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  Murder at the Bailey

  Henry Milner

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  Fast, funny and readable, Murder at the Bailey is an enjoyable romp through a criminal world more recognisable decades ago: rogues’ justice often prevails, against a background of colourful lifestyles ? from expensive restaurants and bars to flashy cars and mistresses… Few lawyers can turn their hand to fiction after a lifetime processing the dry details of the law. Milner clearly can, and with verve and humour. The Times 
  'A pacy, witty, riveting tour de force.' Wensley Clarkson 
  A gloriously entertaining audiobook from one of Britain’s top criminal lawyers. 
  A notorious loan shark is shot dead, in broad daylight, right outside the front doors of the Old Bailey. The killer is arrested at the scene and Adrian Stanford is lined up to take on the toughest defence case of his career. Can he steer his client past the no-nonsense Detective Chief Superintendent ‘Iron-Rod’ Stokes, hell-bent on achieving a murder conviction in his last case before retirement? That’s assuming he can keep his client alive in prison long enough for the trial to go ahead. Can his illustrious defence QC, Patrick ‘The Edge’ Gorman, swerve the case past the acerbic judge known to all as Mack the Knife, whose own resolve is being tested to the limit by an adulterous wife? And why is London underworld numero uno Big Jake Davenport showing such a keen interest in the proceedings? 
  A wickedly eccentric cast of brilliantly drawn characters populate this daring debut from one of Britain’s top criminal defence lawyers. Dripping with sparkling dialogue and delicious wit, Murder at the Bailey is a masterly picaresque romp through the courtrooms, custody suites and London restaurants graced by the cognoscenti.

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  Medium Rare - A Novel

  A. Natasha Joukovsky

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  From the author of The Portrait of a Mirror, a modern tragicomedy transforms the myth of Icarus into a blazing romp through bureaucracy, B-list fame, and college basketball . . .Phil is ordinary. A mid-level Washington lobbyist for a decidedly unsexy organization, unhappy in the way all mildly successful, minimally influential men are. That is until the spring of 2019, when Phil's picks for the NCAA March Madness Tournament start panning out, and heads begin to turn his way. He really may do it: predict a perfect bracket, for a billion-dollar prize.At first, Cassandra is just along for Phil's soaring rise—she had foreseen it happening, after all. Despite moving in different circles since their shared university days and Cassandra never much liking him, she recognizes in Phil the making of a legend worthy of the highest art. What Cassandra fails to predict, though, is just how much she'd grow to care about Phil's wife, Raleigh—and that the grandest narrative arcs sometimes unfold at the steepest of personal costs.Dazzling in its absurd comedy, Medium Rare is not only a gambol through the upper echelon, but also a shrewd examination of madness, desire, and credibility—why don't we listen when prophetic women speak? A. Natasha Joukovsky delivers a story as layered and incisive as it is high-flying fun.

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  Headless Horseman The - A...

  Thomas Mayne Reid

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  The horse is perfect in all its parts—a splendid steed, saddled, bridled, and otherwise completely caparisoned. In it there appears nothing amiss—nothing to produce either wonder or alarm. But the man—the rider? Ah! About him there is something to cause both—something weird—something wanting!By heavens! it is the head! (Excerpt from the Prologue)The Headless Horseman is a novel by Mayne Reid written in 1865 or 1866 and is based on the author's adventures in the United States. The Headless Horseman or a Strange Tale of Texas was set in Texas and based on a South Texas folk tale.Vladimir Nabokov recalled The Headless Horseman as a favourite adventure novel of his childhood years - "which had given him a vision of the prairies and the great open spaces and the overarching sky." At 11, Nabokov even translated The Headless Horseman into French alexandrines.(Summary from Wikipedia)

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  The Sign of the Four

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.  
  The calm prevailing on Baker Street is interrupted by the visit of Mary Morstan. A beautiful, young woman seeks help from Sherlock Holmes. It turns out that for the past 10 years, on the anniversary of her father's mysterious disappearance, someone sends her a precious pearl. This time, however, she also received a letter, in which there is a proposal for a meeting. Undertaking the unraveling of this mystery, the characters do not anticipate how difficult and dangerous this adventure will be. Soon, the titular sign of four will appear, and in a closed room from the inside, they will find the body of a man killed in a rather unusual way. They will embark on a frantic pursuit of the criminals, all in order to discover the truth and recover the treasure. From now on, every detail, every minute counts...

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  The Secret of Chimneys - A Great...

  Agatha Christie

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  The Secret of Chimneys 
  A young drifter finds more than he bargained for when he agrees to deliver a parcel to an English country house. Little did Anthony Cade suspect that a simple errand on behalf of a friend would make him the centrepiece of a murderous international conspiracy. Someone would stop at nothing to prevent the monarchy being restored in faraway Herzoslovakia. 
  The combined forces of Scotland Yard and the French Surete can do no better than go in circles – until the final murder at Chimneys, the great country estate that yields up an amazing secret. 
  The Secret of Chimneys marks the first appearance of Inspector Battle and was the last book to be published by Bodley Head, thus fulfilling the terms of Agatha Christie's six book option. While Inspector Battle would only appear in a further four novels, Collins (later HarperCollins) would remain Christie's publisher for the rest of her life. Her new agent Edmund Cork of Hughes Massie had negotiated much more favourable terms with Collins (a £200 advance per title for the next three books). John Lane, then publisher at Bodley Head, had replied that if anyone wished to pay that much for Christie's novels, they were welcome to her. 
  A thick fog of mystery, cross purposes, and romance, which leads up to a most unexpected and highly satisfactory ending. 
  Times Literary Supplement 
  The Secret of Chimneys was adapted by Christie as a stage play in 1931 but its planned performance was mysteriously cancelled. Its world premiere was at the Vertigo Theatre in Calgary, Canada in 2003 when the artistic director John-Paul Fischback "discovered" the manuscript deposited at The British Library over 70 years earlier. It was filmed with the addition of Julia McKenzie as Miss Marple and with multiple plot changes by ITV in 2009.

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  Templates - You don't become...

  Saša Slavić

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.  Templates is the moment everything changes. 
  Alex has spent years building worlds, carrying impossible burdens, and fighting forces that reach beyond reality itself. But now something awakens inside him. Not new power. Not transformation. 
  Memory. 
  Alex begins regaining nearly 99% of the control he once lost, unlocking fragments of what he truly was before time, before fear, before limits. But power never returns without consequence. 
  The Null Current grows stronger. 
  Reality itself begins to fracture as unseen forces move through shadows. The Watchers, silent observers who stood beyond conflict for ages, are forced to choose sides. Ancient balances collapse. Hidden truths rise. Loyalty is tested. Love is pushed beyond breaking points. 
  As worlds stand on the edge of collapse, Alex and Gaga face their greatest challenge yet: not simply surviving what comes next, but remembering who they truly are beneath everything that tried to erase them. 
  Because sometimes you do not become something new. 
  You remember what you were. 
  The war for reality begins now.

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