<p>The Kiss of Death\nIt was such an idyllic scene, a picnic in the Chantilly woods with the family and the dog, and it had such disastrous consequences: the spread of rabies into Britain. It is not just animals that can be carries of this hideous death, but also human beings. The virus, present in saliva, can be transmitted just by a kiss... The dog bit its master, who passed the disease and the madness to his mistress.\nShe was the wife of the British Prime Minister and her rabid, slavering collapse at an international conference in Brighton caused public panic and private pain – and revealed all too clearly a network of diplomatic infidelities.\nWhile scientists searched for the source of the contagion and newspapers howled for action and incited violence, picnickers were pouring into Chantilly...</p>

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Walter Harris

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W.H.Allen & Co

Man and Time

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J.B. Priestly

Philosophy

<p>Examines 3 notorious poisoners, each one guilty of multiple murders: Cesare Borgia of the infamous 15th-century Italian family; Marie D'Aubray, the beautiful Marquise who lived in 17th-century Paris; & Victorian Scottish physician, Edward Pritchard. B&W illus.</p>

A Triptych of Poisoners: Inside the Minds of Three Infamous Murderers

Biographies & Memoirs

JEAN PLAIDY

Professionals & Academics

The loss of the Titanic

Engineering & Transportation

Lawrence Beesley

Transportation

City Primeval

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LEONARD, Elmore

Mystery

A Star is Born

Alexander Edwards

Doctor Who The Talons Of Weng Chiang Target Paperback

Doctor Who and the Talons of Weng-Chiang

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Dicks,Terrance

Science Fiction

When Brendan disappears, Sarah Jane Smith, a journalist, worries that he has been kidnapped by practitioners of black magic, but Doctor Who sends K9, a robotic dog, to help with her investigations

The Companions of Doctor Who: K9 and Company

Dudley, Terence

Italian (Made Simple Books)

Reference

Eugene B. Jackson

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

Tanned and worn dust jacket is in a protcteive sleeve, page edges tanned, bookseller's pencil marks. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.

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