The criminal law has often been seen as central to the rule of the 18th century landed elite. Within detailed studies of every stage of the criminal process this volume explores key issues such as who used the law, for what purposes and with what effects It then challenges the view that the law was primarily the instrument of a small elite, portraying it instead as an arena of struggle, negotiation and compromise used by many different social groups. The criminal justice system may have sometimes been vulnerable to power but it was also useful in limiting it.

Crime, Justice and Discretion in England 1740-1820

History

King,Peter

Europe

Oxford University Press

The criminal law has often been seen as central to the rule of the 18th century landed elite. Within detailed studies of every stage of the criminal process this volume explores key issues such as who used the law, for what purposes and with what effects It then challenges the view that the law was primarily the instrument of a small elite, portraying it instead as an arena of struggle, negotiation and compromise used by many different social groups. The criminal justice system may have sometimes been vulnerable to power but it was also useful in limiting it.

Peter King shows how the arguments in favour of central and local government control of so-called social housing do not stand up to close scrutiny. Indeed, the policy of the current government will be ineffective in pursuing the government's own aims. Instead, Peter King shows how directing subsidies through the consumers of housing can achieve better housing without political control.

Choice and the End of Social Housing (Hobart Papers (Paperback))

Business & Money

Economics

Institute Of Economic Affairs

Travels with a Superior Person

Reference

LONGFORD, Elizabeth

Curzon, George Nathaniel

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Pan/Macmillan

A chef-turned-culinary-sleuth, the Gourmet Detective takes on the job of unraveling difficult recipes for rival restaurateurs, until a guest drops dead at the Circle of Ca+a3eme dinner and the Gourmet Detective must find a killer before it is too late.

The Gourmet Detective

Literature & Fiction

United States

St Martins Pr

In a second installment of the Gourmet Detective series, the disappearance of an extremely valuable spice leads to murder, and the Gourmet Detective must once again put his epicurean and investigative skills to work.

Spiced to Death

Including delicious recipes, the latest installment in the popular mystery series is set in Provence, France, where the Gourmet Detective finds a badly mutilated corpse on the grounds of a vineyard and goes undercover as a journalist to find the murderer.

Dying on the Vine: A Further Adventure of the Gourmet Detective

The Gourmet Detective did not expect his job to be easy. He had been sent by Desmond Lansdown, respected actor and London's premier restaurateur, to find the best chef in Italy. But even the most difficult tasks can be savored when one enjoys his work, and the sleuth happily immerses himself in his duties, sampling the peninsula's finest cuisine with his beautiful and mysterious guide, Francesca. But between courses of boccocini - vol au vents filled with chicken giblets and truffles - and strangolopreti - a gnocchi and spinach dish whose name means "priest stranglers" - the determined gourmet begins to suspect that someone is trying to kill him. And when an agricultural magnate with whom he has enjoyed several meals turns up facedown in a swimming pool, the Gourmet Detective must dodge stampeding buffalo, a kamikaze airplane, and a killer monk, while at the same time choosing the perfect chef and solving the perfect murder.

Death Al Dente (Gourmet Detective Mysteries)

The Gourmet Detective returns to sample the cuisine at a Swiss resort, but after two editors turn up dead, he must find the killer before anyone else suffers from an untimely demise at the spa.

A Healthy Place to Die: A Gourmet Detective Mystery

Minotaur Books

Eat, Drink, and Be Buried: A Gourmet Detective Mystery

When a family of eccentrically dysfunctional British aristocrats hires the Gournet Detective for their medieval-themed banquet hall, he witnesses the murder of a professional joustman and finds himself the prime suspect in the poisoning. By the author of Death al Dente.

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

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Books by King,Peter

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Crime, Justice and Discretion in England 1740-1820

Crime, Justice and Discretion in England 1740-1820

Choice and the End of Social Housing (Hobart Papers (Paperback))

Travels with a Superior Person

The Gourmet Detective

Spiced to Death

Dying on the Vine: A Further Adventure of the Gourmet Detective

Death Al Dente (Gourmet Detective Mysteries)

A Healthy Place to Die: A Gourmet Detective Mystery

Eat, Drink, and Be Buried: A Gourmet Detective Mystery