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Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland Yard, recuperating from a broken leg, becomes fascinated with a contemporary portrait of Richard III that bears no resemblance to the Wicked Uncle of history. Could such a sensitive, noble face actually belong to one of the world’s most heinous villains—a venomous hunchback who may have killed his brother’s children to make his crown secure? Or could Richard have been the victim, turned into a monster by the usurpers of England’s throne? Grant determines to find out once and for all, with the help of the British Museum and an American scholar, what kind of man Richard Plantagenet really was and who killed the Little Princes in the Tower. The Daughter of Time is an ingeniously plotted, beautifully written, and suspenseful tale, a supreme achievement from one of mystery writing’s most gifted masters.

When the father of her illegitimate son becomes the front-runner in the race for the presidency of the United States, the complications have a profound impact on Isabel, her family, and her marriage.

This is a story describing a year in the life of a resident doctor and the struggles he and his wife go through.

Love blooms beneath the stars -- in that magical time when restless, lovelorn spirits follow their dreams to undreamed-of places... and whispered wishes of impossible romance are gloriously answered. Explore this breathtaking realm of hearts and wonders with four accomplished and admired authors of romantic fiction in timeless and unforgettable stories of sensuous, mystical, breathless passions born in the silver moonlight... and nurtured by STARDUST. THE WARLOCK'S DAUGHTER by Jennifer Blake Fearing her own inherited powers, a warlock's innocent daughter vows never to love -- but a dark and dashing man of mystery proves to be more than her match. A TOUCH OF WARMTH by Betina Krahn A sensuous, delightfully daring woodland sprite is trapped between flesh and fancy -- when she loses her heart to an attractive, unsuspecting and very mortal man. SWEET CREAM AND IRISH WHISKEY by Glenda Sanders A free-thinking theater owner is frustrated in her attempts to seduce a handsome, straight-laced director -- until a mischievous and meddlesome ghost abruptly enters the scene. SHADOW'S BEND by Jodi Thomas A young Chicago woman begins a dreamlike correspondence with a lonely, unseen stranger -- only to find herself swept away by a miraculous love that transcends time and space.

James Bond pits his nerve and cunning against a dangerously deranged opponent -- one prepared to sacrifice most of the Western world to prove that only he can make it safe from accidental nuclear holocaust.

A firsthand chronicle of a brutal season of bullfights. In this vivid account, Hemingway captures the exhausting pace and pressure of the season, the camaraderie and pride of the matadors, and the mortal drama as in fight after fight the rival matadors try to outdo each other with ever more daring performances.

The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905) is a play and adventure novel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy set during the Reign of Terror following the start of the French Revolution.

The whole art colony at Salcott St. Mary would have agreed with popular authoress Lavinia Finch when she remarked about her American guest: “I’m sure he must have been something very wicked in ancient Greece.” The too-handsome, rich, famous Leslie Searle had created havoc at Salcott. He was about to break up an engagement and ruin a smug broadcaster; he'd already insulted a leading playwright and caused a public scandal. Then - without reason or warning - he disappeared. And Inspector Grant of Scotland Yard was called in to investigate a case of possible amnesia, suicide, or homicide! -Los Angeles Times

The elderly Claudia Hampton, a best-selling author of popular history, lies alone in a London hospital bed. Memories of her life still glow in her fading consciousness, but she imagines writing a history of the world. Instead, Moon Tiger is her own history, the life of a strong, independent woman, with its often contentious relations with family and friends. At its center — forever frozen in time, the still point of her turning world — is the cruelly truncated affair with Tom, a British tank commander whom Claudia knew as a reporter in Egypt during World War II.

The time had come, so thought his superiors, for Anders to resign but no one really just walks away so they give him a pub to manage and tell him to wait. Soon another call for his services comes in as a Soviet assassin has the effrontery to take out an enemy on Western soil. The order is to remove the killer by any means.

Len Deighton's classic first novel, whoseprotagonist is a nameless spy – later christened Harry Palmer and made famous worldwide in the iconic 1960s film starring Michael Caine.The Ipcress File was not only Len Deighton's first novel, it was his first bestseller and the book that broke the mould of thriller writing.For the working class narrator, an apparently straightforward mission to find a missing biochemist becomes a journey to the heart of a dark and deadly conspiracy.The film of The Ipcress File gave Michael Caine one of his first and still most celebrated starring roles, while the novel itself has become a classic.

once I read the book I'll be happy to send descritive detail about the book; until I get a copy, hard or e, I've no information on it other than Drabble writes beautifully and the title is intriguing.

Once, when Benet was 14, her mother had tried to stab her with a carving knife. It was some time since she had seen her mad mother, so when she arrived at the airport, Benet tried not to hate her. But then the tragic death of a child begins a chain of deception, kidnap and murder.

In this collection of eleven stories, murder is committed for reasons of fear, jealously, cupidity, and out of sheer compulsion, while the settings include an African game park, a sinister ruined cemetery, an East Anglian seaside resort, and the gloomy purlieus of Epping Forest.

"A cupboard, a corpse, and a cache of family skeletons...The Ivorys lived in state, in London. All respectable. But when Frances warned her grandmother that 'something was going on,' it was the understatement of the decade. Upstairs, in a cupboard, there was soon to be a corpse, and when that came to light, out fell the whole file of well-suppressed family secrets and hatreds."

The story of Thomas Kerr of Ferniehirst and his loyal service to the beautiful ill-fated Mary Queen of Scots as both are caught up in the turmoil created by John Knox, the Regent Moray, Darnley, Rizzie, Bothwell and Elizabeth Tudor.

Attorney Matthew Hope takes on the case of beautiful heiress Sarah Whitaker, who is fighting court-ordered and family-supported commitment as a paranoid schizophrenic, and enters a world of delusion and murder.

Collection contains: - [Nunc Dimittis]( - [Taste]( - [Skin]( - [Royal Jelly]( - [My Lady Love, My Dove]( - [Galloping Foxley]( - [Parson's Pleasure](

"Spirited Henrietta wishes she was the kind of doctor's wife who knew exactly how to deal with the daily upheavals of war. But then, everyone in her close-knit Devonshire village seems to find different ways to cope: there's the indomitable Lady B, who writes to Hitler every night to tell him precisely what she thinks of him; the terrifyingly efficient Mrs Savernack, who relishes the opportunity to sit on umpteen committees and boss everyone around; flighty, flirtatious Faith who is utterly preoccupied with the latest hats and flashing her shapely legs; and then there's Charles, Henrietta's hard-working husband who manages to sleep through a bomb landing in their neighbour's garden. With life turned upside down under the shadow of war, Henrietta chronicles the dramas, squabbles and loyal friendships that unfold in her affectionate letters to her 'dear childhood friend' Robert."--Publisher description.

Consider Her Ways Jane Waterleigh has no memory of her past wakes up and discovers that she is a mother of some description, in a bloated body that is not her own. Odd is a tale of how an ordinary man profited from an extraordinary time paradox when he stops to help a man seemingly lost and confused, and then learns the reasons why. Stitch in Time concerns an elderly lady reflecting on a lost love and, thanks to her sons' experiments with time, finally discovering the reason why her lover abandoned her so many years ago. Oh Where, Now, is Peggy MacRafferty? is a social satire on Hollywood glamour in which a bright, individual young Irish woman becomes part of the celebrity circuit, and loses all that makes her special in the process of becoming a star. Random Quest combines romance and parallel universes. A Long Spoon is the story of how a demon is summoned by mistake and the lengths the couple that invoked him have to go to get rid of him without losing their souls in the bargain.

"Mary Ruble returned to Bayard at the beginning of those fateful weeks in June that were to change the lives of so many of the inhabitants of that pleasant little town. Now, with her college years finished, she was too unsure of what she wanted, too restless to marry James Nash as everyone had thought she would....Then the town was rocked by a sensational crime--a crime that touched many of the Bayard doctors and their wives."--Dust jacket.

Emma spends a year in a furnished house near a theater in a small provincial town in Herefordshire, England, and finds herself strongly drawn to an egocentric actor.

Hiding from the Nazis in the "Secret Annexe" of an old office building in Amsterdam, a thirteen-year-old girl named Anne Frank became a writer. The now famous diary of her private life and thoughts reveals only part of Anne's story, however. This book completes the portrait of this remarkable and talented young author.Tales from the Secret Annex is a complete collection of Anne Frank's lesser-known writings: short stories, fables, personal reminiscences, and an unfinished novel. Here, too, are portions of the diary originally withheld from publication by her father. By turns fantastical, rebellious, touching, funny, and heartbreaking, these writings reveal the astonishing range of Anne Frank's wisdom and imagination--as well as her indomitable love of life. Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex is a testaments to this determined young woman's extraordinary genius and to the persistent strength of the creative spirit.From the Paperback edition.

In spite of dire predictions, the rock festival in Kingsmarkham seemed to be going off without a hitch, until the hideously disfigured body is discovered in a nearby quarry. And soon Wexford is investigating the links between a local girl gone bad and a charismatic singer who inspires an unwholesome devotion in his followers. Some Lie and Some Die is a devilishly absorbing novel, in which Wexford's deductive powers come up against the aloof arrogance of pop stardom.

Eighteen highly entertaining mysteries will delight the connoisseur. Many of the stories here feature the famous detective, Albert Campion. Margery Allingham's skill at leading the reader through a wilderness of errors and misconceptions to a perfectly simple solution, and her power to disquiet the reader with the unexpected, are as much to the fore in these stories as they are in her classic novels of crime.

Martin Urban is a quiet bachelor with a comfortable life, free of worry and distractions. When he unexpectedly comes into a small fortune, he decides to use his newfound wealth to help out those in need. Finn also leads a quiet life, and comes into a little money of his own. Normally, their paths would never have crossed. But Martin’s ideas about who should benefit from his charitable impulses yield some unexpected results, and soon the good intentions of the one become fatally entangled with the mercenary nature of the other. In the Lake of Darkness, Ruth Rendell takes the old adage that no good deed goes unpunished to a startling, haunting conclusion.

From Goodreads: "Every English mansion has a locked room, and Grinton Hall is no exception - the library has hidden doors and passages and a corpse. But when the corpse goes missing, Sir John Appleby and Charles Honeybath have an even more perplexing case on their hands - just how did it disappear when the doors and windows were securely locked? A bevy of helpful houseguests offer endless assistance, but the two detectives suspect that they are concealing vital information. Could the treasures on the library shelves be so valuable that someone would murder for them?"

Stephen Whalby loves to walk the moor. He considers it his, although he and his young wife Lyn are merely tenants in a flat nearby. But the senseless and frightening murder of a young woman invades Stephen's sense of privacy and pollutes his beloved moor with suspicion and dread. And then a second murder captures his imagination in an unpredictable and fascinating way . . .

An inventor in 1930s England discovers a device that can bring civilisation to a standstill. He attempts to use this to compel the world to disarm.

Roald Dahl can stand on your head, twist you in knots, tie up your hands and leave you gasping for more. In this, his latest selection of short stories the surprises are as wicked and witty as ever. Taken from someone like you, Kiss Kiss and the wonderful world of Henry Sugar, plus four brand new stories, they lure you into a world as full of unease, coincidence and black humour as you could wish. Stories are: [Poison]( [Sound Machine]( [Genesis and Catastrophe]( [Georgy Porgy]( [Hitchhiker]( Umbrella Man Mr Botibol Vengeance in Mine Inc. Butler

Kif is a country boy, an orphan whose longing for a life beyond the fields and byres leads him to join the Army. In the mud and agony of Flanders he meets and makes friends with a wider variety of people than he would ever have believed possible—including the Cockney 'Angel Carroll', destined to have a vital impact on Kif's life. Josephine Tey's first book tells with moving simplicity the story of an innocent whose sufferings and poverty during the lean years after the First World War lead him gradually but inexorably into a life of crime, and so almost by accident—to his tragic end.

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After years of great sacrifice and deep personal tragedy, Florentyna Kane's has finally become the first woman president in America. But on the very day that she is sworn into office, powerful forces are already in motion to take her life. The FBI investigates thousands of false threats every year. This time, a reliable source has tipped them off about an assassination attempt. One hour later, the informant and all but one of the investigating agents are dead. The lone survivor: FBI Special Agent Mark Andrews. Now, only he knows when the killers will strike. But how can he alone unravel a ruthless conspiracy―in less than one week? The race to save the first woman president begins now…

Following on the enormous success and critical acclaim of Graham Greene's last novel, The Human Factor, comes Doctor Fischer of Geneva, a black entertainment which is also a profound study in human greed. At the center of this remarkable tour de France is the enigmatic Dr. Fischer millionaire, student of human nature, practical joker and party-goer. His parties are famous- or perhaps notorious... for they are part of his experiment to see just how far even (or especially) the very, very rich will go to satisfy their greed. A Grand Guignol entertainment observed by Dr. Fisher's son-in-law who discovers at the last moment that Dr. Fischer's guests risk not only humiliation at his hand, but death.

Two things interest Stanley Manning: crossword puzzles, and the substantial sum his wife Vera stands to inherit when his mother-in-law dies. Otherwise, life at 61 Lanchester Road is a living hell. For Mrs. Kinaway lives with them now—and she will stop at nothing to tear their marriage apart. One afternoon, Stanley sets aside his crossword puzzles and changes all their lives forever... In One Across, Two Down, master crime writer Ruth Rendell describes a man whose strained sanity and stained reputation transform him from a witless loser into a killer afraid of his own shadow. Mischievously plotted, smart, maddeningly entertaining, One Across, Two Down is a dark delight—classic Rendell.

Everyone wanted to tell Eugenia Liddiard what to do... her guardian, the worldly Countess of Chandos, was determined that Eugenia wed the first eligible aristocrat before the London season ran its course. Her self-appointed advisor, the former actress and current social lioness Lady Brassborough, did did her best to instruct Eugenia in the seductive skills and devious devices so essential for a young lady's success. Her elders...her relatives... her suitors...even the representatives of His Majesty's law...all were eager to take care of Eugenia. But when her a newly discovered and darkly handsome cousin turned to her as the last hope for recovering his birthright, Eugenia showed a shocked and startled Regency world how well she could take care of herself!

Some of them belonged to the elegance and intrigue of Mansfield Park... others could not stay away Mary -- the charming, duplicitous lady, determined to defy her fatal illness and to find a match for her bachelor brother... Henry -- the ever-fickle suitor, soon to be outfoxed at his own game... Tom -- the handsome, profligate gentleman whom love may soon civilize... Susan -- the poor cousin who must brave the obstacles of class and convention to win the man she has always loved, and the prize of Mansfield Park... Inspired by Jane Austen's beloved masterpiece Mansfield Park, Joan Aiken has written a brilliant novel of love and manners, status and social sham, and the gentle scheming of unforgettable characters.

A woman's body is found on the English seacoast, and twisted in her hair is an article screaming murder. For Inspector Alan Grant, the case becomes a nightmare, as too many clues and too many motives arise. (cc. Edmonton Public Library website.)

An intense and disturbing novel from the UK's most loved crime writerThe winter before he was sixteen, Pup sold his soul to the devil. He wasn't quite sure what he was going to get in exchange. For the time being, all he asked for was to be happy, and to grow a bit taller. Even though she was older than Pup, Dolly was always in awe of her brother. More and more, she wanted to believe that he had occult powers and could do anything. Magic could remove the birthmark from her face and make her normal. Magic could kill their wicked stepmother, Myra. Pup laughs when Dolly shows him an effigy of Myra: a rag doll, about fifteen inches high, with knitted nylon skin and rust-coloured wool hair. Dolly sticks it full of pins. Myra dies. With dazzling virtuosity Ruth Rendell explores a haunted world of obsession, delusions and murderous fantasy.

It started with fireballs raining down from the sky and crashing into the oceans' deeps. Then ships began sinking mysteriously and later 'sea tanks' emerged from the deeps to claim people . . .For journalists Mike and Phyllis Watson, what at first appears to be a curiosity becomes a global calamity. Helpless, they watch as humanity struggles to survive now that water – one of the compounds upon which life depends – is turned against them. Finally, sea levels begin their inexorable rise . . .The Kraken Wakes is a brilliant novel of how humankind responds to the threat of its own extinction and, ultimately, asks what we are prepared to do in order to survive.

One of Doyle's novels about the exploits of the intrepid Professor Challenger, this book was heavily influenced by the beliefs of Spiritualism, which Doyle became interested in after the death of his son, brother, and two nephews in the First World War.

Contains: - [Dip in the Pool]( - [Edward the Conqueror]( - [Galloping Foxley]( - [Lamb to the Slaughter]( - [Landlady]( - [Man from the South]( - [Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat]( - [My Lady Love, My Dove]( - [Neck]( - [Nunc Dimittis]( - [Parson's Pleasure]( - [Royal Jelly]( - [Skin]( - [Taste]( - [The Way Up to Heaven]( - [William and Mary](

A tale about kidnapping and murder in keeping with the mystique of Bony. In the town of Mitford, NSW, five babies have disappeared and a woman, the mother of one of the babies, has been murdered.

The Consul's File is a collection of short stories by Paul Theroux. All of the stories are set in post independence Malaysia, mostly in the small town of Ayer Hitam in Johor state and are narrated by the resident American Consul. Through his eyes the whole spectrum of life in 1960s Malaysia is brought to life with themes ranging from murder, political intrigue and adultery to ghosts, disappearances and simple character driven tales.

The Lethal Stuff of LegendsFor Jessica Tregarth, an unexpected invitation to visit her grandfather in England is a wonderful surprise -- an opportunity to open doors to a family past that have always been closed to her. But sinister acts greet her arrival. A stranger tries to steal her luggage and later accosts her in Salisbury Cathedral. Mysterious villains pursue her through Cornwall, their motive and intentions unknown. Jessica's only clue is an antique heirloom she possesses, an ancient ring that bears the Tregarth family crest. And her only ally is handsome gothic novelist David Randall -- her self-proclaimed protector -- who appears from seemingly out of nowhere to help her in her desperate -- attempt to solve a five hundred-year-old, puzzle. For something from out of the cloudy mists of Arthurian lore has come back to plague a frightened American abroad. And a remarkable truth about a fabled king and a medieval treasure could ultimately make Jess Tregarth very rich...or very dead.

Kirby is chosen to write a sequel to a bestselling novel whose author disappeared seven years earlier. When she goes to the author's hometown she is plagued by accidents and becomes embroiled in murder, mystery and romance.