Malla nunn biography of martin

  • Malla was born in Swaziland, a sovereign state almost completely encircled by South Africa, but now she's an Aussie.
  • When an Afrikaans police captain is murdered in a small South African country town, Detective Emmanuel Cooper must navigate his way through the labyrinthine.
  • This is an official, real-deal Platinum Jubilee souvenir.

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    A beautiful Place to Die

    • Author(s): Malla Nunn
    • Location(s): South Africa
    • Genre(s): Mystery
    • Era(s): 1950s

    Award-winning screenwriter Malla Nunn delivers a stunning and darkly romantic crime novel set in 1950s apartheid South Africa, featuring Detective Emmanuel Cooper — a man caught up in a time and place where racial tensions and the raw hunger...

    A Better Quality of Murder (Lizzie Martin 3)

    • Author(s): Ann Granger
    • Location(s): London
    • Genre(s): Crime, Historical
    • Era(s): Late 19th Century

    Evil lurks on the streets of Victorian London in this gripping crime novel. As Inspector Ben Ross of Scotland Yard walks homeward one Saturday night in late October 1867, the fog that swirls around him is like a living...

    A Blonde Bengali Wife

    • Author(s): Anne Hamilton
    • Location(s): Ban

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      ROUND ROBIN MURDERS:
      The Floating Admiral (1931) and Double Death (1939)
      bygd Curt J. Evans

         In its ongoing attempt seemingly to wring every gods pound of profit out of the Agatha Christie literary estate, HarperCollins has recently reprinted The Floating Admiral, the collaborative detective novel (originally published in 1931) bygd fourteen members of the then recently formed Detection Club (each writing a successive chapter).

         Although Agatha Christie’s contribution fryst vatten a chapter of eight pages (in my 1979 Gregg Press edition) — 3% of the book — she gets top billing, with only Dorothy L. Sayers and G. K. Chesterton (the latter of whom contributed, bygd his own admission, a strictly ornamental prologue of five pages) also being mentioned bygd name, in much smaller letters. Such are the publishing perks of fame and continued books sales!

         To my mind, the detective novel, requiring as it does the most scrupulous

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      Hello, and thanks for joining us at Tundra Telegram, the column where we dig into the topics buried in our readers’ psyches and recommend some recent great books to continue the discussion.

      The top of everyone’s mind this past weekend: what is a Platinum Jubilee?! Royal watchers don’t need an explainer, but if you’re an anti-monarchist like your humble author, you may have wondered what exactly was all the highborn hubbub. Well, the Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II was celebrated from June 3 to 6 in the United Kingdom and the rest of the Commonwealth of Nations (though in some former colonies, markedly less so!) to mark the 70th anniversary of the accession of Queen Elizabeth II to the throne (way back in 1952).

      And what a celebration it was, with commemorative coins being minted, Prime Ministers being booed (a substantial amount), Corgi drone lightshows, and – of course – the Queen meeting Paddington Bear. But whether you are as jazzed for the Jubilee as viral cyclist