In Prohibition-era New York criminals rule the city: the gangsters do what they like & pay the judges for the privilege; the few honest cops are helpless; & above them all the Big Fellow pulls the strings. With that many sinners cleaning up the town will take a Saint... Simon Templar is a long way from home & facing great danger from directions both expected & entirely unforeseen. But he promised to do the job; & a saint never goes back on his word. ...

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." ...

Eccentric ironic & fantastic series like The Avengers & Danger Man with their professional secret agents or The Saint & The Persuaders featuring flamboyant crime-fighters still inspire mainstream & cult followings. Saints & Avengers explores & celebrates this television genre for the first time. Saints & Avengers uses case studies to look for example at the adventure series representations of national identity & the world of the sixties & seventies. Chapman also proves his central thesis: that this particular type of thriller was a historically & culturally defined generic type with enduring appeal as the current vogue for remaking them as big budget films attests. ...

This title covers the history of the famous quartet of Harland & Wollf vessels built for Sealink. Each vessels career is covered in the book together with a detailed account of how the ships were designed. The book also contains an up-to-date overview of where the vessels are today. ...

Sakura is the granddaughter of a mysterious moon princess who slew demons with her Blood Cherry Blossom sword. All her life Sakura has been forbidden to look at the full moon without knowing why. Then one night unhappy over her impending marriage Sakura gazes up at the moon only to see a demon attacking her... The battle between Kohaku & Shuri has ended but Sakura is still held captive by Enju. Sakura tries to convince her brother that there are humans who will accept the moon people but he will not back down. Enju tells Sakura she will soon need to choose sides & whom she is to destroy... ...

Sakura is the granddaughter of a mysterious moon princess who slew demons with her Blood Cherry Blossom sword. All her life Sakura has been forbidden to look at the full moon without knowing why. Then one night unhappy over her impending marriage Sakura gazes up at the moon only to see a demon attacking her... ...

Salads have come a long way since the days of shredded iceberg lettuce with slices of cucumber & tomato. There seem to be no limits to the enticing combinations we can now produce with wonderful variety of leafy greens herbs vegetables meat & seafood at our fingertips year round. Salad Bible serves up a bountiful array of salad options from cold refreshing side dishes to warmly satisfying main meals. All the classics are here
- Caesar Nicoise tabouleh & Waldorf
- along with plenty of new ideas that offer tantalising juxtapositions of colour flavour & texture.

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