Download or read book Wexford Then Now written by Jarlath Glynn and published by Pitkin. This book was released on 2014-08-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wexford is a town of great character and individuality. It has been in existence for one thousand years, and this new publication, researched and written by County Librarian Jarlath Glynn explores that vibrant history. This is done here by the authors contrasting forty-five archive images with full colour professional photographs. This book takes in the buildings and streetscapes of the town, capturing the changing character of Wexford. Most of the original photographs date from 1900 or before, and were chosen to highlight particularly important aspects of the heritage of the town.
Download or read book Wexford Then and Now written by Sue Page and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book No More Dying Then written by Ruth Rendell and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-01-26 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will you be able to get to the bottom of the mystery multi-million copy and SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author Ruth Rendell presents in No More Dying Then? Fans of PD James, Ann Cleeves and Donna Leon will devour this with its compelling drama and intricately woven web of murder, mystery, clues and crimes... 'Ruth Rendell has quite simply transformed the genre of crime writing' -- Sunday Times 'Rendell never fails to come up trumps, and her millions of admirers will eagerly consume this offering as they have all the others.' -- The Irish Times 'Didn't want to stop reading it!' -- ***** Reader review 'Excellent book - had me gripped from the start' -- ***** Reader review 'Great writing as always by the mistress of crime novels' -- ***** Reader review 'A must read'-- ***** Reader review ****************************************************************************************** On a stormy February afternoon, little Stella Rivers disappears - never to be seen again. There are no clues, no demands and no traces. And there is nowhere for Wexford and his team to look. All that remains is the cold fear and awful dread that touches everyone in Kingsmarkham. Just months later, another child vanishes - five-year-old John Lawrence. Wexford and Inspector Burden are launched into another investigation and, all too quickly, they discover chilling similarities to the Stella Rivers case. Then the letters begin. The horrifying, evil, threatening letters of a madman. And suddenly Wexford is fighting against time to find the missing boy, before he meets the same fate as poor Stella...
Download or read book The Monster in the Box written by Ruth Rendell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author called the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world ("Time") comes her newest novel featuring Inspector Wexford.
Download or read book History of the Insurrection of the County of Wexford A D 1798 written by Edward Hay and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-06-02 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History of the Insurrection of the County of Wexford, A. D. 1798: Including an Account of Transactions Preceding That Event, With an Appendix; Embellished With an Elegant Map of the County of Wexford (elves under fuch obligations to me, that at treaty I lived in the fame hoofe wiih them, furrender of the town until the 29th of Jo they departed for Waterford. Being well malice and obloquy, I conflantly exprefl'ed a defn'e, during their Ray, to be brought to trial, for any alle' gation that might.be framed againfi me; and I am now confident, that had it been polhble to procure any proof againfi me, it would by no means be neglefled hot this being impraelicable, even in fuch crazy times, other means of deep malignity were reforted to, and thefe, as well as I am hitherto acquainted with them, .i (hall endeavour to 'defcribe. My former intention of going to America, was by no means Iefi'ened but aug mentedaby the feenes of which I had fo recently been witnefs to in my native country. I accordingly perfifled in my refolution, and was determined to get out of the country as fpeedily as poihble. The committee that had been appointed by lieutenant general Lake, to act as a kind.of council to general Hunter, then in com mod in W'exford, and to grant pafl'es, now began to praeiife their malicious arts againft me, which they avoided before, being apprehenlive, if not well aware, that their fchemes worild be counterae'led and defeated, if attempted to be put in execution, .while the oficers, who were acquainted. With my conduel, remained in Wexford. I received a, note from the chairman of this committee, (and it was delivered to me by one of the body, whom I then confidered as my friend) defiring I would write to him, fiating what I would with to be done, and that my requefi would be taken into imme diate confideration. This induced me to write to them, intimating the delire, I had fo often exprefi'ed, of going to America, adding, that I wilhed to fct off the next dayday in order to fail in a {hip then in the harbour of Dublin 5 and this determination I would, in all proba bility, have fince put in execution, but that I confidered it might have given freer fanelion to the calom nies fo indhfirioufly raifed againll me. This confide ration has detained me in Ireland, as here I was the better enabled to vindicate my honour, and this, ia deed, my perfecutors have completely efi'eeled, quite in contradielion to their inclinations and withes. The immediate con/ideraiion of the committee was, in confe quence of premeditation to fend back the gentleman, who brought me the note and took my anfwer, to ar rej} me. This he did at my lodgings, where I was publicly known to be fince the infurrefi'ion, and two yeomen were'there placed as a guard over me. This whole conduel, from feveral circumftances of which I have hoce come to the knowledge, was certainly prerau carted. Had I been fent to gaol, it would have been produelive of a trial by court martial, and this was a benefit which they did not wifh to allow me, as they were well aware of the fentiments of the oflicers, whom I would have fummoned back to Wexford; befides fome individuals among them were molt ungratefully induced to forward the vile proceedings againft me, at they were apprehenfive I might call on them as wit nefi'es, when their loyalty may have been called in queflion, were they to' do jufiice to my conduel and it may alfo have been manifefled, that whatever ho nour fome of them now polfefs, is owing to their taking my advice in preference to their own; as if they efcaped piking on the one fide, they may have been hanged on the other, and with much more juflicc than feveral who have forfeited their lives on the occafion. To tranfport me without further enquiry, was tl1e1e. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
Download or read book The Wexford written by Paul Carroll and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2010-06-21 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The steamer Wexford, with her flared bow, tall masts, and her open, canvas-sided hurricane deck, charmed spectators as she carried cargo across the Great Lakes. The romance and adventure of her British and French history in the South American trade followed her. Under newly appointed 24-year-old captain Bruce Cameron, her fateful final voyage was punctuated with opportunities to be saved from destruction , but his persistence in trying to make port at Goderich led to tragedy - a victim of the storm of 1913. Over a period of 87 years, she eluded many efforts to locate her remains, but was finally discovered in 2000 by a sailor using a fish-finding device. Since then, she has been visited by thousands, but sadly plundered. Our story traces her history from her British origins in 1883, through the transition to become a "Laker," the eventful storm, the search, and her ultimate discovery in southern Lake Huron, and the controversy over how she should be protected.
Download or read book The Killing Doll written by Ruth Rendell and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2010-12-28 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A girl experiments with the occult to keep her family together in this psychological thriller from the New York Times–bestselling author of Dark Corners. In a quiet house in the London suburb of Manningtree, fifteen-year-old Pup and his emotionally damaged older sister, Dolly, have become closer than ever since the death of the their mother. Pup’s bookish obsession with witchcraft gives their disordered life a sense of purpose. Dolly isn’t sure what to expect from the talisman Pup makes her, until their father brings home a vulgar new wife. Then, Dolly, resentful and suddenly empowered, makes a deadly wish—the first of many. In a depressed neighborhood on the other side of town, a paranoid hermit has been questioned in a series of brutal murders. Lately, he’s taken to living in a tunnel behind a fort of mattresses, where he keeps his knives. Soon, his life and the lives of Pup and Dolly will converge. As one of them struggles toward something close to sanity, the other two will descend even further into darkness. “Only Rendell can show us how chillingly easy it is for ordinary people to slide into criminal behavior,” and in The Killing Doll, the tumble is relentless (Oprah.com). “Rendell, who perfected the art of the truly suspenseful psychological thriller” is a three-time recipient of the Edgar Award, and the author of numerous bestsellers (The Boston Globe).
Download or read book Not in the Flesh written by Ruth Rendell and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2008-06-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new Chief Inspector Wexford mystery from the author who Time magazine has called “the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world.” When the truffle-hunting dog starts to dig furiously, his master’s first reaction is delight at the size of the clump the dog has unearthed: at the going rate, this one truffle might be worth several hundred pounds. Then the dirt falls away to reveal not a precious mushroom but the bones and tendons of what is clearly a human hand. In Not in the Flesh, Chief Inspector Wexford tries to piece together events that took place eleven years earlier, a time when someone was secretly interred in a secluded patch of English countryside. Now Wexford and his team will need to interrogate everyone who lives nearby to see if they can turn up a match for the dead man among the eighty-five people in this part of England who have disappeared over the past decade. Then, when a second body is discovered nearby, Wexford experiences a feeling that’s become a rarity for the veteran policeman: surprise. As Wexford painstakingly moves to resolve these multiple mysteries, long-buried secrets are brought to daylight, and Ruth Rendell once again proves why she has been hailed as our greatest living mystery writer.
Download or read book No Man s Nightingale written by Ruth Rendell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A female Vicar named Sarah Hussein is discovered strangled in her Kingsmarkham Vicarage. A single-mother to a teenage girl, Hussein was a woman working in a male-dominated profession. Moreover, she was of mixed race and working to modernize the church. Could racism or sexism have played a factor in her murder? As he searches the Vicar's, Wexford sees a book containing a letter serving as a bookmark. Wexford puts it into his pocket and soon realizes his grave error - the former policeman has taken away a piece of valuable evidence without telling anybody."--
Download or read book The People s Rising written by Daniel Gahan and published by Gill & MacMillan. This book was released on 1995 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The People's Rising is already established as the definitive account of Wexford in 1798. The story of this tragic and heroic episode in Irish history, in which as many as 30,000 people may have died, is told with authority, passion and attention to detail.
Download or read book The Little gleaner written by and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Speaker of Mandarin written by Ruth Rendell and published by Fawcett. This book was released on 2012-11-21 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The heiress apparent to Agatha Christie.”—Los Angeles Times Chief Inspector Wexford is in China, visiting ancient tombs and palaces with a group of British tourists. Is he hallucinating, or does a bent old woman with bound feet follow him everywhere? Back in England, he is called to a nearby village where a wealthy woman has been found with a bullet in her head. Murdered. He identifies her as one of the China tourists, and soon decides to question the other members of the group. When he discovers the secrets they are hiding—greed, treachery, theft, adultery—he is forced to ask not who is innocent but who is the least guilty. “[Ruth] Rendell in top form, applying subtle psychological tints to the familiar mechanics of the police procedural . . . handsomely sculpted . . . Rendell proves once again her awesome skill at probing the criminal mind and conscience. . . . Handled with great originality.”—Philadelphia Inquirer
Download or read book The Veiled One written by Ruth Rendell and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2010-12-28 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspector Wexford searches for answers after an elderly woman is murdered in this “spellbinder” from a New York Times–bestselling author (Publishers Weekly). When Chief Inspector Wexford enters the parking garage, the woman is already dead, slumped between two cars, concealed under a velvet shroud. The inspector doesn’t even notice her as he drives away. Only later, when he sees on the news that an old woman was garroted in the shopping mall garage, does he realize how close he was to discovering the body. In a case that starts with a hidden corpse, the truth will be dangerously elusive. Before Wexford can sink his teeth into the elderly woman’s murder, he is nearly killed himself—by a politically motivated car bombing targeting his daughter. With the inspector in the hospital, the case falls to his partner, the intrepid Mike Burden, who must solve both mysteries before the shopping mall killer strikes again. The winner of three Edgar Awards, Ruth Rendell was one of the finest mystery authors of the twentieth century. Inspector Wexford was one of her most beloved creations, and The Veiled One is another “stunning” entry in the series (Publishers Weekly).
Download or read book Waterford Harbour written by Andrew Doherty and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Waterford harbour has centuries of tradition based on its extensive fishery and maritime trade. Steeped in history, customs and an enviable spirit, it was there that Andrew Doherty was born and raised amongst a treasure chest of stories spun by the fishermen, sailors and their families. As an adult he began to research these accounts and, to his surprise, found many were based on fact. In this book, Doherty will take you on a fascinating journey along the harbour, introduce you to some of its most important sites and people, the area's history, and some of its most fantastic tales. Dreaded press gangs who raided whole communities for crew, the search for buried gold and a ship seized by pirates, the horror of a German bombing of the rural idyll during the Second World War – on every page of this incredible account you will learn something of the maritime community of Waterford Harbour.
Download or read book Divided Kingdom written by S.J. Connolly and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-08-28 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Ireland the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were an era marked by war, economic transformation, and the making and remaking of identities. Continuing the story he began in Contested Island, Sean Connolly examines the origins of modern Irish political and cultural identities, and the relationship between past and present.
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Download or read book A Sleeping Life written by Ruth Rendell and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-02-04 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death is always solitary. For some, so is life . . . Fans of PD James, Ann Cleeves and Donna Leon will devour this enthralling mystery of deception, doubt and death from multi-million copy and SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author Ruth Rendell ... 'Probably the greatest crime writer in the world' -- Ian Rankin '[Wexford] has become an old friend who gets better with age' -- Herald 'A cracking good tale' -- ***** Reader review 'Rendell at her complex best' -- ***** Reader review 'Unputdownable' -- ***** Reader review 'A treat from start to finish' -- ***** Reader review 'Couldn't put it down' -- ***** Reader review ****************************************************************************************************** On a sultry August evening, the bloody body of a middle-aged woman is discovered beneath a hedge by a small boy. There are only two things that surprise Wexford about the murder scene. One, that the only contents of the woman's handbag are some keys and a wallet containing nothing but some money. And two, how even in death, her deathly grey eyes possess a scornful glare. The woman turns out to be Rhoda Comfrey, but there's no murder weapon, no apparent motive, and no one who actually cares that she died. Wexford's only hunch is that the clues to her murder must lie in her solitary London life. But her existence there becomes frustratingly impossible to trace.
