The Corpse with the Garnet Face
Title | The Corpse with the Garnet Face PDF eBook |
Author | Cathy Ace |
Publisher | TouchWood Editions |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2016-04 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1771511656 |
"The seventh book in the Cait Morgan series finds the eccentric Welsh criminologist--sleuth accompanying her husband Bud to Amsterdam to try to unravel a puzzling situation. Bud is as surprised to discover he has a long-lost uncle as he is to discover Uncle Jonas has met an untimely death. Bud's mother assures him Jonas was a bad child--but, from beyond the grave--Uncle Jonas begs his nephew to visit the city he adopted as his home to delve into the life he built for himself there, founded on his passion for art. With an old iron key as their only clue, Cait and Bud travel to Amsterdam to solve the cryptic message left by Jonas, and honour the dying wishes of a long-lost relative."--Amazon.
The Corpse with the Ruby Lips
Title | The Corpse with the Ruby Lips PDF eBook |
Author | Cathy Ace |
Publisher | TouchWood Editions |
Pages | 214 |
Release | 2016-10-18 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1771511966 |
A new book from Bony Blithe award–winning mystery author Cathy Ace where her sleuth Cait Morgan investigates a chilling cold case from a university in Budapest. A gig as guest lecturer at the university in Budapest should have been a dream job for a travelling criminologist and food lover. But wherever Cait Morgan goes, murder seems to follow. One of Cait’s new students pleads with her to solve the mystery of her grandmother’s brutal slaying. She agrees, but when she is repeatedly hassled by a weird colleague, and as bizarre details about the student’s family members come to light, Cait is beset by uncertainty. As she gets closer to the truth, Cait's investigation puts the powers-that-be on high alert, and her instincts tell her she's in grave danger. Bud races to Budapest to come to Cait's aid, but will it be too late?
The Corpse with the Golden Nose
Title | The Corpse with the Golden Nose PDF eBook |
Author | Cathy Ace |
Publisher | TouchWood Editions |
Pages | 242 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1927129885 |
"Sure that the award-winning owner of a family-run vineyard was murdered. Bud Anderson, Cait's companion for the weekend, is convinced the woman took her own life. That is, until death strikes once again, in the neat rows of grapevines that clamber up the banks of magnificent Lake Okanagan"--Page 4 of cover
The Case of the Unsuitable Suitor
Title | The Case of the Unsuitable Suitor PDF eBook |
Author | Cathy Ace |
Publisher | Severn House Publishers Ltd |
Pages | 231 |
Release | 2017-12-24 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1780109180 |
The Women of the WISE Enquiries Agency are back. When the village's prodigal son, Huw Hughes, returns and sets his cap at Annie Parker, village publican Tudor begs Annie's colleagues at the WISE Enquiries Agency to unearth the truth behind Huw having been widowed three times. With Christine enjoying a break at her family's Irish estate - where she and the brooding Alexander face a surprisingly dangerous case of theft ? Mavis and Carol have to work with dowager duchess Althea Twyst to ensure their unsuspecting friend Annie's safety, and possibly the lives of more villagers.
The Garnet Red
Title | The Garnet Red PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Crisalli |
Publisher | Lulu.com |
Pages | 420 |
Release | 2008-06 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0615200753 |
THE GARNET RED is the chilling and powerfully emotional story of three women. Told in multiple voices, THE GARNET RED chronicles the psychological and spiritual voyage of an elderly, but vital woman and the two girls that she befriends along the way. When Rosa Frobischer buried her beloved George, a famous screenwriter, she found that along with her husband, she had also interred her own identity. Rosa's journey takes her back to Marionneaux, Louisiana, the place of her birth. There, she finds comfort in the friendship of Shelby Halifax, a spoiled debutante and Dove Ji, an overweight girl shocked into shyness by her parents' emotional abuse. Soon, Rosa is tormented by seemingly inexplicable dreams in which she is drowning in a razor-sharp sea of garnets and haunted by vivid memories of her long-suppressed past. As Rosa looks into the snarling face of truth, she realizes she must protect Shelby and Dove from a similar fate as they quickly realize that their own lives are founded in lies.
All Sir Garnet
Title | All Sir Garnet PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph H. Lehmann |
Publisher | |
Pages | 426 |
Release | 1964 |
Genre | Soldiers |
ISBN |
"Field Marshal Garnet Joseph Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley, KP, GCB, OM, GCMG, VD, PC (4 June 1833 ? 25 March 1913) was an Anglo-Irish officer in the British Army. He served in Burma, the Crimean War, the Indian Mutiny, China, Canada, and widely throughout Africa ? including his Ashanti campaign (1873?1874) and the Nile Expedition against Mahdist Sudan in 1884-85. He served as Commander-in-Chief of the Forces from 1895 to 1900. His reputation for efficiency led to the late 19th-century English phrase "everything's all Sir Garnet", meaning "all is in order.""--Wikipedia.
Error, Misuse, Failure
Title | Error, Misuse, Failure PDF eBook |
Author | Julian Yates |
Publisher | U of Minnesota Press |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780816639625 |
If certain objects work well, no one notices them. As with "black boxes, " their success may be gauged by their relative invisibility -- and this was the indirect goal of the objects that Julian Yates considers here: the portrait miniature, the relic, the privy (flush toilet), the printed text, and the priest-hole (a secret hiding place for Catholic priests in Protestant England). Because each of these contrivances was prone to error, misuse, and sometimes catastrophic failure, they become in Yates's analysis an occasion for recasting the history of the English Renaissance as object lessons -- "knowing from the point of view of the known." It is through such lapses -- the texts and stories generated to explain away a relic that is too easily faked, a miniature that is too curiously real, the stench of a failing privy, a book that persistently sheds its pages, or the presence of so much "papist trash" in an ostensibly reformed England -- that Yates recovers the silent work of "things" in cultural production. Drawing object lessons from failing technological devices, Error, Misuse, Failure plumbs the foundations of Renaissance culture in England, recovering a curious language of mistakes, dirt, and parasitism that associates the failures of these "things" with the figures of Rome, Catholicism, and Sodom. Yates offers a mode of historical inquiry rooted in material culture, sensitive to the way humans induct nonhumans (animals, plants, and manufactured things) into their communities. Historically, the book offers a new set of stories about the rise of printing, the development of domestic architecture, and England's Catholic community -- stories that remind readers of the ways in whichattending to the history of nonhumans requires a radical rethinking of historical landmarks and boundaries.