Murder and Mayhem. Crime in Twentieth-Century Britain, Paperback - Anne-Marie Kilday

This introductory book offers a coherent history of twentieth century crime and the law in Britain, with chapters on topics ranging from homicide t...

This introductory book offers a coherent history of twentieth century crime and the law in Britain, with chapters on topics ranging from homicide t...

The celebrated music writer looks back on how great British music has often had a connection with the landscape. Takes in the work of musicians div...

By examining the popular and vernacular discourse of stress, the book traces the ways in which stress became a ubiquitous condition of everyday lif...

This book tells the fascinating story of the Butlin and Warner holiday camp chains that emerged in the 1930s. The camps became a cultural phenomeno...

A study of the work of the popular historian and journalist, Sir Arthur Bryant (1899-1985). This work provides an understanding of the man and the ...

This timely history explores the entry, reception and resettlement of refugees across twentieth-century Britain. Focusing on four cohorts of refuge...

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This book provides a scholarly but accessible account of British regional development during the twentieth century, focusing on the emergence and d...

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First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Kenneth Morgan's Very Short Introduction to Twentieth-Centur...

Final volume of the seven-volume Cambridge History of the Book in Britain series, focusing on the twentieth century and beyond. The book is for stu...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Anne CleelandIt seemed a little strange, that Detective Sergeant Kathleen Doyle wound up being the ranking officer on this ...

Reducere. Murder & Mayhem in Houston: Historic Bayou City Crime, Hardcover

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Anne CleelandIt was a bit puzzling, that Chief Inspector Acton hadn't mentioned the body they'd discovered in the burnt-out...

Reducere. DescriptionThis holiday trip to Dublin had been very hard on Doyle's husband-although he was making a monumental effort to disguise this fact-and u...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Anne CleelandIn this, the fourth installment of the Doyle & Acton mystery series, Detective Sergeant Doyle realizes that se...

Reducere. A shocking death at St. Michael's Church pitches Detective Sergeant Kathleen Doyle into a confusing case--one where the motive for the crime is not...

Reducere. Doyle was back at Scotland Yard after taking maternity leave, and the powers-that-be had decided they'd ease her way by assigning her to assist DS ...

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Publisher: Thames & Hudson LtdAuthor(s): Michael BirdIllustration(s): 63 Illustrations, black and white; 18 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 35...

Reducere. DescriptionThe most anticipated novel to date; Money, Murder, and Mayhem is a hardcore saga of the quick rise of a young ambitious hustler, who gre...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Anne CleelandThings are a bit grim at Scotland Yard, this Christmas. On the heels of a nasty corruption scandal, the CID mu...

Publisher: HarperCollinsAuthor(s): Mike BrowneNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 165 x 229 x 31Cover type: PaperbackRedescopera ...

Reducere. Non fiction account of thirteen true murder mysteries that occurred in 19th century New York including the Tourture Tree, the Batavia women who mur...

Reducere. Every piece of historical writing has a theoretical basis on which evidence is selected, filtered, and understood. This is as true of scientific em...

Reducere. Brother Athelstan's Canterbury pilgrimage is disrupted by brutal murder in the latest absorbing medieval mystery. Summer, 1381. The Great Revolt ha...

This widely acclaimed book, first published in 1974, was a classic from its first day in print. Written in a direct, inviting way by Harry Braverma...

Reducere. Given all the rich people getting bumped off in Philo Vance's Manhattan, it's amazing there are enough left to support the symphony. Latest up: Art...

Reducere. Members of the Greene family keep dying while the pool of possible perpetrators keeps shrinking. Philo Vance--the independently wealthy, staggering...

Reducere. "Philo Vance: Man of Action, " said nobody never. And yet Kidnap shows real signs of Van Dine's responding both to the changing times--friends, it'...

Reducere. The "tremendous popularity" (New York Times) of the Philo Vance series stems in part from author S.S. Van Dine's preference for ripping his plots f...

Reducere. No question, The Dragon Murder Case showcases Our Philo at his most supremely irritating. The book is set at a mansion in the northern reaches of M...

In forms as various as the melodramas of old Scottish ballads and the hard-boiled poems of twentieth-century noir, here are assembled the most colo...

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Reducere. Detective Sergeant Kathleen Doyle has been called-in to assist with a few unsound-mind murders, lately-murders committed by a person who appears to...

Reducere. The smiling faces and southern hospitality of North Carolina promise a paradise for visitors and residents alike, but darkness still lurks in small...

Reducere. The holidays had come and gone, and Doyle was chafing to get back home to London, so as to start being productive, again. Acton's hereditary estate...