A Diamond Fell Into My Pocket

A Diamond Fell Into My Pocket
Title A Diamond Fell Into My Pocket PDF eBook
Author Morris Spurling
Publisher
Pages 311
Release 1997
Genre Jewel thieves
ISBN 9780316881128

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A DIAMOND FELL INTO MY POCKET is the extraordinary story of a man who has paid for a life of gambling by stealing diamonds: Morris Spurling - the world's most voracious jewel thief. Since turning to crime half a century ago he has stolen at least a quarter of a million pounds worth of diamonds. After coming out of prison a couple of years ago at the age of sixty-seven he has decided to take the judge's advice that it might be time to consider retirement. Now he tells his amazing story of a life devoted to gambling and theft. How, from the early 1950s, Morris used jewellers' shops as other people use cashpoints and with his money he romanced beautiful women who became his partners in crime.

A Young Queen

A Young Queen
Title A Young Queen PDF eBook
Author Steve A. Hall
Publisher Steve A. Hall
Pages 339
Release 2012-03
Genre Fiction
ISBN 110557217X

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As Princess Stasia and her royal realm begin to recover from the treacherous reign of terror by Prince Agis and his Order of Rebels, a new evil emerges. This new alliance of evil threatens to split the kingdom in two and destroy the peaceful relations which have existed with neighboring lands for decades. With her enemies intent on destroying both her rulership and personal life, Princess Stasia must use her extraordinary wisdom and the help of loyal friends like Sir Rackley of Limekiln, the peasant boy Stefan, and Chief Royal Knight Mathieu to save the land before darkness descends upon it once again.

All the Light We Cannot See

All the Light We Cannot See
Title All the Light We Cannot See PDF eBook
Author Anthony Doerr
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 560
Release 2014-05-06
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1476746605

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*NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti* Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris, and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel. In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the Resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge. Doerr’s “stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, he illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer “whose sentences never fail to thrill” (Los Angeles Times).

The Strand Magazine

The Strand Magazine
Title The Strand Magazine PDF eBook
Author Sir George Newnes
Publisher
Pages 736
Release 1898
Genre
ISBN

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The Black Lizard Big Book of Locked-Room Mysteries

The Black Lizard Big Book of Locked-Room Mysteries
Title The Black Lizard Big Book of Locked-Room Mysteries PDF eBook
Author Otto Penzler
Publisher Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Pages 962
Release 2014-10-28
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0307743969

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The Most Complete Collection of Impossible Crime Stories Ever Assembled, with puzzling mysteries by Stephen King, Dashiell Hammett, Lawrence Block, Agatha Christie, Georges Simenon, Dorothy L. Sayers, P. G. Wodehouse, Erle Stanley Gardner, and many, many more THE BLACK LIZARD BIG BOOK OF LOCKED-ROOM MYSTERIES: An empty desert, a lonely ski slope, a gentleman’s study, an elevator car—nowhere is a crime completely impossible. Edgar Award–winning editor Otto Penzler has collected sixty-eight of the all-time best impossible-crime stories from almost two hundred years of the genre. In addition to the many classic examples of the form—a case of murder in a locked room or otherwise inaccessible place, solved by a brilliant sleuth—this collection expands the definition of the locked room to include tales of unbelievable thefts and incredible disappearances. Among these pages you’ll find stories with evocative titles like “The Flying Death”, “The Man From Nowhere”, “A Terribly Strange Bed”, and “The Theft of the Bermuda Penny”, not to mention appearances by some of the cleverest characters in all of crime, including Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, Georges Simenon’s Jules Maigret, Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot, Dashiell Hammett’s Continental Op, and many more. Featuring • Unconventional means of murder • Pilfered jewels • Shocking solutions Includes • Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”, the first detective story and the first locked-room mystery • Masters of the short story form: Edward D. Hoch, Ellery Queen, Carter Dickson, and Stanley Ellin A VINTAGE CRIME/BLACK LIZARD ORIGINAL

Harlequin Presents December 2015 - Box Set 1 of 2

Harlequin Presents December 2015 - Box Set 1 of 2
Title Harlequin Presents December 2015 - Box Set 1 of 2 PDF eBook
Author Carol Marinelli
Publisher Harlequin
Pages 483
Release 2015-12-01
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1459293630

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Harlequin® Presents brings you four new titles for one great price with bonus ChristmasShort Story—Christmas at The Chatsfield by Maisey Yates! This Presents box set includes: THE PRICE OF HIS REDEMPTION (Irresistible Russian Tycoons) by Carol Marinelli Daniil Zverev is the world's most ruthless and sinfully seductive tycoon. No one would know the crueltyand rejection that fueled his ascent. But beautiful ballet teacher Libby Tennent isgetting under Daniil's skin and dangerously close to the truth! RAVENSDALE'S DEFIANT CAPTIVE (The Ravensdale Scandals) by Melanie Milburne Julius Ravensdale is renowned for his control. But provocative whirlwind Holly Perez pushes him to the breaking point when hediscovers the vulnerabilities behind her bravado. Once he's had her in his bed, holdingher captive there becomes an irresistible temptation… BRUNETTI'S SECRET SON (Secret Heirs of Billionaires) by Maya Blake Romeo Brunetti has found meteoric success by locking downemotion. Until a moment of recklessness years ago, when he lost himself to stunningstranger Maisie O'Connell. Now his family's legacy has returned to haunt him—and the childhe unknowingly conceived… DESTINED FOR THE DESERT KING by Kate Walker Aziza El Afarim hopes her convenient husband remembers the closeness they once shared. But Sheikh Nabil isnothing of the boy he used to be. As pressure to produce an heir mounts, is there morethan duty in the marriage bed? Be sure to collection Harlequin® Presents' December 2015 Box set 2 of 2!

The Strand Magazine

The Strand Magazine
Title The Strand Magazine PDF eBook
Author Herbert Greenhough Smith
Publisher
Pages 806
Release 1898
Genre England
ISBN

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