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Pub. Date
[1985]
Language
English
Description
"From the Agatha Award-winner for Lifetime Achievement: "An excellent detective novel in the best British tradition... superbly handled." -- Columbus Dispatch Scotland Yard's Henry Tibbett and his beloved Emmy have been traveling and are now headed back to England, where Henry is on the ferry out of Harwich. It's a trip Emmy's been looking forward to -- but her excitement flags when it becomes clear that the cabins are all spoken for, and she and...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1973]
Edition
[First edition].
Language
English
Description
"A mystery that throws Superintendent Henry Tibbett and wife Emmy head first into the greyhound racing underworld; a lively read." -- Northern Echo One of the oddities of Golden Age fiction was its fixation on the occult and the generally weird--ancient gypsy curses, haunted burial grounds, etc. It's therefore something of a relief to settle in with the refreshingly literal Ms. Moyes: When a title refers to a third dog, we are not talking about...
3) Falling star
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Series
Pub. Date
1964.
Edition
[First edition].
Language
English
Description
"Wins my Oscar for the craftiest murder method cooked up (literally) this month "from the author of the classic mystery Dead Men Don't Ski ( Sunday Telegraph ). Rich, aristocratic, and at the heart of swinging London, "Pudge" Coombe-Peters has everything except a decent nickname. And in fact, he has two special attributes: He owns the narration -- the drawling, deliciously snobbish, all-but-impossibly irritating narration -- of Falling Star, and he...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1975]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Mavis Ironmonger is nobody's idea of a good diplomatic wife. She drinks too much, she's awfully friendly with the staff at the Washington embassy, and her music-hall roots have a way of bursting out at the most inappropriate moments. Indeed, it's at an embassy reception that Mavis manages to insult a visiting ambassador and get herself hauled off to sober up. With the party winding down, Mavis is due downstairs, to say the official goodbyes, but in...
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