Author: Christopher Fowler
Publisher: Bantam
Keywords: crimes, peculiar, unit, bantam, paperback, mysteries, mystery, full, house
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2008-09-30
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0553385534
ISBN-13: 9780553385533
A bomb rips through present-day London, tragically ending the crime-fighting partnership of Arthur Bryant and John May begun more than a half-century ago during another infamous bombing: the Blitz of World War II. Desperately searching for clues to the saboteur’s identity, May finds the notes his old friend kept of their very first case and a past that may have returned…with murderous vengeance. It was an investigation that began with the grisly murder of a pretty young dancer. In a city shaken by war, a faceless killer stalked London’s theater row, creating his own sinister drama. And i
Author: Christopher Fowler
Publisher: Bantam
Keywords: crimes, peculiar, unit, bantam, paperback, mysteries, mystery, water, room
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2008-09-30
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0553385550
ISBN-13: 9780553385557
How can an elderly recluse drown in a chair in her otherwise dry basement? That’s what John May and Arthur Bryant of London’s Peculiar Crimes Unit set out to discover in a city rife with shady real estate developers, racist threats, dodgy academicians, and someone dangerously obsessed with Egyptian mythology. Linking them all is an evil lurking in London’s vast and forgotten underground river system—a killer with the eerie ability to strike anywhere, anytime, without leaving a clue. It’s a subterranean case of secrets, lies, and multiple murder that defies not only the law, but reaso
Author: Jeffrey Lent
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Keywords: novel, grace, peculiar
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2007-08-10
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0871139650
ISBN-13: 9780871139658
An unforgettable tale of love, family secrets, and the hold of the past in a family of New England artists, A Peculiar Grace is the latest triumph from the author of In the Fall, hailed by The Christian Science Monitor and The New York Times as one of the best books of the year. Hewitt Pearce lives alone in his family home, producing custom ironwork and safeguarding a small collection of art his late father left behind. When Jessica, a troubled young vagabond, washes up in his backwoods one morning, Hewitt’s hermetic existence is challenged. As he gradually uncovers Jessica’s secrets and r
Author: Derek Attridge
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: language, peculiar
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2004-08-13
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 0415340586
ISBN-13: 9780415340588
First published in 1988, Peculiar Language is now established as one of the most important discussions of the language of literature. This thought-provoking book challenges traditional notions of literary criticism, arguing that all attempts by writers, critics and literary theorists to define the language of literature have involved self-contradiction. Through examination of key moments in literary history, Derek Attridge demonstrates that such contradictions in accounts of literary language are embedded in our cultural concept of ’literature’ and asserts that in order to apprecia
Author: Jeffrey Lent
Publisher: Grove Press
Keywords: novel, grace, peculiar
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2008-06-10
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0802143660
ISBN-13: 9780802143662
Author: Colonel Jhon A.joyce
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: poems, peculiar
Number of Pages: 164
Published: 2009-06-04
List price: $20.75
ISBN-10: 111055950X
ISBN-13: 9781110559503
Author: Stephen Miller
Publisher: Harvard University Pre
Keywords: sundays, life, peculiar
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2008-12-15
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0674031687
ISBN-13: 9780674031685
Sunday observance in the Christian West was an important religious issue from late Antiquity until at least the early twentieth century. In England the subject was debated in Parliament for six centuries. During the reign of Charles I disagreements about Sunday observance were a factor in the Puritan flight from England. In America the Sunday question loomed large in the nation’s newspapers. In the nineteenth century, it was the lengthiest of our national debates—outlasting those of temperance and slavery. In a more secular age, many writers have been haunted by the afterlife of Sunda
