Author: Garson Kanin
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573691881
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Characters: 4 male, 2 female 2 Interiors Maestro Vito De Angelis, an egomaniacal but charming conductor, is under contract to a major publisher to deliver his autobiography. The publisher has paid a huge advance and Vito has just fired his fifth ghost writer. The publisher sends pretty Iris Peabody, knowing that Vito is a sucker for the ladies, to gain his cooperation as she ghost writes the book. The stratagem works, a fact that distresses Mrs. Vito, former opera star Rachel Garla
Peccadillo
Author: Garson Kanin
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573691881
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Characters: 4 male, 2 female 2 Interiors Maestro Vito De Angelis, an egomaniacal but charming conductor, is under contract to a major publisher to deliver his autobiography. The publisher has paid a huge advance and Vito has just fired his fifth ghost writer. The publisher sends pretty Iris Peabody, knowing that Vito is a sucker for the ladies, to gain his cooperation as she ghost writes the book. The stratagem works, a fact that distresses Mrs. Vito, former opera star Rachel Garla
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573691881
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Characters: 4 male, 2 female 2 Interiors Maestro Vito De Angelis, an egomaniacal but charming conductor, is under contract to a major publisher to deliver his autobiography. The publisher has paid a huge advance and Vito has just fired his fifth ghost writer. The publisher sends pretty Iris Peabody, knowing that Vito is a sucker for the ladies, to gain his cooperation as she ghost writes the book. The stratagem works, a fact that distresses Mrs. Vito, former opera star Rachel Garla
The Irrepressible Peccadillo: Special Edition
Author: Fletcher Flora
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1479405973
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
The wayward beauty who comes back to her old hometown to titillate her ex-boyfriend (now a married lawyer) and to blackmail her ex-husband is ripe bait for murder. And murder is just what she gets. Suspicion falls heaviest on the old flame and not on the discarded husband -- for very obvious reasons. At the time of the lady's demise, the lawyer was out of his legal mind, befuddled by a number of those potent concoctions known around the cocktail table as gimlets. In the second place, he was squarely on the scene of the crime.... Fortunately, his wife believes him. When her husband is carted off to jail, whe sets out to prove him innocent. "The Irrepressible Peccadillo" is written with all Fletcher Flora’s customary verve and sophistication. To the gripping story of a man on the spot, he adds plenty of wit, sex, and humor -- and comes up with a puzzle that will keep the reader guessing to the last page. This special bonus edition includes a classic short story by Fletcher Flora, "The Invisible Gauntlet."
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1479405973
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
The wayward beauty who comes back to her old hometown to titillate her ex-boyfriend (now a married lawyer) and to blackmail her ex-husband is ripe bait for murder. And murder is just what she gets. Suspicion falls heaviest on the old flame and not on the discarded husband -- for very obvious reasons. At the time of the lady's demise, the lawyer was out of his legal mind, befuddled by a number of those potent concoctions known around the cocktail table as gimlets. In the second place, he was squarely on the scene of the crime.... Fortunately, his wife believes him. When her husband is carted off to jail, whe sets out to prove him innocent. "The Irrepressible Peccadillo" is written with all Fletcher Flora’s customary verve and sophistication. To the gripping story of a man on the spot, he adds plenty of wit, sex, and humor -- and comes up with a puzzle that will keep the reader guessing to the last page. This special bonus edition includes a classic short story by Fletcher Flora, "The Invisible Gauntlet."
The Harvard Lampoon
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Languages : en
Pages : 16
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Languages : en
Pages : 16
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La Solidaridad
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Category : Philippines
Languages : en
Pages : 668
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Category : Philippines
Languages : en
Pages : 668
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The Stanford Dictionary of Anglicised Words and Phrases
Author: Charles Augustus Maude Fennell
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 860
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 860
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The New Swiss Family Robinson
Author: Owen Wister
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Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Relates the fortunes of a shipwrecked family as they imaginatively adapt to life on an island with abundant animal and plant life.
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Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Relates the fortunes of a shipwrecked family as they imaginatively adapt to life on an island with abundant animal and plant life.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 798
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 798
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Science for the Young: Heat
Author: Jacob Abbott
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Ten Years a Police Court Judge
Author: A. A. Putnam
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Category : Courts
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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Category : Courts
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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Heat
Author: Jacob Abbott
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Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Presented in narrative form, this work addresses various aspects of the property of heat.
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Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Presented in narrative form, this work addresses various aspects of the property of heat.