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Pub. Date
1979.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
Follows the emotional and intellectual lives of a group of people living in England in the 1950s. Alexander Wedderburn is having his verse drama produced in the garden of a wealthy landowner. His involvement with his creation and with an eccentric local family forms an intricate and brilliant web of human relationships.
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English
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When a body is discovered floating in a Thames river lock one dreary morning, Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and Sergeant Gemma James are summoned from Scotland Yard to Chiltern Hills. The dead man is Connor Swann, son-in-law of two of London's most renowned opera personalities. And prints on the corpse's neck suggest that Swann was strangled. As Duncan and Gemma explore the quiet woods above the Thames and the flamboyant world of London opera in search...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"This is a ghost story. It is a story about werewolves, and things that go bump in the night. It is a story of an ill-fated land, the pathless moors of Northern England so well chronicled in Wuthering Heights. And it is the story of a real family whose destiny it is to deal with this darkly glamorous and dangerous world. When young Emily Brontë helps a wounded man she finds at the foot of an ancient pagan shrine in the remote Yorkshire moors, her...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
A New York Times Notable Book: A British detective plays God, literally, in this twisting crime thriller- "The climax is devastating" ( The Times London). Superintendent Andrew Dalziel, while drunk, has witnessed a woman being fatally shot-but her husband claims it was an accident, and everyone seems to be buying his story. His partner, Pascoe, meanwhile, is looking into chatty letters from an anonymous sender who says her resolution for the new year...
94) Ruling passion
Author
Series
Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
1977.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
A Yorkshire cop's reunion with old friends is marred by murder in this mystery by "the finest male English contemporary crime writer" (Val McDermid).
With his longtime girlfriend, Ellie, detective Peter Pascoe is off to Thornton Lacey for an exciting weekend reunion with a few of his college friends. However, upon arrival, he finds no cause for celebration. Instead, there's been a triple homicide, and one of his friends-the chief suspect-is...
Author
Series
Jane Austen Society mystery volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Antiquarian bookstore proprietor Erin Coleridge uses her sense and sensibility to deduce who killed the president of the local Jane Austen Society.
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Series
Tommy and Evelyn Christie mystery volume 5
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Tommy & Evelyn Christie have reluctantly agreed to host the wedding of Tommy's mother to Andrew Parsons, the Marquess of York, at their home Hessleham Hall. None of the happy couple's adult children support the marriage but when Andrew is found dead outside the wedding chapel on the morning of his wedding it seems one of them has taken their anger a step too far. To make matters worse, Tommy's younger brother, Harry, is missing and quickly becomes...
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