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22) Smiley's people
Author
Series
George Smiley novels volume 7
Language
English
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Description
When a Russian emigr e is found murdered on Hampstead Heath, Smiley is called out of retirement to exorcise some Cold War ghosts from his clandestine past.
Author
Series
George Smiley novels volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
George Smiley has become chief of the battered British Secret Service. The betrayals of a Soviet double agent have riddled the spy network. Smiley wants revenge. He chooses his weapon: Jerry Westerby, "The Honourable Schoolboy," a passionate lover, and a seasoned, reckless secret agent. Westerby is pointed east, to Hong Kong. And so begins the terrifying game.
Author
Series
George Smiley novels volume 8
Language
English
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Description
Ned considered delivering his own speech to the new "Joes" at Saratt, but in the end, he called on George Smiley, the legendary officer who had retired to Cornwall. Smiley's "fireside chat" gives the dangerous edge back to Ned's memory, transporting him to his own beginnings as an agent in the 60s when the Red Peril was everywhere.
25) Six suspects
Author
Language
English
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Description
When Vivek "Vicky" Rai, the son of the Home Minister of Uttar Pradesh, is killed at a party celebrating his acquittal on a murder charge, the police investigate six suspects attending the party who had guns in their possession.
Pub. Date
[2012], p2012
Language
English
Description
Lilies for the Ladies: In the first episode of the series, detective Sexton Blake investigates the unexplained murders of four wealthy society women. The Sin-Eater: An old friend of Blake's receives a series of cryptic messages written on playing cards. Bluebeard's Keys: Blake is sent a mysterious key in the post, the attached note reads: "This is Bluebeard's first key." Murder on the Portsmouth Road: In one of Britain's earliest surviving drama recordings...
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
A pocket full of rye. Wealthy businessman Rex Fortescue is found dead with rye grain in his pocket. Miss Marple soon discovers a murderer is dispatching his victims on the basis of the children's nursery rhyme. Murder at the vicarage. The most detested man in a small English village is shot in the head at the vicarage. Only Miss Marple can unravel the tangled web of clues. A Caribbean mystery. On the island of St. Honoré, old Major Palgrave tells...
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
4.50 from Paddington. As Elspeth McGillicuddy travels by train to visit Miss Marple, she witnesses a man strangling a woman on another train. Only Miss Marple believes her and sets about uncovering what happened. At Bertram's Hotel. Something sinister lurks beneath the Bertram Hotel's polished veneer. Nemesis. Mr. Rafiel, the financier who had been Miss Marple's ally in solving a murder on the Caribbean island of St. Honoré, has died. Miss Marple...
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
The body in the library. Who is the strange young blonde lying strangled on the library floor at Gossington Hall? Miss Marple must piece the clues together. A murder is announced. A murder is announced to take place at Little Paddocks. Is it a game? Miss Marple finds out. The mirror crack'd from side to side. When former film star Marina Gregg and her husband throw a benefit party for a local hospital, the day ends in tragedy when a guest has a poisoned...
Author
Series
Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries volume 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Society's eligible women are in mourning. Lord Peter Wimsey has married at last, having finally succeeded in his ardent pursuit of the lovely mystery novelist Harriet Vane. The two depart for a tranquil honeymoon in a country farmhouse, but find, instead of a well-prepared love nest, the place left in shambles by the previous owner. His sudden appearance, dead from a broken skull in the cellar, only prompts more questions. Why would anyone have wanted...
36) Dumb witness
Author
Pub. Date
p2007
Language
English
Description
As Hercule Poirot sifts through his post one particular morning, he alights upon a letter from an elderly and (as it transpires) exceedingly rich spinster--Miss Emily Arundell. She is clearly in great distress and seeking his help, but doesn't say why. Her only specific mention is "the incident of the dog's ball." However, what intrigues Poirot is the date of the communication--it was written two months ago. He persuades Captain Hastings that they...
Author
Pub. Date
p2012
Language
English
Description
Missing: one junior diplomat and 43 of the British Embassy's most confi dential files. The timing is alarmingly significant: with neo-Nazi riots and radical student demonstrations, the threat to Germany's security is all too apparent. Britain's own Alan Turner is sent in, with instructions to tread carefully at all costs. But will he find the missing man and the files before the political situation erupts?
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
The moving finger. In the quiet town of Lymstock, a brother and sister receive a harassing letter. They soon discover other town residents have received similar letters and when one recipient commits suicide, Miss Marple helps cast light on the matter. Sleeping murder. When Gwenda Reed finds a house for her and her husband in the town of Dillmouth, she experiences a strange sense of déjà vu. MIss Marple realizes that an unsolved murder is behind...