Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: j m gregson

8 resultados

j m gregson Eliminar filtro Quitar filtros
  • PUBLIC AND PRIVATE MAN IN SHAKESPEARE
    ebook
    PUBLIC AND PRIVATE MAN IN SHAKESPEARE
    J. M. GREGSON
    The potential duality of human character and its capacity for dissembling was a source of fascination to the Elizabethan dramatists. Where many of them used the Machiavellian picture to draw one fair-faced scheming villain after another, Shakespeare absorbed more deeply the problem of the tensions between the public and private face of man. Originally published in 1983, this bo...

    $960.00

    Ver detalle
  • CLOSE CALL
    ebook
    CLOSE CALL
    J. M. GREGSON
    There's nothing like a murder to shake up a quiet neighborhood in this "British procedural that delivers what fans of the genre want" ( Booklist).   Gurney Close, a recently-built development in Gloucestershire, includes three charming houses and bungalows overlooking the river Wye. Moving into these new homes are three married couples and a divorcee, all of whom are eager to g...

    $251.00

    Ver detalle
  • LEAST OF EVILS
    ebook
    LEAST OF EVILS
    J. M. GREGSON
    The Northumberland detective makes "a memorable hero, as distinctive as Inspector Morse" in this thrilling whodunit of murder among the moneyed ( Booklist).   DCI Percy Peach has been called to the sprawling Thorley Grange estate in Brunton to investigate the murder of Oliver Ketley. The beloved philanthropist was found in his Bentley, shot through the head. When he arrives, Pe...

    $164.00

    Ver detalle
  • REMAINS TO BE SEEN
    ebook
    REMAINS TO BE SEEN
    J. M. GREGSON
    The London detective returns to see a criminal kingpin put behind bars—only to discover that his nefarious deeds are from over.   Northumberland's usually unflappable Det. Chief Inspector Percy Peach has suddenly found himself on the anxious side. It's not that the bust didn't go as planned. The raid on the sprawling country manor of a drug baron rounded up all the usual suspec...

    $164.00

    Ver detalle
  • TOO MUCH OF WATER
    ebook
    TOO MUCH OF WATER
    J. M. GREGSON
    London detectives Lambert and Hook are entangled in "a beguiling plot . . . and plenty of twists" as they dig through a dead girl's past ( Booklist).   Gloucestershire is suffering through a brutal heatwave, but things are getting even stickier for Superintendent John Lambert and Det. Sergeant Bert Hook. The body of lovely young university student, Clare Mills, has been found s...

    $164.00

    Ver detalle
  • CRY OF THE CHILDREN
    ebook
    CRY OF THE CHILDREN
    J. M. GREGSON
    "Gregson knows when to up the ante . . . in this tense procedural" as two British detectives investigate a shocking case of abduction and murder ( Kirkus Reviews).   The last time Anthea Gibson saw her seven-year-old daughter, Lucy, the girl was thrilled to be heading off to her first village fair. Then, a parent's worst nightmare: Lucy never comes home. As the disappearance st...

    $229.00

    Ver detalle
  • BROTHERS' TEARS
    ebook
    BROTHERS' TEARS
    J. M. GREGSON
    A double murder reveals the dirty dealings and family secrets of a former Irish rugby star in "a formidable puzzle" for the "indomitable" British detective ( Kirkus Reviews).   Irish ex-rugby player and now successful businessman, Jim O'Connor, was shot dead at point blank range in the parking lot of Claughton Towers where he was hosting a celebratory dinner. DCI Percy Peach is...

    $139.00

    Ver detalle
  • MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE
    ebook
    MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE
    J. M. GREGSON
    A heinous murder in a beautiful English garden makes for a "gripping . . . surprising" British crime procedural from the author of the Inspector Peach novels ( Publishers Weekly).   Dennis Cooper leads an idyllic life as curator of the national historical site, Westbourne Park. What could be better than overseeing the spectacular flowering grounds, supervising its popular resta...

    $209.00

    Ver detalle