The poison pool

Hall, Patricia

Crime Club

Perils Of The Night

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Constable

The Italian Girl

Dead on Arrival

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

St.Martin's

Although Berg decided immediately after seeing Büchner's play Woyzeck in May 1914 to set it to music, he did not complete his opera until 1922, with the Berlin premiere taking place in 1925. Berg's Wozzeck traces the composer's slow but determined progress. Using compositional sketches, diaries, notebooks and other archival material, author Patricia Hall reveals the challenges Berg faced--from his induction as a soldier in World War I, to the hyperinflation of the twenties. In addition to the precise chronology of the opera, the sketches show how Berg derived large-scale form from the Büchner text, and how his compositional style evolved during the nine years in which he composed the opera. A comprehensive visual database on the book's companion website of the extant sketches from seven archives in the United States, Germany and Austria allows the reader to examine, for the first time, Berg's sketches in high resolution color scans.

Berg's Wozzeck (Studies in Musical Genesis, Structure, and Interpretation)

Arts & Photography

Music

Oxford University Press

When an elderly man dies and a retarded youth is charged with the murder, the resulting investigation reaches into the heart of their small English community and all the way to the highest levels of government

The Poison Pool

St Martins Pr

Yorkshire reporter Laura Ackroyd finds some unsettling connections between a local election, a campaign to "out" elected officials, and a murder on the moor, which leads to her being noticed by both Inspector Michael Thakeray and the murderer.

Death by Election

An oppressive heat wave has blanketed Bradfield, Yorkshire, sharpening tensions in the crime-ridden council estate known as the Heights. The latest grievance is the nightly joy-riding of youths racing stolen cars around the residential streets. Next, reports surface of children being assaulted, and Inspector Michael Thackeray sends in an undercover police officer. A young girl is killed, though, and the residents' unease turns to anger. Covering the situation in the Heights, reporter Laura Ackroyd notices similarities between the current death and one that occurred ten years earlier. She's been researching the case of Stephen Webster, found guilty of murdering his step-sister, for a television program reexamining the crime. Stephen Webster has already been in jail for a decade, however. Could he have been innocent all those years ago, or is someone playing a twisted game of copycat? Working from different sides of the case, Ackroyd and Thackeray face deceit, fraud, and torn loyalties while exploring their growing attraction to each other in this mystery of dazzling ingenuity and suspense.

Dying Fall

When the body of realtor Linda Wright is discovered in her car and suspicion falls on her vanished escort and coworker, Jimmy Townsend, Inspector Michael Thackery must sort through mortgage scams, farm sales, and development plans to solve the case

The Dead of Winter

Investigating a skeleton found near Bradfield, Michael Thackeray learns that the remains are those of a girl who went missing in 1953.

Minotaur Books

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