Edinburgh Twilight
Title | Edinburgh Twilight PDF eBook |
Author | Carole Lawrence |
Publisher | Thomas & Mercer |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | City and town life |
ISBN | 9781477848814 |
As a new century approaches, Edinburgh is a city divided. The wealthy residents of New Town live in comfort, while Old Town's cobblestone streets are clotted with criminals, prostitution, and poverty. Detective Inspector Ian Hamilton is no stranger to Edinburgh's darkest crimes. Scarred by the mysterious fire that killed his parents, he faces his toughest case yet when a young man is found strangled in Holyrood Park. With little evidence aside from a strange playing card found on the body, Hamilton engages the help of his aunt, a gifted photographer, and George Pearson, a librarian with a shared interest in the criminal mind. But the body count is rising. As newspapers spin tales of the "Holyrood Strangler," panic sets in across the city. And with each victim, the murderer is getting closer to Hamilton, the one man who dares to stop him.
Edinburgh Dusk
Title | Edinburgh Dusk PDF eBook |
Author | Carole Lawrence |
Publisher | Thomas & Mercer |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Detective and mystery stories |
ISBN | 9781503903906 |
The prize-winning author of Edinburgh Twilight returns to the darkening shadows of nineteenth-century Scotland to track a killer on a profane mission of revenge. A wicked Scottish winter has just begun when pioneering female physician Sophia Jex-Blake calls on Detective Inspector Ian Hamilton to investigate the suspicious death of one of her patients--a railroad lineman who she believes succumbed to the horrific effects of arsenic poisoning. The most provocative aspect of the case doesn't escape Hamilton: the married victim's numerous sexual transgressions. Now, for the first time since the unexplained fire that killed his parents, Hamilton enters the Royal Infirmary to gain the insights of brilliant medical student Arthur Conan Doyle. Then a second poisoning occurs--this time, a prominent banker who died in the bed of a prostitute. It appears that someone is making Edinburgh's more promiscuous citizens pay for their sins. As the body count rises and public panic takes hold, Hamilton and Doyle delve into the seedy underbelly of the city, where nothing is as it seems, no one is immune to murder, and even trusted friends can be enemies in disguise.
Tales for Twilight
Title | Tales for Twilight PDF eBook |
Author | Alistair W.J. Kerr |
Publisher | Birlinn Ltd |
Total Pages | 273 |
Release | 2021-10-14 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1788854713 |
Tales for Twilight offers a spine-tingling selection of unnerving tales by writers from James Hogg in the early eighteenth century to James Robertson, very much alive in the twenty-first. Scottish authors have proved to be exceptionally good at writing ghost stories. Perhaps it's because of the tradition of oral storytelling that has stretched over centuries, including poems and ballads with supernatural themes. The golden age was during the Victorian and Edwardian period, but the ghost story has continued to evolve and remains popular to this day. Includes stories from Sir Walter Scott, George Mackay Brown, Muriel Spark, Margaret Oliphant, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Guy Boothby, Algernon Blackwood, Eileen Bigland, Ronald Duncan, James Robertson and Ian Rankin.
Twilight of the British Empire
Title | Twilight of the British Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Chikara Hashimoto |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | 392 |
Release | 2018-01-23 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1474410472 |
A wide-ranging study of developments in global French-language cinema
Twilight of the Idols
Title | Twilight of the Idols PDF eBook |
Author | Friedrich Nietzsche |
Publisher | Hackett Publishing |
Total Pages | 130 |
Release | 1997-06-01 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1603848800 |
Twilight of the Idols presents a vivid, compressed overview of many of Nietzsche’s mature ideas, including his attack on Plato’s Socrates and on the Platonic legacy in Western philosophy and culture. Polt provides a trustworthy rendering of Nietzsche’s text in contemporary American English, complete with notes prepared by the translator and Tracy Strong. An authoritative Introduction by Strong makes this an outstanding edition. Select Bibliography and Index.
Oliver & Boyd's new Edinburgh almanac and national repository. [With] Western suppl
Title | Oliver & Boyd's new Edinburgh almanac and national repository. [With] Western suppl PDF eBook |
Author | Oliver and Boyd's new Edinburgh almanac |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 1108 |
Release | 1880 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Cleopatra's Dagger
Title | Cleopatra's Dagger PDF eBook |
Author | Carole Lawrence |
Publisher | Thomas & Mercer |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2022-04 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781542014304 |
A journalist in nineteenth-century New York matches wits with a serial killer in a gripping thriller by the prizewinning author of the Ian Hamilton Mysteries. New York, 1880. Elizabeth van den Broek is the only female reporter at the Herald, the city's most popular newspaper. Then she and her bohemian friend Carlotta Ackerman find a woman's body wrapped like a mummy in a freshly dug hole in Central Park--the intended site of an obelisk called Cleopatra's Needle. The macabre discovery takes Elizabeth away from the society pages to follow an investigation into New York City's darkest shadows. When more bodies turn up, each tied to Egyptian lore, Elizabeth is onto a headline-making scoop more sinister than she could have imagined. Her reporting has readers spellbound, and each new clue implicates New York's richest and most powerful citizens. And a serial killer is watching every headline. Now a madman with an indecipherable motive is coming after Elizabeth and everyone she loves. She wants a good story? She may have to die to get it.