Author: Jennet Conant
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743294599
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Following her bestselling accounts of the most guarded secrets of the Second World War, Conant offers a rollicking true story of spies, politicians, journalists, and intrigue in the highest circles of Washington during the tumultuous days of World War II.
The Irregulars
Author: Jennet Conant
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743294599
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Following her bestselling accounts of the most guarded secrets of the Second World War, Conant offers a rollicking true story of spies, politicians, journalists, and intrigue in the highest circles of Washington during the tumultuous days of World War II.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743294599
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Following her bestselling accounts of the most guarded secrets of the Second World War, Conant offers a rollicking true story of spies, politicians, journalists, and intrigue in the highest circles of Washington during the tumultuous days of World War II.
The North Avenue Irregulars
Author: Albert Fay Hill
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crime prevention
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crime prevention
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The Irregulars - A Complete Collection of the Baker Street Irregulars Stories
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1528792637
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
This volume contains the collected stories of the Baker Street Irregulars, a group of London street urchins who are hired by the great detective Sherlock Holmes to help him with his investigations. Famed for being able to hear all the street has to tell and described by Holmes as "The Baker Street division of the detective police force", the boys are led by their leader, Wiggins to collect vital information from the Victorian underbelly of London. Contents include: 'A Study in Scarlet' (1887), The Sign of Four' (1890), and 'The Crooked Man' (1893). A must read for anyone who is a fan of Doyle's famous detective novels or the BBC series 'The Irregulars'. Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) was a British writer, famous for his character 'Sherlock Holmes'. Whilst studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh, Doyle began writing short stories, and his first piece was published before he was 20. In 1887, Conan Doyle's first significant work, 'A Study in Scarlet', appeared in Beeton's Christmas Annual. It featured the first appearance of the detective Sherlock Holmes. A prolific writer, Conan Doyle continued to produce a range of fictional works over the following years and is still being referenced today.
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1528792637
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
This volume contains the collected stories of the Baker Street Irregulars, a group of London street urchins who are hired by the great detective Sherlock Holmes to help him with his investigations. Famed for being able to hear all the street has to tell and described by Holmes as "The Baker Street division of the detective police force", the boys are led by their leader, Wiggins to collect vital information from the Victorian underbelly of London. Contents include: 'A Study in Scarlet' (1887), The Sign of Four' (1890), and 'The Crooked Man' (1893). A must read for anyone who is a fan of Doyle's famous detective novels or the BBC series 'The Irregulars'. Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) was a British writer, famous for his character 'Sherlock Holmes'. Whilst studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh, Doyle began writing short stories, and his first piece was published before he was 20. In 1887, Conan Doyle's first significant work, 'A Study in Scarlet', appeared in Beeton's Christmas Annual. It featured the first appearance of the detective Sherlock Holmes. A prolific writer, Conan Doyle continued to produce a range of fictional works over the following years and is still being referenced today.
The Case of the Baker Street Irregular
Author: Robert Newman
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1497685966
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
A mysterious, broken-nosed cabby, a beautiful actress, and a villainous art heist have one thing in common—but the only one man who knows what it is has methods that are a little, shall we say . . . irregular Late Victorian London: home to gas streetlights, bands of ragged urchins, and now, young Andrew Craigie, who recently arrived from a tiny Cornwall village with his stern guardian, Mr. Dennison. At first the city feels dark and unwelcoming, but just around the corner is bustling Baker Street, where Andrew meets his first friend, Sara. Before long, London becomes downright interesting. But things get a little too exciting one night when Mr. Dennison doesn’t come home, and suddenly Andrew is on his own. Whom can he turn to in a strange city? Frantic, he goes to the tall, pipe-smoking, hat-wearing man at 221B, a man who Sara says is a famous detective—a man named Mr. Holmes.
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1497685966
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
A mysterious, broken-nosed cabby, a beautiful actress, and a villainous art heist have one thing in common—but the only one man who knows what it is has methods that are a little, shall we say . . . irregular Late Victorian London: home to gas streetlights, bands of ragged urchins, and now, young Andrew Craigie, who recently arrived from a tiny Cornwall village with his stern guardian, Mr. Dennison. At first the city feels dark and unwelcoming, but just around the corner is bustling Baker Street, where Andrew meets his first friend, Sara. Before long, London becomes downright interesting. But things get a little too exciting one night when Mr. Dennison doesn’t come home, and suddenly Andrew is on his own. Whom can he turn to in a strange city? Frantic, he goes to the tall, pipe-smoking, hat-wearing man at 221B, a man who Sara says is a famous detective—a man named Mr. Holmes.
The Final Meeting
Author: Tracy Mack
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0439836727
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Sherlock Holmes forms a complex plan to take apart the criminal network of Professor Moriarty, and as the Baker Street Irregulars follows Holmes across Europe in an attempt to lend assistance, Moriarty's henchmen try to remove the Irregulars from the
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0439836727
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Sherlock Holmes forms a complex plan to take apart the criminal network of Professor Moriarty, and as the Baker Street Irregulars follows Holmes across Europe in an attempt to lend assistance, Moriarty's henchmen try to remove the Irregulars from the
Highly Irregular
Author: Arika Okrent
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197539408
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
"Perhaps you're reading a book and stop to puzzle over absurd spelling rules, or you hear someone talking and get stuck on an expression, or your kid quizzes you on homework. Suddenly you ask yourself, "Wait, why do we do it this way?" You think about it, try to explain it, and keep running into walls. It doesn't conform to logic. It doesn't work the way you'd expect it to. There doesn't seem to be any rule at all. In Highly Irregular, Arika Okrent answers these questions and many more. Along the way she tells the story of the many influences--from invading French armies to stubborn Flemish printers--that made our language the way it is today"--
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197539408
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
"Perhaps you're reading a book and stop to puzzle over absurd spelling rules, or you hear someone talking and get stuck on an expression, or your kid quizzes you on homework. Suddenly you ask yourself, "Wait, why do we do it this way?" You think about it, try to explain it, and keep running into walls. It doesn't conform to logic. It doesn't work the way you'd expect it to. There doesn't seem to be any rule at all. In Highly Irregular, Arika Okrent answers these questions and many more. Along the way she tells the story of the many influences--from invading French armies to stubborn Flemish printers--that made our language the way it is today"--
Irregular Unions
Author: Katharine Cleland
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501753487
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 133
Book Description
Katharine Cleland's Irregular Unions provides the first sustained literary history of clandestine marriage in early modern England and reveals its controversial nature in the wake of the Elizabethan Religious Settlement, which standardized the marriage ritual for the first time. Cleland examines many examples of clandestine marriage across genres. Discussing such classic works as The Faerie Queene, Othello, and The Merchant of Venice, she argues that early modern authors used clandestine marriage to explore the intersection between the self and the marriage ritual in post-Reformation England. The ways in which authors grappled with the political and social complexities of clandestine marriage, Cleland finds, suggest that these narratives were far more than interesting plot devices or scandalous stories ripped from the headlines. Instead, after the Reformation, fictions of clandestine marriage allowed early modern authors to explore topics of identity formation in new and different ways. Thanks to generous funding from Virginia Tech and its participation in TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem), the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other repositories.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501753487
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 133
Book Description
Katharine Cleland's Irregular Unions provides the first sustained literary history of clandestine marriage in early modern England and reveals its controversial nature in the wake of the Elizabethan Religious Settlement, which standardized the marriage ritual for the first time. Cleland examines many examples of clandestine marriage across genres. Discussing such classic works as The Faerie Queene, Othello, and The Merchant of Venice, she argues that early modern authors used clandestine marriage to explore the intersection between the self and the marriage ritual in post-Reformation England. The ways in which authors grappled with the political and social complexities of clandestine marriage, Cleland finds, suggest that these narratives were far more than interesting plot devices or scandalous stories ripped from the headlines. Instead, after the Reformation, fictions of clandestine marriage allowed early modern authors to explore topics of identity formation in new and different ways. Thanks to generous funding from Virginia Tech and its participation in TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem), the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other repositories.
Portuguese Irregular Verbs
Author: Alexander McCall Smith
Publisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0307370372
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
A deliciously entertaining new series by the bestselling author of The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency The many fans of Precious Ramotswe will find further cause for celebration in the protagonist of Alexander McCall Smith’s irresistibly funny trilogy, the eminent (if shamefully under-read) philologist Professor Dr. Mortiz-Maria von Igelfeld of the Institute at Regensburg. Unnaturally tall, hypersensitive to slights, and oblivious to his own frequent gaucheries, von Igelfeld is engaged in a never-ending quest to win the respect he knows is due him. Portuguese Irregular Verbs follows the Professor from a busman’s holiday researching old Irish obscenities to a flirtation with a desirable lady dentist. In The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs, von Igelfeld practices veterinary medicine without a license, transports relics for a schismatically challenged Coptic prelate and is mobbed by marriage-minded widows on board a Mediterranean cruise ship. In At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances, the final novel in the trilogy, we find our hero suffering the slings of academic intrigue as a visiting fellow at Cambridge, and the slings of outrageous fortune in an eventful Columbian adventure.
Publisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0307370372
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
A deliciously entertaining new series by the bestselling author of The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency The many fans of Precious Ramotswe will find further cause for celebration in the protagonist of Alexander McCall Smith’s irresistibly funny trilogy, the eminent (if shamefully under-read) philologist Professor Dr. Mortiz-Maria von Igelfeld of the Institute at Regensburg. Unnaturally tall, hypersensitive to slights, and oblivious to his own frequent gaucheries, von Igelfeld is engaged in a never-ending quest to win the respect he knows is due him. Portuguese Irregular Verbs follows the Professor from a busman’s holiday researching old Irish obscenities to a flirtation with a desirable lady dentist. In The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs, von Igelfeld practices veterinary medicine without a license, transports relics for a schismatically challenged Coptic prelate and is mobbed by marriage-minded widows on board a Mediterranean cruise ship. In At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances, the final novel in the trilogy, we find our hero suffering the slings of academic intrigue as a visiting fellow at Cambridge, and the slings of outrageous fortune in an eventful Columbian adventure.
The Fall of the Amazing Zalindas
Author: Tracy Mack
Publisher: Sherlock Holmes and the Baker
ISBN: 9780545069397
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Sherlock Holmes and his Baker Street Irregulars are on the case in this brand new paperback edition of THE FALL OF THE AMAZING ZALINDAS If you have not heard about the world's most brilliant crime solver of all time, the consulting detective, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, you have undoubtedly spent your years beneath a large rock -- for much has been written about him. Those familiar with Mr. Holmes know that a gang of homelss boys, called the Baker Street Irregulars, assisted him in his crime solving. When a murder at the circus unravels another, far more treacherous crime, the master detective and the boys of the BSI must pursue terrifying villians to solve this mystery, dodging danger at every turn....
Publisher: Sherlock Holmes and the Baker
ISBN: 9780545069397
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Sherlock Holmes and his Baker Street Irregulars are on the case in this brand new paperback edition of THE FALL OF THE AMAZING ZALINDAS If you have not heard about the world's most brilliant crime solver of all time, the consulting detective, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, you have undoubtedly spent your years beneath a large rock -- for much has been written about him. Those familiar with Mr. Holmes know that a gang of homelss boys, called the Baker Street Irregulars, assisted him in his crime solving. When a murder at the circus unravels another, far more treacherous crime, the master detective and the boys of the BSI must pursue terrifying villians to solve this mystery, dodging danger at every turn....
In Search of Watson
Author: Tracy Mack
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0439836719
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Sherlock Holmes's trusted assistants, a band of loyal street urchins called the Baker Street Irregulars, are back for their most puzzling mystery yet, in a case that involves murder, abduction, and the hunt for a lost treasure. As Holmes and the BSI begin their investigations into a gruesome murder, all at once the detectives find themselves in danger. When a personal associate of the master detective disappears, Ozzie, Wiggins, and the gang know that they must uncover the truth - and quickly! Yet there is deception within their ranks. Who is a friend? Who is a traitor? Who can they trust? Join the Baker Street Irregulars as they search to find Watson and the double-crosser before it's too late! Praise for Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars, Casebook No. 1: THE FALL OF THE AMAZING ZALINDAS: "Mack and Citrin's fast-paced, suspenseful story will keep readers turning the pages." -THE BOSTON HERALD "[A] fast-paced, authentically styled caper." -KIRKUS REVIEWS "[A]n entertaining, suspenseful read for youthful crime buffs." -BOOKLIST Published in 26 countries! An Agatha Award Finalist!
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0439836719
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Sherlock Holmes's trusted assistants, a band of loyal street urchins called the Baker Street Irregulars, are back for their most puzzling mystery yet, in a case that involves murder, abduction, and the hunt for a lost treasure. As Holmes and the BSI begin their investigations into a gruesome murder, all at once the detectives find themselves in danger. When a personal associate of the master detective disappears, Ozzie, Wiggins, and the gang know that they must uncover the truth - and quickly! Yet there is deception within their ranks. Who is a friend? Who is a traitor? Who can they trust? Join the Baker Street Irregulars as they search to find Watson and the double-crosser before it's too late! Praise for Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars, Casebook No. 1: THE FALL OF THE AMAZING ZALINDAS: "Mack and Citrin's fast-paced, suspenseful story will keep readers turning the pages." -THE BOSTON HERALD "[A] fast-paced, authentically styled caper." -KIRKUS REVIEWS "[A]n entertaining, suspenseful read for youthful crime buffs." -BOOKLIST Published in 26 countries! An Agatha Award Finalist!