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Hypnotism has fascinated and inspired people since the mid-1800s, when entertainers and medical professionals enthusiastically took up this Far Eastern practice. This is the first popular, illustrated history of hypnosis. It tackles the (relatively) reputable aspects of the subject - brain imaging, clinical trials and hypnotherapy - alongside the smoke and mirrors of stage hypnosis.The ...
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- The British Library, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 12,15 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5630-5
EAN 9780712356305
Aunt Mildred declared that no good could come of the Melbury family Christmas gatherings at their country residence Flaxmere. So when Sir Osmond Melbury, the family patriarch, is discovered - by a guest dressed as Santa Klaus - with a bullet in his head on Christmas Day, the festivities are plunged into chaos. Nearly every ...
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- The British Library, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 9,35 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5610-7
EAN 9780712356107
Christmas is a mysterious, as well as magical, time of year. Strange things can happen, and this helps to explain the hallowed tradition of telling ghost stories around the fireside as the year draws to a close. Christmas tales of crime and detection have a similar appeal.When television becomes tiresome, and party games pall, the ...
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- The British Library, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 160 páginas
PVP: 16,85 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5776-0
EAN 9780712357760
Throughout the history of writing, dogs have captivated their owners with their loyalty and playfulness. The timeless and universal friendship between people and dogs has inspired great poets, novelists and short-story writers across the Western world to put pen to paper.This anthology celebrates dozens of the greatest dogs in literature as imagined by writers from ...
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- The British Library, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 160 páginas
PVP: 16,85 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5777-7
EAN 9780712357777
For thousands of years writers have delighted in the company of cats, observing all the quirks of their behaviour from kittenish play to the silent stalk of the night hunter. The place of the domestic cat in Western households has inspired great poets, novelists and short-story writers to invent classic fictional cats just as charming ...
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The Times Owen Bradwell is a courageous naval officer who returns to England in the 1930s. He believes that his career is over because he has become colour-blind - but with Nazi Germany an increasing menace, the authorities cannot do without Bradwell, and he is assigned a special mission.A former acquaintance of Bradwell's has been ...
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- The British Library, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 12,20 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5614-5
EAN 9780712356145
War is coming - and that means our secret agents must get busy.'August 1918. On his way to the Western Front, Captain Alan Clinton spends a night in Paris with a young Frenchwoman, Marie Roget. Seduced by Marie's charms, Clinton discloses British military secrets - with disastrous consequences.Seventeen years later.The central European state of Ronstadt ...
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- The British Library, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 10,20 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5601-5
EAN 9780712356015
No observer, ignorant of the situation, would have guessed that death lurked nearby, and that only a little distance from the glitter of silver and glass and the hum of voices two victims lay silent on a studio floor.'On a fine autumn weekend Lord Aveling hosts a hunting party at his country house, Bragley Court. ...
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- The British Library, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5621-3
EAN 9780712356213
Richard Temperley arrives at Euston station early on a fogbound London morning. He takes refuge in a nearby hotel, along with a disagreeable fellow passenger, who had snored his way through the train journey.But within minutes the other man has snored for the last time - he has been shot dead while sleeping in an ...
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There's more crime going on in Carey's Circus than in the whole underworld of London. Theft, immorality, blackmail - you'll find all the pretties here.'Seven Bengal tigers are the star attraction of Carey's Circus. Their trainer is the fearless Anton, whose work demands absolute fitness and the steadiest of nerves. When Anton is found lying ...
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- The British Library, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 15,15 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5615-2
EAN 9780712356152
Death of an Airman is an enjoyable and unorthodox whodunit from a writer whose short life was as remarkable as that of any of his fictional creations. When an aeroplane crashes, and its pilot is killed, Edwin Marriott, the Bishop of Cootamundra in Australia, is on hand. In England on leave, the Bishop has decided ...
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Have you ever wondered how to pan for gold, train a falcon or make a love potion? Could you restore a drowned person, smoke your own bacon or correctly address a Maharajah? If not, fear not - you will find the answer in this book. How to Skin a Lion is a fascinating collection of ...
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- The British Library, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5748-7
EAN 9780712357487
Holidays offer us the luxury of getting away from it all. So, in a different way, do detective stories. This collection of vintage mysteries combines both those pleasures.From a golf course at the English seaside to a pension in Paris, and from a Swiss mountain resort to the cliffs of Normandy, this new selection shows ...
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- The British Library, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 312 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5626-8
EAN 9780712356268
The Notting Hill Mystery has been widely described as the first detective novel. The story is told by the insurance investigator Ralph Henderson, who is building a case against the sinister Baron R , suspected of murdering his wife in order to claim her life insurance. Henderson descends into a maze of intrigue, including a ...
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- The British Library, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 15,15 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5779-1
EAN 9780712357791
'Mr Wills Crofts is deservedly a first favourite with all who want a real puzzle' - Times Literary Supplement 'He always manages to give us something that really keeps us guessing' - Daily Mirror George Surridge, director of the Birmington Zoo, is a man with many worries: his marriage is collapsing; his finances are insecure; ...
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Dr James Earle and his wife live in comfortable seclusion near the Hog's Back, a ridge in the North Downs in the beautiful Surrey countryside. When Dr Earle disappears from his cottage, Inspector French is called in to investigate. At first he suspects a simple domestic intrigue - and begins to uncover a web of ...
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- The British Library, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 32,45 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5780-7
EAN 9780712357807
This beautifully illustrated collection of food writing includes delectable scenes of cooking and feasting from novels and stories, poems that use food to tempt and seduce, and fine writing by and about great cooks. Napoleon famously declared that an army marched on its stomach; less familiar is the idea that great authors were as eager ...
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- The British Library, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5749-4
EAN 9780712357494
With its fascinating mix of people - rich and poor, British and foreign, worthy and suspicious - London is a city where anything can happen. The possibilities for criminals and for the crime writer are endless. London has been home to many of fiction's finest detectives, and the setting for mystery novels and short stories ...
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