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Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
c1963, 1985 printing
Language
English
Description
Swords of Mars begins as a cloak and dagger thriller and ends as an interplanetary odyssey. In this novel John Carter, transplanted Earthman, returns to his status of protagonist and first-person narrator for the first time since the third Martian novel, The Warlord of Mars.
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[1963, c1940]
Language
English
Description
Like several previous novels in the Barsoom series, Synthetic Men introduces a completely new character as its protagonist: Vor Daj, a padwar (warrior) from Helium and a member of John Carter's personal guard. Vor Daj narrates the action in the first person, so that when John Carter appears in the story, he is described in the third person (unlike other Barsoomian novels that feature Carter as the first-person narrator). The novel also brings back...
Author
Series
Publisher
Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Pub. Date
[1975]
Language
English
Description
Mavis Ironmonger is nobody's idea of a good diplomatic wife. She drinks too much, she's awfully friendly with the staff at the Washington embassy, and her music-hall roots have a way of bursting out at the most inappropriate moments. Indeed, it's at an embassy reception that Mavis manages to insult a visiting ambassador and get herself hauled off to sober up. With the party winding down, Mavis is due downstairs, to say the official goodbyes, but in...
4) Goldilocks
Author
Series
Matthew Hope novel volume 1
Publisher
Arbor House
Pub. Date
c1976
Language
English
Author
Series
Guardians of the flame novel volume 4
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
c1987
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c1989
Language
English
Description
The Wench is Dead is the eighth novel in Colin Dexter's Oxford-set detective series.
That night he dreamed in Technicolor. He saw the ochre-skinned, scantily clad siren in her black, arrowed stockings. And in Morse's muddled computer of a mind, that siren took the name of one Joanna Franks...
The body of Joanna Franks was found at Duke's Cut on the Oxford Canal at about 5.30 a.m. on Wednesday, 22nd June 1859.
At around 10.15 a.m. on a Saturday...
17) The 27* ingredient chili con carne murders: based on characters and a story created by Virginia Rich
Author
Series
Eugenia Potter mystery volume 2
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
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