Unisciti a noi in un viaggio nel mondo dei libri!
Aggiungi questo libro allo scaffale
Grey
Scrivi un nuovo commento Default profile 50px
Grey
Iscriviti per leggere l'intero libro o leggi le prime pagine gratuitamente!
All characters reduced
Herring on the Nile - cover

Herring on the Nile

L. C. Tyler

Casa editrice: Felony & Mayhem Press

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

Sinossi

From the author of The Herring in the Library, a struggling mystery author takes an Egyptian cruise for inspiration only to become surrounded by murder. Ethelred Tressider’s career is not, let’s face it, what one might call glittering. In fact, it’s barely what one might call capable of paying the gas bill. To be honest, this is not surprising: Ethelred lost any real interest in writing mystery novels many years ago, and his audience has never been truly excited about reading them. In a desperate effort to revive his imagination, Ethelred books a cruise down the Nile—cradle of civilization and so on. Well, it worked for Agatha Christie. It is not, however, working very well for Ethelred. No sooner has he settled into his state room—followed by his literary agent, the splendid Elsie—than dead bodies start littering the premises. There are any number of suspects, but for many of the boat’s amateur sleuths, it seems that the dastardly murderer is none other than the sweating Ethelred . . .Perfect for fans of Golden Age mysteriesPraise for Herring on the Nile“Joyously entertaining . . . An outrageously clever parody of Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers and all those other masters of the whodunit . . . the equivalent of a sparkling glass of champagne.” —Lancashire Evening Post (UK)
Disponibile da: 15/11/2015.
Lunghezza di stampa: 233 pagine.

Altri libri che potrebbero interessarti

  • Jared Pond and the Yakuza Connection - cover

    Jared Pond and the Yakuza...

    Martin Lundqvist

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    In this episode, Jared Pond travels to Japan to help a Japanese agent Mio Kazama thwart a conspiracy to kill the Emperor of Japan. But how does a secret agent find his counterpart in a crowded airport?  What is the truth behind the conspiracy against the Emperor, and why did Mio seduce Jared in the end?
    Mostra libro
  • Dumpty - The Age of Trump in Verse - cover

    Dumpty - The Age of Trump in Verse

    John Lithgow

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    New York Times Bestseller!Dumpty: The Age of Trump in Verse is a satirical poetry collection from award-winning actor and bestselling author John Lithgow. Chronicling the last few raucous years in American politics, Lithgow takes readers verse by verse through the history of Donald Trump's presidency.• Lampoons the likes of Betsy DeVos, William Barr, Rudy Giuliani, and dozens more.• Illustrated from cover to cover with Lithgow's never-before-seen line drawings.• Draws inspiration from A. A. Milne, Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, and even Mother Goose.• Great for fans of A Very Stable Genius by Mike Luckovich, Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don't Matter by Scott Adams, and The Donald J. Trump Presidential Twitter Library by The Daily Show with Trevor Noah.The poems collected in Dumpty draw inspiration from A. A. Milne, Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Mother Goose, and many more. A feat of laugh-out-loud lyrical storytelling, this timely audiobook is bound to bring joy to poetry lovers, political junkies, and Lithgow fans alike.
    Mostra libro
  • The Happy Glampers - cover

    The Happy Glampers

    Daisy Tate

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    ‘A warm, witty and endlessly wise story’ Cressida McLaughlin‘What a great book. I loved it.’ Debbie Macomber 
    Is friendship meant to last forever? Charlotte Mayfield hopes so. Especially as she’s throwing some luxury glamping into the mix. 
    After fifteen years of trying to be the perfect wife, maybe Charlotte’s best friends from uni – Freya, Emily and Izzy – can still glimpse the woman she’d once set out to be. 
    Freya is up for it. Could a powwow with her yesteryear besties helps her knock some sense into her useless husband? 
    Emily’s hiding her own crisis from her parents, colleagues and now, her mates. Can a weekend under canvas get her to open up? 
    Izzy’s back from a decade abroad with an unexpected addition, her nine-year-old daughter Flora. She’s also keeping another big secret, one that’s brought her home for good.  
    Will a year of yurts mend two decades of hurts – or are some things, like shower blocks, burnt sausages and no wi-fi, best left in the past… 
    This novel was previously published on e-book in four parts 
    The Happy Glampers by Daisy Tate is a humorous fiction novel that delves into the complexities of life, marriage, and divorce. This top-rated book is a must-read for those who love romance, family, and holiday themes. 
    For fans of Cathy Bramley (The Sunrise Sisterhood), Judy Leigh (The Vintage Village Bake Off), Ali Mcnamara (It Always Snows on Mistletoe Square), Beth O'Leary (The Wake-Up Call), and Jo Thomas (Countdown to Christmas).
    Mostra libro
  • The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table - cover

    The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table

    Oliver Wendell Holmes

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Essays inspired by the renowned nineteenth-century writer’s time at a Boston boardinghouse.   These philosophical essays, enlivened by a number of poems, draw upon Oliver Wendell Holmes’s time spent as a young man at the table with his fellow boarders—the professor, the divinity student, and the schoolmistress, as well as the landlady—in the thriving cultural hub of Boston. First published in the Atlantic Monthly in the 1850s, they reflect on topics ranging from the nature of conversation to the surprising benefits of old age—filled with the flavor of historical New England, and often sharpened with wonderful comic flair.   Featured poems include “The Deacon’s Masterpiece,” “The Chambered Nautilus,” “Contentment,” and “The Living Temple.”
    Mostra libro
  • Suburgatory - Twisted Tales from Darkest Suburbia - cover

    Suburgatory - Twisted Tales from...

    Linda Erin Keenan

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Suburgatory lampoons the absurdities and contradictions that Linda Erin Keenan has witnessed since leaving New York City, where she was a thoroughly urban CNN news producer for seven years, and settling down as a hapless stay-at-home suburban mother. The original proposal for this book was picked by Warner Brothers in 2010, and you can see their imagining of Suburgatory on the ABC show of the same name.Keenan was forced by the man in her life to leave her beloved New York City for a supposed suburban utopia. Instead she found herself trapped in a place where conformity is king and where she often felt like she had been taken hostage by an adult Girl Scout troop. So Keenan decided to train her twisted reporter's eye on the strange inhabitants of this new foreign land. Thought of as a local town newspaper or Web site, Suburgatory includes "news stories" (Mom Plans School Auction During Dreary Sex) that go after the tiger moms, breastfeeding nazis, frustrated swingers, crypto-racists, barely-there dads, and power-mad principals.In addition to the irreverent news stories, Suburgatory features faux op-ed "Shout Outs" (Let's Do that Key Party Right the Next Time), witty advertisements (Briarcliff Academy—Educating the Stupid Rich Since 1903), and an over-the-top totally toxic advice columnist: Dr. Drama.
    Mostra libro
  • Read for Speed - The Simple Method to Learn How to Speed Read and Remember What You Read the Easy Way (Fortysomething Dad) - cover

    Read for Speed - The Simple...

    J Edward Frank

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    The world may end soon...but probably not. Forty-something Dad just doesn't have time to read all the books he wants to read. On an epic journey of realization of great truth, this not-so-young-anymore adventurer discovers the truth about speed-reading and the only techniques that really work for him.
    Mostra libro