Author: Tracy Cooper-Posey
Publisher: Stories Rule Press
ISBN: 1772635928
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Chronicles of the Lost Years A secret that Holmes is compelled to solve Elizabeth Sigerson — independent, practical, a crack shot with a pistol. Definitely not a woman of her time. She can more than hold her own against Holmes’ abilities. Watson takes up his pen one last time in a private memoir that tells the true tale of Holmes’ adventures during his three year absence from Baker Street known as The Great Hiatus. What happened to Sherlock Holmes in the three years Dr. Watson thought he was dead? The Case of the Reluctant Agent Holmes must face the memories that haunt him. It is 1917 and the Great War has been raging for three long years. When Mycroft is shot and left for dead, Holmes is forced to Constantinople to uncover the man behind the deed. Unfortunately, before he was assaulted Mycroft failed to communicate which of his agents was the turncoat. So begins Holmes’ reluctant return to the Near East. The adventure provokes a bagful of memories, both bitter and sweet of that area of the world where he spent so much time with Elizabeth Sigerson. The hunt for the agent who betrayed Mycroft unravels with breath-robbing surprises that even Holmes with all his skills could never have anticipated. The Amazon Historical Mystery bestseller, Chronicles of the Lost Years, and the World War I set sequel, The Case of the Reluctant Agent, are now collected into a boxed set, along with all the conversations surrounding them, and the three original Conan Doyle stories that inspired them. __ Praise for the series. I am very impressed with her ability to write Sherlock Holmes close enough to the originals even Conan Doyle would have a hard time telling them apart. She is clever in her plot twists, true to Holmes in his logic and detailed thinking but she has also managed to give him a little bit of emotion that the originals lacked. Cocktails and Books
Sherlock Boxed In
Author: Tracy Cooper-Posey
Publisher: Stories Rule Press
ISBN: 1772635928
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Chronicles of the Lost Years A secret that Holmes is compelled to solve Elizabeth Sigerson — independent, practical, a crack shot with a pistol. Definitely not a woman of her time. She can more than hold her own against Holmes’ abilities. Watson takes up his pen one last time in a private memoir that tells the true tale of Holmes’ adventures during his three year absence from Baker Street known as The Great Hiatus. What happened to Sherlock Holmes in the three years Dr. Watson thought he was dead? The Case of the Reluctant Agent Holmes must face the memories that haunt him. It is 1917 and the Great War has been raging for three long years. When Mycroft is shot and left for dead, Holmes is forced to Constantinople to uncover the man behind the deed. Unfortunately, before he was assaulted Mycroft failed to communicate which of his agents was the turncoat. So begins Holmes’ reluctant return to the Near East. The adventure provokes a bagful of memories, both bitter and sweet of that area of the world where he spent so much time with Elizabeth Sigerson. The hunt for the agent who betrayed Mycroft unravels with breath-robbing surprises that even Holmes with all his skills could never have anticipated. The Amazon Historical Mystery bestseller, Chronicles of the Lost Years, and the World War I set sequel, The Case of the Reluctant Agent, are now collected into a boxed set, along with all the conversations surrounding them, and the three original Conan Doyle stories that inspired them. __ Praise for the series. I am very impressed with her ability to write Sherlock Holmes close enough to the originals even Conan Doyle would have a hard time telling them apart. She is clever in her plot twists, true to Holmes in his logic and detailed thinking but she has also managed to give him a little bit of emotion that the originals lacked. Cocktails and Books
Publisher: Stories Rule Press
ISBN: 1772635928
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Chronicles of the Lost Years A secret that Holmes is compelled to solve Elizabeth Sigerson — independent, practical, a crack shot with a pistol. Definitely not a woman of her time. She can more than hold her own against Holmes’ abilities. Watson takes up his pen one last time in a private memoir that tells the true tale of Holmes’ adventures during his three year absence from Baker Street known as The Great Hiatus. What happened to Sherlock Holmes in the three years Dr. Watson thought he was dead? The Case of the Reluctant Agent Holmes must face the memories that haunt him. It is 1917 and the Great War has been raging for three long years. When Mycroft is shot and left for dead, Holmes is forced to Constantinople to uncover the man behind the deed. Unfortunately, before he was assaulted Mycroft failed to communicate which of his agents was the turncoat. So begins Holmes’ reluctant return to the Near East. The adventure provokes a bagful of memories, both bitter and sweet of that area of the world where he spent so much time with Elizabeth Sigerson. The hunt for the agent who betrayed Mycroft unravels with breath-robbing surprises that even Holmes with all his skills could never have anticipated. The Amazon Historical Mystery bestseller, Chronicles of the Lost Years, and the World War I set sequel, The Case of the Reluctant Agent, are now collected into a boxed set, along with all the conversations surrounding them, and the three original Conan Doyle stories that inspired them. __ Praise for the series. I am very impressed with her ability to write Sherlock Holmes close enough to the originals even Conan Doyle would have a hard time telling them apart. She is clever in her plot twists, true to Holmes in his logic and detailed thinking but she has also managed to give him a little bit of emotion that the originals lacked. Cocktails and Books
Life
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Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Life
Author: John Ames Mitchell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 836
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Languages : en
Pages : 836
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Status Passage
Author: Anselm L. Strauss
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351488147
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
The French writer Arnold van Gennep first called attention to the phenomena of status passages in his Rites of Passage one hundred years ago. In Status Passage, first published in 1971, the movement of individuals and groups in contemporary society from one status to another is examined in the light of Gennep's original theory. Glaser and Strauss demonstrate that society emerges as a comparative order. In this order, every organized action, collective or individual, can be seen as a form of status passage.From one status to another-from childhood to adolescence to adulthood, from being single to being married, movement from one income group, social class or religion to another-there are passages that entail movement into different parts of a social structure and loss or gain in privileges. Types of status passage are described by their proper ties. The authors present a formal theory of status passage in the form of a running theoretical discussion.The concepts and categories discussed in Status Passage are illuminated by a large number of examples chosen from a wide range of human behavior, and the applicability of the theory to still other examples is made apparent. The result is a stimulating and provocative book that will interest a wide range of sociologists, social psychologists, and other social scientists, and will be useful in a variety of courses.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351488147
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
The French writer Arnold van Gennep first called attention to the phenomena of status passages in his Rites of Passage one hundred years ago. In Status Passage, first published in 1971, the movement of individuals and groups in contemporary society from one status to another is examined in the light of Gennep's original theory. Glaser and Strauss demonstrate that society emerges as a comparative order. In this order, every organized action, collective or individual, can be seen as a form of status passage.From one status to another-from childhood to adolescence to adulthood, from being single to being married, movement from one income group, social class or religion to another-there are passages that entail movement into different parts of a social structure and loss or gain in privileges. Types of status passage are described by their proper ties. The authors present a formal theory of status passage in the form of a running theoretical discussion.The concepts and categories discussed in Status Passage are illuminated by a large number of examples chosen from a wide range of human behavior, and the applicability of the theory to still other examples is made apparent. The result is a stimulating and provocative book that will interest a wide range of sociologists, social psychologists, and other social scientists, and will be useful in a variety of courses.
The Underwriters Review
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 708
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Undercover Agent
Author: Mark Seaman
Publisher: Kings Road Publishing
ISBN: 1789460212
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Tony Brooks was unique. He was barely out of school when recruited in 1941 by the Special Operations Executive (SOE), the wartime secret service established by Churchill to 'set Europe ablaze'. After extensive training he was parachuted into France in July 1942 - being among the first (and youngest) British agents sent to support the nascent French Resistance. Brook's success was primarily due to his exceptional qualities as a secret agent, although he was aided by large and frequent slices of luck. Among much else, he survived brushes with a British traitor and a notorious double agent; the Gestapo's capture of his wireless operator and subsequent attempts to trap Brooks; brief incarceration in a Spanish concentration camp; injuries resulting from a parachute jump into France; and even capture and interrogation by the Gestapo - although his cover story held and he was released. In an age when we so often take our heroes from the worlds of sport, film, television, music, fashion, or just 'celebrity', it is perhaps salutary to be reminded of a young man who ended the war in command of a disparate force of some 10,000 armed resistance fighters, and decorated with two of this country's highest awards for gallantry, the DSO and MC. At the time, he was just twenty-three years old. This remarkable, detailed and intimate account of a clandestine agent's dangerous wartime career combines the historian's expert eye with the narrative colour of remembered events. As a study in courage, it has few, if any, equals.
Publisher: Kings Road Publishing
ISBN: 1789460212
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Tony Brooks was unique. He was barely out of school when recruited in 1941 by the Special Operations Executive (SOE), the wartime secret service established by Churchill to 'set Europe ablaze'. After extensive training he was parachuted into France in July 1942 - being among the first (and youngest) British agents sent to support the nascent French Resistance. Brook's success was primarily due to his exceptional qualities as a secret agent, although he was aided by large and frequent slices of luck. Among much else, he survived brushes with a British traitor and a notorious double agent; the Gestapo's capture of his wireless operator and subsequent attempts to trap Brooks; brief incarceration in a Spanish concentration camp; injuries resulting from a parachute jump into France; and even capture and interrogation by the Gestapo - although his cover story held and he was released. In an age when we so often take our heroes from the worlds of sport, film, television, music, fashion, or just 'celebrity', it is perhaps salutary to be reminded of a young man who ended the war in command of a disparate force of some 10,000 armed resistance fighters, and decorated with two of this country's highest awards for gallantry, the DSO and MC. At the time, he was just twenty-three years old. This remarkable, detailed and intimate account of a clandestine agent's dangerous wartime career combines the historian's expert eye with the narrative colour of remembered events. As a study in courage, it has few, if any, equals.
Events and Plurality
Author: Fred Landman
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401143595
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
JERUSALEM LECTURES In 1992, I was a Lady Davis Fellow in the English Department at the Hebrew Univer sity of Jerusalem. In the context of this, Edit Doron asked me to present a series of weekly evening lectures. The idea was that I would be talking about my own current research on plurality in an event based theory, without the restraints that a nonnal seminar fonnat would im pose: i.e. the idea was that I would actually get to the part where I would talk about my own work. At the same time, Edit added, it would be nice if, rather than just presupposing or presenting a neo-Davidsonian framework to develop my analysis of plurality, I could provide a more general setting of the problems by discussing in some depth the archi tecture of event arguments and thematic roles. In particular, Terry Parsons' book, Par sons 1990, had appeared relatively recently, and there was real interest among the audience in discussing Parsons' arguments for events and roles.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401143595
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
JERUSALEM LECTURES In 1992, I was a Lady Davis Fellow in the English Department at the Hebrew Univer sity of Jerusalem. In the context of this, Edit Doron asked me to present a series of weekly evening lectures. The idea was that I would be talking about my own current research on plurality in an event based theory, without the restraints that a nonnal seminar fonnat would im pose: i.e. the idea was that I would actually get to the part where I would talk about my own work. At the same time, Edit added, it would be nice if, rather than just presupposing or presenting a neo-Davidsonian framework to develop my analysis of plurality, I could provide a more general setting of the problems by discussing in some depth the archi tecture of event arguments and thematic roles. In particular, Terry Parsons' book, Par sons 1990, had appeared relatively recently, and there was real interest among the audience in discussing Parsons' arguments for events and roles.
Connect the Dots to Murder
Author: Lorance Harwood
Publisher: Outskirts Press
ISBN: 1478728760
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
Dan Ryan is a hell of a private eye with a reputation of integrity, honesty, tenacity and with no fear of danger. He learned his skills as an agent in the United States Air Force in Germany tracking down drug dealers preying on American personnel. This career suddenly ended when he was forced into a fight in Frankfort and using a knife intended for him, he killed two big time drug men. With these two dead men to his credit Sergeant Dan Ryan had to be out of Europe before he was murdered or arrested. His commander, General Carthridge, had him billed as cargo on a giant Air Force plane and out of Germany the next day. Now a civilian Dan Ryan perused his dream of entering the Harvard Law School but found that the University wasn’t interested in him. On the same day he opened the letter rejecting his application for the third time, he got a phone call from Randolph Backer, a rich and important man in the banking world, who knew about his talents as in investigator and importantly, his integrity. When this rich Connecticut family was told of the unlikely death of their only son, Ted Backer, in far away Chile and left with no body to bury, they wanted to know what happened. The sympathetic officials in Chile give them a pat story that just didn’t seem right. The dead man’s mother, Betty Backer, could not rest without her son in a grave near their Connecticut home and Randolph Backer could not see his wife grieve so intently. Desperate, and acting on a suggestion from their family friend General Carthridge, they turn to the tough, tenacious detective, Dan Ryan, to find the truth; a truth he discovers is steeped in greed, political power, valuable gold artifacts and murder. When, in the midst of this intrigue, a beautiful, brilliant woman with her own agenda joins his work the whole business becomes personal. Like a pit bull chomping on an intruder’s leg, Dan Ryan uses his talents to follow the hidden dots of evidence left by violence and intrigue to uncover the facts. As he unravels the incestuous truth, he finds that solving crimes in a foreign country can quickly turn unpleasant and with deadly complications.
Publisher: Outskirts Press
ISBN: 1478728760
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
Dan Ryan is a hell of a private eye with a reputation of integrity, honesty, tenacity and with no fear of danger. He learned his skills as an agent in the United States Air Force in Germany tracking down drug dealers preying on American personnel. This career suddenly ended when he was forced into a fight in Frankfort and using a knife intended for him, he killed two big time drug men. With these two dead men to his credit Sergeant Dan Ryan had to be out of Europe before he was murdered or arrested. His commander, General Carthridge, had him billed as cargo on a giant Air Force plane and out of Germany the next day. Now a civilian Dan Ryan perused his dream of entering the Harvard Law School but found that the University wasn’t interested in him. On the same day he opened the letter rejecting his application for the third time, he got a phone call from Randolph Backer, a rich and important man in the banking world, who knew about his talents as in investigator and importantly, his integrity. When this rich Connecticut family was told of the unlikely death of their only son, Ted Backer, in far away Chile and left with no body to bury, they wanted to know what happened. The sympathetic officials in Chile give them a pat story that just didn’t seem right. The dead man’s mother, Betty Backer, could not rest without her son in a grave near their Connecticut home and Randolph Backer could not see his wife grieve so intently. Desperate, and acting on a suggestion from their family friend General Carthridge, they turn to the tough, tenacious detective, Dan Ryan, to find the truth; a truth he discovers is steeped in greed, political power, valuable gold artifacts and murder. When, in the midst of this intrigue, a beautiful, brilliant woman with her own agenda joins his work the whole business becomes personal. Like a pit bull chomping on an intruder’s leg, Dan Ryan uses his talents to follow the hidden dots of evidence left by violence and intrigue to uncover the facts. As he unravels the incestuous truth, he finds that solving crimes in a foreign country can quickly turn unpleasant and with deadly complications.
Sleeper
Author: Mike Nicol
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN: 1415210233
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
First there is the killing of the minister of energy. Then the cop investigating the murder commits suicide. Fearing a conspiracy, the minister’s lover hires pi Fish Pescado to find the killer. Then she goes missing. And Fish is being stonewalled by the cops because ... ... in the dark shadows of Cape Town there’s another game being played out. A complex one involving Iranian agents, the theft of highly enriched uranium, and the kidnapping of a top scientist. Ex-spy Vicki Kahn is bribed by her former handler to track the terrorists. The hunt is deadly and nothing is what it seems. A sleeper has been awoken. isis is involved. So is the cia. There is chatter of a dirty bomb headed for Europe. And Vicki is so lost in those constantly changing shadows that even her surfer-boy Fish can’t find her.
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN: 1415210233
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
First there is the killing of the minister of energy. Then the cop investigating the murder commits suicide. Fearing a conspiracy, the minister’s lover hires pi Fish Pescado to find the killer. Then she goes missing. And Fish is being stonewalled by the cops because ... ... in the dark shadows of Cape Town there’s another game being played out. A complex one involving Iranian agents, the theft of highly enriched uranium, and the kidnapping of a top scientist. Ex-spy Vicki Kahn is bribed by her former handler to track the terrorists. The hunt is deadly and nothing is what it seems. A sleeper has been awoken. isis is involved. So is the cia. There is chatter of a dirty bomb headed for Europe. And Vicki is so lost in those constantly changing shadows that even her surfer-boy Fish can’t find her.
Joseph Conrad
Author: Jeffrey Meyers
Publisher: Cooper Square Press
ISBN: 1461732026
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 467
Book Description
In Joseph Conrad: A Biography, acclaimed writer Jeffrey Meyers presents the definitive account of the life of Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), author of Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, Nostromo, and many other landmarks in modern literature. Meyers' biography, published for the first time in paperback by Cooper Square Press, is the first biography of the author in many years. Joseph Conrad brings to light new information about Conrad's life and its impact on his fiction: new models emerge for his characters, including Heart of Darkness' Kurtz, and Meyers also examines in great detail Conrad's relationship with the wild and beautiful American journalist Jane Anderson.
Publisher: Cooper Square Press
ISBN: 1461732026
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 467
Book Description
In Joseph Conrad: A Biography, acclaimed writer Jeffrey Meyers presents the definitive account of the life of Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), author of Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, Nostromo, and many other landmarks in modern literature. Meyers' biography, published for the first time in paperback by Cooper Square Press, is the first biography of the author in many years. Joseph Conrad brings to light new information about Conrad's life and its impact on his fiction: new models emerge for his characters, including Heart of Darkness' Kurtz, and Meyers also examines in great detail Conrad's relationship with the wild and beautiful American journalist Jane Anderson.