A lump of concrete dropped deliberately from a little stone bridge over a relatively unfrequented road kills the wrong person. The driver behind is spared. But only for a while... It is impossible for Chief Inspector Wexford not to wonder how terrible it would be to discover that one of his daughters had been murdered. Sylvia has always been a cause for concern. Living alone with her two children, she is pregnant again. What will happen to the child? The relationship between father & daughter has always been uneasy. But the current situation also provokes an emotional division between Wexford & his wife, Dora. One particular member of the local press is gunning for the Chief Inspector, distinctly unimpressed with what he regards as old-fashioned police methods. But Wexford, with his old friend & partner, Mike Burden, along with two new recruits to the Kingsmarkham team, pursue their inquiries with a diligence & humanity that make Ruth Rendell's detective stories enthralling, exciting & very touching. ...

When was an England versus Germany match scheduled for the anniversary of Hitler's birthday?
Which is the only club to have scored
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One windy spring day in the Chilterns Joe Rose's calm, organized life is shattered by a ballooning accident. The afternoon, Rose reflects, could have ended in mere tragedy, but for his brief meeting with Jed Parry. Unknown to Rose, something passes between them
- something that gives birth in Parry to an obsession so powerful that it will test to the limits Rose's beloved scientific rationalism, threaten the love of his wife Clarissa & drive him to the brink of murder & madness.
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One windy spring day in the Chilterns Joe Rose's calm, organized life is shattered by a ballooning accident. The afternoon, Rose reflects, could have ended in mere tragedy, but for his brief meeting with Jed Parry. Unknown to Rose, something passes between them
- something that gives birth in Parry to an obsession so powerful that it will test to the limits Rose's beloved scientific rationalism, threaten the love of his wife Clarissa & drive him to the brink of murder & madness.
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As 1794 draws to a close Richard Bolitho, commanding the old seventy-four-gun ship of the line Hyperion, leaves Plymouth ...

Engelbert: What's in a name? Is the autobiography of one of the world's best-loved singing stars, Engelbert Humperdinck.
The
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Today we are developing a science that could change the world
- for good or ill
- more quickly & more profoundly than ever before.

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Having examined England's twin obsessions
- violence & sex
- in THE FOOTBALL FACTORY & HEADHUNTERS, John King completes his

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