Constable robinson dez 2016 (3 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Seymour has to keep the cat firmly in the bag . . .

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From the author of the award-winning Mamur Zapt books, the second in a new series introducing Seymour of Special Branch and set in the British embassies and Consulates of Europe in the early 1900s. The Second Secretary of the Embassy in Istanbul has died in decidedly strange circumstances while attempting to swim the Dardanelles Straits, the passage between Europe and Asia, heavily used by warships, liners, tankers and cargo vessels of all kinds. A romantic attempt to repeat the legendary feat of Leander, as the Embassy says Or an attempt to spy out a possible landing place for a British military expedition, as the Turks insist Whichever, Cunningham has ended up with a bullet in his head. The suspicious circumstances of his death have to be investigated so the Foreign Office sends out an officer of the Special Branch: Seymour. As Seymour tries to untangle the threads which lead to Cunningham's death, their ends lead him into all parts of the city, from the little box shops of the Avenue of Slippers to Les Petits Champs des Morts, where fashionable Turkish ladies loiter among the tombs to eat sweets; from the crowded coffee houses around the Galata Bridge where men sit all day smoking bubble pipes to the heart of the Topkapi Palace itself.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - More than 120 of MAC's very best Daily Mail cartoons featuring Her Majesty, from the 1970s until the present day, in celebration of the Queen's 90th birthday.