Details: Thrust onto Egypt's throne when just nine years old, King Tut's reign was fiercely debated from the outset.
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A whole nation stood paralysed at the news of Princess Diana's tragic death after a car crash in Paris in August 1997.



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On a French golf course, a millionaire is found stabbed in the back…

An urgent cry for help brings Poirot to France.

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It's the height of summer, & the wealthy Finney family have gathered at the Manoir Bellechasse to pay tribute to their late father. But as the temperature rises, old secrets & bitter rivalries begin to surface. When the heat wave boils over into a mighty storm, a dead body is left in its wake. Chief Inspector Gamache, a guest at the Bellechasse, finds himself with a building full of suspects. With the hotel locked down, the murderer is trapped. But a cornered predator is always the most dangerous of all. ...

Eleven months after discovering a brutal double murder in a sleepy Northumbrian town, Detective Chief Inspector Kate Daniels is still haunted by her failure to solve the case. Then the brutal killing of a man on Newcastle's Quayside gives Daniels another chance to get it right, & her first case as Senior Investigating Officer. When Daniels recognises the corpse, but fails to disclose the fact, her personal life swerves dangerously into her professional life. But much worse, she is now being watched. As Daniels steps closer to finding a killer, a killer is only a breath away from claiming his next victim... ...

The recent News Corporation scandal has catapulted Murdoch & his global media empire into the public eye as perhaps never before. In the English-speaking world, & increasingly in 'untapped' but potentially lucrative markets such as China, Murdoch wields an influence as political kingmaker second to none. How did he do it? How did this empire, a loose 'archipelago' of media islands large & small, come to be so successful & influential? How did it all come to the current, disastrous state? & will the empire survive the recent scandal that has outraged people around the world & rocked the media? Building on many years' research & featuring many previously undisclosed revelations, THE MURDOCH ARCHIPELAGO is the most up-to-date & definitive survey of Murdoch's life & times; how power flows from influence; & whether this should (or if it can) be regulated. ...

After the Great War, life can never be the same again. Wounds need healing, & the horror of violent death banished into memory.

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Books Crime Books Two very different lives. One Hollywood murder... 2019: Lily Jones is living her dream in LA. Sort of. It hasn't quite turned out as she planned & instead of working as a movie producer, she is cleaning at the prestigious Beverly Hills Hotel. At least she gets to work in the renowned Paul Williams suite, site of the brutal murder of Honey Black 70 years ago, shrouded in rumour & dark glamour. 1949: Honey Black is about to hit the big time. She may have started out a country girl from Hicksville but now she is a star. & Hollywood had better watch out
- nothing can stop her now! After an accidental bump to the head, Lily finds herself in Hollywood, 1949. Like a dream come true, she is rubbing shoulders with the great & good of Tinseltown. Including Honey Black... Horrified, Lily realises that the actress has only two weeks left to live before she will be murdered. Could this be why she has found herself in 1949? To find the killer & stop them i...
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Jules Verne (1828-1905) is internationally famous as the author of a distinctive series of adventure stories describing new travel technologies which opened up the world & provided means to escape from it. The collective enthusiasm of generations of readers of his 'extraordinary voyages' was a key factor in the rise of modern science fiction. In The Mysterious Island a group of men escape imprisonment during the American Civil War by stealing a balloon. Blown across the world, they are air-wrecked on a remote desert isl&. In a manner reminiscent of Robinson Crusoe, the men apply their scientific knowledge & technical skill to exploit the island's bountiful resources, eventually constructing a sophisticated society in miniature. The book is also an intriguing mystery story, for the island has a secret. ...

Through detailed text & over 150 specially researched archive illustrations, this unique volume documents the greatest mysteries, methods of deduction & notorious criminals found in the Holmes canon. As well as bringing to life, the Victorian London crime scene that comprised the detective's fascinating world. While examining the various mediamanifestations of the stories, including their history in print & film & television adaptations. This book has 192 pages & is Approx. 30.5cm x 22.5cm x 2cm ...