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This book uses simple economic theories to explain how China's
agricultural economic phenomena exists in reality. It also helps
the reader to get a clear understanding of economic phenomena,
insight into the "hog cycle" and "food safety," as well as other
economic and social phenomena. The language of this book is not
only easy to understand, but also uses ancient poetry and humor to
make the subject interesting, as it speaks to the history and
current situation of Chinese agriculture. It also opens a window
for the people to read about agriculture. This is a unique book on
agricultural science that fills an important gap in works on
agricultural science and agricultural economics.
This book uses simple economic theories to explain how China's
agricultural economic phenomena exists in reality. It also helps
the reader to get a clear understanding of economic phenomena,
insight into the "hog cycle" and "food safety," as well as other
economic and social phenomena. The language of this book is not
only easy to understand, but also uses ancient poetry and humor to
make the subject interesting, as it speaks to the history and
current situation of Chinese agriculture. It also opens a window
for the people to read about agriculture. This is a unique book on
agricultural science that fills an important gap in works on
agricultural science and agricultural economics.
Analysis of LGBTQ life before the Stonewall Riots of 1969
traditionally has been dominated by the powerful negative image of
the closet, the metaphorical space where that which was deemed
""queer"" was necessarily sheltered from hostile, heteronormative
public view. Literary studies of queer themes and characters in
crime fiction have tended to focus on works published in the freer
environment that has existed in the years since Stonewall, queer
material, so the traditional belief runs, having been, for the most
part, only negatively or obliquely presented in crime fiction of
the closet-bound pre-Stonewall era. This book tempers this
traditional view, offering readers a groundbreaking collection of
twenty-three essays, in which the authors investigate queer aspects
to crime fiction published over eight decades, from the corseted
Victorian era to the unbuttoned Swinging Sixties, on the very eve
of Stonewall. ""Murder will out,"" so the saying goes, and this is
true as well of queer material in pre-Stonewall crime fiction, if
one but follows the clues.
Charles was in a vile temper and Anne was catching the full benefit
of it. Charles Courtley is a difficult man. Prone to violent
outbursts and a bully to his wife and daughters, he has uprooted
the family from London to an old manor house in remote East Anglia.
Spoilt by his growing wealth and increasingly intolerant of any
dissent, Charles enjoys controlling everyone around him. His
family, his employees and even the locals - banned from using the
traditional footpaths on his forested estate - have multiple
reasons to bear a grudge. When Charles is shot dead in a woodland
clearing, evidence from an unreliable witness points to Courtley's
secretary, but he has a cast iron alibi and the resulting trial
ends in an acquital. A year later, a seemingly innocent death and
an odd cenotaph leads Chief Inspector Simon Sturt to reconsider the
case. Dorothy Erskine Muir (1889-1977) was one of seventeen
children of John Sheepshanks, Bishop of Norwich. She attended
Oxford, worked as an academic tutor, and began writing
professionally to supplement the family income after the unexpected
death of her husband in 1932. Muir published historical biographies
and local histories, as well as three accomplished detective
novels: In Muffled Night (1933), Five to Five (1934) and In Memory
of Charles (1941).
Not every woman can collect her dethroned lovers and their wives
into one room. But then Claribel was not 'every woman'. Things
happened at her parties and so one swallowed the latest baits and
joined all the other poor fish. But having given her party, having
collected her bevy of expectant friends, having displayed her three
mysterious lovelies, it was painfully bad tactics to make them play
a murder game. All sorts of curious things were liable to happen
when one let loose such a motley throng in a darkened house. So
really it was Claribel's fault, and she had only herself to blame
when things did happen. A fairy tale with a sting in its tail.
'When a man has three separate notices by three different women
inserted in the local paper, and he's my own namesake besides, I
feel I owe him something.' Sequential death notices appear for
Robert Raynald: one by his mother, one by his estranged wife, one
by his daughter. This odd approach draws the attention of
Superintendent Mallett and his friend Dr. Fitzbrown. The inquest
had decided that Raynald shot himself whilst temporarily insane,
but his daughter Geraldine is not convinced and presents enough
evidence to arouse the investigator within Mallett. Raynald's story
is presented in flashbacks, as Mallett and Fitzbrown build a
picture of his life through the people who knew him best. Requiem
for Robert combines the excitement of a detective story with a
haunting reading of character.
'Mr Gabb, your son did not commit suicide. He was murdered.' Simon
Gabb has everything - or so it seems: a beautiful house, a big
estate, a flourishing business and two sons, both endowed with
evident capacity for carrying on the family firm. The moody Giles
is brilliant and inventive; the married Basil is dependable and
efficient. And yet something is manifestly wrong. A secret
invention, on which his business was engaged for the government,
becomes known to those who had no right to know it. But how and
where did the leak occur? It is a conundrum which creates suspicion
and dissension within the family and engulfs everyone who dine with
them one Saturday night. Giles has become friendly with young Arden
and Billy Laforte, who were the previous owners of Herons' Hall
until their father's death left them penniless, and who now rent
one of the lodges on the property. When Giles brings the Lafortes
to the Hall for the first visit to their old home in three years,
the Gabbs hardly know what to expect. Yet the Lafortes seem
completely at ease, so when a fierce storm develops, Mrs Gabb
insistes they stay the night. The next morning, Gabb's elder son,
Giles, is found dead in a motorboat on the lake, his body propped
up by a shotgun. But it is soon apparent that the gun was not the
cause of death, nor did he die in the boat; a skilled marksman shot
him from a distance. Superintendent Mallett is assigned the case
and must deal with the smouldering emotions the flare up between
everyone present that evening.
'All these people who thought themselves securely in possession are
now going to be dependent on the caprice of this young man.' During
a blinding rainstorm, Jake Seaborne takes a wrong turn and arrives
at Ullstone Hall, where is he is initially mistaken for 'Hugo', the
new heir to the family estate. It seems Hugo is the offspring of
the late Mr Ullstone's first marriage in India, but the children of
his second marriage have never met him. In short, the Ullstone
family destiny is now in the hands of a complete stranger. A
friend, Sir Frederick Lawson (who it turns out knows Jake's family)
has been asked to act as a "sort of buffer" for Hugo on his
arrival, but Lawton cannot stay and Jake agrees to act in that role
until he can return. But not everything is as it appears to be, and
when the handsome and charming Hugo arrives, trouble follows and
before long three people are dead.
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Five to Five (Paperback)
D. Erskine Muir; Introduction by Curtis Evans
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R323
Discovery Miles 3 230
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Much had been risked, and the murderer had escaped by such a rare
combination of chances. Elderly invalid Simon Ewing was bludgeoned
in his maisonette and a stranger was seen exiting the building by
several of the residents. The murderer had entered-and escaped-in
just a few minutes when Ewing was left unattended, implying that
someone knew the movements of both his household and the
neighbours. Who would run such a risk in a building with multiple
comings and goings? Robbery appears to be the motive, but why was
only one ring taken from Ewing's secret hoard of valuable
jewellery? A second death leads Detective-Inspector Woods to
untangle exactly who was where in the crucial minutes before the
murder. Dorothy Erskine Muir (1889-1977) was one of seventeen
children of John Sheepshanks, Bishop of Norwich. She attended
Oxford, worked as an academic tutor, and began writing
professionally to supplement the family income after the unexpected
death of her husband in 1932. Muir published historical biographies
and local histories, as well as three accomplished detective
novels: In Muffled Night (1933), Five to Five (1934) and In Memory
of Charles (1941). Each is an intricate fictional account based on
an unsolved true crime.
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Only the Good (Paperback)
Mary Collins; Introduction by Curtis Evans
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Discovery Miles 3 590
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