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  • Fairies in Cabs

    Comic and Curious Clippings From the Legendary Theatrical Paper "The Era", 1890-1900

    A compilation of amusing, odd and sometimes downright bizarre extracts from Britain's leading theatrical newspaper. Oddball music hall acts, Sabbatarian landladies, squalid dressing-rooms, the dangers of public transport, the vexed question of why women insisted on wearing hats the size of cartwheels at the theatre - it's all in Fairies in Cabs. ... Leer más

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  • Affinity

    de Sarah Waters ...
    In the shadows of Victorian London, a tale of obsession and redemption unfolds.Margaret Prior, an upper-class woman recovering from a suicide attempt, has begun visiting the women’s ward of Millbank prison, Victorian London’s grimmest jail, as part of her rehabilitative charity work. Amongst Millbank’s murderers and common thieves, Margaret finds herself increasingly fascinated by on apparently ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • The Mammoth Book of the New Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes

    12 Original Stories

    Is it really possible, do you suppose,’ said Sherlock Holmes to me one morning, as we took breakfast together, that a healthy and robust man may be so stricken with terror that he drops down dead?’”The much praised Denis O. Smith introduces twelve new Sherlockian stories in this collection, including The Adventure of the XYZ Club,” The Secret of Shoreswood Hall,” and The Adventure of the Brown Box ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Catt Out of the Bag

    How, where and why did a man disappear from a group of carol singers on that cold December night in Paulsfield? It hardly seemed likely that he had absconded with the collecting box. But the more that Inspector Charlton found out about the missing person, the less certain he became that he would find him alive... Catt Out of the Bag appeared first in 1939, one of sixteen novels that the author ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • Capital Crimes

    Edición de Martin Edwards ...
    Series series British Library Crime Classics
    An eclectic collection of London-based crime stories from the Golden Age of Mystery, featuring work by Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Wallace and others.Capital Crimes presents seventeen tales of murder and mayhem that blend the familiar with the unexpected in a way that reflects the personality of London. Alongside classics by Margery Allingham, Anthony Berkeley and Thomas Burke are excellent and ... Leer más

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  • Beatrix Potter's Journal

    Between the ages of 15 and 30 Beatrix Potter kept a secret diary written in code. When the code was cracked by Leslie Linder more than 20 years after her death, the diary revealed a remarkable picture of upper middle-class life in late Victorian Britain. The original diaries run to over 200,000 words so for this edition Glen Cavaliero has made a careful selection of complete entries and excerpts ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • Resorting to Murder

    Holiday Mysteries

    Edición de Martin Edwards ...
    Series series British Library Crime Classics
    Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder"This volume in Poisoned Pen's British Library Crime Classics series is ideal summer vacation reading." — Publishers WeeklyHolidays offer us the luxury of getting away from it all. So, in a different way, do detective stories. This collection of vintage mysteries combines both those pleasures. From a golf course at the English seaside to a ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The West End Horror

    A Posthumous Memoir of John H. Watson, M.D.

    Edición de Nicholas Meyer ...
    Series series The Journals of John H. Watson, M.D.
    New York Times Bestseller"As authentically, irresistibly gripping as anything Conan Doyle ever wrote…Don't miss it." — CosmopolitanMarch 1895. London. A month of strange happenings in the West End. First there is the bizarre murder of theater critic Jonathan McCarthy. Then the lawsuit against the Marquess of Queensberry for libel; the public is scandalized. Next, the ingenue at the Savoy is ... Leer más

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  • The Pantomime Life of Joseph Grimaldi

    Laughter, Madness and the Story of Britain's Greatest Comedian

    This biography offers a "vivid portrayal" of the eighteenth-century English entertainer who "invented the figure of the classic clown that we know today" ( The Guardian).The son of a deranged Italian immigrant, Joseph Grimaldi (1778–1837) was the most celebrated of English clowns. The first to use white-face makeup and wear outrageous colored clothes, he completely transformed the role of the ... Leer más

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  • The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    In The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes we read the last twelve stories Conan Doyle was to write about Holmes and Watson. They reflect the disillusioned world of the 1920s in which they were written, and he can be seen to take advantage of new, more open conventions in fiction. Suicide as a murder weapon and homosexual incest are some of the psychological tragedies whose consequences are unravelled by ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • The Oxford Book of Theatrical Anecdotes

    This is the ultimate anthology of theatrical anecdotes, edited by lifelong theatre-lover Gyles Brandreth in the Oxford tradition, and covering every kind of theatrical story and experience from the age of Shakespeare and Marlowe to the age of Stoppard and Mamet, from Richard Burbage to Richard Briers, from Nell Gwynn to Daniel Day-Lewis, from Sarah Bernhardt to Judi Dench. Players, playwrights, ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • The P.G. Wodehouse Miscellany

    de N.T.P Murphy ...
    Series series Literary Miscellany
    P.G. Wodehouse saw his first article published when still at school, and went on to become the leading humour writer of the twentieth century. He created characters famous across the English-speaking world, such as Rupert Psmith, Stanley Ukridge, Uncle Fred, the inhabitants of the Drones Club, Bertie Wooster and Jeeves, and Lord Emsworth and his beloved Empress, all of whom remain as popular today ... Leer más

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