Author: David Dickinson
Publisher: Soho Press
ISBN: 1616950854
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 307
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Three men are found with their throats cut, and all are connected in some way to an ancient City of London livery company, the Silkworkers. Lord Powerscourt has no shortage of suspects or suspicions. The first victim had shadowy links with the Secret Service. The second had wiped fifteen years out of his own past. The third, a man who collected women at church during Christmas Carol services, had been threatened by angry husbands and disinherited sons. All the victims had been opposed to the reorganization of the Silkworkers' finances and, interestingly, Sir Peregrine Fishborne, the head of the Silkworkers, was present just before each victim's death. Lord knows that the key to solving the mystery lies in the strange markings found on the bodies, which no coroners can identify. From the Hardcover edition.
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Category : Hygiene
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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Includes supplements.
Author: South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy
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Languages : en
Pages : 530
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Author: Rufus King
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1479405523
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
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In five short stories and one long novelette, Rufus King introduces Colin Starr, a young physician whose medical knowledge enables him to detect murder where a less able doctor would have signed a certificate of death from natural causes. Because of his shrewd understanding of human psychology as well as his application of scientific knowledge to seemingly unrelated facts, Dr. Starr is a unique detective in the annals of crime. Included in this volume are: The Case of the Three Baleful Brothers The Case of the Prodigal Bridegroom The Case of the Sudden Shot The Case of the Imperious Invalid The Case of the Buttoned Collar The Case of the Lonely Ladies Rufus King (1893-1966) was an American author of Whodunit crime novels. He created four series of detective stories, the most famous being Lieutenant Valcour. Modern critics are rediscovering Rufus King's work. Mike Grost, on Golden Age Detective, features a long writeup of King, stating: "King had a vivid writing style, with colorful characters, events, and images. He was clearly a born writer."
Author: Fatima Meer
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 100064300X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 235
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Originally published in 1976 Race and Suicide in South Africa synthesises the two dimensions of suicide: the personal and the social phenomenon. Its approach is Durkheimian in the use of court records, and phenomenological in the examination of actual cases. About 1500 cases of suicide in Durban from 1940-70 are analysed in terms of race, sex, occupation, marital status, economic status, family type and size, residential area, time and method used. What emerges is a revealing picture of suicide in South African ethnic groups. The findings confute the idea of Durkheim and others that behaviour in suicide conforms to certain universal principles and suggest the crucial role of particular social conditions in determining suicide trends, while at the same time challenging the proposition that a high suicide rate is associated with high status. Instead the author found that there were common emotional syndromes among suicides, but there were contributed to by different social factors.
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Category : Assassins
Languages : en
Pages : 62
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Category : Africa, Southern
Languages : en
Pages : 578
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Author: South Africa. Office of Census and Statistics
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Category : South Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 826
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Author: United States. Joint Publications Research Service
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Languages : en
Pages : 892
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Author: Fergus Hume
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752406283
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 206
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Reproduction of the original: The Black Patch by Fergus Hume
