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Four-time Edgar Award–winning author Lawrence Block’s definitive essay collection on the art of writing fictionFor ten years, crime novelist Lawrence Block funneled his wealth of writing expertise into a monthly column for Writer’s Digest. Collected here for the first time are those pieces illuminating the tricks of the authorial trade, from creating vibrant characters and generating seamless plots, to conquering writer’s block and experimenti...

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As Europe prepares for the Nuremberg trials, a killer stalks a broken city Nuremberg is a dead city. In the aftermath of World War II, two-thirds of its population has fled or is deceased, with thirty thousand bodies turning the ruined industrial center into a massive open grave. Here, the vilest war criminals in history will be tried. But in Nuremberg's dark streets and back alleys, chaos rules. Captain Nathan Morgan is one of those charged w...

1901. Karl Werthen and his colleague, renowned criminologist Dr Hanns Gross, are investigating a bizarre series of murders in the small Austrian town of Graz. Meanwhile, back in Vienna, Karl's wife Berthe is looking into what seems to be a fraudulent breeding scheme involving the prized Lipizzaner horses. Could the two investigations be connected?

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Religion influences the views and actions of many people, in both political and personal ways. To make sense of many historical and current events, to learn how many people find meaning and purpose in their lives, students and the general public need to understand the development and doctrines of the world's religions. UXL's <, I>World Religions Reference Library<, /I> meets the demand for a thorough, objective resource covering the histor...

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A peace-seeking man must unravel the mystery that led to his former lover's death Expat American journalist Sam Kramer is burned out: too many dead bodies, too many wars covered, too little meaning in it all. He's got a dead-end job at the Daily European as the correspondent for Vienna, where nothing happens now that the Cold War is over. And that is exactly how Kramer likes it. But his private neutral zone is shattered with news of the su...

The Crusades "covers everything from the First Crusade (1095-99) through the Ninth Crusade (1271-72)." The Crusades: Primary Sources" includes full or excerpted papal documents, first person accounts (William of Tyre, Anna Comnena, Fulcher of Chartes, and others), various truces, military records and the Magna Carta.

The three-volume "The Crusades "covers everything from the First Crusade (1095-99) through the Ninth Crusade (1271-72). "The Crusades: Almanac" discusses various topics, including the conquering of Jerusalem by the caliph Umar, pilgrimages to the Holy Land, the traditions of chivalry, Shiites and Sunnis, territorial expansion and colonization as motivations for the crusades, Knights Hospitalers and Knights Templars and more." The Crusades: Bio...

The Crusades "covers everything from the First Crusade (1095-99) through the Ninth Crusade (1271-72). " The Crusades: Biographies" explores many key figures, such as Pope Urban II, Saladin, Pope Innocent III, Peter the Hermit, Richard I of England, Frederick I of Germany, Francis of Assisi, Stephen of Cloyes and others.

An ex-Nazi on the run will do whatever it takes to keep his vicious past from being exposed in this chilling novel of suspense. On the coast of Central America, an aging man sits down to pen his memoirs. He begins with his childhood in Vienna, just after World War I, when his family lived in respectable poverty and his greatest pleasure was being rocked to sleep in the lap of his beloved babysitter. It would be a sweet tale if the author cou...

March, 1902. When Herr Karl, head waiter of the Cafe Burg, is found dead, private enquiries agent Karl Werthen is hired to investigate. At the same time, he is commissioned to locate a missing letter from the emperor Franz Josef to his mistress. But what incendiary information does it contain?

February, 1917. A lone German agent is despatched to Washington to prevent the British delivering a devastating telegram to President Wilson, thereby bringing the USA into the First World War. But his mission will present him with a terrible choice: loyalty to his comrades in the trenches or the loss of the one woman he has ever truly loved.

1901. Karl Werthen and his colleague, renowned criminologist Dr Hanns Gross, are investigating a bizarre series of murders in the small Austrian town of Graz. Meanwhile, back in Vienna, Karl's wife Berthe is looking into what seems to be a fraudulent breeding scheme involving the prized Lipizzaner horses. Could the two investigations be connected?

This revelatory look at Hitler's formative years in Vienna provides startling insights into the future Fuhrer. This history also contains rarely seen sketches and paintings by the founder of the Third Reich.