Download or read book The Crooked Wreath written by Christianna Brand and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Golden Age author of Green for Danger. “You have to reach for the greatest of Great Names to find Brand’s rivals in the subtleties of the trade” (The New York Times). Sir Richard’s family has spent years waiting for him to die, but despite his weak heart, the old man simply refuses to cooperate. In the meantime, he makes their lives miserable by changing his will every few months, depending on which of his strange brood he favors that moment. Now he calls them together to announce his most diabolical revision yet: complete disinheritance of all the wastrels who bear his name. But he never gets a chance to sign the papers—by morning, he’s dead. Scotland Yard sends Inspector Cockrill, the only detective clever enough to unravel the family’s tangle of jealousy and deceit. Each member had reason to kill Sir Richard, but which one plunged the syringe of poison into his heart? With a family this mad, nothing is as complicated as the truth.
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Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries New Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1947 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Part 1, Books, Group 1 (1946)
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Download or read book A French and English Dictionary Composed by M Randle Cotgrave with Another in English and French Whereunto are Added Sundry Animadversionis with Supplements of Many Hundreds of Words Never Before Printed with Accurate Castigations Throughout the Whole Work and Distinctions of the Obsolete Words Fron Those that are Now in Use Together with a Large Grammar and a Dialogue Consisting of All Gallicismes with Additions of the Most Useful and Significant Proverbs with Other Refinements According to Cardinal Richelieu s Late Academy For the Furtherance of Young Learners and the Advantage of All Others that Endeavour to Arrive to the Most Exact Knowledge of the French Language this Work is Exposed to Publick by James Howell Esq Inter Eruditos Cathedram Habeat Polyglottes written by Randle Cotgrave and published by . This book was released on 1673 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
