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Moscow Midnight by John Simpson
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Government minister Patrick Macready has been found dead in his flat. The coroner rules it an accident, a sex game gone wrong. Jon Swift is from the old stock of journos - cynical, cantankerous and overweight - and something about his friend's death doesn't seem right. Then days after Macready's flat is ...Show more
The Anatomy of Murder (a Detection Club anthology) by The Detection Club, Dorothy L. Sayers, Francis Iles, Freeman Wills Crofts, Helen Simpson, John Rhode
19.99 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Collins Crime Club Ser.
A unique anthology for crime aficionados - seven of the world's most notorious genuine murder mysteries retold by the most accomplished classic crime writers of their generation. A manipulative murderer who stalked the streets of Paris; a young wife who poisoned her eccentric husband; a bank cashier's m ...Show more
The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce; John Simpson
34.99 AUD
Category: History
The Devil's Dictionary Ambrose Bierce in a mysterious way," commonly with the property of another. Spring beckons All things to the call respond; The trees are leaving and cashiers abscond. Phela Orm ABSENT, adj. Peculiarly exposed to the tooth of detraction; vilifed; hopelessly in the wrong; superseded ...Show more
The Word Detective: A Life in Words: From Serendipity to Selfie by John Simpson
24.99 AUD
Category: Reference
Language is always changing. No one knows where it is going but the best way to future-cast is to look at the past. John Simpson animates for us a tradition of researching and editing, showing us both the technical lexicography needed to understand a word, and the careful poetry needed to construct its ...Show more
We Chose to Speak of War and Strife: The World of the Foreign Correspondent by John Simpson
19.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction
In corners of the globe where fault-lines seethe into bloodshed and civil war, foreign correspondents have, for hundreds of years, been engaged in uncovering the latest news and - despite obstacles bureaucratic, political, violent - reporting it by whatever means available. It's a working life that is d ...Show more
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