Belinda Lang
Author
Language
English
Description
Lynne Truss debuted in America as a guffaw-inducing grammarian, but her UK audience has known her for years as a critically acclaimed novelist. Tennyson's Gift is an imaginative cocktail of Victorian seriousness and farce that re-imagines the world of the nineteenth-century English poet laureate, placing him in the midst of eccentric company that includes Lewis Carroll. Going Loco features a critic trying to write a definitive account of the doppelganger...
2) Emma
Author
Language
English
Description
A novel of Regency England which centers upon a self-assured young lady who is determined to arrange her life and the lives of those around her into a pattern dictated by her romantic fancy.
Author
Series
Inspector Alleyn Mysteries volume 2
Language
English
Description
A prominent cabinet minister dies as the result of an operation, his wife insists that he was murdered. Alleyn is called in to investigate the nursing home where he died.
Author
Series
Inspector Alleyn Mysteries volume 3
Language
English
Description
When a grand old man of the theatre announces that he is to marry a young and glamorous beauty, someone in his family reacts violently to being disinherited.
Author
Series
Inspector Alleyn Mysteries volume 1
Language
English
Description
In spring 1948, Alleyn joins a weekend party at Frantock Hall where he is left to investigate the sinister connection between the theft of a priceless chalice and a game of murder that goes horribly wrong.