Montana lawyer Miles Patrick hates smartphones, likes jazz and stray cats, and gets his legal strategy from The Gang, a group of retired lawyers who meet for coffee, cards and gossip in the backroom of a bar downstairs from Miles' offices. A letter from a long-dead client propels Miles into a cross-country race against time and shadowy adversaries, forcing him to revert to lessons learned in bare-knuckle brawls in the miners bars of Idaho's Silver Valley when he finds himself in the cross hairs of someone who doesn't want him to find the answers he is seeking.
In this second story in the Miles and Casie series, Helena lawyer Miles Patrick sets out with fiancé Casie Irish on a worldwide tour to visit Miles' fatefully-acquired collection of "Proper Mariner's Houses" and to find out if workaholic Miles can get away from his practice long enough to support a relationship. But their pre-honeymoon expedition gets derailed when Miles gets pulled into an intrigue involving the long-ago history of his Venetian Palazzo, putting his and Casie's lives and future in jeopardy.
So this Irishman walks into a bar. No joke. The bar happens to be The Club, a hole-in-the-wall bar owned by Helena lawyer Miles Patrick on old Last Chance Gulch. Despite an unexpected welcome from Cabo, The Club's resident cat, the Irishman persuades Miles to travel to Sneem, in southwestern Ireland, where Miles has become the owner of an old manor house, for the annual celebration of an ancient Celtic festival. Miles' arrival in Ireland draws him into a deadly intrigue involving an artifact whose origins are lost in antiquity, and confronts him with the compromising history of his own Irish ancestors.
In this second story in the Miles and Casie series, Helena lawyer Miles Patrick sets out with fiancé Casie Irish on a worldwide tour to visit Miles' fatefully-acquired collection of "Proper Mariner's Houses" and to find out if workaholic Miles can get away from his practice long enough to support a relationship. But their pre-honeymoon expedition gets derailed when Miles gets pulled into an intrigue involving the long-ago history of his Venetian Palazzo, putting his and Casie's lives and future in jeopardy.
Montana lawyer Miles Patrick hates smartphones, likes jazz and stray cats, and gets his legal strategy from The Gang, a group of retired lawyers who meet for coffee, cards and gossip in the backroom of a bar downstairs from Miles' offices. A letter from a long-dead client propels Miles into a cross-country race against time and shadowy adversaries, forcing him to revert to lessons learned in bare-knuckle brawls in the miners bars of Idaho's Silver Valley when he finds himself in the cross hairs of someone who doesn't want him to find the answers he is seeking.
Alan Lomax (1915-2002) began working for the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress in 1936, first as a special and temporary assistant, then as the permanent Assistant in Charge, starting in June 1937, until he left in late 1942. He recorded such important musicians as Woody Guthrie, Muddy Waters, Aunt Molly Jackson, and Jelly Roll Morton. A reading and examination of his letters from 1935 to 1945 reveal someone who led an extremely complex, fascinating, and creative life, mostly as a public employee. While Lomax is noted for his field recordings, these collected letters, many signed "Alan Lomax, Assistant in Charge," are a trove of information until now available only at the Library of Congress. They make it clear that Lomax was very interested in the commercial hillbilly, race, and even popular recordings of the 1920s and after. These letters serve as a way of understanding Lomax's public and private life during some of his most productive and significant years. Lomax was one of the most stimulating and influential cultural workers of the twentieth century. Here he speaks for himself through his voluminous correspondence.
Key features of this book include: * thorough coverage of all the key concepts in office procedures * complete and thorough coverage of the current CXC syllabus, obviating the need to use several texts * detailed guidance for the SBA compondent of the syl
Thoroughly illustrated with images of the buildings under discussion, advertisements, and other historical photographs, Britain is an authoritative, yet highly accessible, account of twentieth-century British architecture.
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