A fast paced crime thriller with a twist, then pearl, then loop two and drop. Hilda Hopkins, the machine knitting murderess is on the run! Slipping mickey finns and strangling her gentleman guests with a knitted garrotte, Hilda has been bounced by the local 'Sweeney'. Her knitted dolls of each victim the most damning of evidence. Can she escape the long arm of the law before Scotland Yarn, er ... Scotland Yard's finest find their fiend?
Britain's one and only machine knitting serial killer is on the run! After the disappearance of her gentlemen lodgers attracts the local police, Hilda is caught red-handed thanks to the wonderful knitted effigies of her victims, proudly displayed in her cabinet so the poor dears wouldn't be totally forgotten! On the run and desperate to stay free, Hilda is not your average senior citizen with a passion for knitting! She is cool, calculating and totally ruthless as we soon learn in these three complete stories, 'Murder She Knit', 'Bed & Burial' and 'Domi-Knit-Rix'. Hilda gets up to all sorts of high jinx as she gets in and out of one tight spot after another, knitting all the way!
Now, in one easy to read, can't put down volume you will find three complete Hilda Hopkins adventures. "Hilda Hopkins, M.I.Knits"#4, "Hilda Hopkins, For Queen and Country"#5 and "Hilda Hopkins, Saints & Sinners"#6. Here are the first three novellas covering Hilda's amazing falling on her feet and being inducted into the most secret of secret agencies, M.I. 0 (M.I. Nix, hence the agents are Minxes!) Now Britain's notorious machine knitting serial killer gets to ply her trade under official sanction... more or less!
Hilda Hopkins is back with a vengeance in this hilarious seventh adventure. From scaring her driving instructor half to death to going all the way with twisted security staff at a secret laboratory, our machine knitting undercover assassin is pitted against evil scientists and their killer creations. Of course she uses her 'wet' skills as well as her knitting to help make her mission a success!
Even tucked away in a convent, knitting scarves for the Nuns to earn her keep, Hilda is but one mere coincidence away from death and drama! This time she is arrested, then abducted and then she absconds from the clutches of a murderous gang of bank robbers, all the time accompanied by her arch nemesis, PC Barbara Grey! While the body count climbs, Hilda walks away from a motorway pile up and narrowly avoids... well, read on and find out how many more Hilda can put to rest without even unraveling her machine knitted garrotte! Hilda Hopkins, machine knitting serial killer and government assassin is once again bouncing from misadventure to misadventure, always staying just one row ahead of her pursuers!
Hilda Hopkins está en el camino de aumentar su pensión y mantenerse en sus planes de tejer a máquina y con la lana de "Sweeney". Después de escaparse a lo Rambo por la ventana del baño desapareció entre la multitud de matronas de mediana edad a las que nadie nota mucho. A Hilda la buscan por asesinato, varios! La única pista que esta mujer ha dejado son los seis muñecos tejidos, cada uno una copia idéntica de los huéspedes desaparecidos.... Perdón, caballeros invitados. A Hida no le gusta que los llamen 'huéspedes'. Hilda sabe que es más inteligente que la policía, más inteligente que sus caballeros invitados, y demasiado inteligente como para ser capturada... o no?
Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers and why they often go wrong—now with a new afterword by the author. A Best Book of the Year: The Financial Times, Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune, and Detroit Free Press How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to one another that isn’t true? Talking to Strangers is a classically Gladwellian intellectual adventure, a challenging and controversial excursion through history, psychology, and scandals taken straight from the news. He revisits the deceptions of Bernie Madoff, the trial of Amanda Knox, the suicide of Sylvia Plath, the Jerry Sandusky pedophilia scandal at Penn State University, and the death of Sandra Bland—throwing our understanding of these and other stories into doubt. Something is very wrong, Gladwell argues, with the tools and strategies we use to make sense of people we don’t know. And because we don’t know how to talk to strangers, we are inviting conflict and misunderstanding in ways that have a profound effect on our lives and our world. In his first book since his #1 bestseller David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell has written a gripping guidebook for troubled times.
" West Virginia boasts an unusually rich heritage of ghost tales. Originally West Virginians told these hundred stories not for idle amusement but to report supernatural experiences that defied ordinary human explanation. From jealous rivals and ghostly children to murdered kinsmen and omens of death, these tales reflect the inner lives—the hopes, beliefs, and fears—of a people. Like all folklore, these tales reveal much of the history of the region: its isolation and violence, the passions and bloodshed of the Civil War era, the hardships of miners and railroad laborers, and the lingering vitality of Old World traditions.
New York City's Broadway district is by far the most prestigious and lucrative venue for American performers, playwrights, entertainers and technicians. While there are many reference works and critical studies of selected Broadway plays or musicals and even more works about the highlights of the American theater, this is the first single-volume book to cover all of the activities on Broadway between 1919 and 2007. More than 14,000 productions are briefly described, including hundreds of plays, musicals, revivals, and specialty programs. Entries include famous and forgotten works, designed to give a complete picture of Broadway's history and development, its evolution since the early twentieth century, and its rise to unparalleled prominence in the world of American theater. The productions are identified in terms of plot, cast, personnel, critical reaction, and significance in the history of New York theater and culture. In addition to a chronological list of all Broadway productions between 1919 and 2007, the book also includes approximately 600 important productions performed on Broadway before 1919.
Between the Acts is the final novel by Virginia Woolf, published in 1941 shortly after her suicide. This is a book laden with hidden meaning and allusion. It describes the mounting, performance, and audience of a festival play (hence the title) in a small English village just before the outbreak of the Second World War. Much of it looks forward to the war, with veiled allusions to connection with the continent by flight, swallows representing aircraft, and plunging into darkness. The pageant is a play within a play, representing a rather cynical view of English history. Woolf links together many different threads and ideas - a particularly interesting technique being the use of rhyme words to suggest hidden meanings. Relationships between the characters and aspects of their personalities are explored. The English village bonds throughout the play through their differences and similarities. Adeline Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) was an English writer who is considered one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device.
