Word Play - The Crime Collection
Macmillan Digital Audio (Publisher)
Book
Mixed media product
978-0-230-01754-2 (ISBN)
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Three cases for three very different detectives. . .
Dead Simple introduces us to Detective Superintendent Roy Grace . Grace investigates the case of a missing bridegroom. Is it a harmless stag night prank gone wrong or is it something more sinister?
Detective Inspector Madden, from Scotland Yard is called upon to aid the Surrey police force in River of Darkness. A grisly murder echos horrors of World War I and the madness that Madden has witnessed there.
In Sovereign it is Autumn, 1541. Lawyer Matthew Shardlake and his assistant Jack Barak are in York, awaiting the arrival of the Great Progress but the murder of a local glazier involves Shardlake in deeper mysteries.
Three cases for three very different detectives. . .
Dead Simple introduces us to Detective Superintendent Roy Grace . Grace investigates the case of a missing bridegroom. Is it a harmless stag night prank gone wrong or is it something more sinister?
Detective Inspector Madden, from Scotland Yard is called upon to aid the Surrey police force in River of Darkness. A grisly murder echos horrors of World War I and the madness that Madden has witnessed there.
In Sovereign it is Autumn, 1541. Lawyer Matthew Shardlake and his assistant Jack Barak are in York, awaiting the arrival of the Great Progress but the murder of a local glazier involves Shardlake in deeper mysteries.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Pan Macmillan
Duration
Dauer: 900 min
ISBN-13
978-0-230-01754-2 (9780230017542)
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Peter James is the international bestselling author of many award-winning novels. His Detective Superintendent Roy Grace series, set in Brighton, has been translated into thirty-seven languages with worldwide sales of over eighteen million copies, and has given him eleven consecutive Sunday Times number ones. In 2015 WHSmith customers publicly voted him the Greatest Crime Author of All Time and in 2016 he became the recipient of the coveted CWA Diamond Dagger lifetime achievement award for sustained excellence. Peter has also written a short story collection, A Twist of the Knife, and his standalone titles include Perfect People and The House on Cold Hill. He has also co-written a non-fiction account of Brighton's toughest cases with former detective Graham Bartlett entitled Death Comes Knocking. The Perfect Murder, Dead Simple and Not Dead Enough have all been turned into smash-hit stage plays. All his novels reflect his deep interest in the world of the police. Three of his novels have been filmed and before becoming a full-time author he produced numerous films, including The Merchant of Venice, starring Al Pacino and Jeremy Irons. He divides his time between his homes in Notting Hill, London and near Brighton in Sussex. Rennie Airth was born in South Africa and has worked as a foreign correspondent for Reuters. The first novel in his John Madden series, River of Darkness, was published in 1999 to huge critical acclaim, was shortlisted for four crime fiction awards and won the Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere in France. River of Darkness was followed by The Blood-Dimmed Tide, the CWA Ellis Peters Award shortlisted The Dead of Winter and now The Reckoning. C. J. Sansom was educated at Birmingham University, where he took a BA and then a Ph.D. in history. After working in a variety of jobs, he retrained as a solicitor and practised in Sussex, until becoming a full-time writer. Sansom is the bestselling author of the acclaimed Shardlake series, the Spanish Civil War thriller Winter in Madrid and the number one bestseller Dominion. He lives in Sussex.
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Anton Lesser is one of Britain's leading classical actors. He has played many principal roles for the RSC including Richard III, Romeo and Petruchio. His many television credits include Spooks, The Politician's Wife and playing Charles Dickens in London. Nathaniel Parker is well known for his role as Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley in The Inspector Lynley Mysteries. His other TV credits include Bleak House, Vanity Fair, Far From the Madding Crowd, A Village Affair and McCallum. His theatre work includes A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Winter's Tale and Richard II at the RSC.
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Anton Lesser is one of Britain's leading classical actors. He has played many principal roles for the RSC including Richard III, Romeo and Petruchio. His many television credits include Spooks, The Politician's Wife and playing Charles Dickens in London. Nathaniel Parker is well known for his role as Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley in The Inspector Lynley Mysteries. His other TV credits include Bleak House, Vanity Fair, Far From the Madding Crowd, A Village Affair and McCallum. His theatre work includes A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Winter's Tale and Richard II at the RSC.