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When the new ambassador from Esmeralda is killed in London, Tommy Hambledon becomes involved in the investigation. He goes to Paris, where Letord of the Sûreté is puzzled by some unauthorized help he’s been getting. As an officer of the law, of course, Letord cannot...
The story is set in the fictional town of Jericho, Kansas. David Constable comes to Jericho to practice law. He becomes fast friends with Tucker Wedge, owner of the newspaper. David meets and marries Belle Dunham.The friendship between David and Tucker continues until...
When lovely, bright Faith Jarvis arrived in Washington to begin a glamorous new job, she had little idea of what was in store for her. She found her older brother married to a jealous, vicious socialite - his career in terrible danger. She found a famous senator menaced...
Another classic heart-warming romance. Diane Vernon falls in love with a mysterious stranger and is thrown into a world of desperate espionage.
Judith Halliday arrived in a small new England town to forget her tragic affair with Neil Peyton, an idealistic young doctor. But a mysterious accident--or an attempted murder--brings him to the same town. Hurt by Neil's baffling aloofness,Judith turns to another man...
In 1941, Hitler's deadly Bismarck, the fastest battleship afloat, broke out into the Atlantic. Its mission: to cut the lifeline of British shipping and win the war with one mighty blow. How the Royal Navy tried to meet this threat and its desperate attempt to bring the...
Sally and Jeremy Latimer are pleased, if somewhat puzzled, when two gentlemen with decidedly old-world manners choose to befriend them when their car mysteriously breaks down in the small French village of St. Denis-sur-Aisne while on holiday one fine day in 1953. What...
"The Big Fisherman" is a historical novel centered around Simon Peter, one of the twelve apostles. He is a large, strong man, who initially rejects the whisperings about Jesus. Though he had long denied religious teachings from his father, Simon is drawn to Jesus and...
Spanning 60+ years, beginning on the day Waterloo was won, it is a multigenerational story of 3 families during the Industrial Revolution. Lots of detailed descriptions of life among the varied social classes, it has been likened to stories by Dickens. It’s a very good...
Thomas Mann regarded his monumental retelling of the biblical story of Joseph as his magnum opus. The four parts--The Stories of Jacob, Young Joseph, Joseph in Egypt, and Joseph the Provider--are a novel telling of Joseph's fall into slavery and his rise to be lord over...
In this final detective novel to feature Superintendent Robert MacDonald, we find the police officer setting up his retirement plans on a hill farm to the south of Lunesdale. Not quite ready to retire, he buys the farm and installs a young couple to oversee his property...
The protagonist Don Narciso Rich, accompanies the Christopher Columbus voyage to the New World.
Accident by Design was honestly a really well done classic British mystery. I was surprised, expecting something subpar and generic. It was well-written, with interesting characters and some great descriptions of the British countryside and the work done on a tenant...
The title originating from Kipling’s poem “The Absent-Minded Beggar”, is a story about life in Balfour, Ontario in the 1890’s. A six-year-old boy arrives from England with a square of oil-cloth sewn on his coat bearing the inscription: ‘This is Ludar Prentice. He has no...
Pen name O. Douglas. An interesting memoir of the author's family, especially her beloved brother John, the celebrated novelist and fifteenth Governor General of Canada, whom Anna visited in Canada. Illustrated with nicely chosen photographs.
In volume II of The Tontine, the multigenerational story of 3 families continues. The number of recipients receiving payouts on the life insurance scheme are dying out and the payouts are becoming more and more substantial. Towards the end, when the recipients become a...
When a storm blew away part of the crumbling masonry of the old tower at Ravenhurst Castle it revealed a skeleton, hidden for many years, which was without doubt that of the seventh earl. Few people believed that the rightful heir whose existence until then had been...
Muriel Farrington is a domineering woman who, unfortunately for them, has her entire family living with her in her stately home. She tries, often successfully, to run the lives of her children, her stepchildren, her in-laws, and her husband, and she seems to be despised...
Mario and the Magician is one of Mann's most political stories. Mann openly criticizes fascism, a choice which later became one of the grounds for his exile to Switzerland following Hitler's rise to power. The magician, Cipolla, is analogous to the looming specter of...
One was brutally attacked in the choking black fog in Paddington Station. Attempted murder became bona fide manslaughter, and examination of the intimate lives of the passengers involved Chief Inspector MacDonald in a macabre game of hide-and-seek in which one man tried...
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