Title: Paul Beck, the rule of thumb detective.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The FICTION & PROSE LITERATURE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The collection provides readers with a perspective of the world from some of the 18th and 19th century's most talented writers. Written for a range of audiences, these works are a treasure for any curious reader looking to see the world through the eyes of ages past. Beyond the main body of works the collection also includes song-books, comedy, and works of satire. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Bodkin, Matthias MacDonnell; 1898. 284 p.; 8 . 012623.h.8.

Title: White Magic. A novel.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The FICTION & PROSE LITERATURE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The collection provides readers with a perspective of the world from some of the 18th and 19th century's most talented writers. Written for a range of audiences, these works are a treasure for any curious reader looking to see the world through the eyes of ages past. Beyond the main body of works the collection also includes song-books, comedy, and works of satire. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Bodkin, Matthias MacDonnell; 1897. viii. 398 p.; 8 . 012625.e.51.

Title: Lord Edward Fitzgerald. An historical romance ... With illustrations by L. Linsdell.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The FICTION & PROSE LITERATURE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The collection provides readers with a perspective of the world from some of the 18th and 19th century's most talented writers. Written for a range of audiences, these works are a treasure for any curious reader looking to see the world through the eyes of ages past. Beyond the main body of works the collection also includes song-books, comedy, and works of satire. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Bodkin, Matthias MacDonnell; Linsdell, Leonard; 1896. 415 p.; 8 . 012627.l.37.

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Title: A Stolen Life.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The FICTION & PROSE LITERATURE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The collection provides readers with a perspective of the world from some of the 18th and 19th century's most talented writers. Written for a range of audiences, these works are a treasure for any curious reader looking to see the world through the eyes of ages past. Beyond the main body of works the collection also includes song-books, comedy, and works of satire. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Bodkin, Matthias MacDonnell; 1898.]. 320 p.; 8 . 012623.g.27.

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Title: Pat o' Nine Tales, and one over.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The FICTION & PROSE LITERATURE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The collection provides readers with a perspective of the world from some of the 18th and 19th century's most talented writers. Written for a range of audiences, these works are a treasure for any curious reader looking to see the world through the eyes of ages past. Beyond the main body of works the collection also includes song-books, comedy, and works of satire. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Bodkin, Matthias MacDonnell; 1894. 216 p.; 8 . 012630.e.64.

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II EARLY RECOLLECTIONS Narrow escapes?Efforts of memory?" Wages, not punishment "? Keeping the peace?Innocent arson?Father Delany?" A New Departure in Catholic Education "?A question of honour?" Our Bill "? " Barred out." THERE is a strong temptation to set down here something of the thoughts, feelings, incidents and enjoyment of my young days. Looking back as one looks from a distance on a valley on which the sunshine is smiling, those days of one's youth are so vivid, so real, that one is apt to forget how little interest they have for outsiders. Besides, I am pledged to brevity. I am writing not as an actor, but as a spectator; I am telling of things seen and heard, and I will compress the days of my youth into as few pages as possible. When I was just two years old, so I have been told, I was industriously engaged in humble imitation of the gardener sowing seed on the broad flags in front of our house in Tuam, in confident hope of an abundant harvest. I went over the verge, tumbled down a flight of stone steps and gashed my temple on a sharp angle at the bottom. The whole incident is as clear in my mind as if it happened yesterday. I vividly remember my mother sitting with me in her lap, holding the wound together while the servant scoured the town for my father. Then darkness closed round me, and I remember nothing else for years. A deep dinge over my eyebrow' remains as a memento of the incident. Just such another accident may be mentioned, though a little out of its order. I wonder how many reckless boys have had a similar experience ! It chanced when I wasabout ten years old my father one day brought home a revolver, a queer, stumpy, old-fashioned thing quite unlike the modern weapon. There were six barrels all the same length revolving on a pivot, and...

Die Detektivgeschichten des irischen Politikers und Schriftstellers Matthias McDonnell Bodkin (1850-1933) kreisen um den privaten Ermittler Paul Beck, dem es mit Hilfe origineller und unorthodoxer Methoden gelingt, selbst die kniffeligsten Falle zu losen. Der Verfasser zahlt zu den popularsten Kriminalautoren des fruhen zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts, seine Detektivfigur wird vielfach als der "irische Sherlock Holmes" bezeichnet. Der vorliegende Band enthalt die Geschichten 'Giftmischer', 'Ein Wettlauf', 'Verbrieft und versiegelt', 'Gelost und gebunden', 'Ein Munzverbrechen', 'Staatgeheimnisse' und 'Zwei Konige'.

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Die Detektivgeschichten des irischen Politikers und Schriftstellers Matthias McDonnell Bodkin (1850-1933) kreisen um den privaten Ermittler Paul Beck, dem es mit Hilfe origineller und unorthodoxer Methoden gelingt, selbst die kniffeligsten Falle zu losen. Der Verfasser zahlt zu den popularsten Kriminalautoren des fruhen zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts, seine Detektivfigur wird vielfach als der "irische Sherlock Holmes" bezeichnet. Der vorliegende Band enthalt die Geschichten 'Giftmischer', 'Ein Wettlauf', 'Verbrieft und versiegelt', 'Gelost und gebunden', 'Ein Munzverbrechen', 'Staatgeheimnisse' und 'Zwei Konige'.