They hanged my saintly Billy: The life and death of Dr. William Palmer

Literature & Fiction

GRAVES, Robert

Literary

Academy Chicago

Case for Sergeant Beef

Bruce, Leo

In the cleverly plotted Case for Sergeant Beef, Mr. Wellington Chickle, a retired watchmaker, plans the perfect murder, but he chooses the wrong victim. The dead man's sister refuses to accept the idea that her brother committed suicide and calls in the unprepossessing Sgt. Beef who unravels the plot with the aid of the local police. Meanwhile, Townsend, Beef's indefatigable chronicler, comes to a completely different-and completely wrong-conclusion. A delightful read by one of the best mystery plotters who ever lived.

Cold Blood (A Sergeant Beef Mystery)

<p>1980, American hardcover edition (This book was copyrighted by the author in 1951; there was another English edition published in 1976. Here this title appears for the first time in America), published by Academy Chicago Ltd., Chicago, Illinois. 224 pages. British detective fiction, featuring Sgt. Beef who manages to trample his "flatfooted way" in his investigation of a publisher who is found hanged. The unpopular man apparently committed suicide; or did he? Until this American publication, most of the Beef books were unavailable in America. Leo Bruce, by the way, is the pen name of Rupert Croft-Cooke, who wrote many great, very well respected biographies of famous writers in the U.K. and these very well done Sgt. Beef mysteries.</p>

Neck and neck: A "Sergeant Beef" detective novel

Leo Bruce

<p>Murder At The Red October by Olcott, Anthony</p>

Murder at the Red October

Olcott, Anthony

Nausicaa, a Sicilian princess of the eighth century B.C., looks back on the events of her life and tells how she came to write the epic poem known as the Odyssey.

Homer's daughter

Little Man, What Now?

Hans-Fallada

This Halcyon Classics ebook contains four works by noted Science Fiction/Fantasy author Marion Zimmer Bradley.  Bradley (1930-1999) was well known as the creator of the DARKOVER and MISTS OF AVALON series.  Her works often have a feminist outlook.This ebook Includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.The Planet SaversThe Colors of SpaceThe Door Through SpaceYear of the Big ThawThis unexpurgated edition contains the complete text, with minor errors and omissions corrected.

The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley

MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY

A bone and a hank of hair

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