The murder of Angela Hathall was extremely well planned. The only clue left was a single fingerprint with an L-shaped scar. The detective in charge, Reg Wexford, suspects that Angela`s husband Robert Hathall killed his wife. But one question troubles Wexford most of all. Who is the mysterious woman Wexford is sure Hathall is seeing? Does she have an L-shaped scar on her finger?
ISBN: 9780230722637
Издательство:
Macmillan
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
A long-lost work of Shakespeare, newly killer who stages the Bard`s extravagant murders as flesh-and-blood desperate race to find litarary gold, and just to stay
DK Eyewitness Shakespeare is a spectacular and informative guide to one of history?s most well known playwrights. Amazing colour photographs offer your child a unique ?eyewitness? view of William Shakespeare. Did you know special effects were used in Shakespeare`s plays including devils and ghosts that came up through trapdoors in the stage? Let your child discover the fascinating life and times of one of the world`s greatest playwrights, from Shakespeare`s birth in the small town of Stratford-upon-Avon to theatre life in 16th century London. Then use the giant pull-out wall chart to decorate their room. Great for projects or just for fun, make sure your child learns everything they need to know about Shakespeare. Find out more and...
A Reg Wexford mystery. The Chief Inspector could discover no motive, no reason and no suspect for Mrs Hathall`s daughter-in-law`s murder - all he had were his own intuitive suspicions. Probably Angela Hathall really had picked up a stranger, and that stranger had killed her. But why the doubt?
This volume showcases more than 100 illustrations published with the works of the English language`s greatest dramatist. Arranged by play, the full-color images exhibit the rich diversity of artistic styles and treatments applied to each work. Featured artists include Arthur Rackham, Edmund Dulac, Charles Robinson, John Austen, Frank Pape, Charles Folkard, Louis Rhead, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and John William Waterhouse.
The man who was known for years as Shalimar the Clown is now a Kashmiri Muslim terrorist named Noman Sher Noman, who brutally murders Max Ophuls, an American diplomat (and counter-terrorism expert), in Los Angeles in 1991 after his wife, Boonyi, has an affair with Ophuls. This killing sets off the chain of events in Salman Rushdie`s ninth novel. SHALIMAR THE CLOWN follows both Noman and the ambassador into their pasts, finds connections between their lives, details the story of Noman`s wife Boonyi and Ophuls`s daughter India, and provides a sprawling portrait of a very troubled Kashmir in the recent 20th century. Salman Rushdie, no stranger to fanaticism and terrorism, has obviously drawn on the dramatic events of his own life for some...
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7698-4
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Los Angeles, 1991. Maximilian Ophuls, one of the makers of the modern world, is knifed to death in broad daylight on the doorstep of his illegitimate daughter India, slaughtered by his Kashmiri driver, a mysterious figure who calls himself Shalimar the Clown. The dead man is a World War II Resistance hero, a man of formidable intellectual ability and much erotic appeal, a former United States ambassador to India, and subsequently America`s counter-terrorism chief. The murder looks at first like a political assassination but turns out to be passionately personal. This is the story of Max, his killer, and his daughter - and of a fourth character, the woman who links them, whose story explains them all. The story of a deep love gone fatally...
