Hard Frost

Hard Frost PDF

Author: R D Wingfield

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2010-09-30

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 1407068032

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‘Fast-paced and wryly amusing... A delight from start to finish’ – Val McDermid Detective Inspector Jack Frost is having a hard time. A young boy is found dead in a rubbish heap, suffocated and with one finger cut off. Another boy is missing. A psychopath is stabbing babies as they lie sleeping in their cots. A fifteen-year-old has been abducted, then found naked by the roadside. Frost is up to his neck in crime. And the problems keep coming. The corpse of a petty criminal is discovered, with the tops of three fingers chopped off. The small children of a carpet fitter are murdered; his wife's body is found on the railway line. A supermarket MD is sent a ransom demand for the missing boy, accompanied by one of the child's fingers... Jack Frost, scruffy and insubordinate, foul-mouthed and fearless, staggers from crisis to crisis. But beneath his bumbling exterior lie extraordinary powers of detection...

The Natural History & Antiquities of Selborne in the County of Southampton

The Natural History & Antiquities of Selborne in the County of Southampton PDF

Author: Gilbert White

Publisher:

Published: 1905

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13:

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White is regarded by many as England's first ecologist, and one of those who shaped the modern attitude of respect for nature. White and William Markwick collected records of the dates of emergence of more than 400 plant and animal species, White recording in Hampshire and Markwick in Sussex between 1768 and 1793. These data, summarised in The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne as the earliest and latest dates for each event over the 25-year period, are among the earliest examples of modern phenology. His 1783-84 diary corroborates the dramatic climatic impacts of the volcanic 'Laki haze' that spread from Iceland with lethal consequences across Europe.