On September 5, 1996, the fishing boat Heather Lynne II was run down by a tugboat & barge & overturned Three fishermen were trapped inside with their air supply diminishing. The Coast Guard was called. Dead Men Tapping opens four years later in a federal courtroom, where the victims' families are suing the U.S. Coast Guard for a rescue gone wrong. As the story unfolds, you come to know the trapped fishermen, their community, their would-be rescuers, & the crew of the tug & bargeand their stories propel Dead Men Tapping to its heartbreaking conclusion. ...

In contrast with the epic scope of the Rougon-Macquart novels, Zola’s short stories are concerned with the everyday aspects of human existence & the interests of ordinary people. From the cruel irony of ‘ Captain Burle’ to the Rabelaisian exuberance of ‘ Coqueville on the Spree’, these stories display the broad range of Zola’s imagination, using a variety of tones, from the quietly cynical to the compassionate, from the playful to the tragic. ...

In February 1959, a group of nine experienced hikers in the Russian Ural Mountains died mysteriously on an elevation known as Dead Mountain. Eerie aspects of the incident, unsettling & unexplained causes of death, a strange final photograph taken by one of the hikers & signs of radioactivity, have led to decades of speculation over what really happened. This gripping work of literary nonfiction delves into the mystery through unprecedented access to the hikers` own journals & photographs, government case files, dozens of interviews & the author`s retracing of the hikers` fateful journey in the Russian winter. A fascinating portrait of the young hikers & a skilful interweaving of their story & the author`s investigations, here for the first time is the real story of what happened that night on Dead Mountain. ...

Inner city murder crosses two continents. Inspectors Cetin Ikmen & Mehmet Suleyman from Istanbul are sent to a policing conference in Detroit, but little can prepare them for the corruption that lies at its heart. When Ezekial Goins, an elderly man of Turkish descent approaches them to crack the long-unsolved murder of his son, a quiet trip takes a far more sinister turn. As they delve deeper into the case, the pair find themselves immersed in a terrifying world of inter-gang drug war & racial prejudice that puts them in mortal danger, & forces Ikmen to confront some demons of his own... ...

A fast-paced, darkly funny crime novel set in Interior Alaska that follows down-on-his-luck cabbie, Mike Fisher, as he searches for his daughter. Her step-father has been shot in her bathroom, & Fisher thinks she killed him & fled. In a panic he tries to hide the body, but that`s not easy when it`s fifty-below outside. Things get dangerously complicated when it turns out step-dad was part of a local militia, & now they`re on Fisher`s tail. Dead of Winter evokes the harshness of winter in the ---sub-arctic & the intrigue fostered in a bored, trapped & socially circumscribed small-town community. ...

Nikolai Gogol`s `epic poem in prose`, ” Dead Souls” is a damning indictment of a corrupt society, translated from the Russian with an introduction & notes by Robert A. Maguire in ” Penguin Classics”. Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in the provincial town of `N`, visiting a succession of landowners & making each a strange offer. He proposes to buy the names of dead serfs still registered on the census, saving their owners from paying tax on them, & to use these `dead souls` as collateral to re-invent himself as a aristocrat. In this ebullient picaresque masterpiece, Gogol created a grotesque gallery of human types, from the bear-like Sobakevich to the insubstantial fool Manilov, &, above all, the devilish con man Chichikov. ” Dead Souls” (1842), Russia`s first major novel, is one of the most unusual works of nineteenth-century fiction & a devastating satire on social hypocrisy. In his introduction, Robert A. Maguire discusses Gogol`s life & literary career, his depiction of Russian society, & the language & narrative techniques employed in ” Dead Souls”. This edition also

Includes:: a chronology, further reading, appendices, a glossary, map & notes. Nikolai Gogol (1809-52) was born in the Ukraine. His experience of St Petersburg life informed a savagely satirical play, ” The Government Inspector”, & a series of brilliant short stories including ” Nevsky Prospekt” & ” Diary of a Madman”. For over a decade, Gogol laboured on his comic epic ” Dead Souls”
- before renouncing literature & burning parts of the manuscript shortly before he died. If you enjoyed ” Dead Souls”, you might like Fyodor Dostoyevsksy`s ” The Brothers Karamazov”, also available in ” Penguin Classics”. ” Gogol was a strange creature, but then genius is always strange”. (Vladimir Nabokov). ”I admire the way in which Maguire has kept his own brilliantly variegated vocabulary away from 20th-century phrases, without ever looking parodic or antiquarian”. (A.S. Byatt, author of ” Possession”).


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On 1st May 1915, the luxury ocean liner Lusitania sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool. Her passengers were anxious. ...

Dead Water is the fifth book in Ann Cleeves' Shetland series -- which is now the major BBC1 drama starring Douglas Henshall, SHETL&. When the body of journalist Jerry Markham is found in a traditional Shetland boat, outside the house of the Fiscal, down at the Marina, young Detective Inspector Willow Reeves is drafted in to head up the investigation. Since the death of his fiancee, Inspector Jimmy Perez has been out of the loop, but his interest in this new case is stirred & he decides to help the inquiry. Markham -- originally a Shetlander but who had made a name for himself in London -- had left the islands years before. In his wake, he left a scandal involving a young girl, Evie Watt, who is now engaged to a seaman. He had few friends in Shetl&, so why was he back? Willow & Jimmy are led to Sullum Voe, the heart of Shetland's North Sea oil & gas industry. It soon emerges from their investigation that Markham was chasing a story in his final days. One that must have been significant enough to warrant his death.. . Also available in the Shetland series are Raven Black, White Nights, Red Bones & Blue Lightning. Ann Cleeves' Vera Stanhope series (ITV television drama VERA) contains five titles, of which The Glass Room is the most recent. ...

Dead Water is the fifth book in Ann Cleeves` Shetland series -- which is now the major BBC1 drama starring Douglas Henshall, SHETL&. When the body of journalist Jerry Markham is found in a traditional Shetland boat, outside the house of the Fiscal, down at the Marina, young Detective Inspector Willow Reeves is drafted in to head up the investigation. Since the death of his fiancee, Inspector Jimmy Perez has been out of the loop, but his interest in this new case is stirred & he decides to help the inquiry. Markham -- originally a Shetlander but who had made a name for himself in London -- had left the islands years before. In his wake, he left a scandal involving a young girl, Evie Watt, who is now engaged to a seaman. He had few friends in Shetl&, so why was he back? Willow & Jimmy are led to Sullum Voe, the heart of Shetland`s North Sea oil & gas industry. It soon emerges from their investigation that Markham was chasing a story in his final days. One that must have been significant enough to warrant his death.. . Also available in the Shetland series are Raven Black, White Nights, Red Bones & Blue Lightning. Ann Cleeves` Vera Stanhope series (ITV television drama VERA) contains five titles, of which The Glass Room is the most recent. ...

100 of the best crime stories written by women, selected & introduced by Sophie Hannah. From Agatha Christie & Daphne du Maurier, to Val Mc Dermid & Margaret Atwood, women writers have long been drawn to criminal acts. Here, award-winning author Sophie Hannah brings together 100 of her favourite examples. Deadlier

Includes:: prize-winners, bestsellers & rising stars, so whether you take your crime cosy or hard-boiled, this big, beautiful anthology will keep you reading long into the night.

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