Thrones Dominations

Author : Dorothy L. Sayers
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312968302
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thrones, Dominations written by Dorothy L. Sayers and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999-03-15 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gentleman sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey and his bride Harriet Vane have settled into thier life together in 1930s London when an extra complication arises suddenly.

Author : Dorothy L Sayers
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1848943822
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thrones, Dominations written by Dorothy L Sayers and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 1998-09-17 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'An engrossing, intelligent and provocative novel in the guise of a conventional mystery' - New York Times Book Review 'A superb job of seamless collaboration. Thrones, Dominations is pure pleasure.' - Wall Street Journal 1936. Lord Peter Wimsey has returned from his honeymoon, eager to settle into married life with his cherished new wife, the novelist Harriet Vane. As they become part of fashionable London society they encounter the glamorous socialite Rosamund Harwell and her wealthy impressario husband Laurence. Unlike the Wimseys, Rosamund and Laurence are not in love - and all too soon, one of them is dead. It is a murder that only Lord Peter Wimsey can solve . . .

Author : Jill Paton Walsh
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1250032784
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Late Scholar written by Jill Paton Walsh and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a dispute among the Fellows of St. Severin's College, Oxford University, reaches a stalemate, Lord Peter Wimsey discovers that as the Duke of Denver he is "the Visitor"—charged with the task of resolving the issue. It is time for Lord Peter and his detective novelist wife, Harriet, to revisit their beloved Oxford, where their long and literate courtship finally culminated in their engagement and marriage. At first, the dispute seems a simple difference of opinion about a valuable manuscript that some of the Fellows regard as nothing but an insurance liability, which should be sold to finance a speculative purchase of land. The voting is evenly balanced. The Warden would normally cast the deciding vote, but he has disappeared. And when several of the Fellows unexpectedly die as well, Lord Peter and Harriet set off on an investigation to uncover what is really going on at St. Severin's. With this return in The Late Scholar to the Oxford of Gaudy Night, which many readers regard as their favorite of Sayers's original series, Jill Paton Walsh at once revives the wit and brilliant plotting of the Golden Age of detective fiction.

Author : Jill Paton Walsh
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 142998211X
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Presumption of Death written by Jill Paton Walsh and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixty years after Dorothy L. Sayers began her unfinished Lord Peter Wimsey novel, Thrones Dominations, Booker Prize finalist Jill Paton Walsh took on the challenge of completing the manuscript---with extraordinary success. "The transition is seamless," said the San Francisco Chronicle; "you cannot tell where Sayers leaves off and Walsh begins." "Will Paton Walsh do it again?" wondered Ruth Rendell in London's Sunday Times. "We must hope so." Jill Paton Walsh fulfills those hopes in A Presumption of Death. Although Sayers never began another Wimsey novel, she did leave clues. Drawing on "The Wimsey Papers," in which Sayers showed various members of the family coping with wartime conditions, Walsh has devised an irresistible story set in 1940, at the start of the Blitz in London. Lord Peter is abroad on secret business for the Foreign Office, while Harriet Vane, now Lady Peter Wimsey, has taken their children to safety in the country. But war has followed them there---glamorous RAF pilots and even more glamorous land-girls scandalize the villagers, and the blackout makes the nighttime lanes as sinister as the back alleys of London. Daily life reminds them of the war so constantly that, when the village's first air-raid practice ends with a real body on the ground, it's almost a shock to hear the doctor declare that it was not enemy action, but plain, old-fashioned murder. Or was it? At the request of the overstretched local police, Harriet reluctantly agrees to investigate. The mystery that unfolds is every bit as literate, ingenious, and compelling as the best of original Lord Peter Wimsey novels.

Author : Jill Paton Walsh
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 9781429918565
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Attenbury Emeralds written by Jill Paton Walsh and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1936, Dorothy L. Sayers abandoned the last Lord Peter Wimsey detective story. Sixty years later, a brown paper parcel containing a copy of the manuscript was discovered in her agent's safe in London, and award-winning novelist Jill Paton Walsh was commissioned to complete it. The result of the pairing of Dorothy L. Sayers with Walsh was the international bestseller Thrones, Dominations. Now, following A Presumption of Death, set during World War II, comes a new Sayers-inspired mystery featuring Lord Peter Wimsey, revisiting his very first case. . . . It was 1921 when Lord Peter Wimsey first encountered the Attenbury Emeralds. The recovery of the gems in Lord Attenbury's dazzling heirloom collection made headlines—and launched a shell-shocked young aristocrat on his career as a detective. Thirty years later, a happily married Lord Peter has just shared the secrets of that mystery with his wife, the detective novelist Harriet Vane. Suddenly, the new Lord Attenbury—grandson of Lord Peter's first client—seeks his help to prove who owns the emeralds. As Harriet and Peter contemplate the changes that the war has wrought on English society—and Peter, who always cherished the liberties of a younger son, faces the unwanted prospect of ending up the Duke of Denver after all—Jill Paton Walsh brings us a masterful new chapter in the annals of one of the greatest detectives of all time.

Author : Patrick Gilger
Publisher : Orbis Books
ISBN 13 : 1608334481
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jesuit Post written by Patrick Gilger and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2014-03-31 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawn from the eponymous blog essays on faith, culture, and lives of Christian discipleship by young Jesuit priests and seminarians for young adult seekers.

Author : John Milton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.8P/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paradise Lost, Book 3 written by John Milton and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lou Cameron
Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1620641402
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stringer written by Lou Cameron and published by Blackstone Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For once they were sending Stringer on a nice easy assignment. All he had to do was scribble out a story about an outlaw gunned down fifty years before. As far as Stringer was concerned, it was an ideal excuse to make a trip back to his hometown in the Sierras. But it's a homecoming of hot lead and hotter ladies. Someone wants Stringer dead almost as bad as the local females want him alive. Stringer doesn't know why so much trouble is suddenly finding him, but he suspects it must be might ugly for the town to welcome a hometown boy with double dealing and easy death.

Author : E. C. Bentley
Publisher : Standard Ebooks
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trent’s Last Case written by E. C. Bentley and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2023-05-01T06:34:23Z with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Wall Street giant Sigsbee Manderson is found dead, the local newspaper sends in Philip Trent, its favorite contract journalist/amateur detective, to investigate and report on the case. Trent encounters a paucity of facts on the ground, but the ones he does find leads him to a conclusion he’s unsure of how to handle. E. C. Bentley was a close friend of G. K. Chesterton, to whom he dedicated this book (in response to Chesterton’s dedicating The Man Who Was Thursday to him). The book is said to have been one of the first “modern” mysteries, and included Dorothy Sayers and Agatha Christie among its fans. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.

Author : George Santayana
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351521802
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dominations and Powers written by George Santayana and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-02 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In what must be ranked as a foremost classic of twentieth-century political philosophy, George Santayana, in the preface to his last major work prior to his death, makes plain the limits as well as the aims of Dominations and Powers: ""All that it professes to contain is glimpses of tragedy and comedy played unawares by governments; and a continual intuitive reduction of political maxims and institutions to the intimate spiritual fruits that they are capable of bearing.""This astonishing volume shows how the potential beauty latent in all sorts of worldly artifacts and events are rooted in differing forms of power and dominion. The work is divided into three major parts: the generative order of society, which covers growth in the jungle, economic arts, and the liberal arts; the militant order of society, which examines factions and enterprise; and the rational order of society, which contains one of the most sustained critiques of democratic systems and liberal ideologies extant.Written at a midpoint in the century, but at the close of his career, Santayana's volume offers an ominous account of the weakness of the West and its similarities in substance, if not always in form, with totalitarian systems of the East. Few analyses of concepts, such as government by the people, the price of peace and the suppression of warfare, the nature of elites and limits of egalitarianism, and the nature of authority in free societies, are more comprehensive or compelling. This is a carefully rendered statement on tasks of leadership for free societies that take on added meaning after the fall of communism.The author of a definitive biography of Santayana, John McCormick provides the sort of deep background that makes possible an assessment of Dominations and Powers. He permits us to better appreciate the place of this work at the start no less than conclusion of Santayana's long career. For the author of The Life of Reason himself ad"