Callum Hale
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For Frank Harte, an impoverished schoolteacher, January in London means a yearly fight to survive. A former soldier, his injuries have barred him from all but the lowest-paid posts, and the cold incapacitates him still more.
The chance to work as a tutor to Viscount Gracewater, son of the famous big-game hunting Earl, comes as a lifeline to Frank. The Earl's Knightsbridge mansion is huge, elegant - and, most temptingly, kept warm from basement to...
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When Rex Sutherland and his employer, Eleanor, Dowager Duchess of Drakeford, find a body by the lake of Bircham Manor, Her Grace – or 'HG' as Rex calls her – is reluctant to let it ruin their picnic. After all, HG is a sleuthing professional and at home with crime scenes, having cracked many a case with Scotland Yard's top dog, Inspector Whipple, over the years. The duchess has been invited to the manor by her friend Colonel Crispen Percival-Travers,...
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The escapades of four animal friends who live along a river in the English countryside--Toad, Mole, Rat, and Badger. Since its beginnings as a series of stories told to Kenneth Grahame's young son, The Wind in the Willows has gone on to become one of the best-loved children's books of all time. The timeless story of Toad, Rat, Mole, and Badger, brought to vivid life by Ernest H. Shepard's illustrations, has delighted readers of all ages for more than...
