A new groundbreaking five-part series set during World War I begins as Joseph Reavley, a former member of Parliament and professor of Bible languages at Cambridge, learns his parents are murder victims in part of an international conspiracy. Unabridged. 9 CDs.
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A new groundbreaking five-part series set during World War I begins as Joseph Reavley, a former member of Parliament and professor of Bible languages at Cambridge, learns his parents are murder victims in part of an international conspiracy. Unabridged. 9 CDs.
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Fine in fine dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 352 p. World War One Novels (Hardcover), 1. Audience: General/trade. No previous owner's name
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Good. MP3 CD in MP3 format. You'll receive one MP3 CD, withdrawn from the library collection, that CONTAINS THE ENTIRE AUDIO PRODUCTION! We will polish the MP3 CD disc for you for a smooth sounding performance. Enjoy this AUDIO MP3 CD edition.
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Very Good in Good jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7? "-9? " tall; Ballantine Books/Random House, 2003. First Edition Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition with a Good Dust Jacket. The First Volume in Perry's World War I historical novel series. Blue half cloth, ivory boards, clean and unmarked. Light wear to spine head and heel. Light rubbing to edges near spine head and heel. Touch of wear to corners. Binding is solid, tight, and square. Jacket in blues is clean, light wear to edges and corners, one inch scuff to lower spine, not price-clipped. 339 pp. 8vo. 2003, Ballantine Books/Random House.
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New in new dust jacket. Signed by author. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 352 p. World War One Novels (Hardcover), 1. Audience: General/trade. Signed by Anne Perry on the title page. First Edition/First Printing. Brand New and unread. Dust jacket in a protective mylar sleeve. Ships bubble wrapped and in a box.
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First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]
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Ballantine Books
Published:
2003
Language:
English
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17236974467
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Robert Clark (author photograph) Very good in Very good jacket. [10], 339, [3] pages. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Inscriptions reads 13 S 2003 To Joan, Very best wishes Anne Perry. Anne Perry (born Juliet Marion Hulme; 28 October 1938) is an English author of historical detective fiction, best known for her Thomas Pitt and William Monk series. In 1954, at the age of fifteen, she was convicted in the murder of her friend's mother, Honorah Rieper. She changed her name after serving a five-year sentence for Rieper's murder. She later settled in the Scottish village of Portmahomack where she lived with her mother. Her father had a distinguished scientific career, heading the British hydrogen bomb programme. Hulme took the name Anne Perry, using her stepfather's surname. Her first novel, The Cater Street Hangman, was published under this name in 1979. Her works generally fall into one of several categories of genre fiction, including historical murder mysteries and detective fiction. Many feature recurring characters, most importantly Thomas Pitt, who appeared in her first novel, and amnesiac private investigator William Monk, who first appeared in her 1990 novel The Face of a Stranger. By 2003 she had published 47 novels, and several collections of short stories. Her story "Heroes", which first appeared in the 1999 anthology Murder and Obsession, edited by Otto Penzler, won the 2001 Edgar Award for Best Short Story. In 2017, Anne Perry left Scotland and moved to Hollywood in order to more effectively promote films based on her novels. Through Anne Perry's magnificent Victorian novels, millions of readers have enjoyed the pleasures and intrigue of a bygone age. Now, with the debut of an extraordinary new series, this New York Times bestselling author sweeps us into the golden summer of 1914, a time of brief enchantment when English men and women basked in the security of wealth and power, even as the last weeks of their privileged world were swiftly passing. Theirs was a peace that led to war. On a sunny afternoon in late June, Cambridge professor Joseph Reavley is summoned from a student cricket match to learn that his parents have died in an automobile crash. Joseph's brother, Matthew, as officer in the Intelligence Service, reveals that their father had been en route to London to turn over to him a mysterious secret document, allegedly with the power to disgrace England forever and destroy the civilized world. A paper so damning that Joseph and Matthew dared mention it only to their restless younger sister. Now it has vanished. What has happened to this explosive document, if indeed it ever existed? How had it fallen into the hands of their father, a quiet countryman? Not even Matthew, with his Intelligence connections, can answer these questions. And Joseph is soon burdened with a second tragedy: the shocking murder of his most gifted student, beautiful Sebastian Allard, loved and admired by everyone. Or so it appeared. Meanwhile, England's seamless peace is cracking, as the distance between the murder of an Austrian archduke by a Serbian anarchist and the death of a brilliant university student by a bullet to the head of grows shorter by the day. Anne Perry is a sublime master of suspense. In No Graves As Yet, her latest haunting masterpiece, she reminds us that love and hate, cowardice and courage, good and evil are always a part of life, in our own time as well as on the eve of the greatest war the world has ever known.
I am a devotee of female mystery writers, many British, starting with Josephine Tey, Val McDermid (who didn?t wear well), Ruth Rendell (also writing at Barbara Vine), and P.D. James, and the American novelists, Deborah Crombie, Richard North Patterson (the only male mystery writer I can read), a little from Martha Grimes, and a lot from Elizabeth George. .George is perhaps one of the finest writers I have ever read (right up there with Nabakov). Her writing is clear, effective and, at times, pure poetry. She is, however, either terribly picky about which of her works are published or she is really lethargic. The author I found just last year is the amazingly prolific Anne Perry, a fellow Scotsman. (I am, however, two generation removed.) Anne Perry is definitely not lazy; she may not even get a full eight at night. She lacks George?s poetry, but that lack is compensated for by the excellence she brings to characterization and suspense. Her detectives from William Monk to Thomas Pitt are not only delightful and interesting, but they become good friends. I am here today to praise the last of her works, the five volume World War I series: (by publishing dates) No Graves as Yet, Angels in Gloom, Shoulder the Sky, At Some Disputed Barricade, and We shall Not Sleep. Speaking of sleep, I don?t know how I will rest tonight, having finished the final novel in the series last night. If there was no name of the author on the book covers, I would not know it was Perry writing, and writing originally with electrifying speed (the five novels were written from 2002-2007). The First World War was brutally inhumane (not for the squeamish or easily spooked), and shameful, both in the conduct of the war and the conditions of the Armistice after (which Perry foreshadows, but doesn?t go into detail.) The horrors of this period in our collective histories are somewhat mitigated by the characters about whom she writes. I fell in love with more than a few of the protagonists; I also despised where I was led to do so. No matter: if you are familiar with Ms. Perry?s works, get the War series. If you have never read her, get to it; start on the mystery series, but be sure to read by publishing date, or you will be extremely confused. I have started at the beginning, reading them all again.
