Author: Michael Pearce
Publisher: Soho Press
ISBN: 1569475377
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
The fifth exciting crime novel in Michael Pearce's Dead Man series.
A Dead Man in Barcelona
Author: Michael Pearce
Publisher: Soho Press
ISBN: 1569475377
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
The fifth exciting crime novel in Michael Pearce's Dead Man series.
Publisher: Soho Press
ISBN: 1569475377
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
The fifth exciting crime novel in Michael Pearce's Dead Man series.
Dead Man in Naples
Author: Michael Pearce
Publisher: Soho Press
ISBN: 1569476918
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
Lionel Scampion, British consul in Naples, has been stabbed to death while bicycling through the piazza of the Porta Carmine. According to his sister, he had no enemies. The Neapolitan police suggest he was murdered by a bicycle-racing rival. In Naples, every mystery is attributed to the Camorra, a powerful criminal society; could its members be involved? Scampion enthusiastically backed the Italian invasion of Libya and befriended army officers of the newly formed Italian Bicycle Brigade. Now the Foreign Office in London has heard that international politics emanating from Rome might have been involved. Seymour of the Special Branch is sent to find out the motive for the murder and, incidentally, to identify the culprit. From the Hardcover edition.
Publisher: Soho Press
ISBN: 1569476918
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
Lionel Scampion, British consul in Naples, has been stabbed to death while bicycling through the piazza of the Porta Carmine. According to his sister, he had no enemies. The Neapolitan police suggest he was murdered by a bicycle-racing rival. In Naples, every mystery is attributed to the Camorra, a powerful criminal society; could its members be involved? Scampion enthusiastically backed the Italian invasion of Libya and befriended army officers of the newly formed Italian Bicycle Brigade. Now the Foreign Office in London has heard that international politics emanating from Rome might have been involved. Seymour of the Special Branch is sent to find out the motive for the murder and, incidentally, to identify the culprit. From the Hardcover edition.
Sequels
Author: Janet G. Husband
Publisher: American Library Association
ISBN: 0838909671
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 793
Book Description
A guide to series fiction lists popular series, identifies novels by character, and offers guidance on the order in which to read unnumbered series.
Publisher: American Library Association
ISBN: 0838909671
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 793
Book Description
A guide to series fiction lists popular series, identifies novels by character, and offers guidance on the order in which to read unnumbered series.
A Dead Man in Malta
Author: Michael Pearce
Publisher: Soho Press
ISBN: 1569478791
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Malta, 1913, and hot air balloons hover over the Grand Harbor. But one of them falls from the sky, the balloonist dying later from his injuries. He is not the only one to die unexpectedly at the Naval Hopspital, however, as a letter to The Times points out. Special Investigator Seymour of the Foreign Office is sent out from London to uncover the truth. Malta is still a British protectorate; indeed, with its red post boxes, English beer and English language, it seems like an exotic "Little Britain." But as the rumblings of war reach the small island, many of the old Maltese families are becoming divided in their loyalties, as some start to question Malta's subordinate status and wonder whether the time has come to strike out an independent path for themselves. The letter to The Times has touched a raw nerve, as Seymour soon finds out: is it simply a critique of bad nursing practices? Or is there a different, more sinister explanation to these sudden deaths?
Publisher: Soho Press
ISBN: 1569478791
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Malta, 1913, and hot air balloons hover over the Grand Harbor. But one of them falls from the sky, the balloonist dying later from his injuries. He is not the only one to die unexpectedly at the Naval Hopspital, however, as a letter to The Times points out. Special Investigator Seymour of the Foreign Office is sent out from London to uncover the truth. Malta is still a British protectorate; indeed, with its red post boxes, English beer and English language, it seems like an exotic "Little Britain." But as the rumblings of war reach the small island, many of the old Maltese families are becoming divided in their loyalties, as some start to question Malta's subordinate status and wonder whether the time has come to strike out an independent path for themselves. The letter to The Times has touched a raw nerve, as Seymour soon finds out: is it simply a critique of bad nursing practices? Or is there a different, more sinister explanation to these sudden deaths?
Reading on Location
Author: Luisa Moncada
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN: 1607652455
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
From the charming city of Bath, featured in Jane Austen's Persuasion, to the Amazon of Mario Vargas Llosa's La Casa Verde, this unique travel guide brings you to the places you've only read about. Whether you want to learn more about a destination or follow in the footsteps of a favorite character, Reading on Location helps you make the most of your trip.
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN: 1607652455
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
From the charming city of Bath, featured in Jane Austen's Persuasion, to the Amazon of Mario Vargas Llosa's La Casa Verde, this unique travel guide brings you to the places you've only read about. Whether you want to learn more about a destination or follow in the footsteps of a favorite character, Reading on Location helps you make the most of your trip.
Last Evenings on Earth
Author: Roberto Bolaño
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811216883
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Stories of the "failed generation" set in the Chilean exile diaspora of Latin America and Europe.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811216883
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Stories of the "failed generation" set in the Chilean exile diaspora of Latin America and Europe.
The Shadow of the Wind
Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101147067
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
The New York Times bestseller “The Shadow of the Wind is ultimately a love letter to literature, intended for readers as passionate about storytelling as its young hero.” —Entertainment Weekly (Editor's Choice) “One gorgeous read.” —Stephen King Barcelona, 1945: A city slowly heals in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, and Daniel, an antiquarian book dealer’s son who mourns the loss of his mother, finds solace in a mysterious book entitled The Shadow of the Wind, by one Julián Carax. But when he sets out to find the author’s other works, he makes a shocking discovery: someone has been systematically destroying every copy of every book Carax has written. In fact, Daniel may have the last of Carax’s books in existence. Soon Daniel’s seemingly innocent quest opens a door into one of Barcelona’s darkest secrets--an epic story of murder, madness, and doomed love.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101147067
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
The New York Times bestseller “The Shadow of the Wind is ultimately a love letter to literature, intended for readers as passionate about storytelling as its young hero.” —Entertainment Weekly (Editor's Choice) “One gorgeous read.” —Stephen King Barcelona, 1945: A city slowly heals in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, and Daniel, an antiquarian book dealer’s son who mourns the loss of his mother, finds solace in a mysterious book entitled The Shadow of the Wind, by one Julián Carax. But when he sets out to find the author’s other works, he makes a shocking discovery: someone has been systematically destroying every copy of every book Carax has written. In fact, Daniel may have the last of Carax’s books in existence. Soon Daniel’s seemingly innocent quest opens a door into one of Barcelona’s darkest secrets--an epic story of murder, madness, and doomed love.
An Olympic Death
Author: Manuel Vazquez Montalban
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
ISBN: 9781846686726
Category : Carvalho, José (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
As Barcelona prepares for the Games, the city is turned over to make way for new roads, a new stadium and the giant prawns of Mariscal. Private Investigator Pepe Carvalho - who remembers the good old days when a hammer always came with a sickle - now finds himself forced to work for Olympic entrepreneurs whose only game plan is to make a fast buck. As Montalbán's overweight hero cruises the backstreets of the Barcelona dream, finding dead bodies and broken socialist promises, he remembers an older, seedier Barcelona hidden behind the shiny new Olympic City. Like his beloved city, Carvalho is forced to confront the sins of the past.
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
ISBN: 9781846686726
Category : Carvalho, José (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
As Barcelona prepares for the Games, the city is turned over to make way for new roads, a new stadium and the giant prawns of Mariscal. Private Investigator Pepe Carvalho - who remembers the good old days when a hammer always came with a sickle - now finds himself forced to work for Olympic entrepreneurs whose only game plan is to make a fast buck. As Montalbán's overweight hero cruises the backstreets of the Barcelona dream, finding dead bodies and broken socialist promises, he remembers an older, seedier Barcelona hidden behind the shiny new Olympic City. Like his beloved city, Carvalho is forced to confront the sins of the past.
Bacchus
Author: Esteban Navarro Soriano
Publisher: Babelcube Inc.
ISBN: 1667472534
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
A businessman from Barcelona is murdered in the town of Canfranc, near the French border, with a gunshot to the head. The police arrest an immigrant from Somalia, who is caught with the gun inside the house. The corpse has a wine glass with the word "Bacchus" tattooed on its abdomen. Drago, the public defender, who is called to defend the Somali, suspects that the accused is innocent and that in reality he has been framed for the crime. And, drawing on his experience as an ex-cop, he embarks on an adventure through Barcelona, trying to find out who was the man who was murdered and why someone would want to kill him. In the first inquiries he discovers that since 2016, every year, without fail, someone dies with a tattoo identical to the one on the man from Canfranc. And, in every case, an immigrant has always been arrested as the perpetrator of the crime
Publisher: Babelcube Inc.
ISBN: 1667472534
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
A businessman from Barcelona is murdered in the town of Canfranc, near the French border, with a gunshot to the head. The police arrest an immigrant from Somalia, who is caught with the gun inside the house. The corpse has a wine glass with the word "Bacchus" tattooed on its abdomen. Drago, the public defender, who is called to defend the Somali, suspects that the accused is innocent and that in reality he has been framed for the crime. And, drawing on his experience as an ex-cop, he embarks on an adventure through Barcelona, trying to find out who was the man who was murdered and why someone would want to kill him. In the first inquiries he discovers that since 2016, every year, without fail, someone dies with a tattoo identical to the one on the man from Canfranc. And, in every case, an immigrant has always been arrested as the perpetrator of the crime
Directions to the Beach of the Dead
Author: Richard Blanco
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816524792
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
In his second book of narrative, lyric poetry, Richard Blanco explores the familiar, unsettling journey for home and connections, those anxious musings about other lives: ÒShould I live here? Could I live here?Ó Whether the exotic (ÒIÕm struck with Maltese fever ÉI dream of buying a little Maltese farmÉ) or merely different (ÒToday, home is a cottage with morning in the yawn of an open windowÉÓ), he examines the restlessness that threatens from merely staying put, the fear of too many places and too little time. The words are redolent with his Cuban heritage: Marina making mole sauce; T’a Ida bitter over the revolution, missing the sisters who fled to Miami; his father, especially, Òhis hair once as black as the black of his oxfordsÉÓ Yet this is a volume for all who have longed for enveloping arms and words, and for that sanctuary called home. ÒSo much of my life spent like this-suspended, moving toward unknown places and names or returning to those I know, corresponding with the paradox of crossing, being nowhere yet here.Ó Blanco embraces juxtaposition. There is the Cuban Blanco, the American Richard, the engineer by day, the poet by heart, the rhythms of Spanish, the percussion of English, the first-world professional, the immigrant, the gay man, the straight world. There is the ennui behind the question: why cannot I not just live where I live? Too, there is the precious, fleeting relief when he can write "ÉI am, for a moment, not afraid of being no more than what I hear and see, no more than this:..." It is what we all hope for, too.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816524792
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
In his second book of narrative, lyric poetry, Richard Blanco explores the familiar, unsettling journey for home and connections, those anxious musings about other lives: ÒShould I live here? Could I live here?Ó Whether the exotic (ÒIÕm struck with Maltese fever ÉI dream of buying a little Maltese farmÉ) or merely different (ÒToday, home is a cottage with morning in the yawn of an open windowÉÓ), he examines the restlessness that threatens from merely staying put, the fear of too many places and too little time. The words are redolent with his Cuban heritage: Marina making mole sauce; T’a Ida bitter over the revolution, missing the sisters who fled to Miami; his father, especially, Òhis hair once as black as the black of his oxfordsÉÓ Yet this is a volume for all who have longed for enveloping arms and words, and for that sanctuary called home. ÒSo much of my life spent like this-suspended, moving toward unknown places and names or returning to those I know, corresponding with the paradox of crossing, being nowhere yet here.Ó Blanco embraces juxtaposition. There is the Cuban Blanco, the American Richard, the engineer by day, the poet by heart, the rhythms of Spanish, the percussion of English, the first-world professional, the immigrant, the gay man, the straight world. There is the ennui behind the question: why cannot I not just live where I live? Too, there is the precious, fleeting relief when he can write "ÉI am, for a moment, not afraid of being no more than what I hear and see, no more than this:..." It is what we all hope for, too.