Download or read book Murder in Drury Lane written by Vanessa Riley and published by Kensington. This book was released on 2024-08-20 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing a vibrant edge and welcome diversity to the Regency genre, this exciting historical mystery from award-winning author Vanessa Riley features an engaging heroine with an independent streak, a notorious past, and a decided talent for sleuthing . . . Pressed into a union of convenience, Lady Abigail Worthing’s marriage to an absent lord does at least provide some comforts, including a box at the Drury Lane theater, owned by the playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Abigail has always found respite there, away from the ton’s judgmental stares, the risks of her own secret work to help the cause of abolition—and her fears that someone from her past wants her permanently silenced. But on one particular evening everything collides, and the performance takes an unwelcome turn . . . Onstage, a woman emits a scream of genuine terror. A man has been found dead in the prop room, stabbed through the heart. The magistrate, keen to avoid bringing more attention to the case and making Lady Worthing more of a target, asks Abigail not to investigate. But of course, she cannot resist . . . Abigail soon discovers a tangled drama that rivals anything brought to the stage, involving gambling debts, an actress with a parade of suitors, and the very future of the Drury Lane theatre. For Abigail the case is complicated further, for one suspect is a leading advocate for the cause dearest to her heart—the abolition of slavery within the British Empire. Uncovering the truth always comes at a price. But this time, it may be far higher than she wishes to pay.
Download or read book Murder in Drury Lane written by Vanessa Riley and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pressed into a union of convenience, Lady Abigail Worthing knew better than to expect love. Her marriage to an absent lord does at least provide some comforts, including a box at the Drury Lane theatre. But on one particular June evening everything collides, and the performance takes an unwelcome turn. Onstage, a woman emits a scream of genuine terror. A man has been found dead in the prop room, stabbed through the heart. The magistrate, keen to avoid bringing more attention to the case asks Abigail not to investigate. But she cannot resist, especially when the usually curmudgeonly Henderson offers his assistance. For Abigail the case is complicated still further, for one suspect is a leading advocate for the cause dearest to her heart - the abolition of slavery within the British empire. Uncovering the truth always comes at a price. But this time, it may be far higher than she wishes to pay.
Download or read book Drury Lane s Last Case written by Ellery Queen and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspector Thumm enlists the help of an actor to track down a stolen Shakespearean manuscript and solve a baffling murder in this classic mystery. Inspector Thumm has never seen such a marvelous beard. It is massive and pointed, a rainbow composed of all the colors of Joseph’s biblical coat. He’s so distracted by the beard that he hardly notices the man it belongs to: a prospective client with mysterious business. This bearded fellow hands over an envelope containing a million-dollar secret—and the key to a matter of life and death. However, Thumm quickly forgets his strange visitor when a rare Shakespearean manuscript is stolen, only to be replaced by a rarer, more valuable one. With the help of the legendary Shakespearean actor Drury Lane, Thumm must locate the missing manuscript and solve an impossible murder—before the curtain comes down forever.
Download or read book Murder at Drury Lane written by Robert Lee Hall and published by St Martins Press. This book was released on 1993-09-08 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While visiting London's Drury Lane Theatre, Benjamin Franklin investigates suspicious incidents in the playhouse, including the death of a heckler. By the author of Benjamin Franklin Takes the Case. Reprint. PW.
Download or read book The Tragedy of Z written by Ellery Queen and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patience Thumm, the adventurous daughter of an NYPD inspector, teams up with actor Drury Lane to solve the mystery of a senator’s murder. Patience Thumm has just traveled the world. She turned heads in London, sipped absinthe in Tunis, and debated philosophy on the Left Bank of Paris. When she returns home to New York with a smuggled copy of Lady Chatterley’s Lover in her bag, her father, the NYPD’s Inspector Thumm, is quite unprepared to handle her. At first, it seems they have nothing in common—but the two soon discover a shared appetite for murder. When a corrupt senator is stabbed to death in his study, Patience can’t resist hunting for the killer. With the help of her father’s old friend Drury Lane, the legendary Shakespearean actor, she will find that all the exotic cities of the world can’t offer anything as exciting as a New York homicide.
Download or read book A Disappearance in Drury Lane written by Ashley Gardner and published by Jennifer Ashley. This book was released on 2013-09-16 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 8 in the Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries 1818: As Captain Gabriel Lacey prepares for his upcoming wedding, his former neighbor, Marianne Simmons, asks for his help to find an actress friend who’s gone missing. Lacey agrees to help look for the actress, little realizing that the search will pit him against men who think nothing of abduction, assault, or sending incendiary devices to the innocent. At the same time, Lacey’s personal life is changing, and his time for investigation is frequently and frustratingly interrupted. He is also commanded by a new Bow Street Runner to assist in bringing down James Denis, a criminal with whom Lacey now has complicated ties. Lacey must help or else risk hanging alongside Denis. The search for the actress takes Lacey from elegant assembly rooms to the backstage of the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, where he finds darkness in all corners. Lacey’s life and honor are constantly challenged as he tries to settle into his new life, until he realizes he can follow no code but his own.
Download or read book A Disappearance in Drury Lane written by Ashley Gardner and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Late December, 1818. As Captain Gabriel Lacey prepares for his upcoming wedding, his former neighbor, Marianne Simmons, comes to him about an actress friend who's gone missing. Lacey agrees to help look for the actress, little realizing that the search will pit him against men who think nothing of abduction, assault, or sending incendiary devices to the innocent. At the same time, Lacey's personal life is changing, and his time for investigation is frequently and frustratingly interrupted. He is also commanded by a new Bow Street Runner to assist in bringing down James Denis, a criminal with whom Lacey now has complicated ties. Lacey must help or else risk hanging alongside Denis. The search for the actress takes Lacey from elegant assembly rooms to the backstage of the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, where he finds darkness in all corners. Lacey's life and honor are constantly challenged as he tries to settle into his new life, until he realizes he can follow no code but his own.
Download or read book The Tragedy of X written by Ellery Queen and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A retired Shakespearean actor plays his new role—amateur sleuth—after a murder in a New York streetcar. Born during intermission in a seedy New Orleans playhouse, Drury Lane has spent the better part of his life in the theater. A majestic old-fashioned ham, he made his name in London, where his record-breaking run as Hamlet defined the role for a generation. When hearing loss forces him to retire, he turns his attention to human drama—specifically crime. Using his powers of disguise, knowledge of human nature, and an occasional dash of theatrical combat, Lane is the most fantastic detective of all time—onstage or off. In The Tragedy of X, a man is poisoned in the middle of a crowded New York streetcar, and not one of the dozens of witnesses can provide any useful evidence. The police are stumped until they receive a letter from Lane, claiming to have solved the crime by reading newspaper reports. He knows the killer’s name—but now he has to catch him.
Download or read book The Tragedy of Y written by Ellery Queen and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Shakespearean actor-turned-sleuth wonders if a suicide’s been staged—and suspects the members of an eccentric New York family . . . A ramshackle trawler, the Lavinia D rumbles into New York harbor with empty nets. When its crew spies something floating in the water, they drag it in, hoping for a profitable catch. Their prize flops on the deck, limp, cold, and bloody: the corpse of a man. His name was York Hatter, and he had disappeared from his house on the fashionable Washington Square several days before. He hadn’t left a note and he wasn’t carrying any money. The police assume he killed himself—but they are very wrong. The Hatter family is famously eccentric, and when a murder attempt is made on York’s invalid stepdaughter, any one of them could be the culprit. Solving the case will fall to Drury Lane, the retired Shakespearean actor who has turned his genius to solving crimes. But he may find that these Hatters are so crazy and so deadly, they even put Hamlet to shame.
Download or read book Murder on Stage written by Cora Harrison and published by Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.. This book was released on 2010-12-20 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE ROMAN MYSTERIES meets Sherlock Holmes! A scream rings out through the theatre. The man on stage is dead! Who killed him? Alfie has a few suspects in his sights. But when the spotlight turns on Alfie himself, the search for the murderer becomes a fight for his own survival. He and his gang must pick their way through a deadly web of revenge, jealousy and greed to unmask the true villain. The third exciting adventure in the LONDON MURDER MYSTERIES series.
Download or read book The Tragedy of Z written by Ellery Queen and published by New York : Avon. This book was released on 1933 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She wanted to scream, but no sound came from her beautiful throat. Instead, she stood without moving and stared at the late Senator Joel Fawcett. On his feet were old and roomy carpet slippers. On his face was a quiet, not unpleasant expression. In his chest, just to the right of the pearly shirt buttons was a red stain with the hilt of a slender paperknife planted in the center. There would be a national scandal. There would be hundreds of suspects among Senator Fawcett's enemies and friends. It would be an impossible case to solve, unless Drury Lane could come up with a lead. Of course, he did. It was a pretty tangled lead, but what made it easier to follow was the assistance given by Patty, a wandering blonde with melting blue eyes. - Back cover.
Download or read book The Tragedy of Y written by Ellery Queen and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Revenge A Tragedy written by Edward Young and published by . This book was released on 1789 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On Murder written by Thomas De Quincey and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006-01-12 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'For if once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination'Thomas De Quincey's three essays 'On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts' centre on the notorious career of the murderer John Williams, who in 1811 brutally killed seven people in London's East End. De Quincey's response to Williams's attacks turns morality on its head, celebrating and coolly dissecting the art of murder and its perfections. Ranging from gruesomely vivid reportage and brilliantly funny satiric high jinks to penetrating literary and aesthetic criticism, the essays had aremarkable impact on crime, terror, and detective fiction, as well as on the rise of nineteenth-century decadence.The volume also contains De Quincey's best-known piece of literary criticism, 'On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth', and his finest tale of terror, 'The Avenger', a disturbing exploration of violence, vigilantism, and religious persecution.
Download or read book Murder Will Speak written by Joan Smith and published by Belgrave House. This book was released on 2011-07-10 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corrine deCoventry was the lone female in the Berkeley Brigade, a quartet of aristocrats who charmed the London ton. But when the lovely young widow wore the deCoventry pearls to a masquerade ball, and they were stolen by a masked Robin Hood—the foursome, led by the dashing Lord Luten, moved into action to recover them. But there was murder afoot. First of the Berkeley Brigade mysteries. Regency Romance/Mystery by Joan Smith; originally published by Fawcett Crest
Download or read book The Covent Garden Murder written by Mike Hollow and published by Allison & Busby Ltd. This book was released on 2023-10-19 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: December, 1940. Christmas is coming, but the season of goodwill is overshadowed by the death and destruction of the Blitz. In London's Covent Garden, where the glamour of theatreland rubs shoulders with the bustle of the capital's biggest fruit and vegetable market, the war has closed the theatres and ruined the market trade. When a daylight air raid hits the Prince Albert Theatre in Drury Lane, rescuers find a man dying in the wreckage. But it wasn't the bomb that's ending his life - he's been stabbed, and with his dying breath he whispers what sounds like a fragmented confession. As Detective Inspector John Jago begins to investigate, there's an underlying question he must grapple with: was the murdered man himself a killer?
Download or read book A Novel Approach to Theatre written by Linda Sarver and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains over 600 entries describing novels that have theatrical settings or in which characters work in the theatre.
