Resultados para "The Privateer" en Novela histórica

A missing tenant, an irate mother–in–law, and a killer hiding in a Toronto rooming house—out–of–work PI Patrick Bird is back in business. Patrick Bird thought he was helping his mother–in–law collect back rent from a deadbeat tenant at her Ossington Avenue rooming house, not...

A female private investigator in San Francisco in the 1940s and her adventures.

The opulent, sometimes scandalous private lives of the Mughals of India is brought to life in this book. The text covers various aspects of their lifestyles, such as their food and drinks; clothes and ornaments; perfumes and incense; addictions and intoxicants; amusements and pastimes; rituals of circumcision; and marriage and harem life. This well-written book will be a delight to the lay reader as well as the serious scholar.

Diving for plunder in the Caribbean, Hector Lynch and his companions are spotted by a Spanish ship. Escaping capture by burning the vessel's sails - an act of piracy - they head for Tortuga, where Hector's wife Maria awaits. He longs for a better life for them both, on the right side of the law. But the crew run into Laurens de Graff - a renowned mercenary captain now in command of a royal French frigate - and after fleeing his clutches, they are cast away on a tiny desert island, Salt Tortuga.

Nelle Langhe, durante la guerra partigiana, Milton (quasi una controfigura di Fenoglio stesso), è un giovane studente universitario, ex ufficiale che milita nelle formazioni autonome. Eroe solitario, durante un'azione militare rivede la villa dove aveva abitato Fulvia, una ragazza che egli aveva amato e che ancora ama. Mentre visita i luoghi del suo amore, rievocandone le vicende, viene a sapere che Fulvia si è innamorata di un suo amico, Giorgio: tormentato dalla gelosia, Milton tenta di rintracciare il rivale, scoprendo che è stato catturato dai fascisti...

Can Vita Carew expose the truth behind a ruthless doctor and his lethal assistant, save an injured man, and escape unscathed with time to resume her vacation studying?

Flavia is enjoying the summer, spending her days punting along the river with her reluctant family. Languishing in boredom, she drags a slack hand in the water - and catches her fingers in the open mouth of a drowned corpse. Flavia needs to put her super-sleuthing skills to the test to investigate the murder of three gossips in the local church and to keep her sisters out of danger.

Sea Star is a swashbuckling historical novel that chronicles the adventures of beautiful red-haired, green-eyed Anne Bonny, the Pirate Queen. The saga passionately brings to life Anne's rebellious Southern girlhood, her sensual awakening in the arms of a buccaneer, and the courageous mastery of her own ship and crew. Pamela Jekel's sparkling tale transports you to the exotic Charles Town of the precolonial South; to teeming Port Royal, Jamaica; and to the infamous pirate island of New Providence for duels, plundered treasures, and torrid love scenes on palm-fringed cays.

‘इश्क़ मुग़लई’ में मुग़लकाल की 10 ऐसी प्रेम कहानियाँ है जो किवंदंतियों में हैं, जिसकी चर्चा इतिहास में नहीं होती लेकिन मुग़लकालीन कुछ फ़िक्शन-नॉन फ़िक्शन में इनका ज़िक्र होता है।

Trust is a delicate thing, and no one knows that better than Rosalind Thorne. Lady Melbourne has entrusted her with recovering a packet of highly sensitive private letters stolen from her desk. The contents of these letters hold great interest for the famous poet Lord Byron, who had carried on a notorious public affair with Lady Melbourne's daughter-in-law, the inconveniently unstable Lady Caroline Lamb. Rosalind is to take up residence in Melbourne House, posing as Lady Melbourne's confidential secretary. There, she must discover the thief and regain possession of the letters.

New York City, 1945. The war in Europe is in its final days, and life in the Big Apple may soon be back to normal. Harlem private detective Walter Morris is hired by the reclusive tycoon, Cuthbert Hayden, to find his maid's missing daughter. Walter begins a journey into the dark and seedy underworld of the city - through a world of back-alley nightclubs, gangsters, double agents, serial killers, black market surgeons, and scientifically engineered monsters...and that doesn't even scratch the surface.

यह ऑडियो शो 1606 में मेवाड़ और मुग़लों के बीच हुए दिवेर के युद्ध की एक काल्पनिक, लेकिन ऐतिहासिक घटनाओं से प्रेरित कहानी है। यह हल्दीघाटी की हार और अरावली के जंगलों में महाराणा प्रताप के संघर्ष के बाद उनके बेटे अमर सिंह प्रथम की नायक और राजनयिक बनने की यात्रा को दिखाती है।

The Great Detective, by prominent Sherlock Holmes Society of London member Roger Johnson, offers the Holmesian another perspective on the beloved Canon. From a surrealist perspective, we find here a different and refreshing approach. We are transported to another time through the warmth of an English public house and immediately transfixed by the fascinating voices of those who contributed to the name Sherlock Holmes. This is a must listen for all those worshipers of the great detective.

It is London in the early 1960s and Teddy Bean is making a name for himself as a private detective. However, his personal problems are taking over, with his brother, John, only slowly recovering from a heart attack and his wife, Pearl, dying in a car accident. Added to this, he takes on a difficult case involving a woman presumably drowned at sea by her husband. Teddy needs help while his brother is incapacitated and finds it in his friend, ex-Detective Inspector Tony Halliday. With the added support of their secretary Muriel, the Bean Detective Agency is open for business once more!

A seven-volume collection containing some of the most fascinating journals and letters to have been written in the last two hundred and fifty years, all performed in a dramatised setting.

A fascinating four-volume collection from the private journals of four distinguished historical figures, presented in a dramatised setting.

Frances Wynn, the American-born Countess of Harleigh, enjoys more freedom as a widow than she did as a wife. After an obligatory year spent mourning her philandering husband, Reggie, she puts aside her drab black gowns, leaving the countryside and her money-grubbing in-laws behind. With her young daughter in tow, Frances rents a home in Belgravia and prepares to welcome her sister, Lily, arriving from New York - for her first London season.

Set in mid-century Rome and England, this forbidden slow-burn love story will take your breath away 'A truly impressive debut novel, one I could see appearing on the Booker longlist' – The Sunday Times 'It’s a rare pleasure to read this novel' - Sarah Moss Rome, 1953. David is young...

“Sheer entertainment… Bennett infuses wit and an arch sensibility into her prose… This is not mere froth, it is pure confection.” – New York Times Book Review “[A] pitch-perfect murder mystery… If The Crown were crossed with Miss Marple…, the result would probably be something...

A riveting new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winner that traverses the intimate landscape of one woman’s life, from the 1880s to World War II. Margaret Mayfield is nearly an old maid at twenty-seven in post–Civil War Missouri when she marries Captain Andrew Jackson Jefferson Early. He’s...