One hundred years ago. On the foggy Hudson River a riverboat captain rescues an injured mermaid from the waters of the busiest port in the United States. A wildly popular--and notoriously reclusive--author makes a public debut. A French nobleman seeks a remedy for a curse. As three lives twine together & race to an unexpected collision the mystery of the Mermaid of the Hudson deepens. A mysterious & beguiling love story with elements of Poe Twain Hemingway & Greek mythology drawn in moody black-&-white charcoal Sailor Twain" is a study in romance atmosphere & suspense. " Sailor Twain "is one of " The Washington Posts " Top 10 Graphic/ Comic Reads of 2012" ...

This omnibus edition follows the second cycle of the Gaunt's Ghost stories in a collection called The Saint." It

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Simon Templar is the Saint
- daring dazzling & just a little disreputable. On the side of the law but standing outside it he dispenses
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In these three classic stories the Saint investigates crimes that have left the police confounded. In The High Fence he hunts down a villain who somehow manages to kill people just before they can reveal his identity; The Elusive Ellshaw sees him on the track of a man meant to have died a year before; & a letter calling for help sends him to a sleepy seaside pub disturbed by mysterious underground rumblings in The Case of the Frightened Innkeeper. One thing is sure: despite death threats gunfire & kidnapping the Saint will go on until his curiosity is satisfied. ...

Three more stories of Saintly adventure show Simon Templar interpreting the law to his own advantage. In The Simon Templar Foundation a poisonous legacy from his enemy Rayt Marius gives him the opportunity to make a great deal of money
- if he can survive equally great danger. The Higher Finance puts him up against the police a reclusive millionaire & the wild beast that roams his mansion at night. & in The Art of Alibi he faces the most impudent opponent of all: someone who is stealing his symbol & committing crimes in his name.
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In this collection of short stories the Saint intervenes to teach a motley bag of criminals the error of their ways. Crooked financiers bookies fake inventors dodgy bankers dealers in pornography unethical businessmen murderers thieves & liars
- all will come to regret the day their actions caught the Saints attention.
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Simon Templar is the Saint
- daring dazzling & just a little disreputable. On the side of the law but standing outside it he dispenses
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Someone had told Dex that the Queen lived in Victoria. So did he but she had a palace & he had one room in a street off Warwick Way. Still he liked the idea that she was his neighbour. Dex works as a gardener for Dr Jefferson at his home on Hexam Place in Pimlico: an exclusive street of white-painted stucco Georgian houses inhabited by the rich & serviced by the not so rich. The hired help a motley assortment of au pairs drivers & cleaners decide to form the St Zita Society (Zita was the patron saint of domestic servants) as an excuse to meet at the local pub & air their grievances. When Dex is invited to attend one of these meetings the others find that he is a strange man seemingly ill at ease with human beings. These first impressions are compounded when they discover he has recently been released from a hospital for the criminally insane where he was incarcerated for attempting to kill his own mother. Dexs most meaningful relationship seems to be with his mobile phone service provider Peach & he interprets the text notifications & messages he receives from the company as a reassuring sign that there is some kind of god who will protect him. & give him instructions about ridding the world of evil spirits... Accidental death & pathological madness cohabit above & below stairs in Hexam Place. ...

Every Catholic saint local & liturgical is honoured on a particular day of the year. In many cases an order of precedence has been worked out to determine which saints are most important. In Saints" Rosa Giorgi has chosen up to three saints for every day of the year along with representations of those saints ranging from world-famous works of art to more modern depictions. From a wide variety of sources Giorgi has composed a short explanation of each saint to accompany the illustration including etymology of names historical background occupations cities & countries of patronage. Although many well-known saints are depicted including Francis of Assisi Joan of Arc & Thomas Aquinas some relatively obscure saints are pictured as well." ...

In this wide-ranging book Professor Eamon Duffy explores the broad sweep of the English Reformation & the ways in which that Reformation has been written about. Tracing the fraught history of religious change in Tudor England & the retellings of that history to shape a protestant national identity once again he emphasizes the importance of the study of late medieval religion & material culture for our understanding of this most formative & fascinating of eras. Getting to grips with the misconceptions discontinuities & dilemmas which have dogged the history of Tudor religion he traces the lived experience of Catholicism in an age of upheaval: from what it meant to be a Catholic in early Tudor England; through the nature of militant Catholicism at the height of the conflict; to the after-life of Tudor Catholicism & the ways in which the old religion was remembered & spoken about in the England of Shakespeare. Duffy writes at all times with grace elegance & wit as he questions prejudices & myths about the Reformation to demonstrate that the truth about the past is never pure nor simple. ...