Author: Alydia Rackham
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1105243451
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 87
Book Description
Elsie Jones, John "Jack" Young, Mary Moore and George McDougal all live in service to a secret: Scotland Yard's best source of clues and leads is actually one of London's oldest coffee houses. These four young people manage the house as waitress, clerk, manager and owner-but they moonlight as England's finest undercover detectives.Therefore, when a priceless portrait from a traveling Da Vinci collection goes missing, they are the first on the job. Using their unusual set of sleuthing skills, and with the unknowing help of their tale-telling customers, they must track down the thief before he makes off with another great work, without betraying their true identities to the patrons of the Oxford Street Coffee House.
The Oxford Street Coffee House: The Case of the Young Patrician Lady
Author: Alydia Rackham
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1105243451
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 87
Book Description
Elsie Jones, John "Jack" Young, Mary Moore and George McDougal all live in service to a secret: Scotland Yard's best source of clues and leads is actually one of London's oldest coffee houses. These four young people manage the house as waitress, clerk, manager and owner-but they moonlight as England's finest undercover detectives.Therefore, when a priceless portrait from a traveling Da Vinci collection goes missing, they are the first on the job. Using their unusual set of sleuthing skills, and with the unknowing help of their tale-telling customers, they must track down the thief before he makes off with another great work, without betraying their true identities to the patrons of the Oxford Street Coffee House.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1105243451
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 87
Book Description
Elsie Jones, John "Jack" Young, Mary Moore and George McDougal all live in service to a secret: Scotland Yard's best source of clues and leads is actually one of London's oldest coffee houses. These four young people manage the house as waitress, clerk, manager and owner-but they moonlight as England's finest undercover detectives.Therefore, when a priceless portrait from a traveling Da Vinci collection goes missing, they are the first on the job. Using their unusual set of sleuthing skills, and with the unknowing help of their tale-telling customers, they must track down the thief before he makes off with another great work, without betraying their true identities to the patrons of the Oxford Street Coffee House.
The Oxford Street Coffee House Detectives and the Case of the Young Patrician Lady
Author: Alydia Rackham
Publisher: Alydia Rackham
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
How could a painting be stolen from a museum without a single door or window being broken? Two young women and one young man lead unobtrusive lives working at a Victorian coffee house, for the owner Mr. McDougal. But when a famous painting is stolen, they must assume their other identities: moonlighting as apprentice detectives under the employ of Mycroft Holmes. But will this case strain the limits of their friendship and their wits? "The Case of the Young Patrician Lady" is a lighthearted mystery from the pen of Alydia Rackham. If you enjoy the stories of Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot, you will love this little jaunt into Victorian London.
Publisher: Alydia Rackham
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
How could a painting be stolen from a museum without a single door or window being broken? Two young women and one young man lead unobtrusive lives working at a Victorian coffee house, for the owner Mr. McDougal. But when a famous painting is stolen, they must assume their other identities: moonlighting as apprentice detectives under the employ of Mycroft Holmes. But will this case strain the limits of their friendship and their wits? "The Case of the Young Patrician Lady" is a lighthearted mystery from the pen of Alydia Rackham. If you enjoy the stories of Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot, you will love this little jaunt into Victorian London.
The Three Just Men
Author: Edgar Wallace
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755121716
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
There are crimes for which no punishment is adequate, offences that the written law cannot efface. When conventional justice fails The Three Just Men employ their great intellect and cunning. They use their own methods, carry out their own verdicts. There can be no compromise.
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755121716
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
There are crimes for which no punishment is adequate, offences that the written law cannot efface. When conventional justice fails The Three Just Men employ their great intellect and cunning. They use their own methods, carry out their own verdicts. There can be no compromise.
The Robe of Lucifer
Author: Fred M. White
Publisher: Al-Mashreq eBookstore
ISBN: 9848092293
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The Robe of Lucifer by Fred M. White is a thrilling dive into the world of dark magic and forbidden knowledge. When a mysterious robe with ancient and malevolent powers surfaces, it ignites a chain of events that will test the boundaries of good and evil. As a group of daring adventurers seeks to uncover the robe's secrets, they find themselves entangled in a sinister plot that threatens their lives and the very fabric of reality. With each twist and turn, the stakes grow higher and the danger more imminent. Can they decipher the robe's cryptic past before its dark powers are unleashed? Immerse yourself in this spellbinding adventure where every revelation brings you closer to a chilling climax.
Publisher: Al-Mashreq eBookstore
ISBN: 9848092293
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The Robe of Lucifer by Fred M. White is a thrilling dive into the world of dark magic and forbidden knowledge. When a mysterious robe with ancient and malevolent powers surfaces, it ignites a chain of events that will test the boundaries of good and evil. As a group of daring adventurers seeks to uncover the robe's secrets, they find themselves entangled in a sinister plot that threatens their lives and the very fabric of reality. With each twist and turn, the stakes grow higher and the danger more imminent. Can they decipher the robe's cryptic past before its dark powers are unleashed? Immerse yourself in this spellbinding adventure where every revelation brings you closer to a chilling climax.
Super-Cannes
Author: J. G. Ballard
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429970537
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
In this acclaimed speculative novel, the author of Crash imagines an exclusive business park that hides a ghastly mystery: “One of his finest” (San Francisco Chronicle). For forty years, J.G. Ballard has shared his unnervingly prescient vision of where civilization was headed. He kept his unflinching eye on the point where technological progress has worn away our humanity. And Super-Cannes is Ballard at his best: “Rarely has his vision been so total, his creation so complete” (Minneapolis Star-Tribune). Eden-Olympia is more than just a multinational business park. Isolated and secure, overlooking the French Riviera, it is a virtual city-state offering the latest in services and facilities for the most elite high-tech industries. Yet one day Dr. Greenwood from Eden-Olympia’s clinic goes on a suicidal shooting spree. Dr. Jane Sinclair is hired as his replacement, and she and her husband, Paul, are given Dr. Greenwood’s house as a residence. Convalescing after an accident, Paul becomes fascinated with Dr. Greenwood and his shocking crimes. Clues in the house lead him to question Eden-Olympia’s official account. While Jane is lured deeper into Eden-Olympia’s inner workings, Paul uncovers the dangerous psychological vents that maintain its smoothly running surface. Soon he finds himself in race against crushing forces that may be beyond anyone’s control.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429970537
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
In this acclaimed speculative novel, the author of Crash imagines an exclusive business park that hides a ghastly mystery: “One of his finest” (San Francisco Chronicle). For forty years, J.G. Ballard has shared his unnervingly prescient vision of where civilization was headed. He kept his unflinching eye on the point where technological progress has worn away our humanity. And Super-Cannes is Ballard at his best: “Rarely has his vision been so total, his creation so complete” (Minneapolis Star-Tribune). Eden-Olympia is more than just a multinational business park. Isolated and secure, overlooking the French Riviera, it is a virtual city-state offering the latest in services and facilities for the most elite high-tech industries. Yet one day Dr. Greenwood from Eden-Olympia’s clinic goes on a suicidal shooting spree. Dr. Jane Sinclair is hired as his replacement, and she and her husband, Paul, are given Dr. Greenwood’s house as a residence. Convalescing after an accident, Paul becomes fascinated with Dr. Greenwood and his shocking crimes. Clues in the house lead him to question Eden-Olympia’s official account. While Jane is lured deeper into Eden-Olympia’s inner workings, Paul uncovers the dangerous psychological vents that maintain its smoothly running surface. Soon he finds himself in race against crushing forces that may be beyond anyone’s control.
The Cultural Cold War
Author: Frances Stonor Saunders
Publisher: New Press, The
ISBN: 1595589147
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
During the Cold War, freedom of expression was vaunted as liberal democracy’s most cherished possession—but such freedom was put in service of a hidden agenda. In The Cultural Cold War, Frances Stonor Saunders reveals the extraordinary efforts of a secret campaign in which some of the most vocal exponents of intellectual freedom in the West were working for or subsidized by the CIA—whether they knew it or not. Called "the most comprehensive account yet of the [CIA’s] activities between 1947 and 1967" by the New York Times, the book presents shocking evidence of the CIA’s undercover program of cultural interventions in Western Europe and at home, drawing together declassified documents and exclusive interviews to expose the CIA’s astonishing campaign to deploy the likes of Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin, Leonard Bernstein, Robert Lowell, George Orwell, and Jackson Pollock as weapons in the Cold War. Translated into ten languages, this classic work—now with a new preface by the author—is "a real contribution to popular understanding of the postwar period" (The Wall Street Journal), and its story of covert cultural efforts to win hearts and minds continues to be relevant today.
Publisher: New Press, The
ISBN: 1595589147
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
During the Cold War, freedom of expression was vaunted as liberal democracy’s most cherished possession—but such freedom was put in service of a hidden agenda. In The Cultural Cold War, Frances Stonor Saunders reveals the extraordinary efforts of a secret campaign in which some of the most vocal exponents of intellectual freedom in the West were working for or subsidized by the CIA—whether they knew it or not. Called "the most comprehensive account yet of the [CIA’s] activities between 1947 and 1967" by the New York Times, the book presents shocking evidence of the CIA’s undercover program of cultural interventions in Western Europe and at home, drawing together declassified documents and exclusive interviews to expose the CIA’s astonishing campaign to deploy the likes of Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin, Leonard Bernstein, Robert Lowell, George Orwell, and Jackson Pollock as weapons in the Cold War. Translated into ten languages, this classic work—now with a new preface by the author—is "a real contribution to popular understanding of the postwar period" (The Wall Street Journal), and its story of covert cultural efforts to win hearts and minds continues to be relevant today.
An English Murder
Author: Cyril Hare
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1667627317
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
A group of guests gather in a large country house, owned by the dying Lord Warbeck, who wants what is left of his family around him to celebrate what he assumes will be his last Christmas. The guests are a motley bunch, including Sir Julius Warbeck, Chancellor of the Exchequer, the wife of one of his underlings, the fascist son of the present Lord Warbeck, and the Chancellor's bodyguard. Also present is foreign historian Dr Bottwink, and the traditional faithful butler. When the first murder occurs, the house is cut off from the rest of the world by a heavy snowfall, and it is left to Sir Julius's bodyguard to initiate a preliminary investigation before contact can be made with the local police force.
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1667627317
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
A group of guests gather in a large country house, owned by the dying Lord Warbeck, who wants what is left of his family around him to celebrate what he assumes will be his last Christmas. The guests are a motley bunch, including Sir Julius Warbeck, Chancellor of the Exchequer, the wife of one of his underlings, the fascist son of the present Lord Warbeck, and the Chancellor's bodyguard. Also present is foreign historian Dr Bottwink, and the traditional faithful butler. When the first murder occurs, the house is cut off from the rest of the world by a heavy snowfall, and it is left to Sir Julius's bodyguard to initiate a preliminary investigation before contact can be made with the local police force.
Learning to Live with Crime
Author: Christopher Pierce Wilson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
But how have American writers grappled with these changes? What happens when a journalist approaches the workings of organized crime not through its legendary Godfathers but through a workaday, low-level figure who informs on his mob? Why is it that interrogation scenes have become so central to prime-time police dramas of late? What is behind writers' recent fascination with "cold case" homicides, with private security, or with prisons?
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
But how have American writers grappled with these changes? What happens when a journalist approaches the workings of organized crime not through its legendary Godfathers but through a workaday, low-level figure who informs on his mob? Why is it that interrogation scenes have become so central to prime-time police dramas of late? What is behind writers' recent fascination with "cold case" homicides, with private security, or with prisons?
Murder on Bank Street
Author: Victoria E. Thompson
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780425221518
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Widowed midwife Sarah Brandt teams up with Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy to investigate the murder of her late husband, Dr. Tom Brandt, but what they discover could destroy Sarah, as well as Malloy's hopes for building a new future with her.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780425221518
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Widowed midwife Sarah Brandt teams up with Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy to investigate the murder of her late husband, Dr. Tom Brandt, but what they discover could destroy Sarah, as well as Malloy's hopes for building a new future with her.
How Change Happens
Author: Duncan Green
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198785399
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
"DLP, Developmental Leadership Program; Australian Aid; Oxfam."
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198785399
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
"DLP, Developmental Leadership Program; Australian Aid; Oxfam."