Strange Affair

Author : Peter Robinson
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781551992211

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Strange Affair by Peter Robinson Pdf

When Alan Banks receives a disturbing telephone call from his brother, Roy, he abandons the peaceful Yorkshire Dales for the bright lights of London to search him out. But Roy has vanished into thin air, and now Banks fears this could have been their final conversation. Meanwhile, DI Annie Cabbot is called to a murder scene on a quiet stretch of road just outside Eastvale. A young woman called Jennifer Clewes has been found dead in her car, and in the back pocket of her jeans, written on a slip of paper, police discover Banks’s name and address. Living in his brother’s empty, luxurious South Kensington flat, Banks finds himself digging into the life of the brother he never really knew, or even liked. He begins to uncover some troubling surprises, leaving Annie to track down Jennifer Clewes’s friends and colleagues alone. It seems that both trails are leading towards frightening conclusions. And when the cases begin to intersect, the consequences for Banks and Annie become terrifying . . . Strange Affair is Peter Robinson’s fifteenth Inspector Banks novel, and it amply demonstrates why he’s counted among the top crime fiction writers in the world.

Author : Mark Hodder
Publisher : Pyr
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781616142902

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The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack by Mark Hodder Pdf

London, 1861. Sir Richard Francis Burton - explorer, linguist, scholar, and swordsman; his reputation tarnished; his career in tatters; his former partner missing and probably dead. Algernon Charles Swinburne - unsuccessful poet and follower of de Sade, for whom pain is pleasure, and brandy is ruin! Their investigations lead them to one of the defining events of the age, and the terrifying possibility that the world they inhabit shouldn't exist at all!

Author : William Outram Tristram
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555086194

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A strange affair by William Outram Tristram Pdf

Author : Leon Garfield
Publisher : Random House
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781448173891

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The Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris by Leon Garfield Pdf

Harris and Bostock are best friends, but they are as different from one another as night and day. Harris thinks up harebrained schemes and Bostock gets in trouble for them. When Harris puts his baby sister Adelaide in the woods to see if she will be adopted by a fox, little do they realize that they are starting a chain of events that will be remembered in their little seaside town as the Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris.

Author : Peter Robinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0771076088

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Strange Affair by Peter Robinson Pdf

While Inspector Alan Banks is off work, recovering from an injury, his brother Roy goes missing, so Banks travels to London to investigate, finding that something has gone seriously wrong in Roy's prosperous but dodgy life. Back in Eastvale, a young woman is found dead with Banks' address in her pocket, and his colleagues are unable to find him.

Author : Douglas MacGowan
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-01
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780857902726

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The Strange Affair of Madeleine Smith by Douglas MacGowan Pdf

Discover the true story of Victorian Scotland's trial of the century. It was a case that rocked Victorian society. Emile L'Angelier was a working-class immigrant from the Channel Islands who began a clandestine affair with prominent Glasgow socialite Madeleine Smith. Six weeks after Emile threatened to show Madeleine's father their passionate letters, on 23 March 1857, he was found dead from arsenic poisoning. The evidence against Madeleine seemed overwhelming as she went to trial for murdering her lover. Douglas MacGowan's vivid account reads by turns like a thriller, a love story and a courtroom drama. He quotes extensively from contemporary sources, notably the pathology reports, the trial testimony and the infamous correspondence between Madeleine and Emile, whose explicit content so shocked Victorian sensibilities. Ultimately it is up to the reader to judge Madeleine's guilt or innocence.

Author : Bernard Toms
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:877328262

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The Strange Affair by Bernard Toms Pdf

Author : Nadine Bismuth
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781487007034

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A Family Affair by Nadine Bismuth Pdf

A wry, savvy novel of untidy modern relationships, A Family Affair confirms award-winning author Nadine Bismuth’s place as a remarkable chronicler of contemporary middle-class mores in the manner of Jonathan Franzen, John Irving, and Lorrie Moore. Award-winning novelist and screenwriter for film and television Nadine Bismuth has returned with an unsparing portrait of twenty-first century life. In A Family Affair, love is the first casualty and deceit — towards others, towards oneself — the norm. Kitchen designer Magalie is being cheated upon and so cheats in turn, in the office and with a divorced police officer who has hired her. Her partner, Mathieu, has no idea how to be, and the police officer Guillaume no idea what he wants. So begins a story of messy relationships wrested against the odds from the detritus of failed marriages, the demands of professional lives, and the pull of the internet and its false messages of perfection. With an assiduous eye that is both clinical and sympathetic, Bismuth’s elegant and highly readable novel captures the alienating nature of contemporary life and sheds light on this, our strange new world full of unrequited yearning in a sea of seeming plenty.

Author : Julian Upton
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781909394940

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Offbeat (Revised & Updated) by Julian Upton Pdf

For years there has been consensus about the merits of Britain’s ‘cult films’ — Peeping Tom, Witchfinder General, The Italian Job — but what of The Mark, Unearthly Stranger, The Strange Affair and The Squeeze? Revisionist critics wax lyrical over Get Carter and The Wicker Man, but what of Sitting Target, Quest for Love and The Black Panther? OFFBEAT redresses this imbalance by exploring Britain’s obscurities, curiosities and forgotten gems — from the buoyant leap in film production in the late fifties to the dying days of popular domestic cinema in the early eighties. Featuring essays, interviews and in-depth reviews, OFFBEAT provides an exhaustive, enlightening and entertaining guide through a host of neglected cinematic trends and episodes, including: • The last great British B-movies • ‘Anti-swinging sixties’ films • Sexploitation — from Yellow Teddy Bears to Emmanuelle in Soho • The British rock ‘n roll movie • CIA-funded British cartoons • Asylums in British cinema • The Children’s Film Foundation • The demise of the short as supporting feature • Val Guest, Sidney Hayers and the forgotten journeyman of British film • Swashbucklers, crime thrillers and other non-horror Hammers Now updated with more than 150 pages of new reviews and essays, featuring: • The Beatles in Colour! • The History of the AA Certificate • Ken Russell’s 1980s Films • Iris Murdoch’s A Severed Head • Curating Offbeat films in the Digital Age And much more!

Author : Robert Murphy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 1560 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781838715328

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Directors in British and Irish Cinema by Robert Murphy Pdf

A guide to directors who have worked in the British and Irish film industries between 1895 and 2005. Each of its 980 entries on individuals directors gives a resume of the director's career, evaluates their achievements and provides a complete filmography. It is useful for those interested in film-making in Britain and Ireland.

Author : Francis Dorff
Publisher : Sunstone Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781611394320

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The Spiritual Journey of a Misfit by Francis Dorff Pdf

As someone who has been guiding people through the catacombs of their own lives for decades, Francis Dorff, O. Praem. is uniquely qualified to tell stories that evoke personal experiences of the treasures residing within each of us. Readers may recognize

Author : Robyn Carr
Publisher : MIRA
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780369700964

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A Family Affair by Robyn Carr Pdf

Life’s biggest dilemmas can provide its sweetest rewards Anna McNichol knows how to take charge. Raised by a single mother, she’s worked to ensure her three children have every advantage she didn’t. And while her marriage has its problems, she values commitment and believes in "till death do us part." Now an empty nester, she’s at the peak of her career and ready to seize the opportunity to focus on her future. But life can change in an instant, and when her husband dies suddenly, Anna’s carefully constructed world falls apart. The mysterious young woman at the memorial service confirms her husband had been keeping secrets, and Anna is determined to get to the truth. For once, she doesn’t have the answers. Her kids are struggling with their grief, her mother’s health is in decline and Anna needs closure. Faced with one challenge after another, she finds support from an unexpected source. And as she puts her life back together, Anna realizes the McNichols may not be perfect but they’ll always be family, and family is forever. Don't miss Robyn Carr's next uplifting novel, The Friendship Club, where four women come together at a tumultuous time in their lives, forging an unbreakable bond that will leave them all forever changed—available January 2024! Look no further for even more great summer beach reads from Robyn Carr: Sunrise On Half Moon Bay The View From Alameda Island The Summer That Made Us Never Too Late

Author : William Outram TRISTRAM
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590992542

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A Strange Affair. A Novel by William Outram TRISTRAM Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1188 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Copyright
ISBN : UCAL:B3421222

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Catalog of Copyright Entries by Anonim Pdf

Author : Buckner Melton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781416595922

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A Hanging Offense by Buckner Melton Pdf

Mutiny on the Bounty is one of history's greatest naval stories—yet few know the similar tale from America's own fledgling navy in the dying days of the Age of Sail, a tale of mutiny and death at sea on an American warship. In 1842, the brig-of-war Somers set out on a training cruise for apprentice seamen, commanded by rising star Alexander Mackenzie. Somers was crammed with teenagers. Among them was Acting Midshipman Philip Spencer, a disturbed youth and a son of the U.S. Secretary of War. Buying other crew members' loyalty with pilfered tobacco and alcohol, Spencer dreamed up a scheme to kill the officers and turn Somers into a pirate ship. In the isolated world of a warship, a single man can threaten the crew's discipline and the captain's authority. But one of Spencer's followers warned Mackenzie, who arrested the midshipman and chained him and other ringleaders to the quarterdeck. Fearing efforts to rescue the prisoners, officers had to stay awake in round-the-clock watches. Steering desperately for land, sleep-deprived and armed to the teeth, battling efforts to liberate Spencer, Somers's captain and officers finally faced a fateful choice: somehow keep control of the vessel until reaching port—still hundreds of miles away—or hang the midshipman and his two leading henchmen before the boys could take over the ship. The results shook the nation. A naval investigation of the affair turned into a court-martial and a state trial and led to the founding of the Naval Academy to provide better officers for the still-young republic. Mackenzie's controversial decision may have inspired Herman Melville's great work Billy Budd. The story of Somers raises timeless questions still disturbing in twenty-first-century America: the relationship between civil and military law, the hazy line between peace and war, the battle between individual rights and national security, and the ultimate challenge of command at sea.