is untouchable, protected by a relative in the Vichy government. Lannes himself is threatened with blackmail on account of his Jewish friends and Dominique is taken prisoner. Common sense should make Lannes abandon the investigation, but honour and a natural obstinacy lead him to pursue it. However, as events turn increasingly bleak, Lannes begins to doubt it can ever be solved...
Bulletin
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1240
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1240
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New Knowledge
Author: Frederick Blackmar Mumford
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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Report
Author: University of Missouri--Columbia. Agricultural Experiment Station
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Category : Agricultural experiment stations
Languages : en
Pages : 588
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Category : Agricultural experiment stations
Languages : en
Pages : 588
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Annual Report of the Department of Agriculture and Food
Author: Ontario. Dept. of Agriculture and Food
Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
Consists of individuals reports of each of the branches of the department.
Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
Consists of individuals reports of each of the branches of the department.
Annual Report
Author: Ontario. Dept. of Agriculture and Food
Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 686
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 686
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Annual Report of the Department of Agriculture, for the Province of Ontario
Author: Ontario. Department of Agriculture
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Consists of separately paged reports of bodies related to the Dept.
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Consists of separately paged reports of bodies related to the Dept.
Sessional Papers
Author: Ontario. Legislative Assembly
Publisher:
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Category : Ontario
Languages : en
Pages : 1468
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Category : Ontario
Languages : en
Pages : 1468
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