Author: Ian Shimwell
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0244136394
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
For over four hundred years, the Corvus Brotherhood have been plotting for vengeance. As their plans near completion, the Brotherhood are somehow connected with: a spring-heeled tiger; a condemned murder suspect about to be hanged; the deathly communications of a society spiritualist and even Mycroft's sudden disappearance. The claw of the raven is about to strike...
Sherlock Holmes The Corvus Conspiracy: The Complete Series
Author: Ian Shimwell
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0244136394
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
For over four hundred years, the Corvus Brotherhood have been plotting for vengeance. As their plans near completion, the Brotherhood are somehow connected with: a spring-heeled tiger; a condemned murder suspect about to be hanged; the deathly communications of a society spiritualist and even Mycroft's sudden disappearance. The claw of the raven is about to strike...
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0244136394
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
For over four hundred years, the Corvus Brotherhood have been plotting for vengeance. As their plans near completion, the Brotherhood are somehow connected with: a spring-heeled tiger; a condemned murder suspect about to be hanged; the deathly communications of a society spiritualist and even Mycroft's sudden disappearance. The claw of the raven is about to strike...
The Irish Assassins
Author: Julie Kavanagh
Publisher: Grove Atlantic
ISBN: 0802149383
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
A brilliant true crime account of the assassinations that altered the course of Irish history from the “compulsively readable” writer (The Guardian). One sunlit evening, May 6, 1882, Lord Frederick Cavendish and Thomas Burke, Chief Secretary and Undersecretary for Ireland, were ambushed and stabbed to death while strolling through Phoenix Park in Dublin. The murders were funded by American supporters of Irish independence and carried out by the Invincibles, a militant faction of republicans armed with specially made surgeon’s blades. They put an end to the new spirit of goodwill that had been burgeoning between British Prime Minister William Gladstone and Ireland’s leader Charles Stewart Parnell as the men forged a secret pact to achieve peace and independence in Ireland—with the newly appointed Cavendish, Gladstone’s protégé, to play an instrumental role in helping to do so. In a story that spans Donegal, Dublin, London, Paris, New York, Cannes, and Cape Town, Julie Kavanagh thrillingly traces the crucial events that came before and after the murders. From the adulterous affair that caused Parnell’s downfall; to Queen Victoria’s prurient obsession with the assassinations; to the investigation spearheaded by Superintendent John Mallon, also known as the “Irish Sherlock Holmes,” culminating in the eventual betrayal and clandestine escape of leading Invincible James Carey and his murder on the high seas, The Irish Assassins brings us intimately into this fascinating story that shaped Irish politics and engulfed an Empire. Praise for Julie Kavanagh’s Nureyev: The Life “Easily the best biography of the year.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer “The definitive biography of ballet’s greatest star whose ego was as supersized as his talent.” —Tina Brown, award-winning journalist and author
Publisher: Grove Atlantic
ISBN: 0802149383
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
A brilliant true crime account of the assassinations that altered the course of Irish history from the “compulsively readable” writer (The Guardian). One sunlit evening, May 6, 1882, Lord Frederick Cavendish and Thomas Burke, Chief Secretary and Undersecretary for Ireland, were ambushed and stabbed to death while strolling through Phoenix Park in Dublin. The murders were funded by American supporters of Irish independence and carried out by the Invincibles, a militant faction of republicans armed with specially made surgeon’s blades. They put an end to the new spirit of goodwill that had been burgeoning between British Prime Minister William Gladstone and Ireland’s leader Charles Stewart Parnell as the men forged a secret pact to achieve peace and independence in Ireland—with the newly appointed Cavendish, Gladstone’s protégé, to play an instrumental role in helping to do so. In a story that spans Donegal, Dublin, London, Paris, New York, Cannes, and Cape Town, Julie Kavanagh thrillingly traces the crucial events that came before and after the murders. From the adulterous affair that caused Parnell’s downfall; to Queen Victoria’s prurient obsession with the assassinations; to the investigation spearheaded by Superintendent John Mallon, also known as the “Irish Sherlock Holmes,” culminating in the eventual betrayal and clandestine escape of leading Invincible James Carey and his murder on the high seas, The Irish Assassins brings us intimately into this fascinating story that shaped Irish politics and engulfed an Empire. Praise for Julie Kavanagh’s Nureyev: The Life “Easily the best biography of the year.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer “The definitive biography of ballet’s greatest star whose ego was as supersized as his talent.” —Tina Brown, award-winning journalist and author
Conspiracy (The Plot to Kill Hitler #1)
Author: Andy Marino
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338359037
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Based on the real-life scheme to take down one of history's greatest monsters, this heart-pounding trilogy puts two courageous kids at the center of the plot to kill Adolf Hitler. Berlin, November 1943. With bombing raids commencing, the city is blanketed by explosions. Siblings Gerta and Max Hoffmann live a surprisingly carefree childhood amid the raids. Berlin is a city going about its business, even as it's attacked almost nightly. But one night, the air raid sirens wail, and the Hoffmanns' neighborhood is hit. A mortally wounded man comes to their door, begging to be let in. He asks for Karl Hoffmann, their father. Gerta and Max watch as Karl tries in vain to save the man's life. Before he dies, the stranger gives their father a bloodstained packet of documents, along with a message: "For the sake of humanity, the Führer must die. Finish it, Karl!" Based on real events, this is the story of two children swept up in a fight for the soul of Germany -- and the world.
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338359037
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Based on the real-life scheme to take down one of history's greatest monsters, this heart-pounding trilogy puts two courageous kids at the center of the plot to kill Adolf Hitler. Berlin, November 1943. With bombing raids commencing, the city is blanketed by explosions. Siblings Gerta and Max Hoffmann live a surprisingly carefree childhood amid the raids. Berlin is a city going about its business, even as it's attacked almost nightly. But one night, the air raid sirens wail, and the Hoffmanns' neighborhood is hit. A mortally wounded man comes to their door, begging to be let in. He asks for Karl Hoffmann, their father. Gerta and Max watch as Karl tries in vain to save the man's life. Before he dies, the stranger gives their father a bloodstained packet of documents, along with a message: "For the sake of humanity, the Führer must die. Finish it, Karl!" Based on real events, this is the story of two children swept up in a fight for the soul of Germany -- and the world.
The Armchair Detective Series One
Author: Ian Shimwell
Publisher: Shimwell's Scripts
ISBN: 1475051123
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
A chance meeting with a mysterious, elderly man...Featuring all six plays of the absorbing, yet fun mystery series that has taken Amazon Kindle by storm.Also, exclusive 'Boxed Set' Extras including: Interview with the man behind the armchair Deleted scenes Easter egg Favourite quotes - and more!
Publisher: Shimwell's Scripts
ISBN: 1475051123
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
A chance meeting with a mysterious, elderly man...Featuring all six plays of the absorbing, yet fun mystery series that has taken Amazon Kindle by storm.Also, exclusive 'Boxed Set' Extras including: Interview with the man behind the armchair Deleted scenes Easter egg Favourite quotes - and more!
The Sherlock Holmes Scripts
Author: Ian Shimwell
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1326950673
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Solve the Egyptian equation; witness the Montague murders; fear the Legend of Loch Logarth and close Holmes' final chapter... All four original Sherlock Holmes scripts of 'The Holmes and Watson Series', written in the style of the classic Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce films. 'The Sherlock Holmes Scripts' also features a bonus additional scene, 'Mrs Hudson Speaks' and an introduction by Holmes' trusted scriber himself, Doctor Watson.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1326950673
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Solve the Egyptian equation; witness the Montague murders; fear the Legend of Loch Logarth and close Holmes' final chapter... All four original Sherlock Holmes scripts of 'The Holmes and Watson Series', written in the style of the classic Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce films. 'The Sherlock Holmes Scripts' also features a bonus additional scene, 'Mrs Hudson Speaks' and an introduction by Holmes' trusted scriber himself, Doctor Watson.
The Catherine Howard Conspiracy
Author: Alexandra Walsh
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781913028251
Category : Historical fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
A time shift thriller that will have you completely gripped! What secrets were covered up at the court of Henry VIII ...? Whitehall Palace, England, 1539. When Catherine Howard arrives at the court of King Henry VIII to be a maid of honor in the household of the new queen, Anne of Cleves, she has no idea of the fate that awaits her. Catching the king’s fancy, she finds herself caught up in her uncle’s ambition to get a Howard heir to the throne. Terrified by the ageing king after the fate that befell her cousin, Anne Boleyn, Catherine begins to fear for her life. THE CATHERINE HOWARD CONSPIRACY is the first book in the Marquess House trilogy, a dual timeline conspiracy thriller with an ingenious twist on a well-known period of Tudor history.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781913028251
Category : Historical fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
A time shift thriller that will have you completely gripped! What secrets were covered up at the court of Henry VIII ...? Whitehall Palace, England, 1539. When Catherine Howard arrives at the court of King Henry VIII to be a maid of honor in the household of the new queen, Anne of Cleves, she has no idea of the fate that awaits her. Catching the king’s fancy, she finds herself caught up in her uncle’s ambition to get a Howard heir to the throne. Terrified by the ageing king after the fate that befell her cousin, Anne Boleyn, Catherine begins to fear for her life. THE CATHERINE HOWARD CONSPIRACY is the first book in the Marquess House trilogy, a dual timeline conspiracy thriller with an ingenious twist on a well-known period of Tudor history.
The Expected One
Author: Kathleen McGowan
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416574751
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
Biblical dreams and visions plague American Maureen Paschal. When she travels to France, she finds what has eluded centuries of treasure hunters--the original Magdalene scrolls that detail her love affair with Jesus, their marriage, and the crucifixion.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416574751
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
Biblical dreams and visions plague American Maureen Paschal. When she travels to France, she finds what has eluded centuries of treasure hunters--the original Magdalene scrolls that detail her love affair with Jesus, their marriage, and the crucifixion.
The Englishman
Author: David Gilman
Publisher: Raglan
ISBN: 9781838931391
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
'The pulse-pounding pace just never lets up' PETER MAY, bestsellling author of LOCKDOWN. Penal Colony No. 74, AKA White Eagle, lies some 600 kilometres north of Yekaterinburg in Russia's Sverdlovskaya Oblast. Imprisoning the country's most brutal criminals, it is a winter-ravaged hellholeof deathand retribution. And that's exactly why the Englishmanis there. Six years ago, Raglan was a soldier in the French Foreign Legionengaged in a hard-fought war on the desert border of Mali and Algeria. Amid black ops teams and competing intelligence agencies, his strike squad was compromised and Raglan himself severely injured. His war was over, but the deadly aftermathof that day has echoed around the world ever since: the assassinationof four Moscow CID officers; kidnap and murderon the suburban streets of West London; the fatalcompromise of a long-running MI6 operation. Raglan can't avoid the shockwaves. This is personal. It is up to him to finish it - and it ends in Russia's most notorious penal colony. But how do you break into a high security prison in the middle of nowhere? More importantly, how do you get out?
Publisher: Raglan
ISBN: 9781838931391
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
'The pulse-pounding pace just never lets up' PETER MAY, bestsellling author of LOCKDOWN. Penal Colony No. 74, AKA White Eagle, lies some 600 kilometres north of Yekaterinburg in Russia's Sverdlovskaya Oblast. Imprisoning the country's most brutal criminals, it is a winter-ravaged hellholeof deathand retribution. And that's exactly why the Englishmanis there. Six years ago, Raglan was a soldier in the French Foreign Legionengaged in a hard-fought war on the desert border of Mali and Algeria. Amid black ops teams and competing intelligence agencies, his strike squad was compromised and Raglan himself severely injured. His war was over, but the deadly aftermathof that day has echoed around the world ever since: the assassinationof four Moscow CID officers; kidnap and murderon the suburban streets of West London; the fatalcompromise of a long-running MI6 operation. Raglan can't avoid the shockwaves. This is personal. It is up to him to finish it - and it ends in Russia's most notorious penal colony. But how do you break into a high security prison in the middle of nowhere? More importantly, how do you get out?
Traitor's Field
Author: Robert Wilton
Publisher: Atlantic Books Ltd
ISBN: 1782390170
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 535
Book Description
England has been torn apart by Civil War. Plots and intrigues abound - but it is the struggle between two powerful spies which will decide the eventual fate of a nation. It is 1648 and Britain is at war with itself. The Royalists are defeated but Parliament is in turmoil, its power weakened by internal discord. Royalism's last hope is Sir Mortimer Shay, a ruthless veteran of decades of intrigue who must rebuild a credible threat to Cromwell's rule, whatever the cost. John Thurloe is a young official in Cromwell's service. Confronted by the extent of the Royalists' secret intelligence network, he will have to fight the true power reaching into every corner of society: the Comptrollerate-General for Scrutiny and Survey.
Publisher: Atlantic Books Ltd
ISBN: 1782390170
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 535
Book Description
England has been torn apart by Civil War. Plots and intrigues abound - but it is the struggle between two powerful spies which will decide the eventual fate of a nation. It is 1648 and Britain is at war with itself. The Royalists are defeated but Parliament is in turmoil, its power weakened by internal discord. Royalism's last hope is Sir Mortimer Shay, a ruthless veteran of decades of intrigue who must rebuild a credible threat to Cromwell's rule, whatever the cost. John Thurloe is a young official in Cromwell's service. Confronted by the extent of the Royalists' secret intelligence network, he will have to fight the true power reaching into every corner of society: the Comptrollerate-General for Scrutiny and Survey.
Of Arms and Men
Author: Robert L. O'Connell
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199878900
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
The appearance of the crossbow on the European battle field in A.D. 1100 as the weapon of choice for shooting down knights threatened the status quo of medieval chivalric fighting techniques. By 1139 the Church had intervened, outlawing the use of the crossbow among Christians. With this edict, arms control was born. As Robert L. O'Connell reveals in this vividly written history of weapons in Western culture, that first attempt at an arms control measure characterizes the complex and often paradoxical relationship between men and arms throughout the centuries. In a sweeping narrative that ranges from prehistoric times to the nuclear age, O'Connell demonstrates how social and economic conditions determine the types of weapons and the tactics used in warfare and how, in turn, innovations in weapons technology often undercut social values. He describes, for instance, how the invention of the gun required a redefinition of courage from aggressive ferocity to calmness under fire; and how the machine gun in World War I so overthrew traditional notions of combat that Lord Kitchener exclaimed, "This isn't war!" The technology unleashed during the Great War radically altered our perceptions of ourselves, as these new weapons made human qualities almost irrelevant in combat. With the invention of the atomic bomb, humanity itself became subservient to the weapons it had produced. Of Arms and Men brilliantly integrates the evolution of politics, weapons, strategy, and tactics into a coherent narrative, one spiced with striking portraits of men in combat and penetrating insights into why men go to war.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199878900
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
The appearance of the crossbow on the European battle field in A.D. 1100 as the weapon of choice for shooting down knights threatened the status quo of medieval chivalric fighting techniques. By 1139 the Church had intervened, outlawing the use of the crossbow among Christians. With this edict, arms control was born. As Robert L. O'Connell reveals in this vividly written history of weapons in Western culture, that first attempt at an arms control measure characterizes the complex and often paradoxical relationship between men and arms throughout the centuries. In a sweeping narrative that ranges from prehistoric times to the nuclear age, O'Connell demonstrates how social and economic conditions determine the types of weapons and the tactics used in warfare and how, in turn, innovations in weapons technology often undercut social values. He describes, for instance, how the invention of the gun required a redefinition of courage from aggressive ferocity to calmness under fire; and how the machine gun in World War I so overthrew traditional notions of combat that Lord Kitchener exclaimed, "This isn't war!" The technology unleashed during the Great War radically altered our perceptions of ourselves, as these new weapons made human qualities almost irrelevant in combat. With the invention of the atomic bomb, humanity itself became subservient to the weapons it had produced. Of Arms and Men brilliantly integrates the evolution of politics, weapons, strategy, and tactics into a coherent narrative, one spiced with striking portraits of men in combat and penetrating insights into why men go to war.