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Tango In Madeira
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Author : Jim Williams
language : en
Publisher: Marble City Publishing
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Tango In Madeira written by Jim Williams and has been published by Marble City Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Fiction categories.
A disillusioned soldier looks for love. An exiled Emperor fears assassination. Agatha Christie takes a holiday. And George Bernard Shaw learns to tango. In the aftermath of World War I, Michael Pinfold a disillusioned ex-soldier tries to rescue his failing family wine business on the island of Madeira. In a villa in the hills the exiled Austrian Emperor lives in fear of assassination by Hungarian killers, while in Reid's Hotel, a well-known lady crime novelist is stranded on her way to South Africa and George Bernard Shaw whiles away his days corresponding with his friends, writing a one act play and learning to tango with the hotel manager's spouse. A stranger, Robinson, is found murdered and Michael finds himself manipulated into investigating the crime by his sinister best friend, Johnny Cardozo, the local police chief, with whose wife he is pursuing an arid love affair; manipulated, too, by Father Flaherty, a priest with dubious political interests, and by his own eccentric parent, who claims to have been part of a comedy duo that once entertained the Kaiser with Jewish jokes. Will Michael find love? Will the Emperor escape his would-be killers? Will any of the characters learn the true meaning of the tango?
Tango In Madeira
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Author : Jim Williams
language : en
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Release Date : 2023-05-18
Tango In Madeira written by Jim Williams and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-18 with categories.
A disillusioned soldier looks for love. An exiled Emperor fears assassination. Agatha Christie takes a holiday. And George Bernard Shaw learns to tango. In the aftermath of World War I, Michael Pinfold a disillusioned ex-soldier tries to rescue his failing family wine business on the island of Madeira. In a villa in the hills the exiled Austrian Emperor lives in fear of assassination by Hungarian killers, while in Reid's Hotel, a well-known lady crime novelist is stranded on her way to South Africa and George Bernard Shaw whiles away his days corresponding with his friends, writing a one act play and learning to tango with the hotel manager's spouse.A stranger, Robinson, is found murdered and Michael finds himself manipulated into investigating the crime by his sinister best friend, Johnny Cardozo, the local police chief, with whose wife he is pursuing an arid love affair; manipulated, too, by Father Flaherty, a priest with dubious political interests, and by his own eccentric parent, who claims to have been part of a comedy duo that once entertained the Kaiser with Jewish jokes. Will Michael find love? Will the Emperor escape his would-be killers? Will any of the characters learn the true meaning of the tango?
The Argentinian Virgin
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Author : Jim Williams
language : en
Publisher: Marble City Publishing
Release Date : 2015-01-29
The Argentinian Virgin written by Jim Williams and has been published by Marble City Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-29 with Fiction categories.
Her lips burn with chillies and she smokes a cigar. Her breath is my narcotic. Her scent is of cloves, of night fevers and spent seed. What man could resist the Argentinian Virgin? What woman could bear her horror? Summer 1941. France is occupied by the Germans but the United States is not at war. Four glamorous young Americans find themselves whiling away the hot days in the boredom of a small Riviera town, while in a half-abandoned mansion nearby, Teresa and Katerina Malipiero, a mother and daughter, wait for Señor Malipiero to complete his business in the Reich and take them home to Argentina. The plight of the women attracts the sympathy of 'Lucky' Tom Rensselaer and he is seduced by the beauty of Katerina. Tom has perfect faith in their innocence, yet they cannot explain why a sinister Spaniard has been murdered in their home and why Tom must help them dispose of the body without informing the police. Watching over events is Pat Byrne, a young Irish writer. Twenty years later, when Tom has been reduced from the most handsome, admired and talented man of his generation to a derelict alcoholic, Pat sets out to discover the facts of that fateful summer: the secrets that were hidden and the lies that were told. It is a shocking truth: a tale of murder unpunished and a good man destroyed by those who loved him most. The Argentinian Virgin is a sensuous novel of erotic fantasy, obsession, jealousy and betrayal set in the dreamlike atmosphere of a Riviera summer in wartime.
Scherzo
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Author : Jim Williams
language : en
Publisher: Marble City Publishing
Release Date : 2015-01-29
Scherzo written by Jim Williams and has been published by Marble City Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-29 with categories.
MEET two unusual detectives. Ludovico - a young man who has had his testicles cut off for the sake of opera. And Monsieur Arouet - a fraudster, or just possibly the philosopher Voltaire. VISIT the setting. Carnival time in mid-18th century Venice, a city of winter mists, and the season of masquerade and decadence. ENCOUNTER a Venetian underworld of pimps, harlots, gamblers, forgers and charlatans. BEWARE of a mysterious coterie of aristocrats, Jesuits, Freemasons and magicians. DISCOVER a murder: that of the nobleman, Sgr Alessandro Molin, found swinging from a bridge with his innards hanging out and a message in code from his killer. Scherzo is a murder mystery of sparkling vivacity and an historical novel of stunning originality told with a wit and style highly praised by critics and nominated for the Booker Prize.
Anti Soviet Activities
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Author : Jim Williams
language : en
Publisher: Marble City Publishing
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Anti Soviet Activities written by Jim Williams and has been published by Marble City Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Fiction categories.
For Colonel Pyotr Andreevitch Kirov there is only one inescapable truth in modern Russia – if the old order does not change, it is impossible to bury the past. When Kirov’s routine investigation into black market antibiotics is linked to the former head of the KGB – and Kirov himself is put under investigation by his own men – the course for collision is set. As the old and new factions in the Soviet machine grapple for power, the stock in trade is the hardest currency known to the Socialist Republic … murder. Will Mikhail Gorbachev share the same fate? Anti-Soviet Activities is the second of Jim Williams’s astonishingly prophetic novels about the decline and fall of the Soviet Union.
The Vow
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Author : Georgia Fallon
language : en
Publisher: Marble City Publishing
Release Date : 2015-01-25
The Vow written by Georgia Fallon and has been published by Marble City Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-25 with Fiction categories.
A young woman disillusioned by love. A powerful and ruthless man haunted by the past. Neither entirely what they seem to be. Family and friends with their own agendas. Manipulation, deception and betrayal. A vindictive journalist, a beautiful brothel-keeper and a formidable henchman. Bribery, blackmail and intimidation. During a long hot summer their lives intertwine and many change forever. There are winners. There are losers.
The Strange Death Of A Romantic
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Author : Jim Williams
language : en
Publisher: Marble City Publishing
Release Date : 2015-01-25
The Strange Death Of A Romantic written by Jim Williams and has been published by Marble City Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-25 with Fiction categories.
A group of glamorous English socialites spend the summer of 1930 holidaying on the Italian Riviera where the poet Shelley died in a sailing accident in 1822. To pass the time, they tell amusing stories, much as Shelley, Byron and their friends had done a century earlier. For their theme they choose the death of Shelley and the stories progress towards a solution to the "murder mystery". Yet is that truly what the stories are about? Or, despite their witty surface, are they a code for dark and dangerous secrets hidden behind an urbane façade? Guy Parrot, a naive young doctor, finds himself falling in love with the beautiful and enigmatic Julia, the truth of whose past flickers between the lines of the stories, tantalising both Guy and the Reader. Guy discovers that truth, and its terrible reality leads to two murders and the destruction of his happiness and sanity. In 1945, in the aftermath of war, Guy returns to Italy with the army and is given an opportunity to re-examine the events of fifteen years before. This time will he understand what happened and finally redeem himself? The Strange Death of a Romantic offers the Reader romance, comedy, suspense, and an intriguing solution to a historical Whodunit - but without the inconvenience of a crime.
Farewell To Russia
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Author : Jim Williams
language : en
Publisher: Marble City Publishing
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Farewell To Russia written by Jim Williams and has been published by Marble City Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Fiction categories.
The unthinkable has happened at the Soviet nuclear plant at Sokolskoye. An accident of such terrifying proportions, of such catastrophic ecological and political consequence that a curtain of silence is drawn ominously over the incident. Major Pyotr Kirov of the KGB is appointed to extract the truth from the treacherous minefield of misinformation and intrigue and to obtain from the West the technology essential to prevent further damage. But the vital equipment is under strict trade embargo… And in London, George Twist, head of a company which manufactures the technology, is on the verge of bankruptcy and desperate to win the illegal contract. Can he deliver on time? Will he survive a frantic smuggling operation across the frozen wastes of Finland? Can he wrong-foot the authorities … and his own conscience? Is it possible to say farewell to Russia? Farewell to Russia is the first of Jim Williams’s astonishingly prophetic novels about the decline and fall of the Soviet Union.
A Message To The Children
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Author : Jim Williams
language : en
Publisher: Marble City Publishing
Release Date : 2018-12-11
A Message To The Children written by Jim Williams and has been published by Marble City Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-11 with Reference categories.
Those who come after us will want to know we really lived and loved as intensely as they do. Tell them. WHO ARE YOU? WHY DO YOU ACT THE WAY THAT YOU DO? These questions capture the essential things we want to know about ourselves and explain to others. Yet so often we fail to do so. Instead many of us spend a great deal of effort researching the history of our ancestors to discover no more than the fact that they were workmen, servants and grocers of whom we can learn next to nothing. If only they had written the story of their lives! A Message to the Children is a book with a difference: an account of the author's life, a memoir to his children, a love letter to his wife, and a guide to how you, too, can write about your own life. Written in an easy and amusing style, it explains for the benefit of the non-writer such subjects as how to break the task down into manageable sections; how to exploit photographs and scrapbooks for materials; and what themes to write about. Then it applies those lessons in a way that will both touch and entertain you.Jim Williams is a Booker-nominated author of thirteen novels and two works of non-fiction.
Five Murder Mysteries Box Set
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Author : Jim Williams
language : en
Publisher: Marble City Publishing
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Five Murder Mysteries Box Set written by Jim Williams and has been published by Marble City Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
In this set of five standalone novels Jim Williams explores the central subject of the classic murder mystery, namely the murder itself, to see if there’s anything new that can be done with it. The author transports the reader to different times and places: from Voltaire and Casanova’s 18th century Venice, through two world wars, to present day Southern France. Each novel ends with a brief set of reader’s notes. Contents: Scherzo – Murder and Mystery in 18th Century Venice The Argentinian Virgin – A Wartime Murder Mystery Recherché – A Modern Tale of Memories, Murder and Vampires Tango in Madeira – A Dance of Life, Love and Death The Strange Death of a Romantic – 20th Century Romantics Revisit the Death of Shelley