When Arthur Conan Doyle was a lonely 7-year-old schoolboy at pre-prep Newington Academy in Edinburgh a French emigre named Eugene Chantrelle was engaged there to teach Modern Languages A few years later Chantrelle would be hanged for the particularly grisly murder of his wife marking the beginning of Conan Doyle's own association with some of the bloodiest crimes of the Victorian & Edwardian eras This early link between actual crime & the greatest detective story writer of all time is one of many Conan Doyle would also go on to play a leading role in the notorious case of the young Anglo-Indian lawyer George Edalji convicted & imprisoned as the mad ripper' who supposedly prowled the fields around his Staffordshire home by night looking for animals to mutilate; & the equally chilling story of Oscar Slater & his alleged murder of an elderly spinster as she sat in her Glasgow home one winter's night in 1908 a crime with a spectacular denouement 18 years later Using freshly available evidence & eyewitness testimony Christopher Sandford follows these links & draws out the connections between Conan Doyle's literary output & factual criminality a pattern that will enthral & surprise the legions of Sherlock Holmes fans In a sense Conan Doyle wanted to be Sherlock
- to be a man who could bring order & justice to a terrible world
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The first collection of short stories from one of Britain's finest novelists & critics A nameless man who has fallen out of love with life refuses to get out of bed with unexpected consequences A sociologist recalls how he learned his first & formative lesson about the oppressive power of capitalism selling newspapers & magazines up & down the platforms of Waterloo station Some years before the era of the Pill & the Permissive Society four university friends travel to the Mediterranean for their first holiday together where the climate is sultry & sex is on everyone's mind & a strong-willed young woman defies adverse circumstances to pursue the perfect wedding at all costs These are some of the characters that populate David Lodge's shrewd funny & delightfully entertaining short stories collected here for the very first time What prompted their publication in this form is a short story in itself told by the author in his Foreword LONGLISTED FOR THE EDGE HILL SHORT STORY PRIZE 2017 ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Secret agent James Bond (Roger Moore) travels to the Far East to hunt for hired assassin Scaramanga (Christopher Lee) who appears to have Bond in his sights However it soon transpires that Scaramanga is really after a missing scientist the creator of a pocket-sized solar converter Bond & agent Mary Goodnight (Britt Ekland) race to the rescue ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Triple bill of Sergio Leone Westerns starring Clint Eastwood as the Man With No Name In &A Fistful of Dollars& (1964) the laconic gunslinger (Eastwood) makes a financial killing by playing two feuding families off each other in a small southwestern town & For a Few Dollars More& (1965) sees him reluctantly joining forces with bounty hunter Colonel Mortimer (Lee Van Cleef) to battle psychotic bandit El Indio (Gian Maria Volonte) & his gang of outlaws In & The Good the Bad & the Ugly& (1966) set during the American Civil War the paths of three loners
- Joe (Eastwood) Tuco (Eli Wallach) & Setenza (Van Cleef)
- cross as they search for the grave of Bill Carson home to a hidden fortune As the war intensifies the treasure seekers become drawn into a battle that dwarfs their own mercenary pursuits Actors Clint Eastwood Gian Maria Volonte Marianne Koch Wolfgang Lukschy S Rupp Directors Sergio Leone Producers Giorgio Papi Arrigo Colombo Alberto Grimaldi Language English Number of discs 3

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Triple bill of Sergio Leone Westerns starring Clint Eastwood as the Man With No Name In 'A Fistful of Dollars' (1964) the laconic gunslinger (Eastwood) makes a financial killing by playing two feuding families off each other in a small southwestern town ' For a Few Dollars More' (1965) sees him reluctantly joining forces with bounty hunter Colonel Mortimer (Lee Van Cleef) to battle psychotic bandit El Indio (Gian Maria Volonte) & his gang of outlaws In ' The Good the Bad & the Ugly' (1966) set during the American Civil War the paths of three loners
- Joe (Eastwood) Tuco (Eli Wallach) & Setenza (Van Cleef)
- cross as they search for the grave of Bill Carson home to a hidden fortune As the war intensifies the treasure seekers become drawn into a battle that dwarfs their own mercenary pursuits Actors Clint Eastwood Gian Maria Volonte Marianne Koch Wolfgang Lukschy S Rupp Directors Sergio Leone Producers Giorgio Papi Arrigo Colombo Alberto Grimaldi Format PALLanguage English Region Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe Read more about DVD formats) Number of discs 3

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Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play James Bond has been marked for death & he’ll need all his lethal instincts & seductive charm to survive in this action-packed adventure Roger Moore returns as Agent 007 & faces off in a deadly game of cat-&-mouse with assassin Francisco Scaramanga (Christopher Lee) Featuring a wild automobile chase through Bangkok & Bond’s stunning confrontation with an entire martial-arts school The Man with the Golden Gun delivers nonstop excitement ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Roger Moore returns to the screen as James Bond as the Secret Service agent travels to the Far East to hunt for hired assassin Scaramanga (Christopher Lee) who appears to have Bond in his sights However it soon transpires that Scaramanga is really after a missing scientist the creator of a pocket-sized solar converter Bond & agent Mary Goodnight (Britt Ekland) race to the rescue ...

James Bond has been marked for death & he’ll need all his lethal instincts & seductive charm to survive in this action-packed adventure Roger Moore returns as Agent 007 & faces off in a deadly game of cat-&-mouse with assassin Francisco Scaramanga (Christopher Lee) Featuring a wild automobile chase through Bangkok & Bond’s stunning confrontation with an entire martial-arts school The Man with the Golden Gun delivers nonstop excitement ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play The Man With The Iron Fists On the hunt for a fabled treasure of gold a band of warriors assassins & a rogue British soldier descend upon a village in feudal China where a humble blacksmith looks to defend himself & his fellow villagers The Man With The Iron Fists 2 Thaddeus (RZA) is back in this explosive action adventure inspired by Kung Fu classics A reluctant villager joins forces with a mysterious outsider to fight off powerful evil forces both earthly & otherworldly in a 19th Century Chinese mining town When a stranger Thaddeus is found badly wounded near the village miner Li Kung (Dustin Nguyen) & his wife Ah Ni (Eugenia Kang) offer him refuge As he heals he becomes entrenched in a conflict that pits the townsfolk against the evil Master Ho (Carl Ng) his nefarious Beetle Clan & the terrifying Lord Pi (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa) With Thaddeus at his side the mild-mannered Kung transforms into a deadly warrior in this martial arts epic ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Thaddeus (RZA) is back in this explosive action adventure inspired by Kung Fu classics A reluctant villager joins forces with a mysterious outsider to fight off powerful evil forces both earthly & otherworldly in a 19th Century Chinese mining town When a stranger Thaddeus is found badly wounded near the village miner Li Kung (Dustin Nguyen) & his wife Ah Ni (Eugenia Kang) offer him refuge As he heals he becomes entrenched in a conflict that pits the townsfolk against the evil Master Ho (Carl Ng) his nefarious Beetle Clan & the terrifying Lord Pi (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa) With Thaddeus at his side the mild-mannered Kung transforms into a deadly warrior in this martial arts epic ...