Christianna Brand
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"It is 1942, and at the new Kent military hospital Heron's Park, postman Joseph Higgins delivers seven letters of acceptance for infirmary roles. He has no idea that one of the recipients will later cause his demise. When Higgins returns to Heron's Park with injuries from a bombing raid in 1943, his inexplicable death in the operating theatre casts four nurses and three doctors under suspicion, and a second, sudden death brings Inspector Cockrill...
3) Nanny McPhee
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Nanny McPhee can tame even the most unruly children with a tap of her magic walking stick. Her latest challenge is the bratty brood of a recent widower Mr. Brown. He is under pressure to find a new wife or lose his much-needed allowance from wealthy Aunt Adelaide. His love for scullery maid Evangeline remains unspoken as he wincingly woos the eagerly merry widow Mrs. Quickly, but Brown's raucous rugrats have a plan to make things right, especially...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Nanny McPhee: Nanny McPhee can tame even the most unruly children with a tap of her magic walking stick. Her latest challenge is the bratty brood of a recent widower, Mr. Brown. He is under pressure to find a new wife or lose his much-needed allowance from wealthy Aunt Adelaide. His love for scullery maid Evangeline remains unspoken as he wincingly woos the eagerly merry widow Mrs. Quickly; but Brown's raucous rugrats have a plan to make things right,...
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Bodies from the Library 2" is a showcase of uncollectedand upublished stories by accclaimed queens and kings of crime, with 15 detective stories that even their most ardent fans wil not be aware of. Highlights of this collection include Edmund Crispin's unpublishe Gervase Fen novella, 'The Hours of Darkness', a murder mystery set on Christmas Eve; 'Room To Let', a radio script by Margery Alling ham involving Jack the Ripper; and yet another remarkable...
Series
Bodies from the library volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
This anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together 13 rare tales by masters of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form, including a newly discovered Agatha Christie crime story that has not been seen