Do Me a Favour - Drop Dead
Do Me a Favour - Drop Dead

Author: James Hadley Chase

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Published: 2013-12-14

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 9781471903922

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Keith Devery, burdened with a criminal record, arrives in Wicksteed, a prosperous little town on the Pacific coast. He is looking for any job that will provide eating money. It is when he meets Beth Marshall - whose husband, a local drunk, is to inherit $1,000,000 - that he realises there's a way to get back in the big league. Together they ruthlessly plot the perfect murder, but Keith soon finds himself at the centre of a double-bluff. Beth has plans of her own once the money is hers ...

Do me a Favour - Drop Dead
Do me a Favour - Drop Dead

Author: James Hadley Chase

Publisher: Murder Room

Published: 2013-12-14

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 1471903931

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Keith Devery, burdened with a criminal record, arrives in Wicksteed, a prosperous little town on the Pacific coast. He is looking for any job that will provide eating money. It is when he meets Beth Marshall - whose husband, a local drunk, is to inherit $1,000,000 - that he realises there's a way to get back in the big league. Together they ruthlessly plot the perfect murder, but Keith soon finds himself at the centre of a double-bluff. Beth has plans of her own once the money is hers ...

Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang
Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang

Author: John Ayto

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2010-02-11

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 0199232059

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Offering coverage of over 6,000 slang words and expressions from the Cockney 'abaht' to the American term 'zowie', this is the most authoritative dictionary of slang from the 20th and 21st centuries.

Curious Phrases (Collins Dictionary of)
Curious Phrases (Collins Dictionary of)

Author: Leslie Dunkling

Publisher: HarperCollins UK

Published: 2014-12-18

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 0007598122

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The ebook edition of the Collins Dictionary of Curious Phrases is an updated and revised version of Leslie Dunkling’s classic work on curious and baffling phrases.

Stone the Crows
Stone the Crows

Author: John Ayto

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13:

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"Drawing on the unique resources of the Oxford English Dictionary, Stone the Crows features over 6,000 slang words and expressions, from the British beer goggles, through the American cockamamie, to the Australian gigglehouse. This collection contains old favourites as well as the very latest slang terms. In addition to the A-Z entries, the book contains a comprehensive thematic index, details of origins, dates of first printed use, and thousands of illustrative quotations from famous names including John Lennon and Woody Allen." --Book Jacket.

St. James Guide to Crime & Mystery Writers
St. James Guide to Crime & Mystery Writers

Author: Jay P. Pederson

Publisher: Saint James Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 1304

ISBN-13:

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Provides information on the most influential English-language writers of the crime and mystery genre. Each entry includes author biographies; complete bibliographies; lists of critical studies; locations of manuscripts; the writer's own comments on his or her work, when available; and an essay written by an expert of the genre.

Twentieth-century Crime and Mystery Writers
Twentieth-century Crime and Mystery Writers

Author: Lesley Henderson

Publisher: Chicago : St. James Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 1338

ISBN-13:

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**** Cited in Sheehy and BCL3. The foremost reference in the field, completely revised and updated, and now covering about 600 authors, mainly English-language writers whose work appeared during or since the time of Conan Doyle. The entry for each writer consists of a biography, a bibliography, and a signed critical essay. Living authors were invited to add a comment on their work; many of them accepted, and their remarks are both entertaining and enlightening. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR