Jack Wenlock is the last of the Railway Goslings: that fabled cadre of railway detectives created at the Weeping Cross Railway Servants` Orphanage, who trod the corridors of the GWR trains in the years 1925 to 1947. Sworn to uphold the name of God`s Wonderful Railway, Jack keeps the trains free of fare dodgers & purse-stealers, bounders & confidence tricksters, German spies & ladies of the night. But now, as the clock ticks down towards the nationalisation of the railways Jack finds himself investigating a case that begins with an abducted great aunt, but soon develops into something far darker & more dangerous. It reaches up to the corridors of power & into the labyrinth of the greatest mystery in all the annals of railway lore
- the disappearance in 1915 of twenty-three nuns from the 7.25 Swindon to Bristol Temple Meads, or the case of the ` Hail Mary` Celeste. Shady government agents, drunken riverboat captains, a missing manuscript & a melancholic gorilla all collide on a journey that will take your breath away.
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Victor Frankenstein begins his anatomy experiments in a barn in the secluded village of Headington, near Oxford. The coroner`s office provides the corpses he needs
- but they have often died by violent means & are damaged & putrifying. Victor moves his coils & jars & electrical fluids to a deserted pottery manufactury in Limehouse. &, from Limehouse, makes contact with the Doomesday Men
- the resurrectionists. Victor pays better than any hospital for the bodies of the very recently dead. Even so, perfect specimens are hard to come by...until that Thames-side dawn when Victor, waiting, wrapped in his greatcoat, on his wooden jetty, hears the splashing of oars & sees in the half-light that slung into the stern of the approaching boat is the corpse of a handsome young man, one hand trailing in the water...

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The game is afoot & the world`s greatest detective needs your help. With Watson away, Holmes has four tricky cases & he needs your powers of deduction to unravel the mysteries. Explore Victorian England with Sherlock Holmes & investigate the theft of a priceless jewel in The Cherry in the Cake, solve the mysterious death of the Earl of Monthaven in The Adventure of the Cursed Cartouche, go on a ghost hunt in The Terror of Traymar House & delve into the magic of London in The Adventure of the Vanishing Lord. Will you assist Sherlock Holmes? The answer is surely elementary. ...

The game is afoot & the world`s greatest detective needs your help. With Watson away, Holmes has four tricky cases & he needs your powers of deduction to unravel the mysteries. Explore Victorian England with Sherlock Holmes & track down a kidnapper in The Pound of the Baskervilles, investigate an art theft in The Forger & the Fake, unravel a mystery in The Adventure of the Poisoned Apprentice & solve a gruesome riddle in The Adventure of the Found Finger. Will you assist Sherlock Holmes? The answer is surely elementary. ...

When Captain Haddock meets a gipsy palm reader, he dismisses a forewarning about a beautiful lady`s stolen jewels. But when the famous opera singer Bianca Castafiore suddenly descends on Marlinspike Hall, the gipsy`s prediction seems to be all too real. Can Tintin catch the emerald thief? ...

Sweeping American history from 1941 to the 21st century, this is this story of four men
- two white brothers from rural Alabama
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A group of travellers chance to meet, first in a castle, then a tavern. Their powers of speech are magically taken from them & instead they have only tarot cards with which to tell their stories. What follows is an exquisite interlinking of narratives, & a fantastic, surreal & chaotic history of all human consciousness. ...

Lorina, a young schoolgirl, is led by a black rabbit through a wood to a magical l&. There she finds a race of green people, who are all overworked, starving & suffering from the toxic fumes billowing out of a nearby castle. She decides to gain access to the castle for the poor green people, & within its walls she meets the ”insiders”, selfish creatures who hoard all the resources & treat the outsiders as slaves. Her quest leads her to encounter the bureaurat, the superviper, the farmadillo &, eventually, the awful Piggident himself. Will she be able to save the green people from the cruelty of these ”insiders”? ...

Illustrated with more than 200 splendid images including beautiful photographs, fine-art paintings, reconstructions & maps. Covers an amazingly wide range of Castles & Stately Houses from the early Tudor palaces & the later ` Prodigy Houses` of the Elizabethan era, to the Jacobean country houses & the homes of the Restoration style Detailed castle-by-castle guide interesting & thorough information along with beautiful colour photographs ...

The Castles Cycle Route, an impressive 1300-km long Burgenstrasse trail from the residence of the Elector of Palatinate in Mannheim, across the picturesque towns of Heidelberg, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Nuremberg, Bamberg, Coburg, Bayreuth, Mariánské Lázne & Plzen, to its final destination in Prague. The route is presented by the Verlag Esterbauer in guide with maps at 1:75, 000 showing the route & its variants. Extensive information is conveyed by symbols, indicating road surface, campsites & other accommodation, repair workshops, recreational facilities, places of interest, etc. A list of various types of accommodation facilities is included.IMPORTANT
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- ALL THE TEXT IN THIS TITLE IS GERMAN ONLY. MAP LEGEND

Includes:: ENGLISH (please see our sample image) & the information provided on the maps is sufficient to use this title without any knowledge of German.ABOUT THE BIKELINE SERIES: all the titles have been meticulously researched & are highly regarded in their native Germany. Most titles, as indicated in their individual descriptions, also include a separate section listing selected accommodation, from hotels to campsites, youth hostels & rooms in private houses, all with addresses, telephone numbers & price range. Information on towns along each route

Includes:: a list of places of interest, with opening hours, etc. Several of the guides also have street plans. To see the list of other titles in the Bikeline series please click on the series link.





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