Anne Perry
Author
Series
Novel of World War 1 volume 3-4
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
[2007].
Language
English
Description
Anne Perry is the undisputed queen of historical mysteries--for her Inspector Pitt and William Monk novels, and also her acclaimed WWI series, featuring No Graves As Yet, Shoulder the Sky and Angels in the Gloom. Now Mystery Guild is pleased to present the last two exciting books of the series in an exclusive omnibus edition! At Some Disputed Barricade returns us to July, 1917. Army chaplain Joseph Reavley tries to keep up the men's morale, but rumors...
Author
Series
Christmas novels volume 9-10
Publisher
Ballantine Books Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
(A Christmas homecoming): Traveling up the Yorkshire coast with her husband and his acting troupe, Caroline, the mother of Charlotte Pitt, anticipates their arrival at the famed fishing village landing sight of Count Dracula in Bram Stoker's tale and develops an awareness about inviting and disallowing evil.
(A Christmas garland): In 1857 India, young Lieutenant Victor Narraway, with the help of two small children and a Christmas garland, defends...
Author
Series
Christmas novels volume 3-4
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Christmas guest: Grandmama arrives on a holiday visit to the home of Charlotte's parents, where a fellow guest--an outcast from her own family--is subsequently murdered.
Christmas secret: Dominic Corde is thrilled to fill the robe as substitute vicar in the village of Cottisham, while the Reverend Wynter is away on a three-week Christmas holiday. However, it turns out that the Reverend Wynter isn't on holiday at all-and that something very sinister...
Author
Series
Novel of World War 1 volume 2
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
In the firmament of great historical novelists, Anne Perry is a star of the greatest magnitude. First there were her acclaimed Victorian mysteries, sparkling with passion and suspense. Now readers have embraced this bestselling new series of World War I novelswhich juxtapose the tranquil life of the English countryside with the horrors of war. By April of 1915, as chaplain Joseph Reavley tends to the soldiers in his care, the nightmare of...
Author
Series
Novel of World War 1 volume 3
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
With this latest entry in a bestselling series that evokes all the passion and heroism of historys most heartbreaking conflictthe war that was meant to end all warsAnne Perry adds new luster to her worldwide reputation. Angels in the Gloom is an intense saga of love, hate, obsession, and murder that features an honorable English familybrothers Joseph and Matthew Reavley and their sisters, Judith and Hannah. In March...
Author
Series
Novel of World War 1 volume 1
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
In June of 1914, Cambridge professor Joseph Reavley learns that his father was carrying a vitally important secret document vanished when he died, and that his best student has been murdered.
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Readers of Anne Perry’s bestselling suspense novels revel in a world that is all their own, sharing the privileged existence of Britain’s wealthy and powerful elite in West End mansions and great country houses. It is also a world in which danger bides in unsuspected places and the line between good and evil can be razor thin. This new novel features Lady Vespasia Cumming-Gould–one of the most memorable characters from the Thomas...
108) A Christmas Legacy
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Thomas and Charlotte Pitt's former maid takes a new job as Christmas approaches—but not everyone in the household may survive the holidays in this tension-filled novel from bestselling author Anne Perry. After leaving her position with Charlotte and Thomas Pitt to get married, Gracie thought her days as a maid were behind her. But when Millie, the daughter of a long-gone friend, turns up on Gracie's doorstep just before the holidays, frantic because...
Author
Series
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this short story, the New York Times–bestselling author delves into the private lives and personal histories of her “extremely congenial characters” (The Philadelphia Inquirer).
It is 1912, and Peter Naylor calls at the home of Lady Vespasia Cumming-Gould, longtime friend of Thomas Pitt and his wife, Charlotte. Clouds are gathering in Europe, and the prime minister is considering Thomas...
It is 1912, and Peter Naylor calls at the home of Lady Vespasia Cumming-Gould, longtime friend of Thomas Pitt and his wife, Charlotte. Clouds are gathering in Europe, and the prime minister is considering Thomas...
Author
Series
Publisher
Phoenix Books, Inc
Language
English
Description
Esteemed mystery writer Anne Perry, author of more than twenty-five novels and two acclaimed detective series, heads up a delectable cast of contemporary writers, the very best from both sides of the Atlantic. In the tradition of honored crime writes Agatha Christie, Malice Domestic, Volume 6 jumps the pond between Britain and America to deliver 100 percent pure suspense in all its spine-tingling glory.
Author
Language
English
Description
We owe The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902) to Arthur Conan Doyle's good friend Fletcher "Bobbles" Robinson, who took him to visit some scary English moors and prehistoric ruins, and told him marvelous local legends about escaped prisoners and a 17th-century aristocrat who fell afoul of the family dog. Doyle transmogrified the legend: generations ago, a hound of hell tore out the throat of devilish Hugo Baskerville on the moonlit moor. Poor, accursed...
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Armed with only his wits and his cunning, one man recklessly defies the French revolutionaries and rescues scores of innocent men, women, and children from the deadly guillotine. His friends and foes know him only as the Scarlet Pimpernel. But the ruthless French agent Chauvelin is sworn to discover his identity and to hunt him down.
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Unlikely pairs join forces to crack a slew of intriguing cases in an anthology edited by New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry, featuring original stories by Jacqueline Winspear, Jeffery Deaver, Allison Brennan, Charles Todd, and many more, including Perry herself"--
118) Dangerous women
Publisher
Mysterious
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A collection of short tales about dangerous women, written by top suspense authors.
Publisher
Beyond Words
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Whether believer, skeptic, agnostic, atheist, or something other, these twenty-four authors share a fascinating, daring, and multifaceted perspective on what faith means (or doesn't mean). The collection of personal essays includes bestselling authors such as Anne Perry, who writes about a deeply spiritual faith that embraces and sustains her through every step of her life. Caroline Leavitt writes about tarot cards, mediums, and quantum physics to...
120) The lineup: the world's greatest crime writers tell the inside story of their greatest detectives
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Shares the stories behind the creations of many of the mystery genre's most popular characters, revealing the inspirations for such examples as Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch and Alexander McCall Smith's Precious Ramotswe.