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- The British Library, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 12,65 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5796-8
EAN 9780712357968
'Already it looked as if the police were up against a carefully planned and cleverly executed murder, and, what was more, a murder without a corpse!' Two brothers, John and William Rother, live together at Chalklands Farm in the beautiful Sussex Downs. Their peaceful rural life is shattered when John Rother disappears and his abandoned ...
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- The British Library, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 13,30 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5770-8
EAN 9780712357708
'The horror on the train, great though it may turn out to be, will not compare with the horror that exists here, in this house.' On Christmas Eve, heavy snowfall brings a train to a halt near the village of Hemmersby. Several passengers take shelter in a deserted country house, where the fire has been ...
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- The British Library, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 32,40 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5856-9
EAN 9780712358569
The 20th century was a golden age of map-making, and maps permeated almost every aspect of daily life. It was a century overshadowed by war which was also marked by tremendous social and technological change to which millions of contemporary maps bear witness. Most were created for a specific and immediate purpose, and have never ...
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- The British Library, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5745-6
EAN 9780712357456
'For a scream in the early hours of the morning in Soho, even from a female throat, to stop dead in his tracks a hard-boiled constable, it had to be something entirely out of the ordinary.' Soho during the blackouts of the Second World War. When a piercing scream rends the air and a bloodied ...
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- The British Library, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5759-3
EAN 9780712357593
The Female Detective was published in 1864 and it introduces the first professional female detective in British fiction, Mrs Gladden. Typical of detective fiction of its time, Forrester's book features various cases narrated by Gladden, whose deductive methods and energetic approach anticipate those of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. Mrs Gladden uses similar methods to ...
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- The British Library, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 15,15 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5726-5
EAN 9780712357265
For Miss Cordell, principal of Persephone College, there are two great evils to be feared: unladylike behaviour among her students, and bad publicity for the college. So her prim and cosy world is turned upside down when a secret society of undergraduates meets by the river on a gloomy January afternoon, only to find the ...
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- The British Library, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 11,60 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5725-8
EAN 9780712357258
'This detective novel is much more than interesting. The numerous characters are well differentiated, and include one of the most feckless, exasperating and lifelike literary men that ever confused a trail.' Dorothy L. Sayers, Sunday Times, 1934 When Miss Pongleton is found murdered on the stairs of Belsize Park station, her fellow-boarders in the Frampton ...
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- The British Library, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 14,60 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5715-9
EAN 9780712357159
'Never, even in his most optimistic moments, had he visualised a scene of this nature - himself in one arm-chair, a police officer in another, and between them - a mystery.' The Reverend Dodd, vicar of the quiet Cornish village of Boscawen, spends his evenings reading detective stories by the fireside - but heaven forbid ...
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'Luke flung the light of his torch full onto the face of the immobile figure. Then he had the shock of his life. The man had no face! Where his face should have been was a sort of inhuman, uniform blank!' When a body is found at an isolated garage, Inspector Meredith is drawn into ...
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- The British Library, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 15,35 €
ISBN 978-0-7123-5719-7
EAN 9780712357197
This new book is a celebration of love through the ages, gathering together more than 100 romantic illustrations from the flirtatious to the kitsch, the charming to the ironic. The vintage imagery is drawn from a huge range of sources - fashion magazines, medieval illuminated manuscripts, book covers, paintings and cartoons - and it ranges ...
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When Miriam Lea falls on hard times, an advertisement calling for private agents catches her eye, and within weeks she finds herself in Mr Bazalgette's employ as a private detective, travelling on a train to Hamburg in pursuit of an audacious fraudster. What follows is a journey through some of the great cities of Europe ...
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Books as History
The Importance of Books Beyond Their Texts
- The British Library, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
ISBN 978-0-7123-5888-0
EAN 9780712358880
People usually think of books in terms of their contents, their texts, with less thought for books as artefacts. In fact books may possess all kinds of potentially interesting qualities beyond their texts, as designed or artistic objects, or because they have unique properties deriving from the ways they have been printed, bound, annotated, beautified ...
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Following the success of its first set of authors reading their own short stories, The British Library is proud to present a second volume featuring a further fifteen stories. As before, the majority of the recordings take the form of historic broadcasrs sourced from the BBC, to which a handful of rare live recordings have ...
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