When Chief Inspector Pel receives a letter from an old friend which is a sign of all hell breaking loose. Two murders are committed and a suspicious robbery takes place. What is the connection between the letter, the robbery and the murder? An international plot begins to unravel and Pel is called in to pick up the pieces.
Juliet Hebden’s third crime novel features the terrifying spectre of a rapist. Unpredictable and capable of any kind of savagery, his actions cause murder and mayhem and also threaten to destroy the festive mood of Christmas. Only the quirky and ever-likeable Chief Inspector Pel can pit his wits against the mind of this madman.
Chief Inspector Pel has been kidnapped. Or is he being held for ransom, traded for the release of prisoners, or perhaps murdered? He is, in any event, missing. To make matters worse, there is a prison escape, a fantastic robbery from a gunroom, and a collection of diamonds is stolen from a jeweller’s safe.
The story of the tragic Brontë family is familiar to everyone: we all know about the half-mad, repressive father, the drunken, drug-addled wastrel of a brother, wildly romantic Emily, unrequited Anne, and "poor Charlotte." Or do we? These stereotypes of the popular imagination are precisely that - imaginary - created by amateur biographers such as Mrs. Gaskell who were primarily novelists and were attracted by the tale of an apparently doomed family of genius. Juliet Barker's landmark book is the first definitive history of the Brontës. It demolishes the myths, yet provides startling new information that is just as compelling - but true. Based on first-hand research among all the Brontë manuscripts, including contemporary historical documents never before used by Brontë biographers, this book is both scholarly and compulsively readable. The Brontës is a revolutionary picture of the world's favorite literary family.
What did reading mean to the Victorians? This question is the key point of departure for Reading and the Victorians, an examination of the era when reading underwent a swifter and more radical transformation than at any other moment in history. With book production handed over to the machines and mass education boosting literacy to unprecedented levels, the norms of modern reading were being established. Essays examine the impact of tallow candles on Victorian reading, the reading practices encouraged by Mudie's Select Library and feminist periodicals, the relationship between author and reader as reflected in manuscript revisions and corrections, the experience of reading women's diaries, models of literacy in Our Mutual Friend, the implications of reading marks in Victorian texts, how computer technology has assisted the study of nineteenth-century reading practices, how Gladstone read his personal library, and what contemporary non-academic readers might owe to Victorian ideals of reading and community. Reading forms a genuine meeting place for historians, literary scholars, theorists, librarians, and historians of the book, and this diverse collection examines nineteenth-century reading in all its personal, historical, literary, and material contexts, while also asking fundamental questions about how we read the Victorians' reading in the present day.
Juliet Hebden’s third crime novel features the terrifying spectre of a rapist. Unpredictable and capable of any kind of savagery, his actions cause murder and mayhem and also threaten to destroy the festive mood of Christmas. Only the quirky and ever-likeable Chief Inspector Pel can pit his wits against the mind of this madman.
Chief Inspector Pel has been kidnapped. Or is he being held for ransom, traded for the release of prisoners, or perhaps murdered? He is, in any event, missing. To make matters worse, there is a prison escape, a fantastic robbery from a gunroom, and a collection of diamonds is stolen from a jeweller’s safe.
When Chief Inspector Pel receives a letter from an old friend which is a sign of all hell breaking loose. Two murders are committed and a suspicious robbery takes place. What is the connection between the letter, the robbery and the murder? An international plot begins to unravel and Pel is called in to pick up the pieces.
This new Chief Inspector Pel novel sees the French detective desperate to catch a group of violent terrorists, and devastated by the loss of the one of his team.
Pel is Provoked finds the Chief Inspector un sure of the motives for the shooting of a nurse and her pati ent. His team is equally baffled by the murders of 2 young g irls. Each girl is found with teeth marks on either side of the Spanish French border.
Commissaire Pel is faced with a gruesome murder and has no clue to the victim's identity. Under constant pressure from the new chief of police Pel methodically applies himself to unravelling the puzzle. When a second body is discovered he realizes a serial killer is on the loose.
The latest in this popular long-running series about a French detective. A decomposing corpse in a locked room, a drowned nun and a knifer in a club are all part of the daily routine for Commissionaire Pel and his team. However, after an armed robbery turns into a tragedy Pel suspects there's worse to come. Infiltrating the gutter groups with an undercover agent, Pel and Lapeyre from Paris try to trace the man behind the terrorist organisation that's using local girls as pawns in a deadly game.
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