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Death's Old Sweet Song

By: Jonathan Stagge

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A song holds the key to murder in this Dr. Hugh Westlake mystery from the Edgar Award–winning author who wrote the Peter Duluth series as Patrick Quentin. Patrick Quentin, best known for the Peter Duluth puzzle mysteries, also penned outstanding detective novels from the 1930s through the 1960s under other pseudonyms, including Q. Patrick and Jonathan Stagge. Anthony Boucher wrote: “Quentin is particularly noted for the enviable polish and grace which make him one of the leading American fabricants of the murderous comedy of manners; but this surface smoothness conceals intricate and meticulous plot construction as faultless as that of Agatha Christie.” The affluent Bray family was known for throwing the most enjoyable picnics, and this one seemed to be no different to Dr. Hugh Westlake and his precocious progeny, Dawn. When their host’s daughter breaks into a version of the old English folk ballad, “Green Grow the Rushes, O,” no one gives it a second thought. Little do they know the song portends death. It begins with the bodies of twin boys found in the river, which connects to a lyric from the ballad. And before anyone can even recover from such a horror, more killings occur—all diabolically tied to the song. With help from Dawn and his old friend, Inspector Cobb, Westlake must sort through an ever-shrinking circle of suspects and stop a murderer from striking another deadly note.

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Open Road Media

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1504051572

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9781504051576

Sweet William or the Butcher?

The Duke of Cumberland and the '45

By: Jonathan Oates

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Sweet William or the Butcher?

The Duke of Cumberland and the '45

By: Jonathan Oates

Butcher' Cumberland is portrayed as one of the arch villains of British history. His leading role in the bloody defeat of the Jacobite rebellion in 1745 and his ruthless pursuit of Bonnie Prince Charlie's fugitive supporters across the Scottish Highlands has generated a reputation for severity that has endured to the present day. He has even been proposed as the most evil Briton of the eighteenth century. But was Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, the younger son of George II, really the ogre of popular imagination? Jonathan Oates, in this perceptive investigation of the man and his notorious career, seeks to answer this question. He looks dispassionately at Cumberland's character and at his record as a soldier, in particular at this behavior towards enemy wounded and prisoners. He analyses the rules of war as they were understood and applied in the eighteenth century. And he watches Cumberland closely through the entire course of the '45 campaign, from the retreat of the rebels across northern England to the Highlands, through Battle of Culloden and on into the bloodstained suppression that followed.

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381

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Casemate Publishers

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1781598223

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9781781598221

Sequels

An Annotated Guide to Novels in Series

By: Janet G. Husband,Jonathan F. Husband

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An Annotated Guide to Novels in Series

By: Janet G. Husband,Jonathan F. Husband

A guide to series fiction lists popular series, identifies novels by character, and offers guidance on the order in which to read unnumbered series.

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793

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American Library Association

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0838909671

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9780838909676

Historical Geography of Crop Plants

A Select Roster

By: Jonathan D. Sauer

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Historical Geography of Crop Plants

A Select Roster

By: Jonathan D. Sauer

Historical Geography of Crop Plants is devoted to a variety of staple and food crops, as well as fodder, fiber, timber, rubber, and other crops. The origins and histories of many of these crops have been clarified only recently by new research. The book has been arranged alphabetically by family and higher taxa for easy reference. Within families, species and cultivars are listed chronologically and geographically. The taxonomy and geography of probable wild progenitors have been outlined, and archeological evidence (when available) and historical evidence on region and domestication are traced. The subsequent evolution and spread of many domesticated species are examined, and the reasons behind the diversity in crop histories are explored. Historical Geography of Crop Plants will be a useful reference for botanists, economic botanists, ethnobiologists, agronomists, geographers, and others interested in the subject.

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324

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CRC Press

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0849389011

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9780849389016

The American Encyclopaedia of Agriculture. A Treasury of Useful Information for the Farm and Household

By: Jonathan Periam

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The American Encyclopaedia of Agriculture. A Treasury of Useful Information for the Farm and Household

By: Jonathan Periam

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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338542982X

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9783385429826

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Death's Old Sweet Song

Death's Old Sweet Song

Sweet William or the Butcher?

Sweet William or the Butcher?

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Sequels

Historical Geography of Crop Plants

Historical Geography of Crop Plants

The American Encyclopaedia of Agriculture. A Treasury of Useful Information for the Farm and Household

The American Encyclopaedia of Agriculture. A Treasury of Useful Information for the Farm and Household

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