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- The British Library, 2019
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PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5264-2
EAN 9780712352642
We are thrilled to welcome John Dickson Carr into the Crime Classics series with his first novel, a brooding locked room mystery in the gathering dusk of the French capital. In the smoke-wreathed gloom of a Parisian salon, Inspector Bencolin has summoned his allies to discuss a peculiar case. A would-be murderer, imprisoned for his ...
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- The British Library, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,60 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5204-8
EAN 9780712352048
The Garths had farmed their fertile acres for generations and fine land it was with the towering hills of the Lake Country on the far horizon. Garthmere Hall itself was old before Flodden Field, and here hot-tempered Robert Garth, still hale and hearty at eighty-two, ruled his household with a rod of iron. The peaceful ...
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- The British Library, 2019
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ISBN 978-0-7123-5288-8
EAN 9780712352888
From picturesque canals to the swirling currents of the ocean, a world of secrets lies buried beneath the surface of the water. Dubious vessels crawl along riverbeds, while the murky depths conceal more than one gruesome murder. The stories in this collection will dredge up delight in crime fiction fans, as watery graves claim unintended ...
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- The British Library, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 30,00 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5283-3
EAN 9780712352833
Written by leading Leonardo experts from London and Florence, and accompanying a major British Library exhibition, this fascinating new book reveals the central importance of motion in Leonardo's art and thought. Large-scale reproductions of Leonardo's handwritten notes include clear illustrations of dozens of pages from Codex Arundel, alongside other manuscripts and paintings. Leonardo's ingenious, cutting-edge ...
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- The British Library, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 176 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5278-9
EAN 9780712352789
Beards and Coffee, this witty history of wine - its cultivation and enjoyment - sheds light on the rich traditions of wine from around the world. An apt gift for oenophiles everywhere, it includes chapters on the development of wine production, from the use of casks to bottles to the switch from feet to presses, ...
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- The British Library, 2019
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ISBN 978-0-7123-5268-0
EAN 9780712352680
When Dr Raymond Ferens moves to a practice at Milham in the Moor in North Devon, he and his wife are enchanted with the beautiful hilltop village lying so close to moor and sky. At first they see only its charm, but soon they begin to uncover its secrets - envy, hatred and malice. Everyone ...
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- The British Library, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,15 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5228-4
EAN 9780712352284
At the Central Criminal Court, an eager crowd awaits the trial of Victoria Lamartine, an active participant in the Resistance during the war. She is now employed at the Family Hotel in Soho, where Major Eric Thoseby has been found murdered. The cause of death? A stabbing reminiscent of techniques developed by the Maquisards.While the ...
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- The British Library, 2019
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PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5213-0
EAN 9780712352130
A man is found dead in an escape tunnel in an Italian prisoner-of-war camp. Did he die in an accidental collapse - or was this murder? Captain Henry Cuckoo' Goyles, master tunneller and amateur detective, takes up the case. This classic locked-room mystery with a closed circle of suspects is woven together with a thrilling ...
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- The British Library, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 12,00 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5297-0
EAN 9780712352970
Horniman, Birley and Craine is a highly respected legal firm with clients reaching to the highest in the land. When a deed box in the office is opened to reveal a corpse, the threat of scandal promises to wreak havoc on the firm's reputation - especially as the murder looks like an inside job. The ...
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- The British Library, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 10,30 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5222-2
EAN 9780712352222
London. 1945. The capital is shrouded in the darkness of the blackout, and mystery abounds in the parks after dusk.During a stroll through Regent's Park, Bruce Mallaig witnesses two men acting suspiciously around a footbridge. In a matter of moments, one of them has been murdered; Mallaig's view of the assailant but a brief glimpse ...
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- The British Library, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 44,90 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5217-8
EAN 9780712352178
In this richly visual narrative, acclaimed historian Susan Schulten explores five centuries of American history through maps. From the voyages of European discovery to the digital age, she reveals the many ways that maps have shaped history. Whether made for military strategy or urban reform, to encourage settlement or to investigate disease, maps have the ...
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- The British Library, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 34,25 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5291-8
EAN 9780712352918
The British Library's map collection is the national cartographic collection of Britain and numbers around four million maps dating from 15 CE to 2017 CE. These include road maps drawn for 13th century pilgrims and sea charts for 17th-century pirates. They include the first printed map to show the Americas and the last to show ...
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- The British Library, 2018
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PVP: 15,20 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5286-4
EAN 9780712352864
Books; reading, collecting and the physical housing of them has brought the book-lover joy - and stress - for centuries. Fascinated writers have tried to capture the particular relationships we form with our library, and the desperate troubles we will undergo to preserve it. With Alex Johnson as your guide, immerse yourself in this eclectic ...
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- The British Library, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 28,50 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5261-1
EAN 9780712352611
The possibilities of flight have long fascinated us. Each innovation captivated a broad public, from those who gathered to witness winged medieval visionaries jumping from towers, to those who tuned in to watch the moon landings. Throughout history, the visibility of airborne objects from the ground has made for a spectacle of flight, with sizeable ...
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- The British Library, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5227-7
EAN 9780712352277
John Wilkins meets a beautiful, irresistible girl, and his world is turned upside down. Looking at his wife, and thinking of the girl, everything turns red before his eyes - the colour of murder. Telling the story of a murder, a trial, and the subsequent psychiatric evaluation, this award-winning crime novel from 1957 is a ...
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Lady Wainwright presides over the gothic gloom at Belting, in mourning for her two sons lost in the Second World War. Long afterwards a stranger arrives at Belting, claiming to be the missing David Wainwright - who was not killed after all, but held captive for years in a Russian prison camp. With Lady Wainwright's ...
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- The British Library, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
PVP: 23,15 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5246-8
EAN 9780712352468
H. P. Lovecraft is best known for his tales of cosmic horror, in which unnameable nightmares torment the limits of human consciousness.This mastery of weird and unspeakable terror is underpinned by the writer's sizeable contribution to Gothic fiction. This new collection of Lovecraft's stories is the first to concentrate on his Gothic writing and includes ...
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- The British Library, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5241-3
EAN 9780712352413
Through the double clamour of Big Ben and the shrill sound of the bell rang a revolver shot.' A financier is found shot in the House of Commons. Suspecting foul play, Robert West, a parliamentary private secretary, takes on the role of amateur sleuth. Used to turning a blind eye to covert dealings, West must ...
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- The British Library, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5214-7
EAN 9780712352147
'For the most part, the dead man received public sympathy. A decent, hardworking chap, with not an enemy anywhere. People were surprised that anybody should want to kill Jim.' But Jim has been drowned in the Dumb River, near Ely, miles from his Yorkshire home.His body, clearly dumped in the usually silent ( dumb') waterway, ...
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