When a wealthy Venetian woman is found brutally murdered the prime suspect is her Romanian maid who has fled the city. As she attempts to leave the country carrying a considerable sum of money & forged papers the maid runs into the path of an oncoming train & is killed. Case closed. But when the old woman's neighbour returns from abroad it becomes clear that the maid could not have been the killer. Commissario Brunetti decides
- unofficially
- to take the case on himself. As Brunetti investigates it becomes clear that the motive for the murder was unlikely to have been greed rather that it had its roots in the temptations of lust. But perhaps Brunetti is thinking of the wrong deadly sin altogether...

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There is a perception that doctors speak among themselves in an arcane language bounce classic Latin & Greek diagnoses at their patients & write prescriptions in an indecipherable Latin scrawl to ensure that no one except a trained pharmacist can read them. The fact is that Latin & Greek are the traditional languages of medicine. Latin is used to describe the anatomy of the body while many of our diagnostic labels & pathological terms are derived from Greek. In addition because Latin is a dead & unchanging language it allows us to follow a timeline back to the beginnings of medicine. We can hear the views of the early Roman doctors just as they uttered them. But apart from giving you an insight into the language of doctors this medical miscellany contains many interesting facts & snippets of information. It will tell you why testicles were so vitally important to the Romans; what causes rigor mortis after death; what happened to the skin of William Burke the infamous body-snatcher; & what became of the famed Roman orator Marcus Tullius Cicero. ...

The bed was broken & tilted grotesquely sideways. Harrison was sprawled over in a huddle of soiled blankets. His mouth was twisted.. . Harrison had been an expert on deadly mushrooms. How was it then that he had eaten a large quantity of death-dealing muscarine? Was it an accident? Suicide? Or murder? The documents in the case seemed to be a simple collection of love notes & letters home. But they concealed a clue to the brilliant murderer who baffled the best minds in London. ' She combined literary prose with powerful suspense & it takes a rare talent to achieve that. A truly great storyteller.' Minette Walters ...

This is the autobiography of a Rangers legend. Alex Mac Donalds compelling memoirs cover his formative years as a player with St Johnstone his rise to fame with Rangers his transfer to Hearts where he became player-manager & his time in charge at Airdrie. But Doddie is quintessentially a Rangers man having grown up in Glasgow supporting them & then going on to play a key role in the clubs 1972 Cup Winners Cup triumph. Doddie won 12 medals in a glittering career including a highly-prized European one during his time with Rangers yet as he reveals a chance meeting with Celtic manager Jock Stein might have resulted in him signing for the Old Firms other half. Etched indelibly in his memory too is the dejection he suffered when Hearts lost the League Championship & Scottish Cup within the space of a week in the mid-1980s & his subsequent delight at leading Airdrie into Europe. Doddie" is a fascinating story both for his lifelong love affair with football & his more personal story of growing up in Glasgow his love of animals & his midlife crisis when he put the car in the garage & headed out on the highway on a brand new Harley Davidson. It has been a life full of adventures & characters & the highs & lows of his life & career are entertainingly & engagingly told." ...

Dodger is a tosher
- a sewer scavenger living in the squalor of Dickensian London. Everyone who is nobody knows Dodger. Anyone
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Dodger is a tosher
- a sewer scavenger living in the squalor of Dickensian London. Everyone who is nobody knows Dodger. Anyone
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London 1850s. After five years in an Australian penal colony the Artful Dodger returns to London in search of a hidden fortune. Unaware of the fate that befell Twist Fagin & Sikes Dodger revisits the criminal underworld of Dickensian London to seek out his old comrades any of whom might possess the key to the treasure. He finds the city a changed place from his youth: with law & order upheld by a new police force Fagin gone to the gallows his old gang scattered & danger around every corner. ...

The Dodger" is the long-awaited story of Johnny Dodge a wartime hero & a pivotal figure in the escapade immortalised in the legendary Hollywood film " The Great Escape". Of all the Allied prisoners who broke out of Hermann Gorings escape proof camp in the famous episode of March 1944 Johnny Dodge was the most intriguing. American-born Dodge was a cousin by marriage of Winston Churchill. When the Second World War broke out he volunteered for the Army but was quickly captured after the debacle of Dunkirk. He became a prisoner of war & an inveterate escapologist & troublemaker
- eventually becoming one of the ringleaders of the Great Escape. Surviving the murderous Gestapo he was thrown into a VIP compound of Sachsenhausen concentration camp on the orders of Heinrich Himmler
- but escaped once more. After recapture Johnny was spirited away by the SS to a meeting in Berlin with Hitlers interpreter who sent him on a clandestine mission to his cousin in Downing Street. His odyssey through the dying embers of the Third Reich to Switzerland & freedom in the company of a louche Nazi apparatchik is the last curious escapade in the story of Johnnys adventurous life. " The Dodger" draws upon Dodges voluminous private papers including photographs taken inside prison camps & letters home casting revealing new light on the myth of the Great Escape."

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From time to time mankind takes a sudden leap forward & invents something which makes life so much simpler that people soon begin to wonder how they ever survived without it. The Wheel the Printing Press the Microchip the Self-Winding Spaghetti Fork & now- THE DODO BOOK FOR COOKS. This handy quirky recipie journal contains amongst other things: -A Table of Equivalents-Dividers with pockets for different cuisines including vegetarian fish pasta & rice etc.-A section for notes-Lots of great illustrations "es Typical"e: &8216; Fish to taste right must swim three times- in water in butter & in wine&8217;POLISH PROVERB ...

From time to time mankind takes a sudden leap forward & invents something which makes life so much simpler that people soon begin to wonder how they ever survived without it. The Wheel the Printing Press the Self-Dribbling Seed Dispenser & now- THE DODO BOOK OF GARDEN CUTTINGS. This handy quirky garden journal contains amongst other things: -A Garden Planner-Monthly dividers with pockets-A section for notes-Lots of great illustrations "es Typical"e: Sowing Beans One for the mouse One for the crow One to rot And one to grow ...