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Shadows In Bronze
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Rome AD 71. Against his better judgement Marcus Didius Falco secretly disposes of a decayed corpse for the Emperor Vespasian then heads for the beautiful Bay of Naples with his best friend Petronius. He conveniently forgets to mention to his companion that this will be no holiday. They have been sent to investigate the murderous members of a failed coup now sunning themselves in luxurious villas & on fancy yachts. Nor does the idyllic seaside location help his doomed romance with Helena Justina. The deeper he probes the more it seems Helena is inextricably connected to the elite plotters in ways that the smitten Falco cannot bear to contemplate.. . ...
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Shadows In The
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When Thea Osborne agrees at the last minute to house-sit for Oliver Meadows she expects a few days of peace with her spaniel Hepzie. Uncomfortable with the news of her mother's sudden involvement with an old flame & herself unsure of how to deal with her feelings for Drew Slocombe Thea hopes that some time alone in the historic town of Winchcombe will help to clear her head. But with the disturbing discovery of a dead body in the gardens of the house she quickly finds herself at the heart of a sinister mystery. Thea must work quickly to unravel the secrets kept by Oliver Meadows & his brother Fraser & discover exactly what lies beneath the surface of their turbulent relationship. But without Drew there to help her she finds it ever more difficult to uncover the truth. & amidst the chaos caused by the investigation will Thea find time to deal with her own problems? ...
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Shadows In The Street
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Simon Serrailler is on sabbatical on a Scottish island recovering from an exhausting murder investigation when he is urgently summoned back to Lafferton. Two local prostitutes have been found strangled. By the time Serrailer has reached the town another girl has vanished. Is this a vendetta against prostitutes by someone with a warped mind? Or a series of killings by an angry punter? Then the wife of the new Dean at the Cathedral goes missing
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Shadows Of Sherlock
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The Shadows of Sherlock Holmes is a fascinating collection of stories featuring detectives criminal agents & debonair crooks from the golden age of crime fiction: a time when Sherlock Holmes was esconsced in his rooms at 221B Baker Street & London was permanently wreathed in a sinister fog. These gripping tales of mystery suspense & clever puzzles are wonderfully entertaining & in them you will meet The Crime Doctor Professor Augustus S.F.X. Van Dusen
- The Thinking Machine Max Carrados
- the incredible blind detective the repulsive but brilliant Skin o My Teeth & the natty ingenious French sleuth Eugene Valmont. On the other side of the law there are gentleman crooks Raffles & Simon Carn
- the Prince of Swindlers. The stories include: The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe The Stolen Cigar Case by Bret Harte The Swedish Match by Anton Chekhov Nine Points of the Law by E.W. Hornung The Ghost at Massingham Mansions by Ernest Bramah & The Great Pearl Mystery by Baroness Orczy."


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Shadows Of Sounds
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The Glasgow Orchestra are rehearsing to perform but little do they know of the sequence of events happening backstage. When George Millar the orchestras leader is brutally murdered in his dressing room his colleagues are shocked. But the show must go on. Enter DCI Lorimer & psychologist Solomon Brightman to investigate. What they uncover is a series of irrevocably tangled relationships between the orchestra members. Up until his death Millar had been involved in homosexual relationships with several other orchestra members & was well known for playing his lovers off against one another
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Shadows Of The
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In this follow up to CALL THE MIDWIFE Jennifer Worth a midwife working in the docklands area of East London in the 1950s tells more stories about the people she encountered. There's Jane who cleaned & generally helped out at Nonnatus House
- she was taken to the workhouse as a baby & was allegedly the illegitimate daughter of an aristocrat. Peggy & Frank's parents both died within six months of one another & the children were left destitute. At the time there was no other option for them but the workhouse. The Reverend Thornton-Appleby-Thorton a missionary in Africa visits the Nonnatus nuns & Sister Julienne acts as matchmaker. & Sister Monica Joan the eccentric ninety-year-old nun is accused of shoplifting some small items from the local market. She is let off with a warning but then Jennifer finds stolen jewels from Hatton Garden in the nun's room. These stories give a fascinating insight into the resilience & spirit that enabled ordinary people to overcome their difficulties.
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Shadows On The Nile
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'I'll find him. I will.' It's 1932 & 27-year-old Jessica is living London life to the full when her younger brother Tim an ancient Egyptian archaeology expert goes missing. Teaming up with Sir Montague Chamford
- who can resist neither a damsel in distress nor the chance of adventure
- Jessie vows to find her beloved brother. Following the clues Tim has left in his wake Jessie & Monty head to Egypt. In the relentless heat of the desert romance is kindled between them but danger also lurks in every shadow. & then Jessie starts to wonder how much Monty really knows about her brother's disappearance.. .A dramatic story of adventure excitement love & romance can all be found in the SHADOWS ON THE NILE

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Shadows On The Water
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This fascinating volume takes a look at some of the strange & unexplained hauntings reported across Britains canal & waterways network: echoes in dark tunnels; stone steps stained red with blood spilled long ago; ghostly footsteps accompanying barges beneath a bridge
- Mixing long-established ghostly tales with first-hand accounts Allan Scott-Davies presents a grisly collection of supernatural stories. From the screaming ghost near Market Drayton to the Roman soldier in Chester guarding the canal the drowning man at Lapworth & the white lady of the Hatton flight all is revealed with a map of locations & for some of the more haunted sites a guided tour map. This illustrated book is sure to delight lovers of the waterways & paranormal alike.
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Shadowstory
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A compelling novel of complicated love from one of Ireland's greatest living writers. It is the Second World War & tragedy strikes many families in Irel&. But it is also a thrilling time in which to be a child & Polly spending months at her grandparents' house by the sea barely notices the adults' grief & their efforts to escape the tyranny of religion & family expectation. However in time Polly too will have a secret. No one else knows the location of her beloved uncle Sam barely older than Polly herself who is meant to be in Cambridge but is dreaming of Communist Cuba while his decimated family fears losing another son. & as Polly shyly approaches womanhood her love for Sam turns into something more explosive. ...
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Shafted
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Larry Logan is a small-time TV star with a mile-wide ego. Gutted when his latest show is axed hes less than impressed when the only work he can get is fronting a fake game show
- actually an undercover police sting to entrap criminals. His reluctance evaporates when the show rockets his career back to prime time stardom. & when lovely shy Stephanie enters his life he thinks he finally has it made. But Larry doesnt know how dangerous those criminals are. He shafted some dangerous men
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Shadows Of The Workhouse

In this follow up to CALL THE MIDWIFE Jennifer Worth a midwife working in the docklands area of East London in the 1950s tells more stories about the people she encountered. There's Jane who cleaned and generally helped out at Nonnatus House - she was taken to the workhouse as a baby and was allegedly the illegitimate daughter of an aristocrat. Peggy and Frank's parents both died within 6 months of each other and the children were left destitute. At the time there was no other option for them but the workhouse. The Reverend Thornton-Appleby-Thorton a missionary in Africa visits the Nonnatus nuns and Sister Julienne acts as matchmaker. And Sister Monica Joan the eccentric ninety-year-old nun is accused of shoplifting some small items from the local market. She is let off with a warning but
then Jennifer finds stolen jewels from Hatton Garden in the nun's room. These stories give a fascinating insight into the resilience and spirit that enabled ordinary people to overcome their difficulties.
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In this follow up to CALL THE MIDWIFE Jennifer Worth a midwife working in the docklands area of East London in the 1950s tells more stories about the people she encountered. There's Jane who cleaned & generally helped out at Nonnatus House
- she was taken to the workhouse as a baby & was allegedly the illegitimate daughter of an aristocrat. Peggy & Frank's parents both died within 6 months of each other & the children were left destitute. At the time there was no other option for them but the workhouse. The Reverend Thornton-Appleby-Thorton a missionary in Africa visits the Nonnatus nuns & Sister Julienne acts as matchmaker. & Sister Monica Joan the eccentric ninety-year-old nun is accused of shoplifting some small items from the local market. She is let off with a warning but then Jennifer finds stolen jewels from Hatton Garden in the nun's room. These stories give a fascinating insight into the resilience & spirit that enabled ordinary people to overcome their difficulties.

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