WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MATTHEW PEARL. Edgar Allan Poe invented the genre of detective fiction with these three mesmerising stories of a young French eccentric named C. Auguste Dupin: The Murders in the Rue Morgue The Mystery of Marie Roget & The Purloined Letter. Years later Dorothy Sayers would describe these tales as almost a complete manual of detective theory & practice. Indeed Poes short mysteries inspired the creation of countless literary sleuths among them Sherlock Holmes. Today the unique Dupin stories still stand out as utterly engrossing page-turners. This edition reproduces the definitive text of these stories & an introduction & appendix on The Earliest Detectives by the novelist Matthew Pearl. ...

In 1858 a young woman on her honeymoon is abducted taken across the border to the US & sold into slavery. Thirty-eight years later the owner of one of Torontos livery stables has been found dead horsewhipped & hung from his wrists in his tack room. The investigation endangers Murdochs own life
- & reveals how harms committed in the past can erupt fatally in the present.
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In the cold Toronto winter of 1895 the naked body of a servant girl is found frozen in a deserted laneway. The young victim was pregnant when she died. Detective William Murdoch soon discovers that many of those connected with the girls life have secrets to hide. Was her death on attempt to cover up a scandal in one of the citys influential families? ...

Dolly Merishaw is a midwife & an abortionist in Victorian Toronto & although she keeps quiet about her clients her contempt & greed leaves them resentful & angry. It comes as no surprise to Detective William Murdoch when she is murdered but when a young boy is found dead in Dollys squalid kitchen a week later Murdoch isnt sure if hes hunting one murderer
- or two.
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Detective Murdochs life & work beoome tragically entwined when his sister who long ago fled to a convent to escape their abusive father is on her deathbed. Meanwhile the same father has been charged with murder & calls on his estranged son to prove his innocence. But knowing his father as he does what is Murdoch to believe? ...

The Reverend Charles Howard sat in judgement on the poor assessing their applications for the workhouse. But now he is dead stabbed & brutally beaten in his office. Has some poor beggar he turned down taken his vengeance? Murdochs investigation takes him into the world of the destitute who had nowhere to turn when they knocked on the Reverend Howards door. ...

Detective William Murdoch is not convinced that Constable Oliver Wicken
- a man who was the sole support of his mother & invalid
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A young lawyer's involvement in her first case leads her through the criminal justice system which is cracking at the seams. The text of this play was extensively revised by the author for the National Theatre's revival of the play & performance of the entire trilogy in Autumn 1993. ...

This is the autobiography of Carlton Leach a man to be reckoned with. He has earned himself respect throughout the deadly underworld he occupies. Make a friend of Carlton & you have an ally for life; cross him at your peril. For 20 years he has ranked among the toughest of Britains brawn brigade. He was a key member of the dreaded Essex Boys gang which ran riot in the eighties & the nineties sparking a savage drugs war which saw three of his pals wiped out in the 1995 Range Rover massacre. Even now he knows that a bullet still has his name on it as a result of that simmering feud. Carlton was minder to boxer Nigel Benn throughout his glory years in the ring & tells of the blood sweat & tears of their special relationship. He also tells how he saved four of his firm from being tortured to death & their wives & daughters raped in front of them after a 10 million heroin consignment went missing. ...

With more than 1 000 vibrant full-color illustrations & over 4 hours of detailed video demonstrations The Muscle & Bone Palpation Manual" is the most visually engaging way to help you master & successfully apply palpation techniques in massage therapy. This innovative text uses unique richly detailed photographic illustrations of muscles as they appear under the skin to give you a thorough understanding of effective palpation. This comprehensive guide provides unparalleled preparation for professional success." ...