Murder At The Masked Ball

Author : Magda Alexander
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1943321175

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Murder at the Masked Ball Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Amateur sleuth Kitty Worthington once more investigates when a noble lord plummets to his death, and a dear friend is suspected of murder. Can she catch the killer before her friend swings from the wrong end of a rope?London. 1923. When an invitation arrives to the Duchess of Brightwell's Midsummer Masked Ball, Kitty Worthingtondoes not even think of declining. Not with a mother on the hunt for a noble husband for her. But no sooner does she curtsy to her hostess at the ball than tragedy strikes. A very dead earl is found at the bottom of a staircase, and it's clearly the work of foul play.Having proven himself a dab hand at dealing with the nobility, Scotland Yard Detective Inspector Robert Crawford is soon asked to investigate. In no time at all he hones in on Lord Newcastle, a friend of Kitty who'd earlier pummeled the earl for sorely abusing his wife.Afraid her friend may wrongfully pay with his life, Kitty once more organizes her ace team, including her maid, two noble lords, a beloved sister, a lady, and Sir Winston, her still flatulent Bassett Hound. From the seediest parts of London to the fancy mansions of Mayfair, they fearlessly pursue the truth. For if they fail to find the killer, their dear friend may dance one last jig from the end of a rope.Murder at the Masked Ball, the third book in The Kitty Worthington Mysteries, is another frolicking, historical cozy mystery filled with quirky suspects, a wicked villain, and an intrepid heroine sure to win your heart. For lovers of Agatha Christie and Downton Abbey alike.

Author : Dennis Fairfax
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:559356178

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The Masked Ball Murder Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Author : Gardar Sahlberg
Publisher : Macdonald and Jane's
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Sweden
ISBN : 0356035905

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Murder at the Masked Ball Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher : Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : PKEY:SMP2300000064254

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The Masque of the Red Death Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

"The Masque of the Red Death", originally published as "The Mask of the Red Death: A Fantasy", is an 1842 short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. The story follows Prince Prospero's attempts to avoid a dangerous plague, known as the Red Death, by hiding in his abbey. He, along with many other wealthy nobles, hosts a masquerade ballwithin seven rooms of the abbey, each decorated with a different color. In the midst of their revelry, a mysterious figure disguised as a Red Death victim enters and makes his way through each of the rooms. Prospero dies after confronting this stranger, whose "costume" proves to contain nothing tangible inside it; the guests also die in turn. Poe's story follows many traditions of Gothic fiction and is often analyzed as an allegory about the inevitability of death, though some critics advise against an allegorical reading. Many different interpretations have been presented, as well as attempts to identify the true nature of the titular disease. The story was first published in May 1842 in Graham's Magazineand has since been adapted in many different forms, including a 1964 film starring Vincent Price.

Author : Gardar Sahlberg,Paul Britten Austin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:164673007

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Murder at the masked ball (Den aristokratiska ligan, engl.) The assassination of Gustav III of Sweden Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Author : Tony Griffiths
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11-25
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780199744992

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Stockholm Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Situated on one of the world's most beautiful harbors, Stockholm has set the benchmark for civilized urban living since the time of the Vikings. Tony Griffiths reveals a city of power, intrigue, and murder; of scientists and investors; and a sensual city, home of Greta Garbo and the smörgåsbord. Its medieval period saw the Vasa dynasty turn a small town into the capital of a dominant European power and a major trading port. In the Napoleonic era, Stockholm established itself as a center of both technical and social innovation. While the city has suffered more than its fair share of misfortune, Stockholm's cultural and commercial elite transformed it into a community which now welcomes innovation and spreads the fruits of its achievements far beyond its borders.

Author : Giuseppe Verdi,Burton D. Fisher
Publisher : Opera Journeys Publishing
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2004-08
Category : Operas
ISBN : 9780976103530

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Verdi's a Masked Ball Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

A comprehensive guide to Verdi's A MASKED BALL, featuring insightful and in depth Commentary and Analysis, a complete, newly translated Libretto, with Italian/English side-by side, and over 30 music highlight examples.

Author : Tony Griffiths
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-13
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781904955856

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Stockholm: A Cultural and Literary History Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Situated on Lake Malaren on one of the world's most beautiful harbours, Stockholm has set the benchmark for civilized city-living since the time of the Vikings. Its medieval regal period saw the Vasa dynasty turn a small town in the shadow of Uppsala into the capital city of a dominant power in Europe and a major trading port. In the Napoleonic era Stockholm readjusted its priorities to establish itself as a centre of innovation, technical and social. While the city has suffered more than its fair share of disasters, Stockholm's cultural and commercial elite transformed it into a community which welcomed innovation and spread the fruits of its achievements far beyond its borders. From its celebrated Old Town, dating from the Middle Ages, to its Art Nouveau and modern quarters, Stockholm is a city rich in museums, theatres and landmarks. Tony Griffiths explores the Swedish capital, old and new, revealing a city of unexpected contradictions. CITY OF POWER, INTRIGUE AND MURDER: Gustav Vasa, Queen Christina and Voltaire; murder at a Masked Ball, Olaf Palme s assassination; Lindh, social democracy and armed neutrality; the rights of women and the impact of immigration CITY OF SCIENTISTS AND INVENTORS: Linnaeus and Nobel; Ericsson and new technology; Laval, Wenner-Gren and Kamprad. SENSUAL CITY: Strindberg, Greta Garbo, Ingrid and Ingmar Bergman; sculptors and painters; home of the smorgasbord; the church, lust and the alcohol monopoly.

Author : Lynda G. Adamson
Publisher : Greenwood Publishing Group
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Historical fiction
ISBN : 1573560669

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World Historical Fiction Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

"Based on World historical guide by Daniel D. McGarry and Sarah Harriman White published 1973 by Scarecrow Press. This title annotates 'more than 6000 works ... Primary arrangement is by areas of the world, and then by time periods within each area.'" Booklist.

Author : Ashley Weaver
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466846548

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Death Wears a Mask Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Edgar Award-shortlisted author Ashley Weaver returns with Death Wears a Mask, the witty and stylish next installment in the delightful 1930s Amory Ames mystery series “Amory Ames and her rakish husband Milo might just be the new Nick and Nora Charles.” —Deborah Crombie It was amazing, really, what murder had done for my marriage . . . Following the murderous events at the Brightwell Hotel, Amory Ames is looking forward to a tranquil period of reconnecting with her reformed playboy husband, Milo. She hopes a quiet stay at their London flat will help mend their relationship. However, Amory soon finds herself drawn into another investigation when an old friend of her mother’s asks her to look into the disappearance of valuable jewelry snatched at a dinner party. Amory agrees to help lay a trap to catch the culprit at a lavish masked ball. But when one of the illustrious party guests is murdered, she is pulled back into the world of detection, caught up in both a mystery and a set of romantic entanglements where nothing is as it seems. Also out now in the Amory Ames mysteries: Murder at the Brightwell and A Most Novel Revenge

Author : Margaret Addison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1700150863

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Murder at the Masquerade Ball Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Author : Alexandre Dumas
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Authors, French
ISBN : 9781465593535

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My Memoirs (1802 to 1833) Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

There is no real biography of Alexandre Dumas. Nobody has collected and sifted all his correspondence, tracked his every movement, and pursued him through newspapers and legal documents. Letters and other papers (if they have been preserved) should be as abundant in the case of Dumas as they are scanty in the case of Molière. But they are left to the dust of unsearched offices; and it is curious that in France so little has been systematically written about her most popular if not her greatest novelist. Many treatises on one or other point in the life and work of Dumas exist, but there is nothing like Boswell's Johnson or Lockhart's Scott. TheMémoires by the novelist himself cover only part of his career, Les Enfances Dumas; and they bear the same resemblance to a serious conscientious autobiography as Vingt Ans Après bears to Mr. Gardiner's History of England. They contain facts, indeed, but facts beheld through the radiant prismatic fancy of the author, who, if he had a good story to tell, dressed it up "with a cocked hat and a sword," as was the manner of an earlier novelist. The volumes of travel, and the delightful work on Dumas's domestic menagerie,Mes Bêtes, also contain personal confessions, as does the novel, Ange Pitou, with the Causeries, and other books. Fortunately Dumas wrote most about his early life, and the early life of most people is more interesting than the records of their later years. In its limitation to his years of youth, the Mémoires of Dumas resemble that equally delightful book, the long autobiographical fragment by George Sand. Both may contain much Dichtung as well as Wahrheit: at least we see the youth of the great novelists as they liked to see it themselves. The Mémoires, with Mes Bêtes, possess this advantage over most of the books, that the most crabbed critic cannot say that Dumas did not write them himself. In these works, certainly, he was unaided by Maquet or any other collaborator. They are all his own, and the essential point of note is that they display all the humour, the goodness of heart, the overflowing joy in life, which make the charm of the novels. Here, unmixed, unadulterated, we have that essence of Dumas with which he transfigured the tame "copy" drawn up by Maquet and others under his direction. He told them where to find their historical materials, he gave them the leading ideas of the plot, told them how to block out the chapters, and then he took these chapters and infused into them his own spirit, the spirit which, in its pure shape, pervades every page of the Mémoires. They demonstrate that, while he received mechanical aid from collaborators, took from their hands the dry bones of his romances, it was he who made the dry bones live. He is now d'Artagnan, now Athos, now Gorenflot, now Chicot,—all these and many other personages are mere aspects of the immortal, the creative Alexandre.

Author : Amanda Carmack
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780698196599

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Murder at the Queen's Masquerade Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Queen Elizabeth’s chief musician Kate Haywood must unmask a thief and murderer in this Elizabethan Mystery Novella from the author of Murder at Westminster Abbey… 1560. Whispered speculations drift through the shadows of Windsor Castle. Who are the Queen’s suitors? Who is her heir? To distract her political enemies from gossip, Queen Elizabeth stages a masquerade ball… Tasked with organizing the lavish preparations, Kate, the Queen’s musician, is overjoyed when her dearest friend, Lady Violet, arrives at court, eager and willing to help. Accompanied by her demanding mother-in-law, Violet welcomes any opportunity that will rescue her from the attentions of her husband’s mother. But just days before the masquerade, one of the Queen’s guards is found dead in front of the chamber that holds her most precious jewels. With no sign of foul play, the court believes the man perished from natural causes, but Kate suspects otherwise. And when Her Majesty’s pearl pendant necklace, an heirloom from her mother, Anne Boleyn, disappears on the night of the ball, Kate must once again play sleuth to uncover the culprit’s identity among the aristocratic masked merrymakers… “Amanda Carmack’s talent for creating a richly drawn setting, populating it with fully realized characters, and giving them a tight and engaging narrative is unparalleled.”—New York Times bestselling author Tasha Alexander INCLUDES A PREVIEW OF MURDER AT WHITEHALL

Author : Thérèse Benson
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781789129182

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Death Wears a Mask Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Death Wears a Mask, first published in 1935, is a ‘golden-age’ mystery. Set in the penthouse apartment of newly appointed police commissioner Samuel Mellon, actress Consuela Thorne is found murdered outside his door. Mellon investigates the crime with the help of his Chinese butler, assisted by Inspector Dolan of the Homicide Squad, and society sleuth Miss Livingston.

Author : James Malcolm Rymer
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547245094

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Ada, the Betrayed; Or, The Murder at the Old Smithy. A Romance of Passion Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Ada, the Betrayed; Or, The Murder at the Old Smithy. A Romance of Passion" by James Malcolm Rymer. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.