Sicken and So Die
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| Author | Wayne F. Hill |
| ISBN | 0517885395 |
The sharpest stings ever to snap from the tip of an English-speaking tongue are here at hand, ready to be directed at the knaves, villains, and coxcombs of the reader's choice. Culled from 38 plays, here are the best 5,000 examples of Shakespeare's glorious invective, arranged by play, in order of appearance,...
| Author | Thomas Godfrey |
| ISBN | 0892963557 |
Nothing could seem more civilized, more orderly and sedate than a weekend at one of Great Britain's country estates. Yet these staid, conservative houses play host to a wider variety of murders than do the mean streets of America's darkest cities.
Contents:
The adventure of the Abbey...
| Author | Peter Lovesey |
| ISBN | 0396066275 |
A sadistic practical joker is haunting the popular music halls of London, interfering with the actors and interrupting their acts by orchestrating humiliating disasters that take place in view of the audience. A trapeze artist misses her timing when the trapeze ropes are shortened. A comedian who...
| Author | W.B. Yeats |
| ISBN | 0020715404 |
Yeats’ speaks with a more moving and emotionally engaging voice about the middle of his long writing career in 1914-15 with poems like the short “A Coat”, “The Magi”, and the powerful “Easter 1916” about the failed Irish revolt whose participants were all but one executed. The memorable...
| Author | Charles Boyce |
| ISBN | 0385313616 |
-What famous essayist insisted that Shakespeare's play were unfit for performance?-Which two plays center on the Hundred Years' War?
-In which scene of "Romeo and Juliet" does the nurse report--falsely--that Juliet is dead and thus seal Romeo's tragic fate?
The answers are easily found...
| Author | A.E. van Vogt |
| ISBN | 0450016528 |
For thousands of years, mankind had survived in leisure behind the barrier. In miniature form, men had evolved a physiology and a philosophy of peace and contemplation. Modyun was to be the first to enlarge his body to the massive proportions of ancient times and then to go out to explore the world where...
| Author | Rhys Bowen |
| ISBN | 0312349424 |
Detective Constable Evan Evans and his new bride, Bronwen, are settling into married life in their little cottage above the village of Llanfair when they meet the daughter of one of the village’s newest families, a sixteen-year-old Pakistani girl named Jamila.
Bronwen and Jamila are becoming...
| Author | John Mortimer |
| ISBN | 0670018309 |
Beloved and bestselling Rumpole is back to solve a new and peculiar mystery
Anti-Social Behavior Orders, commonly known as ASBOs, are the New Labour government’s pride and joy. A child who plays or even loiters in an unfriendly street can, on the complaint of neighbors, have an ASBO slapped...
| Author | Dorothy Simpson |
| ISBN | 0553296949 |
A mother speaking of an incident that happened to her teen aged daughter Perdita, who was later murdered: [The mother] shook her head sorrowfully, 'I was just thinking...At one time in her teens, she used to be obsessed with death. She was forever asking questions about it, questions I couldn't answer....
| Author | Jim Walker |
| ISBN | 0805401989 |
4 stars
This story was so good! A little slow as far as things go, but when it comes to how full of characters, arcs, and mystery, I can understand how it ended up as it was. And to be honest, I enjoyed the change of pace.
The Characters: I enjoyed them! Though Margaret kind of got under my nerves...
| Author | Amanda Cross |
| ISBN | 0345482859 |
Bought with a dozen tart-noir, feminist detective novels from Sydney's best secondhand bookshop cavern, I knew this would be decent. I specifically chose it because I wasn't in the mood for spiky spunky go-getter heroines, and it delivered precisely what I wanted.
Kate Fansler is intelligent....
| Author | Ted Thackrey Jr. |
| ISBN | 1941298931 |
This audio book took me entirely too long to finish through no fault of its own. I normally listen to audio books on my walks and winter isn’t really conducive for such excursions. But every time I was outside I really enjoyed listening to it. And I don’t even like poker. And this book has a lot of poker....
| Author | Lawrence H. Levy |
| ISBN | 0553418947 |
Brooklyn’s most witty and daring detective risks everything to solve a dangerous triple-murder case
After closing a case with the Brooklyn Police Department, Mary Handley is determined to become an official detective in her own right. And when Emily Worsham shows up at her new office—...
| Author | Gypsy Rose Lee |
| ISBN | 1558618015 |
"Pure ozone to those tired of ordinary oxygen."—The New Yorker
"One of the greatest mysteries ever written."—The Philadelphia Daily News
"Our most famous burlesque queen may raise the temperature with a strip tease, but she chills the blood when she goes into...
The Helium Murder by Camille Minichino is the second book in the Periodic Table Murder Mystery series. Congresswoman Margaret Hurley is killed by a hit and run driver and her murder is thought to be related to her critical vote on government helium reserves. Gloria Lamerino is again called in as a scientific...
Born in Austria of Russian parents, Walter Benton lived most of his life in the United States. After working on a farm, in a steel mill, as a window washer, as a salesman, and at various other jobs, he entered Ohio University in 1931, and in due course was graduated. He then spent five years as a social investigator...
| Author | Clare Clark |
| ISBN | 0156030888 |
Clare Clark’s critically acclaimed The Great Stink “reeks of talent” (The Washington Post Book World) as it vividly brings to life the dark and mysterious underworld of Victorian London. Set in 1855, it tells the story of William May, an engineer who has returned home to London from the horrors...
| Author | Lawrence Block |
| ISBN | 0061262978 |
It's a jungle out there.
Literally. At least for Evan Tanner, eternally sleepless sometime superspy, who finds himself in Africa on the trail of the AWOL ruler of tiny Modonoland. It seems the petty despot's gone missing, and he's taken the state treasury along with him.
No stranger...
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...
