The Case Of The Hail Mary Celeste

Author : Malcolm Pryce
Publisher : Bloomsbury Press
ISBN 13 : 9781408851975
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Case of the 'Hail Mary' Celeste written by Malcolm Pryce and published by Bloomsbury Press. This book was released on 2015-09-24 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Case Files of Jack Wenlock, Railway Detective. Jack Wenlock is the last of the Railway Goslings: that fabled cadre of railway detectives created at the Weeping Cross Railway Servants' Orphanage, who trod the corridors of the GWR trains in the years 1925 to 1947. Sworn to uphold the name of God's Wonderful Railway, Jack keeps the trains free of fare dodgers and purse-stealers, bounders and confidence tricksters, German spies and ladies of the night. But now, as the clock ticks down towards the nationalisation of the railways Jack finds himself investigating a case that begins with an abducted great aunt, but soon develops into something far darker and more dangerous. It reaches up to the corridors of power and into the labyrinth of the greatest mystery in all the annals of railway lore - the disappearance in 1915 of twenty-three nuns from the 7.25 Swindon to Bristol Temple Meads, or the case of the 'Hail Mary' Celeste. Shady government agents, drunken riverboat captains, a missing manuscript and a melancholic gorilla all collide on a journey that will take your breath away.

Author : Malcolm Pryce
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408809044
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aberystwyth Mon Amour written by Malcolm Pryce and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-09-06 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Schoolboys are disappearing all over Aberystwyth and nobody knows why. Louie Knight, the town's private investigator, soon realises that it is going to take more than a double ripple from Sospan, the philosopher cum ice-cream seller, to help find out what is happening to these boys and whether or not Lovespoon, the Welsh teacher, Grand Wizard of the Druids and controller of the town, is more than just a sinister bully. And just who was Gwenno Guevara?

Author : Malcolm Pryce
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 140880901X
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Don't Cry For Me Aberystwyth written by Malcolm Pryce and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-09-06 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's Christmas in Aberystwyth and a man wearing a red-and-white robe is found brutally murdered in a Chinatown alley. A single word is scrawled in his blood on the pavement: 'Hoffmann'. But who is Hoffmann? This time, Aberystwyth's celebrated crime-fighter, Louie Knight, finds himself caught up in a brilliant pastiche of a cold-war spy thriller. From Patagonia to Aberystwyth, Louie trails a legendary stolen document said to contain an astonishing revelation about the ultimate fate of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, but he's not the only one who wants it. A bewildering array of silver-haired spies has descended on Aberystwyth, all lured out of retirement by one tantalising rumour: Hoffmann has come in from the Cold. Louie Knight, who still hasn't wrapped up his presents, just wishes he could have waited until after the holiday.

Author : Malcolm Pryce
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408809028
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Unbearable Lightness of Being in Aberystwyth written by Malcolm Pryce and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-09-06 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is nothing unusual about the barrel-organ man who walks into private detective Louie Knight's office. Apart from the fact that he has lost his memory. And his monkey is a former astronaut. And he is carrying a suitcase that he is too terrified to open. And he wants a murder investigated. The only thing unusual about the murder is that it took place a hundred years ago. And needs solving by the following week. Louie is too smart to take on such a case but also too broke to turn it down. Soon he is lost in a labyrinth of intrigue and terror, tormented at every turn by a gallery of mad nuns, gangsters and waifs, and haunted by the loss of his girlfriend, Myfanwy, who has disappeared after being fed drugged raspberry ripple ...

Author : Malcolm Pryce
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408809036
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Last Tango in Aberystwyth written by Malcolm Pryce and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-09-06 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To the girls who came to make it big in the town's 'What the Butler Saw' movie industry, Aberystwyth was the town of broken dreams. To Dean Morgan who taught at the Faculty of Undertaking, it was just a place to get course materials. But both worlds collide when the Dean checks into the notorious bed and breakfast ghetto and mistakenly receives a suitcase intended for a ruthless druid assassin. Soon he is running for his life, lost in a dark labyrinth of druid speakeasies and toffee apple dens, where every spinning wheel tells the story of a broken heart, and where the Dean's own heart is hopelessly in thrall to a porn star known as Judy Juice.

Author : Graham Faiella
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 1803991313
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mysterious Case of the Mary Celeste written by Graham Faiella and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2022-07-14 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 4 December 1872: The brigantine Dei Gratia chances upon another brigantine out on the Atlantic near the Azores. She is the Mary Celeste . She is under sail. But she is deserted. Silent as a drowned cadaver. For 150 years since then, the mystery of why the Mary Celeste was abandoned, and what happened to the ten souls on board, has spawned thousands of conjectures, conspiracy theories, fictions and fantasies. Some have thought they solved the mystery. Some have just spun yarns. One, at least, has claimed it was all a hoax. The Mysterious Case of the Mary Celeste: 150 Years of Myth and Mystique unveils those stories – the 'fake news', 'alternative facts' and the myths fabricated from fractured truths. These are the real facts in search of a truth that remains unfathomable to this day.

Author : Malcolm Pryce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1408895277
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Corpse in the Garden of Perfect Brightness written by Malcolm Pryce and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the winter of 1948. The four great railway companies have just been nationalised and Jack Wenlock - the last of a fabled cadre of railway detectives - is thrown out onto the street. Penniless, with new bride Jenny to support, and hiding from a murderous organisation called Room 42, Jack's prospects look bleak. But then a letter arrives from a mysterious Cornish Countess revealing that Jack's mother - long believed to be dead - may have survived a shipwreck off the coast of Java. Seizing the opportunity to track down his only remaining family member, Jack and Jenny board a boat heading East. The trail takes them to a run-down Siamese hotel where a motley assortment of drifters has washed up. Here a spy, an assassin, a deserter, an old soldier and a fading Hollywood movie star all await the arrival of a missing part for a flying boat and a journey that will take them into the realm of myth. But if Jack is ever to see his mother again, he has to stop them...

Author : Donnie Eichar
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1452129568
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dead Mountain written by Donnie Eichar and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times and Wall Street Journal Nonfiction Bestseller that explores the gripping Dyatlov Pass incident that took the lives of nine young Russian hikers in 1959. What happened that night on Dead Mountain? In February 1959, a group of nine experienced hikers in the Russian Ural Mountains died mysteriously on an elevation known as Dead Mountain. Eerie aspects of the mountain climbing incident—unexplained violent injuries, signs that they cut open and fled the tent without proper clothing or shoes, a strange final photograph taken by one of the hikers, and elevated levels of radiation found on some of their clothes—have led to decades of speculation over the true stories and what really happened. Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident delves into the untold story through unprecedented access to the hikers' own journals and photographs, rarely seen government records, dozens of interviews, and author Donnie Eichar's retracing of the hikers' fateful journey in the Russian winter. An instant historical nonfiction bestseller upon its release, this is the dramatic real story of what happened on Dead Mountain. GRIPPING AND BIZARRE: This is a fascinating portrait of young adventurers in the Soviet era, and a skillful interweaving of the hikers' narrative, the investigators' efforts, and the author's investigations. Library Journal hailed "the drama and poignancy of Eichar's solid depiction of this truly eerie and enduring mystery." FOR FANS OF UNSOLVED MYSTERIES: Unsolved true crimes and historical mysteries never cease to capture our imaginations. The Dyatlov Pass incident was little known outside of Russia until film producer and director Donnie Eichar brought the decades-old mystery to light in a book that reads like a mystery. FASCINATING VISUALS: This well-researched volume includes black-and-white photographs from the cameras that belonged to the hikers, which were recovered after their deaths, along with explanatory graphics breaking down some of the theories surrounding the mysterious incident. Perfect for: Fans of nonfiction history books and true crime Anyone who enjoys real-life mountaineering and survival stories such as Into Thin Air, Buried in the Sky, The Moth and the Mountain, and Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World Readers seeking Cold War narratives and true stories from the Soviet era

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 730 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ambition written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Bentley Hart
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300155646
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Atheist Delusions written by David Bentley Hart and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-21 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious scholar Hart argues that contemporary antireligious polemics are based not only upon conceptual confusions but upon facile simplifications of history and provides a powerful antidote to the New Atheists' misrepresentations of the Christian past.