A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of a classic Raymond Chandler mystery featuring private eye, Philip Marlowe. Philip Marlowe's on a case: his client, a dried-up husk of a woman, wants him to recover a rare gold coin called a Brasher Doubloon, missing from her late husband's collection. That's the simple part. It becomes more complicated when Marlowe finds that everyone who handles the coin suffers a run of very bad luck: they always end up dead. That's also unlucky for a private investigator, because leaving a trail of corpses around LA gets cops' noses out of joint. If Marlowe doesn't wrap this one up fast, he's going to end up in jail
- or worse, in a box in the ground...
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Books Children's Fiction Books First stop is The Highland Falcon Thief, a breathless train journey full of deceptions, puzzles & clues to solve. Harrison Beck & his Uncle Nat are enjoying the final journey of the Highland Falcon, Britain's most famous steam train. But when a precious jewel goes missing, Harrison & his new friend Lenny find themselves at the centre of the investigation. Can they solve the mystery & catch the culprit before they reach the end of the line? Hear whispers in the dining car, find notes in the library & unknown passengers among the luggage, as you help Harrison solve the mystery aboard one of the world's grandest trains. First stop is The Highland Falcon Thief, a breathless train journey full of deceptions, puzzles & clues to solve. Harrison Beck & his Uncle Nat are enjoying the final journey of the Highland Falcon, Britain's most famous steam train. But when a precious jewel goes missing, Harrison & his new friend Lenny find themselves at the centre of the investigation. Can they solve the mystery & catch the culprit before they reach the end of the line? Hear whispers in the dining car, find notes in the library & unknown passengers among the luggage, as you help Harrison solve the mystery aboard one of the world's grandest trains.   Product Information:  •†ISBN:† 9781529013061 •†Author: M. G. Leonard •†Publisher:†  Pan Macmillan •†Format:†  Paperback •†Pages:† 256 •†Dimensions:† 19.7 x 13 x 2.4 cm ...

Essential information for all road users with this great value twinpack. The Highway Code
- The essential rules of the road
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Improve your driving standard & stay safe on the road with this comprehensive guide to traffic regulations & laws. The AA has an excellent track record with driving test titles & is the biggest seller of books in the genre after the Driving Standards Agency. With information on roads & road markings, motorways, traffic signs, documentation, the road user & the law, this is essential reading for all drivers
- not just those learning to drive. Product Information: • ISBN: 9780749583040 • Author: AA Publishing • Publisher: AA Publishing • Format: Paperback • Pages: 144 • Dimensions: 20.7 x 14cm
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Give me your buns & your biscuits! Give me your chocolate ?clairs! For I am the Rat of the highway, & the Rat Thief never shares!' Life is not safe for the other animals, as the villainous Highway Rat gallops along the highway, stealing their food. Clover from a rabbit; nuts from a squirrel
- he even steals his own hose's hay. Will he finally meet his comeuppance, in the form of a cunning duck? A fabulous, rollicking rhyme, in the style of the famous Alfred Noyes poem, ' The Highwayman', from the authors of ' The Gruffalo' & ' Zog'.
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Books Board Books ' Give me your buns & your biscuits! Give me your chocolate eclairs! For I am the Rat of the highway, & the Rat Thief never shares!' Life is not safe for the other animals, as the villainous Highway Rat gallops along the highway, stealing their food. Clover from a rabbit; nuts from a squirrel
- he even steals his own horse's hay. Will he finally meet his comeuppance, in the form of a cunning duck? Product Information: • ISBN: 9781407174341 • Author: Julia Donaldson • Publisher: Alison Green Books • Format: Board Book • Pages: 30 • Dimensions: 29.2 x 16.5 x 2.1cm
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Based on the book, The Highway Rat, by the much-loved duo, Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler. With colouring-in activities, 400+ stickers, dot-to-dots, puzzles, spot the difference, mazes & even word searches, there's plenty to keep The Highway Rat fans busy for hours on end.    Product Information:  •†ISBN:† 9781407191515 •†Author:†  Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler •†Publisher:†  Scholastic •†Format:†  Paperback •†Pages:† 32 •†Dimensions:† 23.6 x 0.6 x 30.5 cm ...

Two hundred miles south of the Devon coastline, a fanatical group of Islamic Jihad fighters have captured a supertanker laden with oil
- & have set it on a deadly collision course with an English town. Stratton, the SBS operative with a ruthless reputation, is given an almost impossible task: stop the terrorists & reclaim the ship. But this is just the beginning. When Zhilev, a former Spetsnaz Russian agent, learns his brother was killed on board, he sets about wreaking his revenge. Zhilev has a plan that involves a nuclear suitcase bomb & a city he'll turn to ruins
- a plan that only Stratton can derail...

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This is a beautifully produced book illustrated by good diagrams & quite stunning photographs. With a title like this I would ...

Once as much a part of the Lanarkshire Village of Blacklaw as the rich coal seams of its colliery, the Stalkers now dream of a better future. In Edinburgh, Drew Stalker studies law, determined never to return to the grinding poverty of his childhood. Mirrin, the most restless & vital of them all, takes to the road & begins her journey, from tinker ...