Author: John Dickson Carr
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1480472476
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
On the verge of a second marriage, a divorcee discovers her first husband has returned, and murder ensues in this chilling tale, which the New York Times Book Review hailed as “one of the most ingeniously constructed mystery stories John Dickson Carr has ever told” After divorcing her husband, Ned, Eve Neill falls in love with banker Toby Lawes and quickly agrees to marry him. But news of the engagement brings Ned back, intent on reclaiming his bride, whatever the cost. The price of passion proves too high when a dead body is found—and beside it, the shattered fragments of a snuff-box that once belonged to Napoleon. These fragments tell two tales, one true and one false. And in order for Eve to know whether her future holds a white bridal gown or a black hangman’s cloak, she will have to trust that an expert in criminology will be able to force the evidence to tell the truth and point out the real murderer.
The Emperor's Snuff-Box
Author: John Dickson Carr
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1480472476
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
On the verge of a second marriage, a divorcee discovers her first husband has returned, and murder ensues in this chilling tale, which the New York Times Book Review hailed as “one of the most ingeniously constructed mystery stories John Dickson Carr has ever told” After divorcing her husband, Ned, Eve Neill falls in love with banker Toby Lawes and quickly agrees to marry him. But news of the engagement brings Ned back, intent on reclaiming his bride, whatever the cost. The price of passion proves too high when a dead body is found—and beside it, the shattered fragments of a snuff-box that once belonged to Napoleon. These fragments tell two tales, one true and one false. And in order for Eve to know whether her future holds a white bridal gown or a black hangman’s cloak, she will have to trust that an expert in criminology will be able to force the evidence to tell the truth and point out the real murderer.
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1480472476
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
On the verge of a second marriage, a divorcee discovers her first husband has returned, and murder ensues in this chilling tale, which the New York Times Book Review hailed as “one of the most ingeniously constructed mystery stories John Dickson Carr has ever told” After divorcing her husband, Ned, Eve Neill falls in love with banker Toby Lawes and quickly agrees to marry him. But news of the engagement brings Ned back, intent on reclaiming his bride, whatever the cost. The price of passion proves too high when a dead body is found—and beside it, the shattered fragments of a snuff-box that once belonged to Napoleon. These fragments tell two tales, one true and one false. And in order for Eve to know whether her future holds a white bridal gown or a black hangman’s cloak, she will have to trust that an expert in criminology will be able to force the evidence to tell the truth and point out the real murderer.
The Emperor's Snuff-Box
Author: John Dickson Carr
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers
ISBN: 9780881842036
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers
ISBN: 9780881842036
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
The Emperor's Snuff-Box
Author: John Dickson Carr
Publisher: Murder Room
ISBN: 1471905268
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
The scene is a fashionable French seaside resort; the witness, Eve Neill, is looking out of her window in the early hours of the morning when she sees the battered body of her prospective father-in-law in the room opposite. By Eve's side is her ex-husband, who has attempted to force his unwelcome attentions on her. How can Eve tell the police what she saw when disclosing whom she was with might jeopardise her own impending marriage? Suspicion falls on casual thieves, on the family and on various acquaintances, but the complicated 'locked-room' case is eventually solved by Dr Dermot Kinross, a detective who becomes emotionally involved ...
Publisher: Murder Room
ISBN: 1471905268
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
The scene is a fashionable French seaside resort; the witness, Eve Neill, is looking out of her window in the early hours of the morning when she sees the battered body of her prospective father-in-law in the room opposite. By Eve's side is her ex-husband, who has attempted to force his unwelcome attentions on her. How can Eve tell the police what she saw when disclosing whom she was with might jeopardise her own impending marriage? Suspicion falls on casual thieves, on the family and on various acquaintances, but the complicated 'locked-room' case is eventually solved by Dr Dermot Kinross, a detective who becomes emotionally involved ...
The Horizontal Man
Author: Helen Eustis
Publisher: Library of America
ISBN: 1598534580
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Helen Eustis’s The Horizontal Man (1946) won an Edgar Award for best first novel and continues to fascinate as a singular mixture of detection, satire, and psychological portraiture. A poet on the faculty of an Ivy League school is found murdered, setting off ripple effects of anxiety, suspicion, and panic in the hot house atmosphere of an English department rife with talk of Freud and Kafka. This classic novel is one of eight works included in The Library of America's two-volume edition Women Crime Writers: Eight Suspense Novels of the 1940s & 50s, edited by Sarah Weinman.
Publisher: Library of America
ISBN: 1598534580
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Helen Eustis’s The Horizontal Man (1946) won an Edgar Award for best first novel and continues to fascinate as a singular mixture of detection, satire, and psychological portraiture. A poet on the faculty of an Ivy League school is found murdered, setting off ripple effects of anxiety, suspicion, and panic in the hot house atmosphere of an English department rife with talk of Freud and Kafka. This classic novel is one of eight works included in The Library of America's two-volume edition Women Crime Writers: Eight Suspense Novels of the 1940s & 50s, edited by Sarah Weinman.
A gift of Napoleon
Author: Lees Knowles
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 1178198561
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 95
Book Description
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 1178198561
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 95
Book Description
A Gift of Napoleon
Author: Sir Lees Knowles
Publisher: London : J. Lane
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Publisher: London : J. Lane
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Napoleonic Anecdotes
Author: Louis Cohen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Napoleon at Home
Author: Frédéric Masson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Wit, Wisdom and Foibles of the Great
Author: Charles Anthony Shriner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anecdotes
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anecdotes
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Souvenirs of Napoleon Bonaparte classed in alphabetical order according to the official classification
Author: Jules Félix Vacquier
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : CHR 1928
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : CHR 1928
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description