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Night train to Paris
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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].
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First train to Babylon
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Ten years after a murder trial, the wife of the principal witness for the prosecution receives a long-delayed blackmail letter addressed to her husband.
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To His Highness Omar Pasha, G.C.B. &c., &c., &c. Generalissimo of the Ottoman Armies and Governor General of Turkish Arabia, this plan of the supposed ruins of Babylon / by William Beaumont Selby, Commander Indian Navy & Surveyor in Messopotamia assisted by Lieut. W. Collingwood, I.N is with his Highnesses permission and as a small tribute to his Highnesses interest and zeal in the cause of antiquarian research respectfully dedicated
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Kirkpatrick Catalogue entry: "2397 Selby, W. B. This plan of the supposed ruins of Babylon ... assisted by ... W. Collingwood ... [London?], J. & C. Walker, engraver, [1874?]. 1 sheet [see cabinet]. At head of title: His Highness Omar Pasha ... Generalissimo of the Ottoman Armies, and Governor General of Turkish Arabia."According to A catalogue of manuscript and printed reports, field books, memoirs, maps, etc. of the Indian Survey deposited in the map room of the India Office (1878), this dates to 1859 (page 494). Selby published his Memoirs on the ruins of Babylon, in 1859. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: MS notes: Burton (map cabinet) Selby 2497.
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The train from Pittsburgh
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"To Tom Bridges, the train that is speeding east from Pittsburgh becomes the symbol of his crisis. All the threads of Tom's life connect during the twenty-four hours before he must meet that train. He must face the challenge involved in his promise to a man who is on the train and who has placed his faith and his future in Tom's uncertain hands. He must search his conscience for the answer to another man's strange request. And he must choose between his fascinating, cruel wife and the mistress with whom he might find peace. For Tom Bridges, who has somehow, in the years since the war, strayed from his convictions and lost the capacity for courage and for love that is more than passion, these crucial hours are the summation of all that he has been and all that he has known"--From dust jacket flap.
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The train ride
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The anonymous hero whose brutal adventure is the horror at the heart of The Train Ride is a sailor; he has a vile hangover; he is due back on his ship in a few hours. Equipped with a fistful of dirty magazines, he stumbles onto the train. Half-asleep, bored, jaded, he thumbs through the girlie magazines, his appetite both inflamed and frustrated. What could he possibly do on a train? He looks around - and sees a frail little girl with braided blonde hair. It is here that the author begins his tale with a protagonist who is both villain and victim, both abominably sub-human and upsettingly familiar. His personality, his crime, and his desperate attempt to escape, combine to pose a moral problem not unlike that found in The Collector--Adapted from dust jacket flaps.
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The crooked hinge
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"Banished from the idyllic English countryside he once called home and en route to live with his cousin in America, Sir John Farnleigh, black sheep of the wealthy Farnleigh clan, nearly perished in the sinking of the Titanic. Though he survived the catastrophe, his ties with his family did not, and he never returned to England--not even for the funerals of his mother, his father, or, most recently, his older brother Dudley. Now, nearly twenty-five years since he was first sent away, Sir John has finally returned home to claim his inheritance. But another "Sir John" soon follows, a stranger who insists he has absolute proof of his claim to the estate. Before the case can be settled, however, one of the two men is murdered, and Dr. Gideon Fell finds himself facing one of the most challenging cases of his career. To solve it, he'll have to confront a series of bizarre and chilling phenomena, brushing up against witchcraft, magic, and a sinister automation in the process."--Back cover.
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