Graham Greene
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
1980.
Physical Desc
156 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The enigmatic Dr. Fischer is a millionaire, student of human nature, practical joker, and party giver. His parties are famous or perhaps nortorious for they are part of his experiment to see how far the very, very rich will go to satisfy their greed. His guest risk not only humiliation at his hands, but death.
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume no. 71
Language
English
Description
The central figure of this book is Castle, an old member of "the firm", now efficiently (if ungloriously) processing intelligence from England's former African colonies. His junior colleague, Davis, is more flamboyant. When a "leak" is traced back to the department, it is natural that Davis, the hopeless romantic in love with an unattainable major-general's daughter, should come under suspicion.
Author
Language
English
Description
The third man : Rollo Martins, a second-rate novelist, arrives penniless to visit his friend and hero, Harry Lime. But Harry has died in suspicious circumstances, and the police are closing in on his associates. The fallen idol : A small boy is caught up in the games adults play. Left in the care of the butler and his wife while his parents go on holiday, Philip realizes too late the danger of lies and deceit. But the truth is even deadlier.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
For Arthur Rowe, the trip to the charity fete was a joyful step back into adolescence, a chance to forget the nightmare of the blitz - and the aching guilt of having mercifully murdered his sick wife. He was surviving alone, aside from the war, until he happened to guess both the true and the false weight of the cake. From that moment, he finds himself ruthlessly hunted, the quarry of malign and shadowy forces, from which he endeavors to escape with...
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
©1985
Physical Desc
157, [1] pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the drive the gravel was obscured by weeds: a tree had fallen right across the way, and though someone had lopped the branches for firewood, the trunk still lay there to prove that for many seasons no car had driven up to the house. Every step was familiar to the bearded man who came cautiously round every bend like a stranger.
10) Brighton Rock
Publisher
IFC Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
Pinkie is a desperate youth who is hell bent on clawing his way up through the ranks of organized crime. When a young and very innocent waitress, Rose, stumbles on evidence linking him to a revenge killing, he sets out to seduce her to secure her silence. Special features: a trailer, featurette, behind the scenes, and interviews.
16) Ways of escape
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
c1980
Physical Desc
320 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
17) Collected stories: including May we borrow your husband?, A sense of reality, Twenty-one stories
Author
Publisher
The Viking Press
Pub. Date
1973, ©1972
Physical Desc
xii, 561, [1] pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
18) A sort of life
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
[1971]
Physical Desc
220 p. 22 cm.
Language
English
20) 21 stories
Author
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
1969
Physical Desc
vi, 245 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
