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In this tale, Harry "Bunny" Manders finds himself badly in debt. Bunny must pay off a loan to an unscrupulous moneylender, Alexander "Shylock" Cardinal, or else lose all of his assets - or worse, his life. Bunny puts his faith in his best friend to save the day but can even Raffles pull off a job at such short notice - and raise such a large sum of money?

In the high days of the Raj, Captain Toby Larburgh meets a stranger in Calcutta’s Great Eastern Hotel. Over a drink Toby tells of his adventures in the mountains of British India’s northern borders. His quest to find out what lay behind the death of a local Imperial agent took him to the far-flung reaches of the British Empire, the distant princely state of Ghondabaur. When he reaches the lavish palace, he encounters a prince who is desperately attempting to save his father’s kingdom from brutal invaders.

1596. Sir Robert Vicary is to host an important guest, Grigori Stanic, the ambassador of distant Muscovy, and Thomas the Falconer is called on to entertain the Russian party. The ambassador is to make a magnificent gift to Boris Godunov, brother-in-law to the feeble Tsar Feodor: A priceless gold chain. But no sooner has it arrived than it is stolen. So begins Thomas hunt for The Muscovy Chain...

Thomas's friend Ben Mallam, the streetwise jingler (a dealer in used horses) returns to aid him. After a run of bad luck, perhaps Ben's fortunes will change as he helps Thomas unravel a deadly plot which strikes at the very heart of Tudor England, threatening the security of the nation itself.

For decades a popular hero of novels, short stories, and movies, Hopalong Cassidy became a seemingly overnight entertainment phenomenon when he burst in to the new medium of television in 1949. Shortly thereafter, he moseyed over to his very own radio series. William Boyd stars as Hoppy in this collection, riding out from the Bar 20 astride his trusty horse Topper in 20 digitally restored and remastered episodes

soft-spoken paragon of virtue on the range, Hopalong Cassidy brought law, order, and justice to the frontier. He was a model of integrity, courage, hard work, tolerance, patriotism, chivalry, and good-natured decency - and he attempted to instill these values in his young listeners - all while delivering action-packed entertainment. Cassidy, the creation of Clarence E. Mulford, who dreamed of the West he had never visited, was brought to life by former silent-movie matinee idol William Boyd.

Sissinghurst is world famous as a place of beauty, a garden slipped into the ruins of an Elizabethan palace. But is it entirely what its creators intended? Adam Nicolson has uncovered remarkable new findings about its history as a medieval manor and on to the creation, by his grandparents Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, of a garden in a weed-strewn wreck.

BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation starring John Moffatt as Hercule Poirot. When Poirot arrives in France, following an urgent appeal for help, he finds he is too late. His client, a South American millionaire, has been stabbed to death and his body flung into a freshly dug open grave on the golf course adjoining the property. Meanwhile the millionaire's wife is found bound and gagged in her room. Poirot launches an investigation and the baffling mystery begins to unfold.

The announcer says, "The ring of the silver spurs heralds the most amazin' man ever to ride the prairies of the early West," and you're swept away to dangerous days on the wild frontier. But you're in good hands with straight-shooter Hopalong Cassidy (played by William Boyd) and his comical sidekick, California Carlson.

Drei britische Agenten stürzen vom Balkon eines Antwerpener Nobelhotels. Unfall, Zufall - oder gar Mord? Sir Mycroft schickt seinen Bruder nach Belgien. Doch kaum ist er dort angekommen, verschwindet der Meisterdetektiv spurlos. Und es scheint, als hätte Mycroft Holmes da seine Finger im Spiel.

Dies ist ein etwas ungewöhnliches Buch. Aber hey, Bitcoin ist eine etwas ungewöhnliche Technologie, daher ist ein ungewöhnliches Hörebuch über Bitcoin wohl passend. Dieses Hörebuch entstand aufgrund einer einfachen Frage: "Was hast du von Bitcoin gelernt?" Ich glaube, dass Bitcoin die wichtigste Erfindung unserer Zeit ist und mehr Menschen die Natur dieser Erfindung verstehen müssen.

This welcome new guide to the world of entrepreneurship offers invaluable lessons for the student and the practical entrepreneur alike. For the student it breathes fresh life into the standard curriculum topics, analyzing them in the context of a wide range of current real-world examples. For business practitioners it shows how practical success is influenced by factors such as industry dynamics, entry barriers, reconfiguration, and core competence. Enterprise in Action gives clear accounts of concepts and processes so that anyone can come on board.

Do you lack confidence or self-belief? Join the club. Millions of otherwise smart people lack the confidence to achieve their full potential - at work, in their careers and even in their personal pursuits. Yet confidence isn't something that can be conjured from motivational exercises or via quick-fix techniques. Confidence is something you must build for yourself. It takes planning and action, deciding where you want to gain confidence and how it must be won. It will require courage, optimism, and resilience. 

Jeremy Clyde stars as the cricket playing A. J. Raffles, with Michael Cochrane as his jeweller sidekick, Bunny. Together they embark upon a series of well-planned crimes against the highest of society.

Eye-opening and candid, David Bailey's Look Again is a fantastically entertaining memoir by a true icon. 'Rollicking . . . with roguish tales as vivid as his era-defining photos' – Daily Mail 'Brilliant' – Telegraph David Bailey burst onto the scene in 1960 with his revolutionary photographs...

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Als es den Handlungsreisenden Dick Trossell in die nordenglische Provinz verschlägt, ahnt er noch nicht, welch düsteres Geheimnis sich hinter der unscheinbaren Fassade des verschlafenen Küstenörtchens Gartholm verbirgt. Doch schon bald muss er erkennen, dass die verschroben wirkenden, abweisenden Einheimischen wohl tatsächlich ein Problem haben, das irgendwie mit den Stränden zusammenzuhängen scheint. Ist es dort wirklich so gefährlich, dass man den Ort nach Sonnenuntergang am besten meidet?

Deities of Undeath, Blight, and Sorrow. Life, the Moons, and Shadow. By the axe... Deities at war is never a good sign. As long as the mortal lives, however, it seems that the survival of Vallis will continue. For now... FOUR STORIES INTERSECT The Forest Queen's vision granted Dymurin the name of a chosen mortal, taking him far to the north, yet in his absence an ancient evil stirs within the sacred forest. Strange new faces appear at the Scurry Tuck Inn, and a new master takes to the dais. But is this new master amused, or deadly serious? It is Knorlite's responsibility to find out.

Privatdetektiv Paul Tyler erholt sich noch von seinem letzten Besuch in der Kitty-Bar, als die völlig aufgelöste Alison Blackwell in sein Büro stürmt. Die junge Frau ist verzweifelt, da die Polizei ihren Bruder Nathaniel festgenommen hat. Nathaniel Blackwell wird vorgeworfen, versucht zu haben, seine frisch angetraute Frau Pearl Blackwell zu töten. Alison Blackwell ist sich jedoch sicher, dass ihr Bruder nicht der Täter ist.

Der Drehbuchautor Henry Sparrow erhält den Auftrag, eine TV-Serie über den „Baltimore Butcher", einen brutalen Serienmörder, zu schreiben, der bereits fünf Opfer gefunden hat und sich immer noch auf freiem Fuß befindet. Bei seinen Recherchen taucht Henry mehr und mehr in die Welt des Killers ein – bis er schließlich vor dessen Haustür steht und eingelassen wird. Als Henry die Schwelle übertritt, gibt es kein Zurück mehr.