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61) Hollow crown
Author
Series
Publisher
Constable
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Paperback edition.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
October 1936. Joe Weaver, press magnate and close friend of the Royal family, calls for Lord Edward Corinth's help in recovering some missing letters, stolen from Wallis Simpson - the King's intimate friend. But there is no mystery about who has taken the correspondence: it is known to be Mrs Harkness, Edward's close friend and His Majesty's former favourite. As what seemed a simple stolen property case is complicated by murder, Verity Browne joins...
62) A single thread
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet Speedwell has become a "surplus woman," one of a generation doomed to a life of spinsterhood after the war killed so many young men. Yet Violet cannot reconcile herself to a life spent caring for her grieving, embittered mother. After countless meals of boiled eggs and dry toast, she saves enough to move out of her mother's place and into the town of Winchester, home to...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (700 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Untouchables chronicles the campaign of Eliot Ness (Robert Stack), the young U.S. Prohibition Bureau agent determined to smash the beer and booze empire of Al Capone in 1920s Chicago.
Author
Publisher
Suma/Penguin Random house Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Primera edición.
Physical Desc
534 pages ; 23 cm
Language
Español
Description
Texas, 1921. La Gran Guerra ha terminado y Estados Unidos parece entrar en una nueva era de optimismo y abundancia. Pero para Elsa, considerada demasiado mayor para casarse en una época en la que el matrimonio es la única opción de una mujer, el futuro es incierto. Hasta la noche en que conoce a Rafe Martinelli y decide cambiar la dirección de su vida. Con su reputación arruinada, solo le queda una opción respetable: casarse con un hombre al...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (256 pages)
Language
English
Description
"Talton shines in weaving together the mystery elements of the plots with historical events from the Prohibition period. Fast-paced, gritty, and exciting, this one will have fans of both Depression-era and southwestern-set crime fiction begging for more!" -- Booklist , Starred Review A fresh take on classic noir, City of Dark Corners reveals the seedy underbelly of the budding city of Phoenix in the 1930s and the lengths one man will go to uphold...
Publisher
Raven Electrick Ink
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed., Sept. 2010.
Physical Desc
161 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Retro spec : tales of fantasy and nostalgia uses the prisms of science fiction, fantasy, and horror to examine the culture and politics of our recent past, the 1920s to the 1980s. Twenty-six authors have contributed short stories and poetry to the anthology, twining history with speculation to find out what happens when suffragettes construct robots, women carry out the first 'manned' space flights, or hair metal bands make deals with the devil....
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