Download or read book Screams From a Penny Dreadful written by Joan Fleming and published by Orion. This book was released on 2013-07-14 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Mr Stanroyd is found hanged in his own mill, his three young daughters are forced to realise that they are now mill-owners, a position quite unbecoming to a Victorian young lady. The eldest, the enchanting and redoubtable Severel, confides her hopes and fears - and the strange course of events - to her diary. Who killed whom? Which of the three girls married? Which of them was so shocked that she was deprived of speech? What happened to Uncle Eli and to raffish Cousin Bertie from Australia? Who was raped by whom? And who hanged dear Papa? 'Very rumbustious and buoyant' Scotsman

Download or read book Penny Dreadful causes a Kerfuffle written by Joanna Nadin and published by Usborne Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My name is not actually Penny Dreadful. It is Penelope Jones. The 'Dreadful' bit is my dad's JOKE. But this time I really wasn't trying to be DREADFUL... No. I was just trying to DO MY BEST, so it is completely not my fault that right now I am sort of blueish all over and so is my sister Daisy's swan outfit. And I was also really TRYING TO HELP Joshua Bottomley fall in love with Daisy by doing a science experiment on him, but I did not know that he would just go a bit pale and green and it would all turn into one BIG kerfuffle! Get ready for a taste of destruction with Penny’s third side-splitting trio of troublesome tales! The first book in the Penny Dreadful series, ‘Penny Dreadful is a Magnet for Disaster’, was shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize

Download or read book Scream of Eagles written by William W. Johnstone and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 1997-08-18 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raised by the Shawnee, Jamie Ian MacCallister had survived the bloodshed of the Alamo and the Civil War. With each victory, the MacCallister legend grows--as violent and unpredictable as the land that had given him life. When his wife is brutally murdered by the Miles Nelson gang, the battle gets personal.

Download or read book He Ought to be Shot written by Joan Fleming and published by Orion. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Well, that's a nasty thing to have on your breakfast-tray, I'm sure,' Mrs Cloud said. 'What do you want with that?' 'My husband gave it to me long ago. He taught me to use it; I've just been trying my hand. I'm a good shot still.' 'Well I never! Where have you been shooting may I ask?' 'Down at the bottom of the garden.' 'Fancy.' Mrs Cloud clicked her tongue in the same way that she clicked it when she was shocked by something she saw at the cinema. 'Well, I never. What next, I wonder.' 'So do I,' Margaret said grimly.

Download or read book Twentieth Century Crime Mystery Writers written by NA NA and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-25 with total page 1585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book No Bones About It written by Joan Fleming and published by Orion. This book was released on 2013-07-14 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Borgan family have always been pressed for money. But when wealth descends on them in the form of presents of banknotes from octogenarian Grandad, dreams come true for each member of the family. But where did Grandad get the money from? And what use do the beneficiaries actually make of it? 'Trust Mrs Fleming to pull something new out of the bag' Guardian 'The plotting is most ingenious and the characters are delightfully varied' Observer

Download or read book The Chill and the Kill written by Joan Fleming and published by Orion. This book was released on 2013-07-14 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a young girl is struck by a car she begins to have prescient visions of death and clairvoyant knowledge. One of those visions is of a murder. The murder victim is a local woman suspected of having had several affairs despite the intense scrutiny by private detectives employed by her often traveling husband. The chief suspect is a young man with a chequered reputation. He has recently returned under unexplained circumstances from an assignment in South America, where he became involved with a married woman who mysteriously committed suicide ... 'The farthest out mystery of the year' Sunday Times

Download or read book Maiden s Prayer written by Joan Fleming and published by Orion. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To Miss Maiden the mysterious Mr Aladdin, with his Persian origins, his charm and his flavour of the exotic East, appeared like the answer to a prayer. It was perhaps odd that anybody should be called Mr Aladdin, but it was even odder that Miss Maiden did not enquire more deeply into Mr Aladdin's past. Had she done so, she almost certainly would not have allowed him to help her in the management of her business affairs, and she might have avoided her macabre fate.

Download or read book Too Late Too Late The Maiden Cried written by Joan Fleming and published by Orion. This book was released on 2013-07-14 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Nokomis Pennyform arrives on the doorstep of Major Thomas Nateby-Dyce's cottage in the early spring of 1841, the comparative peace and serenity of the Major's family life is abruptly shattered. For Nokomis, with her Red Indian blood, her dark and brooding manner, her screeching voice and dubious past, is nothing less than a destructive force. But Nateby himself has a murky past, and with the arrival of Nokomis it starts to rise to the surface once again. It seems that only disaster and tragedy lie ahead unless she can be crushed.

Download or read book Nothing is the Number When You Die written by Joan Fleming and published by Murder Room. This book was released on 2013-07-22 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nuri Bey saw something floating towards him on the current. It appeared to be something in a boat, some cross-shaped object. He approached more closely as it bobbed and bowed with the tide. What he thought he saw was too fantastic to be believed: the mast of the small water-logged fishing boat formed the upright of a cross - and on it hung a naked man. A traditional Turkish method of dealing with an enemy ... 'Pleasingly offbeat' Observer 'Wit and humour - a real piece of Turkish delight' BBC

Download or read book The Man Who Looked Back written by Joan Fleming and published by Orion. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roy Unithorne despised his wife ... Roy knew he was destined for a better life. It was Amy. Ugly Amy who kept him back. She must be disposed of finally and for ever; he set about making plans for the disposal slowly and systematically, making allowances, as he thought, for X - the Unknown Factor. And there was Mrs Shiplake. She was also beginning to interfere with his plans. She too must be got rid of. After all - two murders were as easy as one.

Download or read book To Make an Underworld written by Joan Fleming and published by Orion. This book was released on 2013-07-14 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Robert Escrick, the former chairman of the family firm, decides to disappear because the company is being taken over, he retires early, changes his name and sets off for Cornwall, accompanied by his dog Banjo. His wife won't notice he's gone, and he's had a house built for him in preparation. But there is a young woman waiting for him there, locked in a bathroom and claiming to have been raped, and the locals take her part against the newcomer. Then she is found murdered, and reality starts closing in on the retreat Robert has escaped to ...

Download or read book You Won t Let Me Finnish written by Joan Fleming and published by Orion. This book was released on 2013-07-14 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Hector, which proves to be his name, comes to Helsinki, Finland, he's lost an ear and his memory. He turns up at the door of the embassy with a satchel full of money. The Ambassador, his secretary, a girl called Dolly Darling and an old man called Uncle Vanya try to put him together again, and in doing so find themselves in the centre of a strange adventure. 'Rich and strange, swimming with odd characters, alive with curious adventures' The Times

Download or read book In the Red written by Joan Fleming and published by Orion. This book was released on 2013-07-14 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After twenty years as a bank clerk, Leslie Williams can stand the daily round no longer. He plans a crime - nothing very heinous, nothing more than a little dishonesty and a lot of unkindness. Yet, once he has made the first fatal move, he finds himself gathered into a fantastic web of adventure, mischance and danger. The story takes place in London: the seedy hotel in Cromwell Road and the open-air market where he finds work as a salesman. And Leslie Williams is a man who has broken loose, who doesn't know quite what dangers are hunting him from the past, or what sense can be made of the present or future ... 'Imaginative, lively and picaresque' Maurice Richardson

Download or read book Kill or Cure written by Joan Fleming and published by Orion. This book was released on 2013-07-14 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeremy Fisher is a smart doctor in what he calls the 'Jag belt, south of London'. His friends are rich, drink too much and call one another Bunny. If a young unmarried girl has to have an abortion, it is smoothly hushed up - unless she has one at cut-price rate and dies. To oblige a friend, Jeremy Fisher agrees to keep quiet about the girl lying dead in his spare bedroom. But a blackmailer gets to work and Jeremy is exposed as a victim of malicious revenge. 'Keeps you riveted all the way' Observer 'Pace, drama, scalpel-like observation' The Times

Download or read book Hell s Belle written by Joan Fleming and published by Orion. This book was released on 2013-07-14 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She was sitting in a café in Paris, showing nearly all her legs; in grave trouble, she was drinking her sixth green Chartreuse and wishing she knew someone who would kill her stepmother for her. She was just eighteen, a child emotionally but old in experience and duplicity. The man with the umbrella who sat down at her table seemed exactly the one for whom she was searching. They were both lonely and found in each other the playmate for which they had longed. He was a man caught in a monster trap; it was murder she wanted and murder she got.

Download or read book Midnight Hag written by Joan Fleming and published by Orion. This book was released on 2013-07-14 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There was no nonsense about old Mr Cumlock. When he decided to die, he died, maliciously leaving his fortune to an unknown son as an act of revenge. 'I can't live without a woman, and I can't live with one,' his heir, Valentine Belmont, an artist, used to complain; this difficulty that had dogged him throughout his life was to bring everything tumbling about him in a blaze of disorder. The events in his life had a fearful symmetry enacted, it seems, solely by the light of falling stars ... 'A first-rate study of malice, death and ancient feuds stewing in a small town' Birmingham Evening Mail