Do me a Favour - Drop Dead

Do me a Favour - Drop Dead
Author: James Hadley Chase
Publisher: Murder Room
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2013-12-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1471903931

Keith Devery, burdened with a criminal record, arrives in Wicksteed, a prosperous little town on the Pacific coast. He is looking for any job that will provide eating money. It is when he meets Beth Marshall - whose husband, a local drunk, is to inherit $1,000,000 - that he realises there's a way to get back in the big league. Together they ruthlessly plot the perfect murder, but Keith soon finds himself at the centre of a double-bluff. Beth has plans of her own once the money is hers ...

Do Me a Favour - Drop Dead

Do Me a Favour - Drop Dead
Author: James Hadley Chase
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2013-12-14
Genre: Detective and mystery stories
ISBN: 9781471903922

Keith Devery, burdened with a criminal record, arrives in Wicksteed, a prosperous little town on the Pacific coast. He is looking for any job that will provide eating money. It is when he meets Beth Marshall - whose husband, a local drunk, is to inherit $1,000,000 - that he realises there's a way to get back in the big league. Together they ruthlessly plot the perfect murder, but Keith soon finds himself at the centre of a double-bluff. Beth has plans of her own once the money is hers ...

Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang

Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang
Author: John Ayto
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2010-02-11
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0199232059

Offering coverage of over 6,000 slang words and expressions from the Cockney 'abaht' to the American term 'zowie', this is the most authoritative dictionary of slang from the 20th and 21st centuries.

Curious Phrases (Collins Dictionary of)

Curious Phrases (Collins Dictionary of)
Author: Leslie Dunkling
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2014-12-18
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 0007598122

The ebook edition of the Collins Dictionary of Curious Phrases is an updated and revised version of Leslie Dunkling’s classic work on curious and baffling phrases.

Stone the Crows

Stone the Crows
Author: John Ayto
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 438
Release: 2008
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

"Drawing on the unique resources of the Oxford English Dictionary, Stone the Crows features over 6,000 slang words and expressions, from the British beer goggles, through the American cockamamie, to the Australian gigglehouse. This collection contains old favourites as well as the very latest slang terms. In addition to the A-Z entries, the book contains a comprehensive thematic index, details of origins, dates of first printed use, and thousands of illustrative quotations from famous names including John Lennon and Woody Allen." --Book Jacket.

St. James Guide to Crime & Mystery Writers

St. James Guide to Crime & Mystery Writers
Author: Jay P. Pederson
Publisher: Saint James Press
Total Pages: 1304
Release: 1996
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

Provides information on the most influential English-language writers of the crime and mystery genre. Each entry includes author biographies; complete bibliographies; lists of critical studies; locations of manuscripts; the writer's own comments on his or her work, when available; and an essay written by an expert of the genre.

Letters to Roy

Letters to Roy
Author: Antoinette De Waal
Publisher: New Voices Pub
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2008
Genre: Women
ISBN:

Twentieth-century Crime and Mystery Writers

Twentieth-century Crime and Mystery Writers
Author: Lesley Henderson
Publisher: Chicago : St. James Press
Total Pages: 1338
Release: 1991
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

**** Cited in Sheehy and BCL3. The foremost reference in the field, completely revised and updated, and now covering about 600 authors, mainly English-language writers whose work appeared during or since the time of Conan Doyle. The entry for each writer consists of a biography, a bibliography, and a signed critical essay. Living authors were invited to add a comment on their work; many of them accepted, and their remarks are both entertaining and enlightening. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR