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41 produkter
Thrones, Dominations
The Enthralling Continuation of Dorothy L. Sayers' Beloved Series
Av Dorothy L Sayers, Jill Paton Walsh
Häftad, 2014
142 kr
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'An engrossing, intelligent and provocative novel in the guise of a conventional mystery' - New York Times Book Review'A superb job of seamless collaboration. Thrones, Dominations is pure pleasure.' - Wall Street Journal1936. Lord Peter Wimsey has returned from his honeymoon, eager to settle into …
Wyndham Case
A Locked Room Murder Mystery set in Cambridge
Häftad, 2006
143 kr
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'A jewel in the traditional English detective mode . . . Ms. Morse has arrived' ObserverAccording to certain Cambridge scholars, the locked library of St Agatha's College is home to an unrivalled - and deeply uninteresting - collection of seventeenth century volumes. It also contains one dead …
Debts of Dishonour
A Riveting Mystery set in Cambridge
Häftad, 2006
143 kr
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'An entertaining read' - Sunday TimesWhy did Sir Julius Farran die?Hoping to attract a generous endowment, St Agatha's College, Cambridge, invites the fabulously wealthy Sir Julius Farran to dine. The evening is a disaster for everyone except the college nurse, Imogen Quy, who Farran invites her to …
Late Scholar
A Gripping Oxford College Murder Mystery
Häftad, 2014
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (6)
142 kr
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'Cleverly plotted . . . Walsh's pitch-perfect re-creation of the charismatic leads is a delight' - Publishers Weekly'Delicious' - BooklistLord Peter Wimsey is delighted to discover that along with a dukedom he has inherited the duties of 'visitor' at an Oxford college. When the fellows ask him to …
A Presumption of Death: A Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane Mystery
Häftad, 2004
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
368 kr
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Piece of Justice
A Cosy Cambridge Mystery
Häftad, 2006
143 kr
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'Imogen Quy positively sparkles on the page as an amateur sleuth' - Sunday ExpressWhat is the Summerfield secret?Biography is usually a safe profession. But more than one biographer has found that writing about the late mathematician Gideon Summerfield has nasty consequences. Consequences that can …
Presumption of Death
A Gripping World War II Murder Mystery
Av Jill Paton Walsh, Dorothy L Sayers m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
3,3 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (3)
142 kr
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'Miraculously right: catching precisely the tone of the relationship . . . thrilling' - The Times'A must for all Wimsey lovers . . . an entertaining read' - Northern EchoIt's 1940, and while the Second World War rages on, Harriet Vane - now Lady Peter Wimsey - has taken her children to safety in …
Green Book
Häftad, 2012
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
114 kr
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" The Green Book is a clever and beautifully shaped little combination of future fiction and metafiction. . .It is the record of the exodus of a group of Britons from a dying Earth to a new planet. . .The naïve courage of the children. . .saves the colony." --Starred, School Library Journal
Bad Quarto
A Gripping Cambridge Murder Mystery
Häftad, 2007
143 kr
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'Jill Paton Walsh has created a Miss Marple for the 21st century' - Mirror'A jewel in the traditional English detective mode . . . Ms. Morse has arrived' - ObserverAnother foolhardy Cambridge college night climber has died attempting Harding's Folly. This time it's John Talentire, one of the …
Attenbury Emeralds
Return to Golden Age Glamour in this Enthralling Gem of a Mystery
Häftad, 2011
3,8 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (8)
142 kr
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'A delight.' - Irish Times'A pitch-perfect Golden Age mystery . . . a gem of a period puzzle' - Financial TimesThirty years ago, Lord Peter Wimsey encountered the Attenbury emeralds. The recovery of Lord Attenbury's magnificent gem made headlines - and launched the shell-shocked young aristocrat on …
Knowledge Of Angels
Man Booker prize shortlist
Häftad, 1998
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
152 kr
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THE EXQUISITE PHILOSOPHOCAL FABLE, SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE'This remarkable novel resembles an illuminated manuscript mapped with angels and mountains and signposts, an allegory for today and yesterday too. A beautiful, unsettling moral fiction about virtue and intolerance' ObserverAt …
Dolphin Crossing
Häftad, 2012
198 kr
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A gripping wartime adventure story for young readers, The Dolphin Crossing (first published in 1967) marked the fiction debut of Jill Paton Walsh, subsequently a celebrated author of detective stories and novels for adults.The Dolphin Crossing is set in 1940 at the height of the Second World War, …
Birdy and the Ghosties
E-bok, 2012
22 kr
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Sometimes, Birdy watches her father row people across the dangerous sea, but when the wrinkled old woman asks to be ferried across, Birdy jumps in too. The woman tells Birdy that she has second sight, but Birdy isn''t sure she wants this special gift. However, soon she finds that looking twice at …
Thomas and the Tinners
Gripping Tales
E-bok, 2012
22 kr
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The miner''s work is hard-they need pasties to keep them going. When Thomas shares his pasty with a small miner, he is rewarded with a wish. But soon, more miners appear and Thomas regrets his kindness-until he faces an even bigger problem...
Thrones, Dominations
Av Dorothy L. Sayers, Jill Paton Walsh
Häftad, 1999
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
338 kr
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Late Scholar
Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane Investigate
Av Dorothy L. Sayers, Jill Paton Walsh
E-bok, 2014
190 kr
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When a dispute among the Fellows of St. Severin''s College, Oxford University, reaches a stalemate, Lord Peter Wimsey discovers that as the Duke of Denver he is "the Visitor"—charged with the task of resolving the issue. It is time for Lord Peter and his detective novelist wife, Harriet, to revisit …
Thrones, Dominations
A Lord Peter Wimsey / Harriet Vane Mystery
Av Jill Paton Walsh, Dorothy L. Sayers
E-bok, 1999
190 kr
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Deemed "one of the greatest mystery writers of this century" by the Los Angeles Times , Dorothy L. Sayers first captivated readers nearly seventy years ago with her beloved sleuths Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane in the novel Stong Poison. In Busmans''s Honeymoon , her last completed Wimsey/Vane …
Attenbury Emeralds
A Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane Mystery
E-bok, 2011
190 kr
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In 1936, Dorothy L. Sayers abandoned the last Lord Peter Wimsey detective story. Sixty years later, a brown paper parcel containing a copy of the manuscript was discovered in her agent''s safe in London, and award-winning novelist Jill Paton Walsh was commissioned to complete it. The result of the …
Presumption of Death
A Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane Mystery
E-bok, 2007
190 kr
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Sixty years after Dorothy L. Sayers began her unfinished Lord Peter Wimsey novel, Thrones Dominations , Booker Prize finalist Jill Paton Walsh took on the challenge of completing the manuscript---with extraordinary success. "The transition is seamless," said the San Francisco Chronicle; "you cannot …
Bad Quarto
A Gripping Cambridge Murder Mystery
E-bok, 2012
68 kr
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''Jill Paton Walsh has created a Miss Marple for the 21st century'' - Mirror ''A jewel in the traditional English detective mode . . . Ms. Morse has arrived'' - Observer Another foolhardy Cambridge college night climber has died attempting Harding''s Folly. This time it''s John Talentire, one of …
Piece of Justice
A Cosy Cambridge Mystery
E-bok, 2011
60 kr
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'' Imogen Quy positively sparkles on the page as an amateur sleuth'' - Sunday Express What is the Summerfield secret? Biography is usually a safe profession. But more than one biographer has found that writing about the late mathematician Gideon Summerfield has nasty consequences. Consequences that …
Late Scholar
A Gripping Oxford College Murder Mystery
E-bok, 2013
2,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
43 kr
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''Cleverly plotted . . . Walsh''s pitch-perfect re-creation of the charismatic leads is a delight'' - Publishers Weekly ''Delicious'' - Booklist Lord Peter Wimsey is delighted to discover that along with a dukedom he has inherited the duties of ''visitor'' at an Oxford college. When the fellows ask …
Debts of Dishonour
A Riveting Mystery set in Cambridge
E-bok, 2012
59 kr
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''An entertaining read'' - Sunday Times Why did Sir Julius Farran die? Hoping to attract a generous endowment, St Agatha''s College, Cambridge, invites the fabulously wealthy Sir Julius Farran to dine. The evening is a disaster for everyone except the college nurse, Imogen Quy, who Farran invites …
Desert In Bohemia
E-bok, 2011
99 kr
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It is 1945. Somewhere in Central Europe, in the aftermath of violence and confusion, a terrified and bloodstained young woman, Eliska, emerges from the forest to take refuge in an apparently abandoned castle. Soon she is joined by others - the idealistic Jiri, the sinister Slavomir and his …
Serpentine Cave
E-bok, 2011
102 kr
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When Marion's mother is silenced, first by a stroke, and then by death, she is left confronting the chaotic detritus of a life obsessively devoted to art. she has left it too late to ask the crucial questions about scenes confusedly remembered from her childhood, and above all about the identity of …
Knowledge Of Angels
Man Booker prize shortlist
E-bok, 2011
102 kr
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THE EXQUISITE PHILOSOPHOCAL FABLE, SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE'This remarkable novel resembles an illuminated manuscript mapped with angels and mountains and signposts, an allegory for today and yesterday too. A beautiful, unsettling moral fiction about virtue and intolerance' ObserverAt …
Green Book
E-bok, 2012
113 kr
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Jill Paton Walsh''s classic science fiction novel The Green Book is now available from Square Fish with a brand–new cover! Pattie and her family are among the last refugees to flee a dying Earth in an old spaceship. And when the group finally lands on the distant planet which is to be their new …
Fireweed
E-bok, 2013
72 kr
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A re-issue of a forgotten favourite, FIREWEED is an evocative and unflinching story of wartime survival for younger readers Bill is a fifteen-year-old runaway evacuee, and he''s finding that surviving on the streets of London is pretty easy, thank you very much. He''s fed by a local cafe owner, he …
