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Author: Carola Dunn
Publisher: Kensington Books
Published: 2006-11-28
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780758215987
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher's summer holiday by the sea with her husband, Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher of Scotland Yard, and her stepdaughter, Belinda, is thrown into turmoil by the discovery of a local innkeeper's body.
Author: Carola Dunn
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Published: 2005-09-01
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780312335892
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the summer of 1924, the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher is off on a summer holiday by the sea with her step-daughter Belinda and Belinda's chum Deva, and her husband, Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher of Scotland Yard. Daisy is anticipating a relaxing, non-dramatic holiday. But Daisy doesn't have that kind of luck. It seems that a local low-rent Don Juan has been busily seducing the local womanfolk and, in a town this small, no secret is kept for long. A fact that is amply illustrated when the Fletcher's simple picnic is interrupted by the discovery of a broken body at the foot of the cliff--that of the philandering local innkeeper of bad memory. Like Jacqueline Winspear's much praised novels about Maisy Dobbs, Carola Dunn vividly evokes the life and times of 1920's England wrapped in a classic mystery to delight her many fans.
Author: Janet Gleeson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2001-02-21
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 0743211898
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →On the death of France's most glorious king, Louis XIV, in 1715, few people benefited from the shift in power more than the intriguing financial genius from Edinburgh, John Law. Already notorious for killing a man in a duel and for acquiring a huge fortune from gambling, Law had proposed to the English monarch that a bank be established to issue paper money with the credit based on the value of land. But Queen Anne was not about to take advice from a gambler and felon. So, in exile in Paris, he convinced the bankrupt court of Louis XV of the value of his idea. Law soon engineered the revival of the French economy and found himself one of the most powerful men in Europe. In August 1717, he founded the Mississippi Company, and the Court granted him the right to trade in France's vast territory in America. The shareholders in his new trading company made such enormous profits that the term "millionaire" was coined to describe them. Paris was soon in a frenzy of speculation, conspiracies, and insatiable consumption. Before this first boom-and-bust cycle was complete, markets throughout Europe crashed, the mob began calling for Law's head, and his visionary ideas about what money could do were abandoned and forgotten. In Millionaire, Janet Gleeson lucidly reconstructs this epic drama where fortunes were made and lost, paupers grew rich, and lords fell into penury -- and a modern fiscal philosophy was born. Her enthralling tragicomic tale reveals two great characters: John Law, with his complex personality and inscrutable motives, and money itself, whose true nature even to this day remains elusive.
Author: Frank Pittman
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1990-11-06
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780393307078
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Infidelity is the most common major crisis of marriage. In this wise book, a psychiatrist and family therapist discusses four kinds of infidelity, why they happen, and what they mean.
Author: P. G. Wodehouse
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
Published: 2022-02-08T17:58:17Z
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An American composer, George Bevan, falls in love with a mysterious young lady who takes refuge in his taxicab one day. He tracks her down to an English country manor, where a case of mistaken identity leads to all manner of comedy and excitement. The novel was first serialized in The Saturday Evening Post in 1919. It was later adapted into a silent film, a stage play, and a musical starring Fred Astaire. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Author: Carola Dunn
Publisher: Kensington Books
Published: 2009-01-27
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780758229212
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Research into the dark history of the Tower of London takes the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher straight into a modern-day murder investigation, in this charming addition to the series. Martin's Press.
Author: Carola Dunn
Publisher: Kensington Books
Published: 2006-08-29
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780758216007
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →During the post-war turbulence of 1920s England, the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple shocks her family by getting a job writing, a position that leads her to Wentwater Court, a manor house full of jealousy and murder. Reprint.
Author: Bernard Shaw
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2022-06-13
Total Pages: 110
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →'The Philanderer' begins with a young widow, Grace Tranfield, in love with Leonard Charteris, the 'philanderer' of the title. Grace is shocked to find that Charteris has been in a similar position with other women and learns that his affair with a woman named Julia has never been broken off. Charteris argues that it is not his fault that half the women he speaks to fall in love with him when suddenly Julia enters, has a wild outburst of emotions, attacks Grace, and announces her intention of staying until Charteris has given her up. Several interesting events follow the story of the "philanderer."
Author: Graham Greene
Publisher:
Published: 2010-10-02
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781407086811
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Colleen Barnett
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Published: 2010-12-31
Total Pages: 1090
ISBN-13: 1615950109
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Like other fictional characters, female sleuths may live in the past or the future. They may represent current times with some level of reality or shape their settings to suit an agenda. There are audiences for both realism and escapism in the mystery novel. It is interesting, however, to compare the fictional world of the mystery sleuth with the world in which readers live. Of course, mystery readers do not share one simplistic world. They live in urban, suburban, and rural areas, as do the female heroines in the books they read. They may choose a book because it has a familiar background or because it takes them to places they long to visit. Readers may be rich or poor; young or old; conservative or liberal. So are the heroines. What incredible choices there are today in mystery series! This three-volume encyclopedia of women characters in the mystery novel is like a gigantic menu. Like a menu, the descriptions of the items that are provided are subjective. Volume 3 of Mystery Women as currently updated adds an additional 42 sleuths to the 500 plus who were covered in the initial Volume 3. These are more recently discovered sleuths who were introduced during the period from January 1, 1990 to December 31, 1999. This more than doubles the number of sleuths introduced in the 1980s (298 of whom were covered in Volume 2) and easily exceeded the 347 series (and some outstanding individuals) described in Volume 1, which covered a 130-year period from 1860-1979. It also includes updates on those individuals covered in the first edition; changes in status, short reviews of books published since the first edition through December 31, 2008.
