The trilogy: The whore town and its crimes A collection of exciting & erotic stories with thriller elements by Carina Wage & Renée Petry Journalist Jim is constantly researching to unravel the mystery of the legendary "whore town". It is still up to mischief and will stop at nothing. Jim's main priority is to expose the leader of the whore town, Pay, as a gangster boss. In the process, he is knocked down and kidnapped. Two young men rush to his aid, but they expect something in return. They are Pay's drug suppliers and want to take over Pay's business. They hand Jim a cell phone and announce that they will tell him what they expect in return. Now the journalist is in their debt and is drawn further and further into the mire of crime, which is exactly what he wanted to uncover. Prostitution and drug dealing seem to be just the tip of the iceberg. Jim discovers more and more, not only blackmail and drug dealing are part of the daily business, murder is also on the agenda.
The trilogy: The whore town and its crimes A collection of exciting & erotic stories with thriller elements by Carina Wage & Renée Petry Journalist Jim is constantly researching to unravel the mystery of the legendary "whore town". It is still up to mischief and will stop at nothing. Jim's main priority is to expose the leader of the whore town, Pay, as a gangster boss. In the process, he is knocked down and kidnapped. Two young men rush to his aid, but they expect something in return. They are Pay's drug suppliers and want to take over Pay's business. They hand Jim a cell phone and announce that they will tell him what they expect in return. Now the journalist is in their debt and is drawn further and further into the mire of crime, which is exactly what he wanted to uncover. Prostitution and drug dealing seem to be just the tip of the iceberg. Jim discovers more and more, not only blackmail and drug dealing are part of the daily business, murder is also on the agenda.
When Portia Bates is made redundant from the college she loves, she swears revenge. Soon she is diverting money from the English Department to set up a brothel and plotting the blackmail of prominent politicians. Even the cunning Portia, however, hasn’t reckoned on the students’ ability to create enough mayhem to ruin her plans—especially when they discover a wartime arms cache beneath the college. Readers of this black satire on English education in the tradition of Tom Sharpe will never look at jacuzzis in the same way again.
This book offers an insight into the social relationships and topographies that fashioned both city life and landscape and serves as a useful counterpoise in a field that has largely focused on London. This is a book about seventeenth-century Norwich and its inhabitants. At its core are the interconnected themes of social topographies and the relationships between urban inhabitants and their environment. Cityscapes were, and are, shaped and given meaning during the practice of people's lived experiences. In return, those same urban places lend human interactions depth and quality. Social Relations and Urban Space uncovers manifold possible landscapes, including those belonging to the rich and to the poor, to men, to women, to 'strangers and foreigners', to political actors of both formal and informal means. Norwich's inhabitants witnessed the tumultuous seventeenth centuryat first hand, and their experiences were written into the landscape and immortalised in its exemplary surviving records. This book offers an insight into the social relationships and topographies that fashioned both city life and landscape and serves as a useful counterpoise in a field that has largely focused on London. FIONA WILLIAMSON is currently Senior Lecturer in History at the National University of Malaysia.
Stories of those lost in the gritty and crime-laden asphalt jungle are together in this collection from the acclaimed noir series, returning in an oversized and slipcased hardcover that includes a portfolio and exclusive print. There are all kinds of dark business you might encounter on a cold night in Basin City, and the tales here paint a gloriously dirty portrait. Marv, the hulking ex-con with a condition, has to jog his memory about a certain Saturday night, and then on another evening, he’s after something but he keeps his quest is quiet—sometimes there’s no need for words. Visiting Old Town, where all your dreams could come true, Gail and Miho demonstrate what happens when you don’t play by their rules. Then, hired-hand Blue Eyes makes an important kill—a few, actually. A woman on the run finds a way out . . . A sucker with good intentions gets duped . . . Fat Man and Little Boy are seen on a couple of jobs, and being low-rent hit-men, you can guess what that means. And the dark deeds and dealings stay dark in a few more stories also included in this anthology. Frank Miller’s return to his comic opus graphic novel series continues with the luxury edition of Volume 6 Booze, Broads, & Bullets. High-end materials and finishes, and iconic textures from the series enhance this stunning package. Housed in a cloth-covered slipcase with foil stamping and printing is an oversized hardcover featuring a soft-touch matte finish with spot gloss and foil stamping. The slipcase includes a matching portfolio featuring a deluxe print of new artwork by Frank Miller. As well, this edition includes a fourteen-page expanded cover and art gallery featuring pieces from previous editions. And, as an anthology of short tales, Volume 6 is a great jumping on point for new readers wondering what Sin City is all about—or longtime readers who can't get enough! As an added bonus, each volume’s slipcase has a different letter from the logo, placed on the front cover in such a way that alone it looks like a splash of red wrapping around the slipcase. But when all seven volumes are together it is clear that the grouping spells out “Sin City.” FOR MATURE READERS.
