I FOUND IT ON A CHARITY BOOKSTALL ... and in an op shop, book fair, garage sale, junk yard. All the places where people leave their unwanted books--and I find weird and wonderful treasures. Come and join me in appreciating these literary marvels!
'There's something evil about it, he said. 'Queer word for me to use, MacLeod, eh? They touch your elbow as you walk—ghosts! That's how I've named it the Valley of the Ghosts. Go and stay a day or so in Beverley Green and smell it for yourself—something brooding...'
DR ANDREW MACLEOD, pathologist and detective extraordinare, was never one to refuse a challange...
The thrilling, swashbuckling story of Henry Morgan...A freed bondsman, he captured his first Spanish ship with eleven men.He became the scourge of Spain from the West Indies to Panama.
He found romance but the sea always called him back to new, ever more daring adventures.
Set against the stirring background of 300 years ago when dashing privateers risked their lives for treasure and conquest, this exciting book by a famous historical novelist is compellingly readable... vividly alive.
The problem with computer warfare is that the computer is always logical while the human enemy is not—or doesn't have to be.And that's what the Betastani enemy were doing—nothing that the Alphaland computers said they would. Those treacherous foemen were avoiding logic and using such unheard-of devices as surprise and sabotage, treason and trickery. They even had Alphaland's Department of Information believing Betastani propaganda without even realising it.Of course he still thought he was being loyal to Alphaland, because he thought one and one must logically add up to two. And that kind of thinking could make him the biggest traitor of all.
Section G, the top secret security unit of United planets, had a special problem on their hands with the situation on Firenze. And for that special problem , they gathered together the most unusual squad in Section G's unusual history. It included:A research scientist who could bend steel bars like rubber band—A middle-aged lady with total total recall—
An interplanetary cowboy whose bullwhip was deadlier than a ray gun—
A brazen young lady acrobat who looked like an eight year-old kid—
A mild young man who never lost a bet in his life—
And the best pickpocket that ever lived.
But Firenze with its CODE DUELLO was to prove a match for the lot of them!
It's the second printing of the first Australian edition of The Talisman Ring.
"Miss Georgette Heyer's "The Talisman Ring' has the authentic 18th-century atmosphere; with its embroidered waistcoats, jewelled snuff-boxes, lace handkerchiefs, quizzing glasses and what-nots. But inside her brocade coats and silken breeches she never fails to provide real flesh and blood animated by the ardours and foibles common nature in each and every period . . . It is indeed compounded of all the time-honoured ingredients--love, adventure, murder, robbery, a missing jewel, and a woman's wit. Could anyone ask more?"--John O'London's Weekly.
Why was a terrified French girl found wandering in London's East End? Was she really frightened or was she pretending? The Toff was called upon to answer both questions. . . .A man who knew the truth was murdered in the East End. A Mayfair woman, afraid for her life, yielded up a part of the answer. But the Toff had to go to Paris and be furiously gay in the face of death before he fitted the final piece into the grim puzzle.
A sick joke brought the sharp-tongued Miss Marple to the Fortesque home...Sergeant Hay looked up at Inspector Neele from the bottom of the stairs. He was panting.
"Sir," he said urgently. "We've found her!"
"Found who?"
"Gladys, Sir, the maid. Strangled, she was, with a stocking around her throat—been dead for hours, I'd say. And sir, it's a wicked kind of joke—there was a clothes peg clipped on her nose..."
Accident Number One: the heavy picture that falls across Miss Buckley's bed
Accident Number Two: the boulder that thunders past her on the cliff path
Accident Number Three: the car brakes that fail on a steep hill
Accident Number Four: the bullet that misses her head by inches
But the would-be murderer makes a grave mistake—he shoots at his victim while she is talking with Hercule Poirot!
A modern 'Labours of Hercules'...... And what a contrast! The earlier editions of these books depict realistic, but rather generic Young Women in Peril on their covers. These paperbacks are adorned with slightly surrealistic and very symbolic art. And yes, the symbolism does tie in very neatly with the plots of the books.
The idea appeals to Hercule Poirot's vanity. Before he retires to grow superb vegetable marrows he will undertake just twelve more carefully chosen cases.All of them will resemble the remarkable feats of strength performed by that brawny hero of ancient Greece, the first Hercules. But when the fastidious Hercule Poirot faces his modern monsters, his only weapon will be his brilliant powers of deduction...
