Author: Caro Ramsay
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 183885889X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
In the village of Cronchie, a wealthy family are found brutally murdered. The Devil Stone, an heirloom rumoured to bring death if removed from their home, is the only thing stolen. The key suspects are known satanists. But when the investigating officer disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to investigate. Caplan knows she is being punished for a minor misdemeanour when she is seconded to the Highlands, but she’s confident she can quickly solve the murders and return home to her fractious family. But as she closes in on the truth, it is suddenly her life, not her career, that is in danger.
The Devil Stone
Author: Caro Ramsay
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 183885889X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
In the village of Cronchie, a wealthy family are found brutally murdered. The Devil Stone, an heirloom rumoured to bring death if removed from their home, is the only thing stolen. The key suspects are known satanists. But when the investigating officer disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to investigate. Caplan knows she is being punished for a minor misdemeanour when she is seconded to the Highlands, but she’s confident she can quickly solve the murders and return home to her fractious family. But as she closes in on the truth, it is suddenly her life, not her career, that is in danger.
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 183885889X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
In the village of Cronchie, a wealthy family are found brutally murdered. The Devil Stone, an heirloom rumoured to bring death if removed from their home, is the only thing stolen. The key suspects are known satanists. But when the investigating officer disappears, DCI Christine Caplan is pulled in to investigate. Caplan knows she is being punished for a minor misdemeanour when she is seconded to the Highlands, but she’s confident she can quickly solve the murders and return home to her fractious family. But as she closes in on the truth, it is suddenly her life, not her career, that is in danger.
The Devil's Stones
Author: J. Anthony Jenkins
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578248752
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
"A crew of bank robbers embark [sic] on what was to be their last heist that would set them up for life. Steal the diamonds and sell them for millions - or so they thought." -- from back cover.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578248752
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
"A crew of bank robbers embark [sic] on what was to be their last heist that would set them up for life. Steal the diamonds and sell them for millions - or so they thought." -- from back cover.
The Devil's Stone
Author: Marie Reindorp
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780979585272
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780979585272
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Devil and Daniel Webster
Author: Stephen Vincent Benet
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822203032
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
THE STORY: Jabez Stone, young farmer, has just been married, and the guests are dancing at his wedding. But Jabez carries a burden, for he knows that, having sold his soul to the Devil, he must, on the stroke of midnight, deliver it up to him. Shortly before twelve Mr. Scratch, lawyer, enters and the company is thunderstruck. Jabez bids his guests begone; he has made his bargain and will pay the price. His bride, however, stands by him, and so will Daniel Webster, who has come for the festivities. Webster takes the case. But Scratch is a lawyer himself and out-argues the statesman. Webster demands a jury of real Americans, living or dead. Very well, agrees the Devil, he shall have them, and ghosts appear. Webster thunders, but to no avail, and at last realizing Scratch can better him on technical grounds, he changes his tactics and appeals to the ghostly jury, men who have retained some love of country. Rising to the height of his powers, Webster performs the miracle of winning a verdict of Not Guilty.
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822203032
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
THE STORY: Jabez Stone, young farmer, has just been married, and the guests are dancing at his wedding. But Jabez carries a burden, for he knows that, having sold his soul to the Devil, he must, on the stroke of midnight, deliver it up to him. Shortly before twelve Mr. Scratch, lawyer, enters and the company is thunderstruck. Jabez bids his guests begone; he has made his bargain and will pay the price. His bride, however, stands by him, and so will Daniel Webster, who has come for the festivities. Webster takes the case. But Scratch is a lawyer himself and out-argues the statesman. Webster demands a jury of real Americans, living or dead. Very well, agrees the Devil, he shall have them, and ghosts appear. Webster thunders, but to no avail, and at last realizing Scratch can better him on technical grounds, he changes his tactics and appeals to the ghostly jury, men who have retained some love of country. Rising to the height of his powers, Webster performs the miracle of winning a verdict of Not Guilty.
Robert B. Parker's The Devil Wins
Author: Reed Farrel Coleman
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0425282481
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
A Nor’easter blows into Paradise and churns up the past in this stunning new addition to Robert B. Parker’s New York Times–bestselling series featuring police chief Jesse Stone. In the wake of a huge storm, three bodies are discovered in the rubble of an abandoned factory building in an industrial part of Paradise known as The Swap. One body, a man’s, wrapped in a blue tarp, is only hours old. But found within feet of that body are the skeletal remains of two teenage girls who had gone missing during a Fourth of July celebration twenty-five years earlier. Not only does that crime predate Jesse Stone’s arrival in Paradise, but the dead girls were close friends of Jesse’s right hand, Officer Molly Crane. And things become even more complicated when one of the dead girls’ mothers returns to Paradise to bury her daughter and is promptly murdered. It’s up to police chief Jesse Stone to pull away the veil of the past to see how all these murders are connected . . .
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0425282481
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
A Nor’easter blows into Paradise and churns up the past in this stunning new addition to Robert B. Parker’s New York Times–bestselling series featuring police chief Jesse Stone. In the wake of a huge storm, three bodies are discovered in the rubble of an abandoned factory building in an industrial part of Paradise known as The Swap. One body, a man’s, wrapped in a blue tarp, is only hours old. But found within feet of that body are the skeletal remains of two teenage girls who had gone missing during a Fourth of July celebration twenty-five years earlier. Not only does that crime predate Jesse Stone’s arrival in Paradise, but the dead girls were close friends of Jesse’s right hand, Officer Molly Crane. And things become even more complicated when one of the dead girls’ mothers returns to Paradise to bury her daughter and is promptly murdered. It’s up to police chief Jesse Stone to pull away the veil of the past to see how all these murders are connected . . .
The Devil's Footsteps
Author: E E Richardson
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1407097598
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
It was just a bit of fun, a local legend. The Devil's Footsteps: thirteen stepping stones, and whichever one you stopped on in the rhyme could predict how you would die. A harmless game for kids - and nobody ever died from a game. But it's not a game to Bryan. He's seen the Dark Man, because the Dark Man took his brother five years ago. He's tried to tell himself that it was his imagination, that the Devil's Footsteps are just stones and the Dark Man didn't take Adam. But Adam's still gone. And then Bryan meets two other boys who have their own unsolved mysteries. Someone or something is after the children in the town. And it all comes back to the rhyme that every local child knows by heart: Thirteen steps to the Dark Man's door, Won't be turning back no more . . .
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1407097598
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
It was just a bit of fun, a local legend. The Devil's Footsteps: thirteen stepping stones, and whichever one you stopped on in the rhyme could predict how you would die. A harmless game for kids - and nobody ever died from a game. But it's not a game to Bryan. He's seen the Dark Man, because the Dark Man took his brother five years ago. He's tried to tell himself that it was his imagination, that the Devil's Footsteps are just stones and the Dark Man didn't take Adam. But Adam's still gone. And then Bryan meets two other boys who have their own unsolved mysteries. Someone or something is after the children in the town. And it all comes back to the rhyme that every local child knows by heart: Thirteen steps to the Dark Man's door, Won't be turning back no more . . .
The Modern Antiquarian
Author: Julian Cope
Publisher: HarperThorsons
ISBN: 9780722535998
Category : Antiquities, Prehistoric
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In this unique guide to Britain's megalithic culture, rock n' roller Julian Cope provides an inspired fusion of travel, history, poetry, maps, field notes, and pure passion.
Publisher: HarperThorsons
ISBN: 9780722535998
Category : Antiquities, Prehistoric
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In this unique guide to Britain's megalithic culture, rock n' roller Julian Cope provides an inspired fusion of travel, history, poetry, maps, field notes, and pure passion.
Stoning the Devil
Author: Garry Craig Powell
Publisher: Skylight Press
ISBN: 1908011548
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Colin, a professor of literature in the United Arab Emirates, is ignorant and interested only in pleasure, but a speaker of Arabic and an admirer of Arab culture, or is he? To his Arab wife, he is an orientalist who exoticizes and patronises the locals, unaware of his latent racism.
Publisher: Skylight Press
ISBN: 1908011548
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Colin, a professor of literature in the United Arab Emirates, is ignorant and interested only in pleasure, but a speaker of Arabic and an admirer of Arab culture, or is he? To his Arab wife, he is an orientalist who exoticizes and patronises the locals, unaware of his latent racism.
The Devil of Great Island
Author: Emerson W. Baker
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0230606830
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
In 1682, ten years before the infamous Salem witch trials, the town of Great Island, New Hampshire, was plagued by mysterious events: strange, demonic noises; unexplainable movement of objects; and hundreds of stones that rained upon a local tavern and appeared at random inside its walls. Town residents blamed what they called "Lithobolia" or "the stone-throwing devil." In this lively account, Emerson Baker shows how witchcraft hysteria overtook one town and spawned copycat incidents elsewhere in New England, prefiguring the horrors of Salem. In the process, he illuminates a cross-section of colonial society and overturns many popular assumptions about witchcraft in the seventeenth century.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0230606830
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
In 1682, ten years before the infamous Salem witch trials, the town of Great Island, New Hampshire, was plagued by mysterious events: strange, demonic noises; unexplainable movement of objects; and hundreds of stones that rained upon a local tavern and appeared at random inside its walls. Town residents blamed what they called "Lithobolia" or "the stone-throwing devil." In this lively account, Emerson Baker shows how witchcraft hysteria overtook one town and spawned copycat incidents elsewhere in New England, prefiguring the horrors of Salem. In the process, he illuminates a cross-section of colonial society and overturns many popular assumptions about witchcraft in the seventeenth century.
Devil's Night Dawning
Author: Damien Black
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780995492806
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
For centuries, the monastic Order of St Argo has stood between the mortal vale and the dark forces of the Other Side. Now a mystery warlock seeks an ancient power to rule realms, and only two of its witch hunters can stop him - if they can stay alive long enough to identify him... When young novice Adelko is assigned to legendary adept Horskram, he rejoices at the chance to lead an adventurous life. An adventurous death isn't what he had in mind - but it comes calling when they learn of a sorcerous theft, one that could bring ruin on the Known World. They suspect a demonologist at work, but don't know anything for sure. Whoever it is knows who they are and wants to silence them - permanently. As they flee from one danger to another, their homeland erupts into civil war - the rebellious southern barons have reunited and want to dethrone the King of Northalde. The world they know teeters on the brink of a momentous struggle that will reshape it forever... High fantasy meets gothic horror in this gripping tale of suspense, conflict, faith and magic - the first part in an epic saga of sweeping proportions.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780995492806
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
For centuries, the monastic Order of St Argo has stood between the mortal vale and the dark forces of the Other Side. Now a mystery warlock seeks an ancient power to rule realms, and only two of its witch hunters can stop him - if they can stay alive long enough to identify him... When young novice Adelko is assigned to legendary adept Horskram, he rejoices at the chance to lead an adventurous life. An adventurous death isn't what he had in mind - but it comes calling when they learn of a sorcerous theft, one that could bring ruin on the Known World. They suspect a demonologist at work, but don't know anything for sure. Whoever it is knows who they are and wants to silence them - permanently. As they flee from one danger to another, their homeland erupts into civil war - the rebellious southern barons have reunited and want to dethrone the King of Northalde. The world they know teeters on the brink of a momentous struggle that will reshape it forever... High fantasy meets gothic horror in this gripping tale of suspense, conflict, faith and magic - the first part in an epic saga of sweeping proportions.