Word Play - The Peter Robinson Collection
Published on 20. July 2007
Book
Mixed media product
978-0-230-01717-7 (ISBN)
Description
"Macmillan Digital Audio" are delighted to introduce a brand new format for audio book lovers everywhere. "Word Play" is an incredibly light and portable pre-loaded player which means you can 'plug and play' your favourite audiobooks anywhere in the world. The player runs off a standard AAA battery so they are easily re-chargeable and they come with a free set of headphones so you can start listening to your audio books straight away.Three cases for Inspector Alan Banks to solve..."Gallows View" - A Peeping Tom is frightening the women of Eastvale; two glue-sniffing young thugs are breaking into homes and robbing people; an old woman may or may not have been murdered. "A Dedicated Man" - The body of a well-liked local historian is found half-buried under a drystone wall near the village of Helmthorpe, Swainsdale. Who on earth would want to kill such a thoughtful, dedicated man? "A Necessary End" - In the usually peaceful town of Eastvale, a simmering tension has now reached breaking point. An anti-nuclear demonstration has ended in violence, leaving one policeman stabbed to death.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Pan Macmillan
Dimensions
Height: 140 mm
Width: 144 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Duration
Dauer: 540 min
Weight
98 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-230-01717-7 (9780230017177)
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Peter Robinson is author of twenty-four books in the Number One Bestselling DCI Banks series as well as two collections of short stories and three standalone novels, including the Number One bestseller Before The Poison. Peter's critically acclaimed crime novels have won numerous awards in Britain, the United States, Canada and Europe, and are published in translation all over the world.
Peter's DCI Banks was a major ITV1 drama by Left Bank productions. Stephen Tompkinson (Wild at Heart, Ballykissangel) plays Inspector Banks, and Andrea Lowe (The Bill, Murphy's Law) plays DI Annie Cabbot.
Peter's standalone novel Before the Poison won the IMBA's 2013 Dilys Award as well as the 2012 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel by the Crime Writers of Canada. This was Peter's sixth Arthur Ellis award.
Peter Robinson grew up in Yorkshire, and lived between Richmond and Canada. He died in October 2022.
Neil Pearson's many screen credits include Whistleblower, Dirty Work, Heaven on Earth, Between the Lines, Drop the Dead Donkey, Fever Pitch and Bridget Jones's Diary . His theatre work includes Cloaca, Closer, Therese Raquin , Loot and Spend, Spend, Spend.
Peter's DCI Banks was a major ITV1 drama by Left Bank productions. Stephen Tompkinson (Wild at Heart, Ballykissangel) plays Inspector Banks, and Andrea Lowe (The Bill, Murphy's Law) plays DI Annie Cabbot.
Peter's standalone novel Before the Poison won the IMBA's 2013 Dilys Award as well as the 2012 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel by the Crime Writers of Canada. This was Peter's sixth Arthur Ellis award.
Peter Robinson grew up in Yorkshire, and lived between Richmond and Canada. He died in October 2022.
Neil Pearson's many screen credits include Whistleblower, Dirty Work, Heaven on Earth, Between the Lines, Drop the Dead Donkey, Fever Pitch and Bridget Jones's Diary . His theatre work includes Cloaca, Closer, Therese Raquin , Loot and Spend, Spend, Spend.