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- The British Library, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5226-0
EAN 9780712352260
The 1939 Arsenal side is firing on all cylinders and celebrating a string of victories. They appear unstoppable, but the Trojans - a side of amateurs who are on a winning streak of their own - may be about to silence the Gunners. Moments into the second half the whistle blows, but not for a ...
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- The British Library, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 23,30 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5221-5
EAN 9780712352215
This book tells the story of crime fiction published during the first half of the twentieth century. The diversity of this much-loved genre is breathtaking, and so much greater than many critics have suggested. To illustrate this, the leading expert on classic crime discusses one hundred books ranging from The Hound of the Baskervilles to ...
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- The British Library, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5211-6
EAN 9780712352116
'I'm taking a revolver to Thrackley. You never know with blokes like Carson. I hate these harmless, potty people - they're always up to something.'Jim Henderson is one of six guests summoned by the mysterious Edwin Carson, a collector of precious stones, to a weekend party at his country house, Thrackley.The house is gloomy and ...
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- The British Library, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 11,60 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5247-5
EAN 9780712352475
A Christmas party is punctuated by a gunshot under a policeman's watchful eye. A jewel heist is planned admist the glitz and glamour of Oxford Street's Christmas shopping. Lost in a snowstorm, a man finds a motive for murder.This collection of mysteries explores the darker side of the festive season - from unexplained disturbances in ...
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- The British Library, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 12,15 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5201-7
EAN 9780712352017
'From the point of view of the nation, it's a good thing that he died.'Great Barwick's least popular man is murdered on a train. Twelve jurors sit in court. Four suspects are identified - but which of them is on trial?This novel has all the makings of a classic murder mystery, but with a twist: ...
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- The British Library, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5240-6
EAN 9780712352406
I was suddenly struck with the sight of a trail of rich red vegetation of several miles in the midst of the eternal snows. I approached with curiosity this oasis in the frozen desert.'An antique shop owner gets a glimpse of the red planet through an intriguing artefact. A Martian's wife contemplates the possibility of ...
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- The British Library, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5280-2
EAN 9780712352802
'I should be very much happier if she were dead.'Edward Powell lives with his Aunt Mildred in the Welsh town of Lywll. His aunt thinks Lywll an idyllic place to live, but Edward loathes the countryside - and thinks the company even worse. In face, Edward has decided to murder his aunt.A darkly humorous depiction ...
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- The British Library, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5270-3
EAN 9780712352703
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- The British Library, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 11,60 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5260-4
EAN 9780712352604
The Second World War is drawing to a close. Nicholas Vaughan, released from the army after an accident, takes refuge in Devon - renting a thatched cottage in the beautiful countryside at Mallory Fitzjohn. Vaughan sets to work farming the land, rearing geese and renovating the cottage.Hard work and rural peace seem to make this ...
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- The British Library, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5255-0
EAN 9780712352550
Bruce Attleton dazzled London's literary scene with his first two novels - but his early promise did not bear fruit. His wife Sybilla is a glittering actress, unforgiving of Bruce's failure, and the couple lead separate lives in their house at Regent's Park. When Bruce is called away on a sudden trip to Paris, he ...
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- The British Library, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 24,00 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5215-4
EAN 9780712352154
The tavern, the inn, the coffee house, the tea shop: these are places where, throughout history, we have met and socialised and where the issues of the day could be discussed over a drink. Rough Spirits and High Society shows the surprising, often subversive ways in which drinking has changed the world, and the ways ...
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- The British Library, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 9,40 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5235-2
EAN 9780712352352
'The death was an odd one, it was true; but there was after all no very clear reason to assume it was anything but natural.' In the winter of 1942, England lies cold and dark in the wartime blackout. One bleak evening, Councillor Grayling steps off the 6.12 from Euston, carrying GBP120 in cash, and ...
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- The British Library, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5699-2
EAN 9780712356992
Today, translated crime fiction is in vogue - but this was not always the case. A century before Scandi noir, writers across Europe and beyond were publishing detective stories of high quality. Often these did not appear in English and they have been known only by a small number of experts.This is the first ever ...
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- The British Library, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 10,10 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5686-2
EAN 9780712356862
"Powerful and impressive ...there is a fine inevitability in the plot structure which gives it true tragic quality' - Dorothy L. Sayers Adrian Gray was born in May 1862 and met his death through violence, at the hands of one of his own children, at Christmas, 1931. Thus begins a classic crime novel published in ...
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- The British Library, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 11,60 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5688-6
EAN 9780712356886
Ted Lyte, amateur thief, has chosen an isolated house by the coast for his first robbery. But Haven House is no ordinary country home. While hunting for silverware to steal, Ted stumbles upon a locked room containing seven dead bodies.Detective Inspector Kendall takes on the case with the help of passing yachtsman Thomas Hazeldean. The ...
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- The British Library, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 96 páginas
PVP: 22,45 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5693-0
EAN 9780712356930
Sumptuously illustrated with eighty maps from the British Library's unrivalled collection, this gorgeous children's book whisks its reader around the globe. Like that of Jules Verne's famous hero, the journey begins and ends in London, plotting an eastwards route with stop-offs at some of the world's most fascinating places. There are extraordinary details to pore ...
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- The British Library, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 9,35 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5687-9
EAN 9780712356879
In classic British crime fiction, dazzling detective work is often the province of a brilliant amateur - whereas the humble police detective cuts a hapless figure. The twelve stories collected here strike a blow for the professionals, with teasing mysteries to challenge hard-working police officers' persistence and scrupulous attention to detail. As in his previous ...
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- The British Library, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 12,45 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5691-6
EAN 9780712356916
'Small hostilities were growing; vague jealousies were gaining strength; and far off, wasn't there a nebulous hint of approaching tragedy in the air?' Welworth Garden City in the 1940s is a forward-thinking town where free spirits find a home - vegetarians, socialists, and an array of exotic religious groups. Chief among these are the Children ...
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- The British Library, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5679-4
EAN 9780712356794
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- The British Library, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 12,15 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5602-2
EAN 9780712356022
Prince's College, Cambridge, is a peaceful and scholarly community, enlivened by Prudence Pinsent, the Master's daughter. Spirited, beautiful, and thoroughly unconventional, Prudence is a remarkable young woman. One fine morning she sets out for Suffolk to join her cousin Lord Wellende for a few days' hunting.On the way Prudence encounters Captain Studde of the coastguard ...
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