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Author : John Dickson Carr
Release : 1961
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Book Synopsis Scandal at High Chimneys, etc by : John Dickson Carr
Download or read book Scandal at High Chimneys, etc written by John Dickson Carr. This book was released on 1961. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Dickson Carr
Release : 2014-03-25
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 433/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Scandal at High Chimneys by : John Dickson Carr
Download or read book Scandal at High Chimneys written by John Dickson Carr. This book was released on 2014-03-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Grand Master of the British-style detective story brings Victorian England to vivid life in this murder mystery, which critic Anthony Boucher hailed as a “faultless formal puzzle in detection” In 1865, novelist Clive Strickland is relaxing at his club when his friend Victor Damon comes to him in a panic, begging Clive to help him marry off his sister to a cash-poor marquis whose affections reek of gold-digging. Victor doesn’t care. Something sinister lurks at High Chimneys and he wants his sisters out of the house before their lives are put in danger. Old Matthew Damon, their father, has long been dogged by scandalous rumors of solitary visits to the cells of women about to be hanged for murder. But when murder is done at High Chimneys, Strickland and private investigator Jonathan Whicher will have to sort out the rumors and look behind the discreetly drawn curtains of High Chimneys for a killer.
Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Release : 1971
Genre : English imprints
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Book Synopsis General Catalogue of Printed Books by : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Download or read book General Catalogue of Printed Books written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books. This book was released on 1971. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Allie Cresswell
Release : 2017-12-05
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Book Rating : 918/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Tall Chimneys by : Allie Cresswell
Download or read book Tall Chimneys written by Allie Cresswell. This book was released on 2017-12-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considered a troublesome burden, Evelyn Talbot is banished by her family to their remote country house. Tall Chimneys is hidden in a damp and gloomy hollow. It is outmoded and inconvenient but Evelyn is determined to save it from the fate of so many stately homes at the time - abandonment or demolition. Occasional echoes of tumult in the wider world reach their sequestered backwater - the strident cries of political extremists, a furore of royal scandal, rumblings of the European war machine. But their isolated spot seems largely untouched. At times life is hard - little more than survival. At times it feels enchanted, almost outside of time itself. The woman and the house shore each other up - until love comes calling, threatening to pull them asunder. Her desertion will spell its demise, but saving Tall Chimneys could mean sacrificing her hope for happiness, even sacrificing herself. A century later, a distant relative crosses the globe to find the house of his ancestors. What he finds in the strange depression of the moor could change the course of his life forever. One woman, one house, one hundred years.
Author : Julie Klassen
Release : 2011-01-01
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 119/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Girl in the Gatehouse by : Julie Klassen
Download or read book The Girl in the Gatehouse written by Julie Klassen. This book was released on 2011-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miss Mariah Aubrey, banished after a scandal, hides herself away in a long-abandoned gatehouse on the far edge of a distant relative's estate. There, she supports herself and her loyal servant the only way she knows how--by writing novels in secret. Captain Matthew Bryant, returning to England successful and wealthy after the Napoleonic wars, leases an impressive estate from a cash-poor nobleman, determined to show the society beauty who once rejected him what a colossal mistake she made. When he discovers an old gatehouse on the property, he is immediately intrigued by its striking young inhabitant and sets out to uncover her identity, and her past. But the more he learns about her, the more he realizes he must distance himself. Falling in love with an outcast would ruin his well-laid plans. The old gatehouse holds secrets of its own. Can Mariah and Captain Bryant uncover them before the cunning heir to the estate buries them forever?
