A Diamond Fell Into My Pocket

Author : Morris Spurling
Publisher : Sphere
ISBN 13 : 9780751523355
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Diamond Fell Into My Pocket written by Morris Spurling and published by Sphere. This book was released on 1997 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A DIAMOND FELL INTO MY POCKET is the extraordinary story of a man who has paid for a life of gambling by stealing diamonds: Morris Spurling - the world's most voracious jewel thief. Since turning to crime half a century ago he has stolen at least a quarter of a million pounds worth of diamonds. After coming out of prison a couple of years ago at the age of sixty-seven he has decided to take the judge's advice that it might be time to consider retirement. Now he tells his amazing story of a life devoted to gambling and theft. How, from the early 1950s, Morris used jewellers' shops as other people use cashpoints and with his money he romanced beautiful women who became his partners in crime.

Author : Herbert Greenhough Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 806 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Strand Magazine written by Herbert Greenhough Smith and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Steve A. Hall
Publisher : Steve A. Hall
ISBN 13 : 110557217X
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Young Queen written by Steve A. Hall and published by Steve A. Hall. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Princess Stasia and her royal realm begin to recover from the treacherous reign of terror by Prince Agis and his Order of Rebels, a new evil emerges. This new alliance of evil threatens to split the kingdom in two and destroy the peaceful relations which have existed with neighboring lands for decades. With her enemies intent on destroying both her rulership and personal life, Princess Stasia must use her extraordinary wisdom and the help of loyal friends like Sir Rackley of Limekiln, the peasant boy Stefan, and Chief Royal Knight Mathieu to save the land before darkness descends upon it once again.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 816 pages
Book Rating : 4.1W/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Strand Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sir George Newnes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Strand Magazine written by Sir George Newnes and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Valentine Korah
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1094 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Introductory Guide to EC Competition Law and Practice written by Valentine Korah and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 1094 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Otto Penzler
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN 13 : 0307743969
Total Pages : 962 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Black Lizard Big Book of Locked-Room Mysteries written by Otto Penzler and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Most Complete Collection of Impossible Crime Stories Ever Assembled, with puzzling mysteries by Stephen King, Dashiell Hammett, Lawrence Block, Agatha Christie, Georges Simenon, Dorothy L. Sayers, P. G. Wodehouse, Erle Stanley Gardner, and many, many more THE BLACK LIZARD BIG BOOK OF LOCKED-ROOM MYSTERIES: An empty desert, a lonely ski slope, a gentleman’s study, an elevator car—nowhere is a crime completely impossible. Edgar Award–winning editor Otto Penzler has collected sixty-eight of the all-time best impossible-crime stories from almost two hundred years of the genre. In addition to the many classic examples of the form—a case of murder in a locked room or otherwise inaccessible place, solved by a brilliant sleuth—this collection expands the definition of the locked room to include tales of unbelievable thefts and incredible disappearances. Among these pages you’ll find stories with evocative titles like “The Flying Death”, “The Man From Nowhere”, “A Terribly Strange Bed”, and “The Theft of the Bermuda Penny”, not to mention appearances by some of the cleverest characters in all of crime, including Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, Georges Simenon’s Jules Maigret, Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot, Dashiell Hammett’s Continental Op, and many more. Featuring • Unconventional means of murder • Pilfered jewels • Shocking solutions Includes • Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”, the first detective story and the first locked-room mystery • Masters of the short story form: Edward D. Hoch, Ellery Queen, Carter Dickson, and Stanley Ellin A VINTAGE CRIME/BLACK LIZARD ORIGINAL

Author : L. T. Meade
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Brotherhood of the Seven Kings written by L. T. Meade and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Beth Ditto
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0385529740
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coal to Diamonds: A Memoir written by Beth Ditto and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-10-09 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A raw and surprisingly beautiful coming-of-age memoir, Coal to Diamonds tells the story of Mary Beth Ditto, a girl from rural Arkansas who found her voice. Born and raised in Judsonia, Arkansas—a place where indoor plumbing was a luxury, squirrel was a meal, and sex ed was taught during senior year in high school (long after many girls had gotten pregnant and dropped out) Beth Ditto stood out. Beth was a fat, pro-choice, sexually confused choir nerd with a great voice, an eighties perm, and a Kool Aid dye job. Her single mother worked overtime, which meant Beth and her five siblings were often left to fend for themselves. Beth spent much of her childhood as a transient, shuttling between relatives, caring for a sickly, volatile aunt she nonetheless loved, looking after sisters, brothers, and cousins, and trying to steer clear of her mother’s bad boyfriends. Her punk education began in high school under the tutelage of a group of teens—her second family—who embraced their outsider status and introduced her to safety-pinned clothing, mail-order tapes, queer and fat-positive zines, and any shred of counterculture they could smuggle into Arkansas. With their help, Beth survived high school, a tragic family scandal, and a mental breakdown, and then she got the hell out of Judsonia. She decamped to Olympia, Washington, a late-1990s paradise for Riot Grrrls and punks, and began to cultivate her glamorous, queer, fat, femme image. On a whim—with longtime friends Nathan, a guitarist and musical savant in a polyester suit, and Kathy, a quiet intellectual turned drummer—she formed the band Gossip. She gave up trying to remake her singing voice into the ethereal wisp she thought it should be and instead embraced its full, soulful potential. Gossip gave her that chance, and the raw power of her voice won her and Gossip the attention they deserved. Marked with the frankness, humor, and defiance that have made her an international icon, Beth Ditto’s unapologetic, startlingly direct, and poetic memoir is a hypnotic and inspiring account of a woman coming into her own.

Author : Meade & Eustace
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1365205231
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Brotherhood of the Seven Kings written by Meade & Eustace and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-10-17 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a series of linked short stories involving what may be the world's first female diabolical criminal mastermind, Madame Koluchy. Norman Head had as a young man met Madame Koluchy in Naples when he became involved in a secret criminal society known as the Brotherhood of the Seven Kings. When Head discovered the sinister nature of the society he determined to have no more to do with them. He has since been living as a virtual recluse, amusing himself with scientific experiments. Now their paths have crossed again, and Head realizes this will be a duel to the death. Madame Koluchy is also a scientist, and a doctor. Her miraculous cures having made her a celebrity while her charm and beauty have made her the darling of English society. With the aid of his friend Dufrayer Norman Head is determined to bring this woman to justice. Madame Koluchy uses her medical skills to gain the trust of her victims. They then find themselves the victims of blackmail, robbery, kidnapping or worse crimes.