One of Boston's landmark museums is shaken by a savage murder. When the doddering patrons of the Wilkins Museum learned that dozens of their priceless masterworks had been stolen and replaced by forgeries, there was no one to turn to but Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn- the savviest art detectives of the Boston upper crust. Nabbing the crooks was easy, but finding the missing paintings has proven trickier. Years later, the collection's prized Titian is still lost, and the new director, loudmouthed cattle baron Elwyn Fleesom Turbot, is getting impatient. And things get even more troublesome when members of his staff begin to die. It starts when Dolores Tawne, the elderly, bossy museum administrator, is stabbed through the base of her skull with an antique hatpin. Inside the dead woman's safe deposit box Sarah finds clues to a conspiracy that stretches back decades and a way to stop the murders that are still to come. Review Quotes. "An over-the-top adventure." - Kirkus Reviews. "If this is your first meeting with Sarah Kelling, oh how I envy you!" - Margaret Maron, author of The Buzzard Table. "One of the most gifted mystery authors writing today." - Sojourner Magazine. Biographical note. Charlotte MacLeod (1922-2005) was an internationally bestselling author of cozy mysteries. Born in Canada, she moved to Boston as a child, and lived in New England most of her life. After graduating from college, she made a career in advertising, writing copy for the Stop & Shop Supermarket Company before moving on to Boston firm N. H. Miller & Co., where she rose to the rank of vice president. In her spare time, MacLeod wrote short stories, and in 1964 published her first novel, a children's book called "Mystery of the White Knight." In "Rest You Merry" (1978), MacLeod introduced Professor Peter Shandy, a horticulturist and amateur sleuth whose adventures she would chronicle for two decades. "The Family Vault" (1979) marked the first appearance of her other best-known characters: the husband and wife sleuthing team Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn, whom she followed until her last novel, "The Balloon Man," in 1998.
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ABOUT five or six hundred years before Christ, almost the whole of the interior of Asia was united in one vast empire. The founder of this empire was Cyrus the Great. He was originally a Persian; and the whole empire is often called the Persian monarchy, taking its name from its founder's native land. Cyrus was not contented with having annexed to his dominion all the civilized states of Asia. In the latter part of his life, he conceived the idea that there might possibly be some additional glory and power to be acquired in subduing certain half-savage regions in the north, beyond the Araxes. He accordingly raised an army, and set off on an expedition for this purpose, against a country which was governed by a barbarian queen named Tomyris. He met with a variety of adventures on this expedition, all of which are fully detailed in our history of Cyrus. There is, however, only one occurrence that it is necessary to allude to particularly here. That one relates to a remarkable dream which he had one night, just after he had crossed the river...
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<p>The contents of the work which gave such pleasure to this learned antiquary are as follows:—</p> <br> <p>I. Introduction—Similarity of Arts and Customs—Similarity of Names—Origin of the Work—Imitation—Casual Coincidence—Milton—Dante.</p> <br> <p>II. The Thousand and One Nights—Bedoween Audience around a Story-teller—Cleomades and Claremond—Enchanted Horses—Peter of Provence and the fair Maguelone.</p> <br> <p>III. The Pleasant Nights—The Dancing Water, the Singing Apple, and the Beautiful Green Bird—The Three Little Birds—Lactantius—Ulysses and Sindbad.</p> <br> <p>IV. The Shâh-Nâmeh—Roostem and Soohrâb—Conloch and Cuchullin—Macpherson's Ossian—Irish Antiquities.</p> <br> <p>V. The Pentamerone—Tale of the Serpent—Hindoo Legend.</p> <br> <p>VI. Jack the Giant-killer—The Brave Tailoring—Thor's Journey to Ut-gard—Ameen of Isfahan and the Ghool—The Lion and the Goat—The Lion and the Ass.</p> <br> <p>VII. Whittington and his Cat—Danish Legends—Italian Stories—Persian Legend.</p> <br> <p>VIII. The Edda—Sigurd and Brynhilda—Völund—Helgi—Holger Danske—Ogier le Danois—Toko—William Tell.</p> <br> <p>IX. Peruonto—Peter the Fool—Emelyan the Fool—Conclusion. Appendix.</p> <br> <br> <p>ORIGIN OF THE BELIEF IN FAIRIES:</p> <br> <p>According to a well-known law of our nature, effects suggest causes; and another law, perhaps equally general, impels us to ascribe to the actual and efficient cause the attribute of intelligence. The mind of the deepest philosopher is thus acted upon equally with that of the peasant or the savage; the only difference lies in the nature of the intelligent cause at which they respectively stop. The one pursues the chain of cause and effect, and traces out its various links till he arrives at the great intelligent cause of all, however he may designate him; the other, when unusual phenomena excite his attention, ascribes their production to the immediate agency of some of the inferior beings recognised by his legendary creed.</p> <br> <p>The action of this latter principle must forcibly strike the minds of those who disdain not to bestow a portion of their attention on the popular legends and traditions of different countries.</p> <br> <p>Every extraordinary appearance is found to have its extraordinary cause assigned; a cause always connected with the history or religion, ancient or modern, of the country, and not unfrequently varying with a change of faith.</p>
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<p>Internationally acclaimed, USA Today and New York Times Bestselling Author S.E. Smith presents the first three books of the Alliance series in a bundle! <br>Book 1: Hunter’s Claim<br>Four years ago, the Earth received its first visitors from space, causing mass fear. Alone with just her sisters in a world gone mad, Jesse has learned to use the darkness and the remains of the city to survive and keep what is left of her family alive. She has seen the savage side of human nature and finds they are not much different from the aliens who conquered the Earth.<br>After first contact, the Trivators found it necessary to take control of the Earth to prevent the humans from destroying it in their fear. Hunter belongs to one of the elite clans of the Trivators who seek out those who resist being brought into the Alliance of Star Systems. His abilities to track, capture, and eliminate his enemies is renowned, but he finds the tables turned when he becomes the one captured by a group of ruthless humans. <br>Hunter is shocked when a human female risks her life to help him escape, only to disappear into the ruins of the city. He now has a new mission: finding the female who saved his life. <br>What he finds is a reward beyond comprehension to a Trivator warrior: a family. <br>Can he convince Jesse that he can give her and her younger sisters a better life on his world? Or will fear keep her from accepting what he has to offer?<br>Book 2: Razor’s Traitorous Heart<br>Kali Parks is a shadow in the war between two factions that are fighting to gain control of Chicago. Born and raised on the streets, she stands as a silent sentinel at her brother's side as he battles to gain control. She will do whatever it takes to bring peace to those she has pledged her life to protect, including fighting against the creatures that came to their world almost six years before. <br>Razor, a High Chancellor for the Alliance, has been sent to oversee the remaining Trivator troops on Earth and make sure the transition for the induction of Earth into the Alliance goes smoothly. He is the one the Alliance calls when they have a situation that needs to be resolved once and for all. His reputation for dealing with difficult rebels is renowned. <br>When a shadow warrior saves his life and disappears, he discovers his world is no longer as cut and dry as he thought. Forced by duty to settle the conflict, Razor must make a painful decision between the Alliance he has dedicated his life to and his own traitorous heart.<br>Book 3: Dagger’s Hope<br>Dagger is a Trivator warrior known for his dark and dangerous edge, which makes him the perfect warrior for impossible missions. He fears nothing, until he meets a delicate human female who awakens his heart. <br>It has been a couple of years since Jordan Sampson was taken away from the war-torn Earth, and she is slowly adjusting to her new life on a strange planet. Fear, confusion, and uncertainty of what the future holds threaten t...
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<p> MATILDA'S ears were red and shiny. So were her cheeks. Her hands were red too. This was because Pridmore had washed her. It was not the usual washing, which makes you clean and comfortable, but the "thorough good wash," which makes you burn and smart till you wish you could be like the poor little savages who do not know anything, and run about bare in the sun, and only go into the water when they are hot.</p> <br> <p>Matilda wished she could have been born in a savage tribe instead of at Brixton. "Little savages," she said, "don't have their ears washed thoroughly, and they don't have new dresses that are prickly in the insides round their arms, and cut them round the neck. Do they, Pridmore?"</p> <br> <p> <strong>ABOUT AUTHOR:</strong></p> <br> <p> Edith Nesbit (married name Edith Bland; 15 August 1858 – 4 May 1924) was an English author and poet; she published her books for children under the name of E. Nesbit. She wrote or collaborated on over 60 books of fiction for children, several of which have been adapted for film and television. She was also a political activist and co-founded the Fabian Society, a socialist organisation later connected to the Labour Party.</p> <br> <p>Edith Nesbit was born in Kennington, Surrey, the daughter of agricultural chemist and schoolmaster John Collis Nesbit. The death of her father when she was four and the continuing ill health of her sister meant that Nesbit had a transitory childhood, her family moving across Europe in search of healthy climates only to return to England for financial reasons. Nesbit therefore spent her childhood attaining an education from whatever sources were available - local grammars, the occasional boarding school but mainly through reading.</p> <br>
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<p>SOME men are renowned in history on account of the extraordinary powers and capacities which they exhibited in the course of their career, or the intrinsic greatness of the deeds which they performed. Others, without having really achieved any thing in itself very great or wonderful, have become widely known to mankind by reason of the vast consequences which, in the subsequent course of events, resulted from their doings. Men of this latter class are conspicuous rather than great. From among thousands of other men equally exalted in character with themselves, they are brought out prominently to the notice of mankind only in consequence of the strong light reflected, by great events subsequently occurring, back upon the position where they happened to stand. <br> <br>The celebrity of Romulus seems to be of this latter kind. He founded a city. A thousand other men have founded cities; and in doing their work have evinced perhaps as much courage, sagacity, and mental power as Romulus displayed. <br>The city of Romulus, however, became in the end the queen and mistress of the world. It rose to so exalted a position of influence and power, and retained its ascendency so long, that now for twenty centuries every civilized nation in the western world have felt a strong interest in every thing pertaining to its history, and have been accustomed to look back with special curiosity to the circumstances of its origin. <br> <br>In consequence of this it has happened that though Romulus, in his actual day, performed no very great exploits, and enjoyed no pre-eminence above the thousand other half-savage chieftains of his class, whose names have been long forgotten, and very probably while he lived never dreamed of any extended fame, yet so brilliant is the illumination which the subsequent events of history have shed upon his position and his doings, that his name and the incidents of his life have been brought out very conspicuously to view, and attract very strongly the attention of mankind. <br> <br>The history of Rome is usually made to begin with the story of Æneas. In order that the reader may understand in what light that romantic tale is to be re-garded, it is necessary to premise some statements in respect to the general condition of society in ancient days, and to the nature of the strange narrations, circulated in those early periods among mankind, out of which in later ages, when the art of writing came to be introduced, learned men compiled and recorded what they termed history.</p>
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<p>ALFRED THE GREAT figures in history as the founder, in some sense, of the British monarchy. Of that long succession of sovereigns who have held the scepter of that monarchy, and whose government has exerted so vast an influence on the condition and welfare of mankind, he was not, indeed, actually the first. <br> <br>There were several lines of insignificant princes before him, who governed such portions of the kingdom as they individually possessed, more like semi-savage chieftains than English kings. Alfred followed these by the principle of hereditary right, and spent his life in laying broad and deep the foundations on which the enormous superstructure of the British empire has since been reared. If the tales respecting his character and deeds which have come down to us are at all worthy of belief, he was an honest, conscientious, disinterested, and farseeing statesman. <br> <br>If the system of hereditary succession would always furnish such sovereigns for mankind, the principle of loyalty would have held its place much longer in the world than it is now likely to do, and great nations, now republican, would have been saved a vast deal of trouble and toil expended in the election of their rulers.</p>
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Allan Guthries neuer Roman ist ein dunkler Trip durch sechs fieberhafte Stunden in Edinburgh - hypnotisierend, schockierend und urkomisch! Tommy Savage wird erpresst und hat keine Ahnung, warum und von wem. Andy Park hingegen glaubt endlich zu wissen, wie er seine Feinde drankriegen kann, obwohl er beim Anblick von Blut jedes Mal das Bewusstsein verliert. Und dann ist da noch Mr. Smith, der dauernd Skimasken trägt und seine Zunge herausstreckt. Aber was will er wirklich? Tommy ist sich nicht sicher, doch der Berg von Leichen lässt ihn vermuten, dass dieser Mann es ernst meint ... Zwei verfeindete Familien, ein Haufen Bargeld, ein paar Schwerter und eine geballte Ladung Wut - die perfekte Kombination für eine haarsträubende Nacht in Schottlands Hauptstadt.
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