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(P/B) TWICE ROUND THE CLOCK
Εκδότης: BRITISH LIBRARY
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 5252-0202

Horace Manning, scientist, recluse and 'closed book' even to his friends is found dead in his study at 4am, following a dinner in honour of his daughter's engagement. An ivory-handled carving knife rests between his shoulder blades as the houseguests gather round to witness the awful crime. The telephone line has been sabotaged - a calculated murder has been committed. Rewinding twelve hours, the events of the afternoon and evening unfold, revealing a multitude of clues and motives from a closed cast of suspects until the narrative reaches...
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(P/B) SUDDENLY AT HIS RESIDENCE
A KENT MYSTERY
Εκδότης: BRITISH LIBRARY
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 5252-0204

While the Blitz bombards London, the boisterous grandchildren of Sir Richard March have descended upon Swanswater Manor in Kent for a family gathering and the finalising of the patriarch's will. Disgruntled by the behaviour and life choices of his heirs, March seems poised to deny all of them their inheritance and heads out to his lodge to make arrangements - only to be discovered dead the next morning with strychnine in his blood. With evidence at the crime scene suggesting that nobody could possibly have entered the lodge to murder March...
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(P/B) Who Killed Father Christmas?
And Other Seasonal Mysteries
Εκδότης: BRITISH LIBRARY
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 5252-0207

The murder of Father Christmas at one of London's great toy shops is just one of many yuletide disasters in this new collection of stories from the Golden Age of crime writing and beyond. Masters of the genre such as Patricia Moyes and John Dickson Carr present perfectly packaged short pieces, and Martin Edwards delivers a sackful of rarities from authors such as Ellis Peters, Gwyn Evans and Michael Innes. The answer to any classic crime fiction fan's Christmas wish - and the only way for you to answer Who Killed Father Christmas? - this n...
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(H/B) The Book Lover's Bucket List
A Tour of Great British Literature
Εκδότης: BRITISH LIBRARY
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 5252-0208

Exploring the gardens, monuments, museums, and churches with walks both urban and rural, from the Bronte parsonage in Haworth to Zadie Smith's North London and Shakespeare's Stratford, The Book Lover's Bucket List takes you through some 100 wonderfully described literary sites and landscapes, complete with colour destination photographs and illustrations from the British Library collections. Start with Chaucer, Dickens and Larkin in Westminster Abbey. Spend an afternoon at Colliers Wood Nature Reserve in Nottinghamshire and take in the lak...
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(P/B) The White Priory Murders
A Mystery for Christmas
Εκδότης: BRITISH LIBRARY
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 5252-0209

James Bennett has been invited to stay at White Priory for Christmas among the retinue of the glamorous Hollywood actress Marcia Tait. Her producer, her lover, the playwright for her next hit and her agent are all here, soon to become so many suspects when Tait is found murdered on a cold December morning in the lakeside pavilion. Only the footprints of her discoverer disturb the snow which fell overnight - and which stopped just shortly after Marcia was last seen alive. How did the murderer get in and out of the pavilion without leaving a...
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(P/B) HORROR
A LITERARY HISTORY
Εκδότης: BRITISH LIBRARY
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 5252-0166

Horror: A Literary History is the book horror readers and students need. It will hold you in its grip, leaving you replete with invaluable information about the range, longevity and mutations of the horror genre as it consistently forces you to engage with serious cultural and personal issues. Horror is unlike any other literary genre. It seeks to provoke uniquely strong reactions, such as fear, shock, dread or disgust, and yet remains very popular. It also crosses media, manifesting in narrative forms such as graphic novels and video game...
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(P/B) DEATH IN FANCY DRESS
Εκδότης: BRITISH LIBRARY
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 5252-0149

An exuberant mystery story from the celebrated author of successful Crime Classic Portrait of a Murderer, this title has an excellent sense of humour and attention to 1930s period detail. It includes the rare short story 'The Cockroach and the Tortoise' and 'Horseshoes for Luck' featuring the same villain of the main novel, The Spider. The British Secret Service, working to uncover a large-scale blackmail ring and catch its mysterious mastermind 'The Spider', find themselves at the country residence Feltham Abbey where a fancy-dress ball i...
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(P/B) A SURPRISE FOR CHRISTMAS
AND OTHER SEASONAL MYSTERIES
Εκδότης: BRITISH LIBRARY
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 5252-0164

Two dead bodies and a Christmas stocking weaponised. A Postman murdered delivering cards on Christmas morning. A Christmas tree growing over a forgotten homicide It's the most wonderful time of the year, except for the victims of these shocking and often elaborate murders. When there's magic in the air, sometimes even the facts don't quite add up and the impossible can happen -- and it's up to the detective's trained eye to unwrap the clues and put together an explanation neatly tied up with a bow. Martin Edwards compiles an anthology fill...
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(P/B) THE SANTA KLAUS MURDER
Εκδότης: BRITISH LIBRARY
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 5252-0062

Aunt Mildred declared that no good could come of the Melbury family Christmas gatherings at their country residence Flaxmere. So when Sir Osmond Melbury, the family patriarch, is discovered - by a guest dressed as Santa Klaus - with a bullet in his head on Christmas Day, the festivities are plunged into chaos. Nearly every member of the party stands to reap some sort of benefit from Sir Osmond's death, but Santa Klaus, the one person who seems to have every opportunity to fire the shot, has no apparent motive. Various members of the family...
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(P/B) THE CHRISTMAS EGG
A SEASONAL MYSTERY
Εκδότης: BRITISH LIBRARY
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 5252-0141

A new award-winning author joins the Crime Classics series with one of her best novels. This is a mystery of international intrigue set in London at Christmas time, mixing the best parts of traditional mystery with thriller elements such as a climactic chase involving a helicopter! 'The Easter egg. I told 'im. All white an' glittering, lovely, like ice an' frost an' stars... An' I lost it, I lost it. I lost all of it.' In a gloomy flat off Islington High Street, Chief Inspector Brett Nightingale and Sergeant Beddoes find an old woman dead....
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(H/B) The Book by Design
The Remarkable Story of the World's Greatest Invention
Εκδότης: BRITISH LIBRARY
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 5252-0205

The Book by Design celebrates the book in all its forms, whether manuscript, scroll, concertina, movable, codex, digital. Based around 20 significant items in the Library's collections, this new publication traces major moments in the history of this remarkable invention. Each one has a distinctive and successful design, ranging from famous examples, such as the Lindisfarne Gospels and The Grammar of Ornament to lesser-known formats such as Southeast Asian palm leaf books and Russian futurist wallpaper books. Interspersed between the main ...
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(H/B) The Philosophy of Chocolate
British library philosophies 12
Εκδότης: BRITISH LIBRARY
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 5252-0206

What makes chocolate so alluring? Why is it the inspiration for endless culinary creativity? Sam Bilton explores our complex relationship with this versatile confection, which is made from the humble beans of the tropical cacao tree. Divided thematically, the book moves between the ceremonial uses of chocolate and its reputation as an aphrodisiac, investigates its reputed health properties and poisonous possibilities. Other chapters reveal the darker side of its production in the Americas, through slave labour and exploitation of indigenou...
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(P/B) CHILL TIDINGS
DARK TALES OF THE CHRISTMAS SEASON
Εκδότης: BRITISH LIBRARY
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 5252-0165

The tiles of the hall floor were as pretty as ever, as cold as ever, and bore, as always on Christmas Eve, the trickling pattern of dark blood. 'The gifts are unwrapped, the feast has been consumed and the fire is well fed - but the ghosts are still hungry. The ghosts are at the door. Welcome to a new collection of Christmas nightmares, ushering in a fresh host of ghastly phantoms and otherworldly intruders bent on ruining, or partaking in, the most wonderful time of the year. With classic tales from Algernon Blackwood, Elizabeth Bowen, Ch...
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(P/B) TALES OF THE TATTOOED
AN ANTHOLOGY OF INK
Εκδότης: BRITISH LIBRARY
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 5252-0169

An anthology dedicated to classic tattoo stories - the first of its kind. It includes an introduction and notes exploring the social history of the tattoo and its position in fiction, and features never before republished material from the Library collection. The excruciating beauty, exoticism and mystery of tattoos is laid bare in this original selection of atmospheric short stories; thirteen ink-soaked tales tracing depictions of the tattoo art form from late-Victorian sensationalism and taboo to twentieth-century encounters with the sub...
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(P/B) SPIRITS OF THE SEASON
CHRISTMAS HAUNTINGS
Εκδότης: BRITISH LIBRARY
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 5252-0124

Festive cheer turns to maddening fear in this new collection of seasonal hauntings, presenting the best Christmas ghost stories from the 1850s to the 1960s. The traditional trappings of the holiday are turned upside down as restless spirits disrupt the merry games of the living, Christmas trees teem with spiteful pagan presences, and the Devil himself treads the boards at the village pantomime. As the cold night of winter closes in and the glow of the hearth begins to flicker and fade, the uninvited visitors gather in the dark in this dist...
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(P/B) DOORWAY TO DILEMMA
BEWILDERING TALES OF DARK FANTASY
Εκδότης: BRITISH LIBRARY
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 5252-0125

Between horror and fantasy lies a world in which the inexplicable remains unsolved and the rational mind is assailed by impossible questions. Welcome to the realm of Dark Fantasy, where safe answers are beyond reach and accounts of unanswerable dilemma find their home. Delving deep into the sub-genre, fiction expert Mike Ashley has gathered an unsettling mixture of twisted tales, encounters with logic-defying creatures and nightmarish fables certain to perplex, beguile and of course, entertain. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) IT WALKS BY NIGHT
A PARIS MYSTERY
Εκδότης: BRITISH LIBRARY
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 5252-0134

We are thrilled to welcome John Dickson Carr into the Crime Classics series with his first novel, a brooding locked room mystery in the gathering dusk of the French capital. In the smoke-wreathed gloom of a Parisian salon, Inspector Bencolin has summoned his allies to discuss a peculiar case. A would-be murderer, imprisoned for his attempt to kill his wife, has escaped and is known to have visited a plastic surgeon. His whereabouts remain a mystery, though with his former wife poised to marry another, Bencolin predicts his return. Sure eno...
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(P/B) PROMETHEAN HORRORS
CLASSIC TALES OF MAD SCIENCE
Εκδότης: BRITISH LIBRARY
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 5252-0137

From the imaginations of Gothic short-story writers such as Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mary Shelley and H. P. Lovecraft came one of the most complex of villains - the mad scientist. Promethean Horrors presents some of the greatest mad scientists ever created, as each cautionary tale explores the consequences of pushing nature too far. These savants take many forms: there are malcontents who strive to create poisonous humans; technologists obsessed with genetic splicing; mesmerists interested in the way consciousness operates aft...
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(P/B) THE OUTCAST
AND OTHER DARK TALES
Εκδότης: BRITISH LIBRARY
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 5252-0160

An anthology of the best stories of E F Benson, a beloved though now less well-known ghost story writer. Featuring a mixture of Benson's classics with rare tales from literary magazines in the Library collection, this title includes a new introduction which sheds light on this fascinating character of an author, himself an 'Outcast' from family and society. The terrifying presence of a restless spirit on the top deck of a London bus; a possession at the bridge table on a cruise up the Nile; a nightmare encounter with druidic sacrifice in t...
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(P/B) MURDER IN THE BASEMENT
Εκδότης: BRITISH LIBRARY
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 5252-0191

When two newlyweds discover that a corpse has been buried in the basement of their new home, a grueling case begins to trace the identity of the victim. With all avenues of investigation approaching exhaustion, a tenuous piece of evidence offers a chance for Chief Inspector Moresby and leads him to the amateur sleuth Roger Sheringham, who has recently been providing cover work in a school south of London. Desperate for evidence of any kind on the basement case, Moresby begins to sift through the manuscript of a satirical novel Sheringham h...
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