The Stationmasters Farewell

Author : Edward Marston
Publisher : Allison & Busby
ISBN 13 : 0749011874
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Stationmaster's Farewell written by Edward Marston and published by Allison & Busby. This book was released on 2012-04-23 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1857. Joel Heygate is the popular stationmaster at Exeter St David's railway station. So when the charred remains of a body are discovered in the embers of the town's annual Bonfire Night celebration, everyone is horrified to discover that they belong to Mr Heygate. Inspector Robert Colbeck and his assistant Victor Leeming are dispatched to Exeter with all due haste, and quickly unearth a number of suspects. But as Colbeck closes in on the killer, he finds himself in mortal danger. Can justice prevail, or will his beloved Madeleine be robbed of a husband on the very eve of their marriage?

Author : Edward Marston
Publisher : Allison & Busby
ISBN 13 : 0749008725
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Murder on the Brighton Express written by Edward Marston and published by Allison & Busby. This book was released on 2010-01-22 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: October 1854. As an autumnal evening draws to a close, crowds of passengers rush onto the soon to depart London to Brighton Express. A man watches from shadows nearby, grimly satisfied when the train pulls out of the station. Chaos, fatalities and unbelievable destruction are the scene soon after when the train derails on the last leg of its journey. What led to such devastation, and could it simply be a case of driver error? Detective Inspector Colbeck, dubbed the 'railway detective' thinks not. But digging deep to discover the target of the accident takes time, something Colbeck doesn't have as the killer prepares to strike again.

Author : Edward Marston
Publisher : International Publishers Marketing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Railway Detective written by Edward Marston and published by International Publishers Marketing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1851, after the London to Birmingham mail train is robbed and derailed, Inspector Robert Colbeck enlists the aid of former police officer Brendan Mulryne to help him investigate the crime.

Author : Edward Marston
Publisher : Allison & Busby
ISBN 13 : 0749012544
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peril on the Royal Train written by Edward Marston and published by Allison & Busby. This book was released on 2013-04-29 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spring, 1858. The route of the Caledonian Railway through the southern uplands of the Scottish countryside is disrupted by a fatal crash. Inspector Robert Colbeck and Sergeant Victor Leeming are called from the crime of London to investigate, and must contend with old enemy Superintendent Rory McTurk to uncover the criminals behind the disaster.

Author : Edward Marston
Publisher : Allison & Busby
ISBN 13 : 0749010509
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blood on the Line written by Edward Marston and published by Allison & Busby. This book was released on 2011-04-11 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1857. On the LNWR train to London, a criminal is being escorted to his appointment with the hangman. But the wily Jeremy Oxley, conman, thief and murderer, has one last ace up his sleeve - a beautiful and ruthless accomplice willing to do anything to save her lover, including cold-blooded murder. When the Railway Detective Inspector Robert Colbeck learns that Oxley, his arch nemesis, has escaped, black memories of their shared past leave him no choice but to do his duty, whatever the cost. With the faithful Victor Leeming at his side, Colbeck must use all of his skills to track his elusive enemy. But could he have finally met his match?

Author : Aleksandr Pushkin
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
ISBN 13 : 8726671255
Total Pages : 19 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Stationmaster written by Aleksandr Pushkin and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2021-02-26 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What seems to be quite an ordinary short story of a seduction and abduction of a young girl, "The Stationmaster" proves to be one of Pushkin’s best tales. At first sight an innocent kiss, the parting gift of Dunia to the traveler sends the mundane world of the stationmaster Samson Vyrin into complete disorder. Pushkin’s narrative style and knowledge of the human soul paint a picture of emotional waterfalls and whirlpools that threaten to engulf the characters. A story about how people cope with loss and helplessness. Deservedly labelled "the best Russian poet", Pushkin’s (1799-1837) short life did not prevent him from ushering Russian literature into its modern era. A master of the vernacular language and multifarious and vivid writing style, Pushkin’s oeuvre was of great influence to a whole legion of Russian writers and literary styles. Among his best-known works are the narrative poems "Ruslan and Ludmila" and "Eugene Onegin", the drama "Boris Godunov", several novels, short stories, and fairy tales.

Author : Edward Marston
Publisher : Allison & Busby Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0749031700
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spring Offensive written by Edward Marston and published by Allison & Busby Ltd. This book was released on 2024-06-20 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London, March 1918. British newspapers carry the disastrous news that the German Spring Offensive has begun, with thousands of British lives lost. Detective Sergeant Joe Keedy eagerly awaits his release from hospital and is anxious to resume the fight against crime on the Home Front. Against this sombre backdrop, further mayhem strikes in the capital when a fire provides the diversion needed for an audacious bank robbery. The gang of criminals escape with a sizeable haul and leave one police officer dead and another gravely injured in their wake. For Detective Inspector Harvey Marmion, the investigation has a personal connection, but the task of bringing the culprits to justice will prove to be an uphill battle without Keedy, his detective partner, at his side. And nothing in this case is quite what it seems .

Author : Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192839541
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin written by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains new translations of four of Pushkin's best works of fiction. The Queen of Spades has long been acknowledged as one of the world's greatest short stories, in which Pushkin explores the nature of obsession. The Tales of Belkin are witty parodies of sentimentalism, while Peter the Great's Blackamoor is an early experiment with recreating the past. The Captain's Daughter is a novel-length masterpiece which combines historical fiction in the manner of Sir Walter Scott with the devices of the Russian fairy-tale. The Introduction provides close readings of the stories and places them in their European literary context.

Author : Sarah Bernhardt
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791440537
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Double Life written by Sarah Bernhardt and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A translation of Ma Double Vie, the autobiography of the French actress Sarah Bernhardt, who was one of the classical theater's all-time greatest stars.

Author : Jorge Teillier
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292753586
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Order to Talk with the Dead written by Jorge Teillier and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-03-15 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In order to talk with the dead you have to know how to wait: they are fearful like the first steps of a child. But if we are patient one day they will answer us with a poplar leaf trapped in a broken mirror, with a flame that suddenly revives in the fireplace, with a dark return of birds before the glance of a girl who waits motionless on the threshold." —from "In Order to Talk with the Dead" Reared in the rainy forests of Chile's "La Frontera" region which had nurtured Pablo Neruda a generation earlier, Jorge Teillier has become one of Chile's leading contemporary poets, whose work is widely read in Latin America and Europe along with the poetry of his well-known contemporaries Nicanor Parra and Enrique Lihn. This English-Spanish bilingual anthology now introduces English-speaking readers to Teillier, with a representative selection of his best work from all phases of his career. Carolyne Wright has translated poems from the volumes Muertes y maravillas (1971), Para un pueblo fantasma (1978), and Cartas para reinas de otras primaveras (1985). Avoiding the bravura effects of some of his contemporaries, Teillier writes from a life lived directly and simply, returning time and again in his poetry to the timeless and mythic South of his boyhood, the "Land of Nevermore."