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  • The Last Days of Newgate

    A gripping historical detective story set in the heart of old London

    by Andrew Pepper ...
    Series series Pyke Mystery
    'A story of high intrigue and low politics, brutal murder and cunning conspiracies . . . tangy and rambunctious stuff!' Observer'Gripping and atmospheric' Daily Express'Enjoyably disturbing . . . likely to leave the reader clamouring for more' TLSSt Giles, London, 1829: three people have been brutally murdered and the city simmers with anger and political unrest. Pyke, sometime Bow Street ... ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Kill-Devil And Water

    From the author of The Last Days of Newgate

    by Andrew Pepper ...
    Series series Pyke Mystery
    Pyke returns in a gripping tale of brutal murder and deception, set in the back streets of Victorian London and the cane fields of Jamaica.London: 1840. The economy is sliding into recession; gangs of unemployed workers roam the streets; and a murderer prowls the capital's poor neighbourhoods.Pyke, still grieving over the death of his wife and struggling to shoulder his responsibilities as a ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Revenge Of Captain Paine

    From the author of The Last Days of Newgate

    by Andrew Pepper ...
    Series series Pyke Mystery
    Terrific second novel set in the criminal underworld of pre-Victorian England from the author of THE LAST DAYS OF NEWGATEIt is 1835, and with the birth of the Industrial Revolution, railway fever sweeps the country. Pyke is uneasy with the luxury his aristocratic marriage has brought him, and when he is unofficially asked to investigate a decapitation, he can not resist the chance to resuscitate ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Bloody Winter

    From the author of The Last Days of Newgate

    by Andrew Pepper ...
    Series series Pyke Mystery
    The troubled head of the Detective Branch returns, in an intriguing case of kidnap, rebellion and murder...The body of a vagrant is discovered in a ditch in County Tipperary. Knox, a young Irish policeman with divided loyalties is told that the landowner wants the case dealt with swiftly and quietly. However, when Knox examines the corpse, he realises that this supposed vagrant was wearing a ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Detective Branch

    From the author of The Last Days of Newgate

    by Andrew Pepper ...
    Series series Pyke Mystery
    Pyke joins the newly formed Detective Branch of the Metropolitan police in a tale of corruption and murder set in the dangerous backstreets of 19th-century London...Drury Lane, 1844. A robbery has been committed at a pawnbroker's, leaving three people dead. The man called in to investigate is Pyke, head of the Metropolitan Police's newly formed Detective Branch at Scotland Yard. Pyke must find the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Noir Affect

    by Christopher Breu, Elizabeth A. Hatmaker, Paula Rabinowitz, Alexander Dunst, Sean Grattan, Peter Hitchcock, Justus Nieland, Andrew Pepper, Brian Rejack0, Ignacio Sánchez Prado1, Pamela Thoma2, Kirin Wachter-Grene3 ...
    Noir Affect proposes a new understanding of noir as defined by negative affect. This new understanding emphasizes that noir is, first and foremost, an affective disposition rather than a specific cycle of films or novels associated with a given time period or national tradition. Instead, the essays in Noir Affect trace noir’s negativity as it manifests in different national contexts from the ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • Customer Development of Effective Performance Indicators in Local and State Level Public Administration

    by Rebekah Schulz, Andrew Sense, Matthew Pepper ...
    As communities demand more transparency and involvement in community affairs, local public administrators and government authorities are seeking new ways to meet those needs. A fundamental way to bridge community needs with authority's actions is through the customer-oriented development of Performance Indicators (PI). However, this is often not a core focal point and as a result, performance ... Read more

    $81.99 USD

  • Physics for Dogs

    A Crash Course in Catching Cats, Frisbees, and Cars

    by John-Andrew Sandbrook ...
    Old dogs may have trouble with new tricks, but now canine brainiacs can use the laws of physics to master their corner of the universe. Complete with technical illustrations, graphs, and formulas, this book shows dogs how to:Bring down the mailman with the correct ratio of stealth and brute forcePoop strategically-indoors and out-by understanding variable-mass systemsOpen any cupboard with Newton ... Read more

    Was $9.99 USD Now $2.99 USD

  • Nuclear Power in Crisis

    Politics and Planning for the Nuclear State

    Edited by Andrew Blowers, David Pepper ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Energy Resources
    Originally published in 1987. The Chernobyl disaster intensified the whole debate on the nuclear power industry. There was great public concern about the industry regulation, about the siting of nuclear facilities, including the dumping of nuclear waste, and about the alleged secretiveness of the industry. This book examines these and many other important aspects of the industry worldwide and ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction

    Edited by Janice Allan, Jesper Gulddal, Stewart King, Andrew Pepper ...
    Series series Routledge Literature Companions
    The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction is a comprehensive introduction to crime fiction and crime fiction scholarship today. Across 45 original chapters, specialists in the field offer innovative approaches to the classics of the genre as well as ground-breaking mappings of emerging themes and trends.The volume is divided into three parts. Part I, Approaches, rearticulates the key theoretical ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Contemporary European Crime Fiction

    Representing History and Politics

    Edited by Monica Dall'Asta, Jacques Migozzi, Federico Pagello, Andrew Pepper ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book represents the first extended consideration of contemporary crime fiction as a European phenomenon. Understanding crime fiction in its broadest sense, as a transmedia practice, and offering unique insights into this practice in specific European countries and as a genuinely transcontinental endeavour, this book argues that the distinctiveness of the form can be found in its related ... Read more

    $125.99 USD

  • Globalization and the State in Contemporary Crime Fiction

    A World of Crime

    Edited by David Schmid, Andrew Pepper ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Why has crime fiction become a global genre? How do writers use crime fiction to reflect upon the changing nature of crime and policing in our contemporary world? This book argues that the globalization of crime fiction should not be celebrated uncritically. Instead, it looks at the new forms and techniques writers are using to examine the crimes and policing practices that define a rapidly ... Read more

    $98.09 USD