When the notorious investigative journalist, Rhoda Gradwyn, books into Mr. Chandler-Powell's private clinic in Dorset for the removal of a disfiguring, long-standing facial scar, she has every prospect of a successful operation by a distinguished surgeon, a week's peaceful convalescence in one of Dorset's most beautiful manor houses and the beginning of a new life. She will never leave Cheverell Manor alive. When Adam Dalgliesh and his team are called in to investigate the murder - and a second death occurs - even more complicated problems than the question of innocence or guilt arise.
Night is coming and small things without words are going to sleep . . . sleepy bunnies, sleepy birds, and sleepy children, too, are getting under their covers. "Jean Charlot's illustrations are first-rate." —NYT.
Barbara Bader called this 1943 book, now restored to its original size and format, "the first of the true bedtime books."
"Eraser" is the code name for the best man in the witness protection business, who erases people's original identities to give them new, safer, lives. But when Eraser meets a young woman called Lee, they soon realize not everyone in the business wants to protect witnesses
Having been born in the seafaring town of Salem, Massachusetts, I, Ben Lathrop, had as my life's ambition the desire to ship before the mast. I was a lad of sixteen when in the year 1809, my took me to see his good friend, Captain Joseph Whidden, the master of a ship called The Island Princess.
