Laura Wilson
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Maisie is asked to investigate a potential land purchase. Her inquiries take her to a village in Kent during the hop picking season. Mysterious fires erupt in the village and a series of petty crime suggest a darker criminal element at work. A peculiar secrecy shrouds the village, and Maisie needs to use her skills to solve one of her most intriguing cases yet.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
449 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
London, June 1940. When the body of silent screen star Mabel Morgan is found impaled on a wrought-iron fence, the coroner rules her death as suicide. Detective Ted Stratton is not convinced and suspects that Morgan's fatal fall may have been the work of one of Soho's most notorious gangsters.
Meanwhile, MI5 agent Diana Calthrop is leading a covert operation when she discovers that her boss is involved in espionage. Only when Stratton's path crosses...
4) The lemur
Author
Language
English
Description
John Glass's life in New York should be plenty comfortable having given up his career as a journalist to write an authorized biography of his father-in-law, communications magnate and former CIA agent Big Bill Mulholland. When a shifty young researcher whom he calls 'The Lemur," turns up some unflattering information about the family, Glass's whole easy existence is threatened.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Every woman has a secret. The question is: How far will she go to make sure it stays secret?
Abbey Walsh never wanted anyone to find out about her shady past. After all, she's the wife of a minister now, living an exemplary life. That is, until someone shows up from her past with blackmail in mind ...
Tiffany Vanderslice Dreyer never dreamed that she'd find herself up to her new designer sunglasses in credit card debt from one mad moment of a shopping...
Author
Series
Publisher
Beech Tree
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st Beech Tree ed.
Physical Desc
38 p. : col. ill., col. map ; 32 cm.
Language
English
Description
A young boy keeps a journal describing his family's five-month journey across country in a covered wagon. Each entry includes a game, recipe, or other related activity.
Author
Series
Publisher
Felony & Mayhem Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Felony & Mayhem edition.
Physical Desc
415 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
It's 1956 and the world is in turmoil: the Bikini Atoll, the Suez Crisis, the Hungarian Uprising these are just some of the events of that year Inspector Ted Stratton can't help but think about as he makes his way through a murder investigation. The murder victim is a young man in London whose bookshelves are filled with literature on spirituality and esoteric religions, and who had just recently left the Foundation for Spiritual Understanding, a...
Author
Publisher
The Texas State Historical Association
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Third edition.
Physical Desc
163 pages : illustrations ; 28 x 34 cm
Language
English
Description
The Texas State Historical Association is pleased to offer a third edition of Watt Matthews of Lambshead, a major work of art and an important historical document. Since the first edition was published in 1989, Laura Wilson's chronicle of this iconic ranch has proven to be a popular and important contribution to the story of Texas. In words and especially in Wilson's starkly beautiful images, Watt Matthews of Lambshead captures a way of life that...
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
p2012
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
5 sound discs (ca. 6 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
From the author of 'Running With Scissors' comes a groundbreaking book that explores how to survive the "un-survivable" and will challenge your notion of self-help books.
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It's the greatest literary mystery of all time: Who wrote the works of William Shakespeare? Although the official story of a Stratford merchant writing for the London box office has held sway for centuries, questions over the authorship of the plays and poems persists. Derek Jacobi leads an impressive cast featuring Vanessa Redgrave and Mark Rylance on a quest to uncover the truth behind the world's most elusive author, and discovers a forgotten nobleman...
