6 Ergebnisse.

A comedy of manners and the odd dead bodyLondon is full of clubs. The Garrick, for example, caters to those with theatrical inclinations, the Athenaeum to eggheads. But the Asterisk may have the strictest membership regulations: Acquitted murderers only.Happily, Benjamin Cann fits the brief. Sure, he strangled Rachel Bolger with a length of pongee silk, but the jury thought different, so while Benji's old landlord may not want him back, the As...

A Chelsea, nel cuore di Londra, Clifford Flush ha fondato il Club dell'Asterisco, un circolo molto esclusivo che potrebbe anche essere chiamato il Club degli Assassini. Già, perché per poter essere ammessi in quell'ambiente riservato, che garantisce vita natural durante cibo, pernottamento e tutti i servizi essenziali, i potenziali soci devono possedere un solo requisito: essere stati assolti ingiustamente da un'accusa di omicidio. Purtroppo p...

Memers of the Asterisk Club, a group of wrongfully acquitted murderers, decide to become homicide consultants to potential killers wanting to follow in their footsteps.

Keine Beschreibung.

Sukie's grandmother did in five victims with an ax and managed to get herself enshrined in wax in the Chamber of Horrors, so when Sukie's husband finds her stuffing a body into a housemaid's cubboard, he thinks nothing of swapping it for a stuffed lion.

This 1951 comic mystery in the tradition of Eveyln Waugh, Sarah Caudwell, Ruth Dudley Edwards and the early Robert Barnard features a London club for wrongfully acquitted murders and was the No. 1 Paperback Bestseller for December 2005 for stores in the Independent Mystery Booksellers Assocaition.