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Toboggan Wax is the enchanted story of a young boy who goes to live with his uncle in his secluded mountain valley. Snow lay on the ground just about all year long, and their main mode of transportation is by horse and sleigh or toboggan. During a severe snow storm, a strange visitor knocks on the cabin door, and when he goes, he doesn't even leave a footprint in the snow.

In the high days of the Raj, Captain Toby Larburgh meets a stranger in Calcutta’s Great Eastern Hotel. Over a drink Toby tells of his adventures in the mountains of British India’s northern borders. His quest to find out what lay behind the death of a local Imperial agent took him to the far-flung reaches of the British Empire, the distant princely state of Ghondabaur. When he reaches the lavish palace, he encounters a prince who is desperately attempting to save his father’s kingdom from brutal invaders.

Raffles decides to undertake a job close to home, at the Albany. His new neighbour is Rupert Robert Fuller, a powerful - and odious - financier. In order to distract Fuller, whilst he breaks into the banker's opulent apartment, Raffles calls upon his friend - the cricketing legend C.B. Fry. Yet how much is Raffles being distracted himself Mary Flanagan, Fuller's beautiful and enigmatic maid? Has someone finally stolen the gentleman thief's heart?

A.J. Raffles has left the country in mysterious circumstances. Harry "Bunny" Manders is left back in London, to worry about his friend and listen to all sorts of rumours concerning his sudden disappearance. Bunny has troubles of his own however. The father of Lucy Rosebery, Prescott Rosebery, will not consent to his daughter marrying someone with so little social standing and income. Raffles suddenly returns though - and one of his first tasks is to arrange a cricket match against a highly accomplished team, captained by Prescott Rosebery.

Raffles The Gentleman Thief returns in this magnificent third instalment of Richard Foreman's new series based upon the adventures of one of the classic characters of British fiction. In Raffles: A Perfect Wicket, Bunny is worried for his great friend. Since the disappearance of Mary Flanagan (the events of which are contained in the story Raffles: Bowled Over) Raffles has grown despondent, sick with boredom. Thankfully a remedy is found, in the form of an invite to a party.

In this tale, Harry "Bunny" Manders finds himself badly in debt. Bunny must pay off a loan to an unscrupulous moneylender, Alexander "Shylock" Cardinal, or else lose all of his assets - or worse, his life. Bunny puts his faith in his best friend to save the day but can even Raffles pull off a job at such short notice - and raise such a large sum of money?

Raffles, the famous cricketer and amateur cracksman, is back in an original adventure. Harry "Bunny" Manders, Raffles' biographer and accomplice, recounts the tale of the time they broke into the bookshop Hatchard's of Piccadilly. Their mission? To steal a letter, formally owned by one Rene d'Aramis, which if published could compromise a prominent member of the government. Yet even more intriguing than their employment is their employer - a certain Mr Sherlock Holmes of 221b Baker Street.

1596. Sir Robert Vicary is to host an important guest, Grigori Stanic, the ambassador of distant Muscovy, and Thomas the Falconer is called on to entertain the Russian party. The ambassador is to make a magnificent gift to Boris Godunov, brother-in-law to the feeble Tsar Feodor: A priceless gold chain. But no sooner has it arrived than it is stolen. So begins Thomas hunt for The Muscovy Chain...

Raffles: Caught Out follows on from the events of Raffles: A Perfect Wicket. Harry "Bunny" Manders returns to London to find a message in his apartment from Raffles, summoning him to the Albany. Their mutual friend "Ranji", the great batsman of the age, has been compromised by a beautiful and mysterious widow, Iris Adams. Their task is to retrieve a ruby ring in her possession - and if diplomacy fails Raffles vows to use his skills as a cracksman.

Thomas's friend Ben Mallam, the streetwise jingler (a dealer in used horses) returns to aid him. After a run of bad luck, perhaps Ben's fortunes will change as he helps Thomas unravel a deadly plot which strikes at the very heart of Tudor England, threatening the security of the nation itself.

This welcome new guide to the world of entrepreneurship offers invaluable lessons for the student and the practical entrepreneur alike. For the student it breathes fresh life into the standard curriculum topics, analyzing them in the context of a wide range of current real-world examples. For business practitioners it shows how practical success is influenced by factors such as industry dynamics, entry barriers, reconfiguration, and core competence. Enterprise in Action gives clear accounts of concepts and processes so that anyone can come on board.

A BBC Radio full-cast dramatisation from the Queen of Crime. Father Gorman is called to a dingy rooming house to see a woman who, before she dies, confesses a bizarre tale to him. Leaving the house he is followed but, in the fog, a fatal blow is struck. Nine names on a piece of paper found in...

A foggy night... a lonely country house... and a woman with a gun in her hand quietly surveying the dead body of her husband. It looked like a straightforward case of murder. Or was it? As the ghosts of an old wrong begin to emerge from the past, the case begins to look anything but...

When Poirot arrives in France, following an urgent appeal for help, he finds he is too late. His client, a South American millionaire, has been stabbed to death and his body flung into a freshly dug open grave on the golf course adjoining the property. Meanwhile the millionaire's wife is found...

Alex v. Frankenberg nimmt dich mit auf eine Entdeckungsreise zu den Herausforderungen unseres Geldsystems. Bitcoin vereint revolutionäre Technologie mit den Grundprinzipien eines stabilen Geldsystems. Ein aufschlussreicher Wegweiser für alle, die verstehen möchten, warum unser aktuelles Geldsystem ungerecht ist und welche Chancen Bitcoin bietet.

Der Preis für den Sieg über Stephen Thaus war hoch und Anna Gudwin braucht eine Auszeit, um den Scherbenhaufen ihres Lebens zu sortieren. Dafür hat sie sich in die flirrenden Hitze von Texas zurückgezogen, wo sie eine Pilotenausbildung beginnt. Zwischen den Landungen bieten die Lagerfeuergespräche mit Vermieterin Dusty eine willkommene Gelegenheit, die dramatischen Ereignisse seit Annas Rekrutierung Revue passieren zu lassen.

Die Foggs reisen zusammen mit ihrem Freund und Diener Passepartout zum Untersberg, wo sich eine Gesellschaft von Tempelrittern niedergelassen hat. Auf der Suche nach dem dunklen Kristall der Isais geraten die Gefährten auf die Burg des Barons von Hohenfels. Dieses Gemäuer birgt jedoch eine Anzahl düsterer Geheimnisse. Die Ereignisse eskalieren, als die Zelte eines Wanderzirkus in Flammen aufgehen und Amber Quinn, Foggs Verbündete bei der Suche nach den Schätzen der Isais, entführt wird.

Christmas Eve, 1901. Gabriel Ward KC is hard at work on a thorny libel case involving London's most famous music hall star, Topsy Tillotson, and its most notorious tabloid newspaper, the Nation's Voice, but the Inner Temple remains as quiet and calm as ever. Quiet, that is, until a severed hand arrives in the post. While the hand's recipient, Temple Treasurer Sir William Waring, is rightfully shaken, Gabriel is filled with curiosity. Who would want to send such a thing? And why?

Walter Piefke erhält überraschenden Besuch von Lena Reiser, einer Reporterin des Tageblatts. Lena Reiser macht sich große Sorgen um ihre Kollegin Anna Wagner. Diese ist erneut nicht in der Redaktion erschienen. Auch zu Hause konnte Frau Reiser ihre Kollegin nicht antreffen. Gemeinsam mit Lena Reiser macht er sich auf die Suche nach ihr. Doch diese verläuft äußerst dramatisch.

In der Dessertküche eines exklusiven Sternerestaurants will Patrizia ihre Fähigkeiten als leidenschaftliche Köchin erweitern. Zwischen kunstvollen Süßspeisen, Schokoladenkreationen und dem Druck der Gourmetwelt trifft sie auf zwei Männer, die ihr Leben gehörig durcheinanderwirbeln: Der exzentrische Patissier, der ein Geheimnis mit sich trägt, und ihr neuer Chefkoch, dessen heiße Ausstrahlung ihr Herz schneller schlagen lässt. Doch in einer Küche, in der Präzision und Perfektion alles bedeuten, ist kein Platz für Ablenkungen – oder etwa doch?