Bing Crosby double-bill. In ' Birth of the Blues' (1941), Crosby stars with Mary Martin as two jazz musicians in 1920s New Orleans, who team up to create a new musical sound at the same time as they fall in love. In ' Blue Skies' (1946), Crosby teams up wit ...

Bing Crosby musical double-bill. In ' Rhythm on the River' (1940), Basil Rathbone plays celebrated composer Oliver Courtnay, but what his adoring public don't know is that his hit songs are composed by two ghost writers, Bob Summers (Crosby) & Cherry Lan ...

In ' The Emperor Waltz' (1948) a traveling gramophone salesman Virgil Smith (Bing Crosby) wants to sell his Gramophones in pre-WWI Austria. Toget the ball rolling, he hits on the idea of going straight to the top & selling one to emperor Franz Joseph (Ri ...

Eyes down to find a killer who’s playing to win… An irresistible slice of murder & mystery – there’s a killer on the loose in the Lake District, & the members of the Penrith Bingo Club have decided they’re the ones to catch the culprit… Jason Brazel is an out of work journalist who lives in Penrith with his family & mother-in-law, Amita. She knows everyone & everything that’s going on in this corner of the Lakes. So when it’s discovered that Madeline Frobisher, one of Amita’s fellow regulars at the bingo club has died, found by the postman outside her crumbling country home close to Ullswater Lake, she senses immediately this is no accident. The trouble is, no one else seems to take her suspicions seriously. That is, until she enlists the help of her friends at the Penrith Bingo Club. Dismissed by many as eccentric, over the hill or out of touch, it turns out that it’s unlucky for some that these amateur sleuths are on the case… Product Information:  •†ISBN: 9780008513702... ...

More slow-motion running & long-distance hearing with crimebusting bionic agent Jaime Sommers (Lindsay Wagner). In ' The Vega Influence' Jaime investigates some mysterious disappearances on a mysterious isl&. ' In This Corner, Jaime Sommers' sees Jaime ...

Second series of adventures featuring the 70's super-heroine & her fantastic powers. When tennis professional Jaime Sommers (Lindsay Wagner) meets up with her childhood sweetheart Steve Austin (Lee Majors) on holiday, she has a near-fatal sky-diving acc ...

Gertrude Wyndham had come to the Providence as a young bride & had somehow fused an ill-knit family together & made the beautiful old house a place of refuge & healing. & then the war came. Her daughter Sybil had never returned from France. Defying all convention she went to live with Henri Blanchard, twenty years older than herself, a man who, for years, had been in love with her mother. Ned Wyndham, The beloved son & heir of Providence, returned from the trenches a shell-shocked ghost locked into his own private hell. Only in Providence did he appear to return to the some kind of tranquillity ...

Dear Reader, the man I love is trying to kill me... 1932. Emily Blackwood, a young adventuress & plant hunter, travels north for a curious new commission. A gentleman has written to request she catalogue his vast collection of taxidermied creatures before sale. On arrival, Emily finds a ruined castle, its owner haunted by the memory of a woman who disappeared five decades before.  & when she discovers the ripped pages of an old diary, crammed into the walls, she realises a dark secret lies here, waiting to entrap her too... Product Information:  •†ISBN: 9781472276391 •†Author: Freya Berry •†Publisher: Headline Review •†Format: Paperback •†Pages: 400 •†Dimensions: 12.8 x 3.4 x 19.6cm ...

Spoiled socialite Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren) pursues lawyer Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor) to his Bodega Bay home after they meet in a bird shop. Melanie sails across the bay to deliver the gift of a lovebird to Mitch's young sister, only to be attacked b ...

Romance writer & single mum Stevie Honeywell has only weeks to go to her wedding when her fianc? Matthew runs off with her glamorous new friend Jo Mac Lean. It feels like history repeating itself for Stevie, but this time she is determined to win back her man. She isn't going to act as he might expect. She isn't going to wail & dig her heels in, she is simply going to pretend to let him go whilst she pursues a mad course of dieting, exercising & self-improvement. & it feels like history is repeating itself for Adam Mac Lean too, who is also determined to win his lady, Jo, back with the same basic psychological tactics. Then he is going to initiate his master plan: Getting together with Stevie to drive Jo wild with jealousy. So, like the Scottish country jig ' The Birds & the Bees', the couples all change partners & learn some revealing truths about each other along the way. But what happens when Adam's master plan actually starts to work? & just who will Stevie be dancing with when the music stops? ...