![]() ![]() She goes to London for a visit with relatives, the author Raymond West, his wife, and his aunt, Miss Jane Marple. Further, a place that seems logical to her for a doorway between two rooms proves to have been one years earlier. When the workmen open a long sealed door, she sees the very wallpaper that was in her mind. She forms a definite idea for the little nursery. She supervises workers in a renovation, staying in a one-time nursery room while the work progresses. In a short time, she finds and buys Hillside, a large old house that feels just like home. Newlywed Gwenda Reed travels ahead of her husband to find a home for them on the south coast of England. Miss Marple aids a young couple who choose to uncover events in the wife's past life, and not let sleeping murder lie. ![]() The story is explicitly set in 1944 but the first draft of the novel was possibly written during the Blitz in 1940. Released posthumously, it was the last published Christie novel, although not the last Miss Marple novel in order of writing. The UK edition retailed for £3.50 and the US edition for $7.95. ![]() Sleeping Murder: Miss Marple's Last Case is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in October 1976 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Working as a nurse on the sixth voyage of the Titanic's sister ship, the Britannic, newly refitted as a hospital ship, she happens across an unconscious Mark, now a soldier fighting in World War I. Years later, Annie, having survived that fateful night, has attempted to put her life back together. But before they can locate the source of the danger, as the world knows, disaster strikes. ![]() ![]() Several of them, including maid Annie Hebley, guest Mark Fletcher, and millionaires Madeleine Astor and Benjamin Guggenheim, are convinced there's something sinister-almost otherwordly-afoot. Between mysterious disappearances and sudden deaths, the guests of the Titanic have found themselves suspended in an eerie, unsettling twilight zone from the moment they set sail. Someone, or something, is haunting the ship. ![]() ![]() ![]() The other characters are easily charmed and obstacles to her false identity winningly surmounted by Raina’s new poise and beauty, but the cunning Prendergast won’t let Raina go until he’s gained both her and the estate-even at the cost of Sully’s life. When she finds herself trapped by the hold that the calculating solicitor, Victor Prendergast, has over her lost love, Sully, who is serving as second footman, Raina tries to turn the deception to some good for the Abbey, whose ruined inner rooms become a metaphor for Raina’s own fragile façade. ![]() On a dark night in London’s East End, 1871, a well-dressed stranger offers rag woman Raina Britton the chance to become mistress of Rothburne Abbey-by masquerading as the Countess Enderly. ![]() ![]() Hitherto a writer of westerns – many of which had been successful and filmed, such as The Tall T (1956), 3.10 to Yuma (1957) and Hombre (1967) – in the 1970s he switched to contemporary urban thrillers. Harry Mitchell runs a medium-sized factory in Detroit. But I’m also realistic, practical about it.”įirst published in 1974, in many ways this was Elmore Leonard’s breakthrough novel. ![]() ![]() I mean I want to do what’s right, I want to see them caught. Listen, I feel this more than I can explain it to you. Harry: “I see it as something that could destroy our lives, affect our kids, ruin, wipe out everything. I submit this film/book review for Bev’s Vintage Mystery Challenge and Tuesday’s Overlooked Film meme over at Todd Mason’s fab Sweet Freedom blog. ![]() Roy Scheider and Ann-Margret star as the long-married couple whose lives start to unravel following his infidelity, while John Glover and Clarence Williams III rock as the neophyte blackmailers who might be just what the husband and wife need to keep them together … This was the novel that put Elmore Leonard on the map as a crime writer – and was filmed twice in very quick succession, which is some kind of compliment! Having appeared as The Ambassador in 1984, it was re-made (much more faithfully) two years later as 52 Pick-up. ![]() ![]() ![]() My Lady's Champion, Harlequin (New York, NY), 1996.Įnchanted, Harlequin (New York, NY), 1997. ![]() Unicorn Vengeance, Harlequin (New York, NY), 1995. The Magician's Quest, Harlequin (New York, NY), 1995. Pearl beyond Price, Harlequin (New York, NY), 1995. Roarke's Folly, Harlequin (New York, NY), 1994. The Sorceress, Harlequin (New York, NY), 1994. ![]() Unicorn Bride, Harlequin (New York, NY), 1994. Honeyed Lies, Harlequin ( New York, NY), 1994. Romance of the Rose, Harlequin ( New York, NY), 1993. E-mail- ĪWARDS, HONORS: Best Historical Romance designation, Colorado Romance Writers' Award of Excellence, 1995, for The Princess Best Paranormal Time Travel, Futuristic or Fantasy Romance designation, Colorado Romance Writers' Award of Excellence, 2000, for Love Potion #9 Best Long Historical Romance designation, Greater Detroit RWA Booksellers' Best Awards, 2001, for The Beauty. Box 919, Stratford, Ontario N5A 7M3, Canada. Hobbies and other interests: Traveling, knitting, gardening, reading.ĪDDRESSES: Office-P.O. ![]() ![]() ![]() She used to date one of the Irish mob members (Blaine) and he turned out to be abusive. Honestly she never wanted her job or even associate herself in a dangerous group but she has to do it for her mother who’s chronically ill. She’s a resilient, kind, and responsible woman. Sasha Varela works as a stripper in a club owned by the Irish mafia. Their experiences were a living nightmare as they endure the pain and it scarred them for life. I knew I’m going to love their story and unexpectedly turns out it’s darker sometimes it’s painful to read. The only thing I can’t do… is protect her from myself.Īs soon as I finished Crow, I picked up Reaper because it’s about Ronan and Sasha. I’ll slaughter anyone who tries to hurt her. Sometimes, I think I might too.īut I’m always there, lurking in the shadows.Ĭraving her. When it comes to Sasha, there isn’t a line I won’t cross. Not a single word.Īnd if it ever comes out, I have no doubt in my mind… Pure sin wrapped up in a beautiful package.īut there’s also something off about him. He’s dark and mysterious. Quiet and lethal. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the dead system of Adro, Elvi Okoye leads a desperate scientific mission to understand what the gate builders were and what destroyed them, even if it means compromising herself and the half-alien children who bear the weight of But the ancient enemy that killed the gate builders is awake, and the war against our universe has begun again. The Laconian Empire has fallen, setting the thirteen hundred solar systems free from the rule of Winston Duarte. ![]() Leviathan Falls is the explosive final novel in the New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award–winning Expanse series, now a major TV series. ![]() ![]() ![]() “ The critics were not swept away,” wrote Miller of The Crucible’s first staging in 1953 but it has become one of his most frequently revived plays thanks to its potent consideration of persecution, suspicion, deception and the abuse of power. I can’t begin to describe how grateful I am to get to rip open and explore a being as complex as Abigail Williams.” The scenario is used as an allegory for the anti-communist “red scare”, a political witch-hunt spearheaded by the House Un-American Activities Committee and senator Joseph McCarthy that reached boiling point in the 1950s.ĭoherty said that “to be working with Lyndsey Turner on this play at the National is immensely exciting and still utterly unbelievable to say out loud. Erin Doherty, best known for portraying Princess Anne in The Crown, will play Abigail Williams whose past affair with Proctor leads her to stoke the hysteria about witchcraft that breaks out in 17th-century Salem. ![]() The Australian actor Brendan Cowell has been cast as farmer John Proctor. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This story will take you to a fictional Japan and the dark Empire of Iwagoto after Yumeko successfully saved her friends from death. 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Over the centuries dragons became beloved monsters of fantasy books and movies with dozens of different personality traits, physical shapes, and sizes. ![]() Dragons have always been one of the most beloved legendary creatures that appear in various culture’s tales, myths, and legends all over the world. These magical dragon book series will make sure you have an epic ride that lasts for many many books. Check out the best fantasy books about dragons from magical lands where you can meet witches, warlocks, and all kinds of magical creatures. ![]() ![]() ![]() ‘One of the best expressions of his unstoppable flow of comic invention’ The Times Who happens to be very attractive, in an ‘entire womanful of anger’ kind of way.īut there’s new technology to compete against and an evil chairman who will stop at nothing to delay Ankh-Morpork’s post for good. To save his skin, Moist will need to restore the postal service to its former glory, with the help of tough talking activist Adora Belle Dearheart. The Post Office is down on its luck: beset by mountains of undelivered mail, eccentric employees, and a dangerous secret order. It’s a tough decision, but he’s already survived one hanging and isn’t in the mood to try it again. ![]() Imprisoned in Ankh-Morpork, con artist Moist von Lipwig is offered a choice: to be executed or to accept a job as the city’s Postmaster General. ‘Always push your luck because no one else would push it for you.’ ![]() |