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I
It all began some time in the last century, in an age when lovers wrote letters to each other sealed up in envelopes. Sometimes they used coloured inks to show their love, or they perfumed their writing-paper with scent.
41 Plough Lane, Hampstead, London NW3
Monday, June 2nd 1980
Darhng Ned...
Chapter One
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They called it taking four. The tall, gaunt monk hovered at the lip of the five-hundred-foot cliff, nothing restraining him but the raw Himalayan wind. Shan Tao Yun squinted at the figure to see better. His heart clenched. It was Trinle who was going to jump - Trinle his...
Last Resort
Penny's glass hit the table, slopping wine on to the chequered cloth. 'You don't happen to mean Dávid Villers, do you?' she said, horrified. 'No, please teli me you don't mean him!'
'Yes, I mean Dávid Villers/ Sylvia con-firmed, as the waiter placed an hors-d'oeuvre in front of...
Strange days indeed! Your narrator, in the year 2004, sits and works at his console within the great portals of the Temple that was once the British Museum, and tries to come to terms with the world, and his life, and the past. Envisage me, if you can, dressed in the white samite, mystic,...
Sources and acknowledgments
Most books dealing with this subject are at least twenty years old. Those that I consulted principally, apart from standard dictionaries, and quoted occasionally in the text are:
A Dictionary of Modern American Usage by Herbert Horwill; A Dictionary of Americanisms...
Acknowledgements
I should like to express my thanks to all those who helped me in New Orleans, especially Carrie Jo Martina at the Richelieu Hotel, Little Joe Catalanotto of Independent Studios, Danny, whose guidance and friendship was greatly appreciated, Sargeant Wayne H. Cooper of the New...
Prologue
London, May 1985
Rosamund Emerson looked across the room at her stepmother and her father's mistress and decided he couldn't possibly have loved either of them.
Not to have subjected them to this; to have insisted that they met, under these circumstances. She found the thought...
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Eddie Halpin glanced at his watch and looked again through his rear-view mirror at the red Hiace van that was still climbing behind him.
There were no other cars now on the isolated movmtain pass. The bleak weather that had been threatening the peninsula aU afternoon had finally closed...
1
Inspector Ghote had been awaiting the memo from the Commissioner for a week or more. He knew, too, what it would say almost to the exact words. Yet when the stiff white envelope was put in front of him he felt such a thud of plummeting dismay that it might have been entirely...
Introduction
Once I knew a brave and intelligent man - a Jew - one of the numberless bits of human flotsam cast out of Europe by Adolf Hitler. With his own eyes and dressed in the blue and white uniform of a Jewish youth organization, he had seen the Führer drive past him in cavalcade into his...
The castaway would have been dead before sundown but for the sharp eyes of an Italian seaman called Mario. Even when he was spotted he had lapsed into unconsciousness, the exposed parts of his near-naked body grilled to second-degree burns by the relentless sun, and those parts submerged in sea...
Part One
0"Look, Thomas, I know you've probably been asked this question a millión times before, but what was it really like to be Stephen Abbey's—" "—Son?" Ah, the eternal question. I recently told my mother that my name isn't Thomas Abbey, but rather Stephen Abbey's Son. This time I...
PROLOGUE
In July 1940 Walter Schellenberg, SS Brigadefuhrer and major-general of police, was ordered by Hitler to proceed to Lisbon to kidnap the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, then staying in a villa at Estoril after fleeing the German occupation of France. This story is an attempt to recreate...
Introduction
How would you like to be a magician? It is not really difficult to learn some tricks to entertain and baffle your family and friends. Crazy Magic will show you how.
Magic is great fun to do but you must be prepared to work at it if you want to do it well. The secrets of some super...
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I stared at the woman flying through the trees. Her head was forward, chin raised, arms flung backward like the tiny chrome goddess on the hood of a Rolls-Royce. But the tree lady was naked, and her body ended at the waist. Blood-coated leaves and branches imprisoned her lifeless...
PROLOGUE
A smear of blood was still visible around the edge of the hand, where it had been severed cleanly from the rest of the arm. The flesh around the fingers had started to tighten and decay. On the second finger there was a nvisted gold ring, but the metal had been streaked and discoloured,...
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She was a neighbour. She was an acquaintance of Dora's and they spol^e if they met in the street. Only this time there had been more to it than passing the time of day.
'I said I'd tell you,' Dora said. 'I said I'd mention it. She had that strange look she sometimes has and, to tell you the...
Schoenbrunn Palace, Vienna March 1
The sky was stone-gray, drawn in and cold. Out in the great park to the south of the palace, the trees shed heavy beads of frozen rain, and in the Fountains of the Naiads the drops congealed on the shoulders and breasts of the nymphs half sunk in the cold...
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Every night, just before she feil asleep, Annie would snuggle down in her warm bed and listen to the murmur of her parents' voices outside her bedroom door. Her drowsy eyes, not yet aceustomed to the darkness, would drift slowly around the room, making a last-minute catalogue of all her...
Prologue
Through the branches of the oak tree, the moon shone bright as a Mexican dollar. It glistened wet as water on the moatlike white gravel drive in front of the ranch house. The house, of wood mainly, had been built in the lee of a slight rise in the midst of the black sea of the...
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Adrian checked the orchid at his buttonhole, inspected the spats at his feet, gave the lavender gloves a twitch, smoothed down his waistcoat, tucked the ebony Malacca-cane under his arm, swallowed twice and pushed wide the changing-room door.
'Ah, my dears,' he cried. 'Congratulations!...
As a writer of books for young people I spend a great deal of my time visiting schools all over the British Isles. One of the things that has impressed me in most schools is their lack of graffiti. The majority of pupils, I am pleased to say, appear to respect their school and do not chisel on...