Prisoner's Base finds Nero Wolfe's legman Archie guilt-ridden and seeking the detective's help. Three women have been murdered, one a towel company heiress. Is her fortune-hunting husband involved, or were greedy business associates behind her death? As usual Wolfe's sleuthing talents puzzle out the truth. Michael Pritchard's clear, strong, and pleasant reading supports the tale and helps keep the atmosphere charged. Entertaining and suspenseful; recommended.
Hotshot Puzzles are readers with a difference. Every two pages there is a puzzle to solve. The stories are carefully graded at five levels, and are written for young teenagers.
Added by: deception | Karma: 319.20 | Fiction literature | 16 January 2010
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Jeffrey Archer - A Prisoner Of Birth
If Danny Cartwright had proposed to Beth Wilson the day before, or the day after, he would not have been arrested and charged with the murder of his best friend. And when the four prosecution witnesses are a barrister, a popular actor, an aristocrat and the youngest partner in an established firm's history, who is going to believe his side of the story?
In "A Prisoner in the Caucasus", by Leo Tolstoy, Tartar rebels take a Russian officer prisoner in order to collect a ransom. But the officer's one thought throughout his cruel ordeal is to escape.
The Collector was Fowles' first published novel. The title character is Frederick, a butterfly collector, who decides to "collect" the long-admired-from-a-distance object of his fantasy, an art student named Miranda.
