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Choosing Single Malts by Flavour
Inbunden, 2018
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
251 kr
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This book on single malt whisky makes an excellent guide for all whisky drinkers, from the novice to the connoisseur. Single malt whisky is the fastest expanding sector of the booming whisky market. Over half of Scotland’s whisky distilleries are open to visitors and visitor numbers reached record …
Last Rites
Häftad, 2002
154 kr
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It is the morning after the nocturnal rite of the good Goddess, an all-female ceremony strictly out of bounds to the male of the species, and the body of a young woman has been found, her throat cut. Suicide or murder?Hoping to avoid scandal, Senator Lucius Arruntius calls in Marcus Corvinus to do …
In at the Death
Häftad, 2007
170 kr
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The surprise suicide of a young man with - apparently - everything to live for, prompts his family to ask Marcus Corvinus to investigate. All they really want is an explanation. But Marcus's sleuthing uncovers many contradictory elements in the tale, and he is forced to conclude that this wasn't …
Illegally Dead
Häftad, 2008
144 kr
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When Corvinus receives a letter, with a tantalising PS, from his adopted daughter, Marilla, mentioning there might have been a murder, he hot-foots it to Castrimoenium at once. Not that everyone agrees that Lucius Hostilius was murdered. Poison was apparently the means of death, but Lucius was …
Vote for Murder
E-bok, 2011
45 kr
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''It''s a funny thing about holidays in the country, but after only a few days away you feel as if you''ve been out of circulation for a month'' Marcus Corvinus'' break in the Alban Hills is interrupted by the sudden and messy death of a candidate for the local censorship post. Can Corvinus find …
Illegally Dead
E-bok, 2011
39 kr
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When Corvinus receives a letter, with a tantalising PS, from his adopted daughter, Marilla, mentioning there might have been a murder, he hot-foots it to Castrimoenium at once. Not that everyone agrees that Lucius Hostilius was murdered. Poison was apparently the means of death, but Lucius was …
In at the Death
E-bok, 2010
40 kr
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The surprise suicide of a young man with – apparently – everything to live for, prompts his family to ask Marcus Corvinus to investigate. All they really want is an explanation. But Marcus’s sleuthing uncovers many contradictory elements in the tale, and he is forced to conclude that this wasn’t …
I, Virgil
E-bok, 2011
51 kr
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Visionary, scholar, idealist, poet and author of a momentous epic and other timeless works, Wishart''s Virgil is a man of contradictions: celibate but capable of great love; stuffy, sometimes prudish but often extremely warm and open; shy but with a talent for friendship and a certain magnetism. …
Ovid
E-bok, 2011
55 kr
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Ovid was banished by the Emperor Augustus and died in exile ten years late. No one known why he was banished. Years after Ovid''s death Marcus Corvinus, grandson of the poet''s patron, tries to arrange the return of his ashes to Rome for burial. But official permission is refused; and Corvinus …
Nero
E-bok, 2011
45 kr
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The one ''fact'' that everyone knows about Emperor Nero is that he fiddled while Rome burned. But what elements of nature and nuture combined to make this notorious character? An entertaining view is presented by Titus Petronius, Nero''s pleasure-loving Advisor on Taste, through whose eyes we see …
Germanicus
E-bok, 2011
51 kr
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Marcus Corvinus feels his heart sink when he is summoned by Empress Livia. Age has not sweetened her and she''s about as trustworthy as a snake with a migraine. But Livia has a way of asking a favour that is impossible to refuse - which is how Marcus finds himself investigating the death of her …
Sejanus
E-bok, 2011
50 kr
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Immediately after his father''s funeral, Marcus is approached by two senators who want him to dig up some dirt on Sejanus, emperor Tiberius''s deputy and likely successor. Despite the dangers, Marcus cannot resist the thrill of more detective work, and his investigations uncover a trail of treason, …
Lydian Baker
E-bok, 2011
50 kr
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In voluntary exile in Athens, Marcus Corvinus receives a letter from his antiquarian stepfather Priscus, who has learned that the 4¬? ft solid gold statue of a female baker, one of a large number of valuable gifts to the Delphic Oracle by the 6th century BC King Croesus of Lydia, has reappeared and …
Horse Coin
E-bok, 2011
51 kr
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Britain AD59: The scars of Roman conquest are still livid, the clash of two disparate cultures a source of bitterness and conflict. The Roman ruling class believe it is their duty to civilise the natives; the British tribes chafe under the conquerors'' yoke. Marcus Julius Severinus, a young …
Old Bones
E-bok, 2011
40 kr
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Laddish Marcus Corvinus is spending his time in ancient Tuscany, sampling wine and ogling local talent (under the beady eye of his lovely wife Perilla) when his stepfather is accused of murder. It doesn''t take long for Marcus to get him off the hook, but finding the true culprit is rather …
Last Rites
E-bok, 2011
39 kr
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It is the morning after the nocturnal rite of the good Goddess, an all-female ceremony strictly out of bounds to the male of the species, and the body of a young woman has been found, her throat cut. Suicide or murder? Hoping to avoid scandal, Senator Lucius Arruntius calls in Marcus Corvinus to do …
White Murder
E-bok, 2011
51 kr
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When Pegasus, racing mega-star and lead driver of the Whites faction, is found stabbed to death in the alleyway beside a wineshop, Marcus Corvinus is already on site. The local District Watch - crooked to a man - claim that the killer''s motive was a simple theft. Tracking the murderer down with …
Parthian Shot
E-bok, 2011
51 kr
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If there is one thing Marcus Corvinus hates more than doing the household accounts, it is politics. So when he is interrupted in the former to get involved in the latter, he is not best pleased. His brief is to conduct an unofficial investigation into an attack on the Parthian Prince Phraates, a …
Food for the Fishes
E-bok, 2011
51 kr
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When Licinius Murena, wealthy owner of a fish-farm, is found dead, drowned in one of his own eel tanks, not many tears are shed. Certainly not by Trebbio, who had just been booted out of his cottage by the landowner, and was heard bad-mouthing him drunkenly in public the day before Murena''s death. …
