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Night train to Paris

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Description: Unwitting pawn in a deadly game of international intrigue, Edward Logan was stalked by three fanatical Soviet agents convinced that he possessed certain secret plans desperately desired by the Russian Government. He hastily took the night train to Paris and after this nightmarish journey, further violence erupted in both Paris and London. The Reds found formidable opposition from three former French Foreign Legionnaires and the inimitable sleuth, Tommy Hambledon, in a perilous adventure of dual identities, torture, murder, and a blood-chilling chase along the water front of London--Adapted from page [3].
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1952.
Call number: 644140
Creator: Coles, Manning(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of the Estate of Donald Duke, 2015.

The Basle express

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"British Intelligence agent Tommy Hambledon had the mistaken notion when he arrived at Innsbruck that he had left behind all connections with Herr Bastien, who had been shot in the railway compartment they shared on the Anglo-Swiss Express. But when he was commanded by a belligerent Austrian taxi driver to disrobe, and then forced at gunpoint to hike barefoot over the Alps, Hambledon ruefully decided that his vacation was over. With the help of a horse-faced English tourist - and over the opposition of some escaped lunatics, an enormously stout gentleman with a feather in his hat, a village idiot, and a Communist named Medeski - Tommy Hambledon unravels this gripping and intrigue-ridden international mystery"--Jacket.

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Twelve trains to Babylon

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A dedicated, expertly trained spy named Jon comes to New York to form a vital link in a chain of international espionage. For nine years he operates smoothly, efficiently, flawlessly for the Cause, transmitting secret information from one anonymous courier to another. Then, suddenly, without warning, things go haywire. A message arrives he cannot decode: There are twelve trains to Babylon. The first leaves tonight. In a chilling race again time, Jon desperately tries to track down the faceless links in the chain and twist the truth out of them; but the pieces, once so pliant, no longer connect. One truth remains constant - the imminence of Jon's death. If he does not act fast, he will very soon be killed - in a place unknown, by persons unknown, for reasons unknown--Adapted from dust jacket flap.

644287

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Bibliotheca Carringtoniensis: : Being a collection of the descriptive title pages of certain books published by Mr. Charles Carrington of Paris. Part II

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A collection of book catalogs, title page facsimiles and book prosepectuses issued by Charles Carrington, a leading British publisher of erotica in Paris. Ca. 1898 to 1907. The earliest publication date is 1898 and the imprints are addressed 13, Faubourg Montmartre, Paris. Carrington left that address after 1907. Several of the items have the imprint: The Imperial Press, 10, Essex Street, Strand. London. This may have been Carrington's London agent.

623869

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Montagu, Elizabeth (Robinson). [Critical review of "The Judgement of Paris" by James Beattie]

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Papers of Elizabeth Montagu, chiefly letters, with some manuscripts. The papers deal with literary affairs, personalities, and gossip, including references to current books and plays; social and everyday life of Elizabeth Montagu at her homes at Sandleford Priory, London, Bath, and Turnbridge Wells; her travels to Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Sandleford, Spa (1763), Paris (1776), and Scotland (1766 and 1770); current political events, including the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, the Seven Years War, the coronation of George III, the John Wilkes affair, and the trial of Warren Hastings; coal mines and mining in Northumberland.

MO 2996

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[Unknown author]. From a letter published in a periodical work at Altona, said to be from Paris: [quotation]

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MO 6864

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Lyttelton, George, 1st Baron Lyttelton of Frankley. "T'other Night, as they lay together in bed..." [: a dialogue between Mrs. Montagu's soul and body]

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MO 1265 A & B & C

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