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La misma semana que Kinsey recupera su piso destrozado por una bomba (véase E deevidencia) y cumple 33 años ocurren dos cosas que durante un tiempo van a trastornar su vida : viajando desierto a través en su Volkswagen en busca de una anciana desaparecida, alguien desde una camioneta le vuela inesperadamente los neumáticos. Sólo entonces Kinsey se convence de que un ex convicto, a quien ella había contribuido a apresar, al salir en libertad ha...

La ayuda que, en esta ocasión, le pide un tal Alvin Limardo a la investigadora privada KinseyMillhone es más bien rutinaria : localizar a un joven que le ha hecho un favor y a quien adeuda un talón de U.S.$ 25.000. Demasiado tarde se enterará Kinsey Millone de que su verdadero nombre es John Dagget y de que, además de mentiroso, alcohólico y ex convicto, es también un fiambre más en la morgue del distrito. Los polis dicen que murió ahogado, pe...

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Cuando encontraron el yate de Wendell Jaffe a la deriva, todo indicaba que se había tirado por la borda. No sólo lo confirmaba la nota que él había dejado, sino también su desastrosa situación financiera. Aun así, poco antes, había suscrito con la compañía para la que trabaja Kinsey Millhone un seguro de vida de quinientos mil dólares a nombre de Dana, su mujer, quien, sin embargo, al haber desaparecido el cadáver de su marido, tuvo que espera...

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This book examines changes and transitions in the way water is managed in urban environments. This book originated from a joint French-Australian initiative on water and land management held in Montpellier, France. The book delivers practical insights into urban water management. It links scientific insights of researchers with the practical experiences of urban water practitioners to understand and respond to key trends in how urban water is ...

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In hindsight, I marvel at how clueless I was . . . What I ask myself even now is whether I should have picked up the truth any faster than I did, which was not nearly fast enough. A glamorous redhead wants to locate the son she put up for adoption thirty-two years ago - an easy two hundred bucks for P. I. Kinsey Millhone. But when Kinsey finds she was paid with marked bills, and her client is nowhere to be found, it becomes clear the mystery w...

‘Kinsey Millhone is up there with the giants of the private-eye genre . . . Exhilarating’ Times Literary SupplementIn 1979, four teenage boys from an elite private school sexually assault a fourteen-year-old classmate – and film the attack. Not long after, the tape goes missing and the suspected thief, a fellow classmate, is murdered. In the investigation that follows, one boy turns in evidence for the state and two of his peers are convicted....

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Excerpt from Vocation or the Call of the Divine, Master to a Sister's Life: And Other Writings on the Religious Life The Work of Sisterhoods now recognized by the Church - Many Questions asked concerning their Interior Government and Life - Classes specially interested, Clergy, Parents, and Aspirants - The Information and Help the Book is intended to give. Sisterhoods have now for a long time been established in our Church. The first efforts...

Excerpt from A Journey Godward of Doulos Iesou Kristou (a Servant of Jesus Christ)Many parts of Boston have undergone changes, not merely social and structural, but geographical and almost geological. Water has been made into land and hills carried into the sea. But the site of the house where Bishop Grafton was born is still occupied by a habitation, being a part of that upon which the Touraine, the chief hotel, now stands.About the Publisher...

Over 750 detailed, high-quality illustrations from rare 19th-century sources: armor, helmets, swords, crossbows, battle scenes, jousts, etc. Great for medieval flavor.

Over 460 royalty-free antique illustrations of men and women playing baseball, football, tennis, golf, polo, billiards, many more sports. Wonderful old-time ambiance.

An impressive sampling of life drawings by 45 of the art world's greatest masters displays the styles of figure drawing across five centuries, from Durer and Michelangelo to Modigliani and Derain. Featured artists include Raphael, Rubens, van Dyck, Hogarth, Constable, Ingres, Gauguin, Matisse, Rodin, and others. 45 black-and-white illustrations. Captions.