Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: patricia moyes

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  • A SIX LETTER WORD FOR DEATH
    PATRICIA MOYES
    A killer of a crossword draws Inspector Tibbett into a mystery with "considerable charm, atmosphere (an Isle of Wight travelogue), and English geniality" ( Kirkus Reviews). It's a slow day at Scotland Yard, so Inspector Henry Tibbett takes a busman's holiday, immersing himself in the world of puzzling puzzlers. The hijinks kick off with an amusing gift: Someone unnamed has sent...

    $119.00

  • ANGEL DEATH
    PATRICIA MOYES
    A devilishly complex mystery in a heavenly setting puts Emmy Tibbett in the role of sleuth—from "the author who put the 'who' back in whodunit" ( Chicago Daily News). Fans of Emmy Tibbett, have we got the book for you! Vacationing with friends in the Caribbean, Emmy and Henry meet a sprightly and delightful spinster who spins a yarn about a young woman lost at sea and then (per...

    $119.00

  • WHO IS SIMON WARWICK?
    PATRICIA MOYES
    "[A] playfully old-fashioned merry-go-round of missing heirs, false claimants, and fabricated identities . . . Ingenious and elegant." — Kirkus Reviews Millionaire Lord Charlton altered his will in favor of his nephew, Simon Warwick, who had been adopted by American parents when his own were killed in World War II. When Lord Charlton dies, two men claiming to be Simon Warwick t...

    $119.00

  • THE COCONUT KILLINGS
    PATRICIA MOYES
    A tropical Inspector Tibbett mystery from the author who "has the authentic Agathian gift for mixing the ordinary and the sinister" ( Financial Times). What would you do if a U.S. Senator was found murdered with a machete on the grounds of your exclusive golf club in the Caribbean? Maybe order another umbrella drink and work on your tan . . . or if you're John and Margaret Colv...

    $164.00

  • BLACK WIDOWER
    PATRICIA MOYES
    A scandal that's too hot to handle sends Inspector Tibbett to the Caribbean in a jet-setting mystery from "the author who put the 'who' back in whodunit" ( Chicago Daily News). Mavis Ironmonger is nobody's idea of a good diplomatic wife. She drinks too much, she's awfully friendly with the staff at the Washington embassy, and her music-hall roots have a way of bursting out at t...

    $119.00

  • THE CURIOUS AFFAIR OF THE THIRD DOG
    PATRICIA MOYES
    "A mystery that throws Superintendent Henry Tibbett and wife Emmy head first into the greyhound racing underworld; a lively read." — Northern Echo One of the oddities of Golden Age fiction was its fixation on the occult and the generally weird—ancient gypsy curses, haunted burial grounds, etc. It's therefore something of a relief to settle in with the refreshingly literal Ms. M...

    $164.00

  • SEASON OF SNOWS AND SINS
    PATRICIA MOYES
    Tibbett takes to the slopes. "A good who-did-do-it mystery, a Swiss ski resort setting, vigorous, professional writing. For a long winter evening: ideal." — The Times If I were Scotland Yard, I might be that put-out with Henry Tibbett: He seems never to stay in England for more than about ten minutes, and he's always taking vacations! This time around, he and the ever-pleasant ...

    $119.00

  • WHO SAW HER DIE?
    PATRICIA MOYES
    "Of all Miss Moyes's stories of Chief Superintendent Henry Tibbett and his wife Emmy this, for really pretty classic detection, is far and away the best." — The Times Literary Supplement A bit of a delicious throwback, in many senses of the word. For starters, we have a weekend house party, that hallmark of Golden Age crime-fiction, and apparently still going strong in 1970, wh...

    $149.00

  • DEATH AND THE DUTCH UNCLE
    PATRICIA MOYES
    A classic mystery "bubbling with humor, bursting with clues, and switching from petty misdemeanors on the home shores to intrigue and adventure abroad." — Sheffield Morning Telegraph As "Pudge" Coombe-Peters proved, Moyes had a gift for the kind of dreadful nicknames the British are so good at. This time around it's "Flutter" Byers, a small-time hood who gets himself killed in ...

    $164.00

  • MURDER FANTASTICAL
    PATRICIA MOYES
    An Inspector Tibbetts mystery "which only serves to prove how ingeniously well Patricia Moyes is keeping up her variations on the classical whodunit" ( The Sun). Think the Country-House Murder is a relic of the 1930s? Think again, and say hello to the Manciples, exactly the kind of eccentric family you'd like to see lording it over your little English village. Sadly, the Mancip...

    $164.00

  • FALLING STAR
    PATRICIA MOYES
    "Wins my Oscar for the craftiest murder method cooked up (literally) this month" from the author of the classic mystery Dead Men Don't Ski ( Sunday Telegraph). Rich, aristocratic, and at the heart of swinging London, "Pudge" Coombe-Peters has everything except a decent nickname. And in fact, he has two special attributes: He owns the narration—the drawling, deliciously snobbish...

    $164.00

  • JOHNNY UNDER GROUND
    PATRICIA MOYES
    Inspector Henry Tibbett's better half, wife Emmy, takes center stage in a WWII mystery. "The classical whodunnit remains safe in Miss Moyes' hands." — The Sun To date, Emmy Tibbett has been something of a secondary character—a placid, pleasantly plump presence who serves mostly to make her detective-husband Henry all the more likeable. With Johnny, however, Emmy at last gets a ...

    $149.00