White Mischief
Author | : Cheryl Mason |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Intercountry marriage |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Cheryl Mason |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Intercountry marriage |
ISBN | : |
Author | : James Fox |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2014-05-06 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 1480489174 |
The riveting true story of decadence, deception, and murder among British aristocrats in colonial Kenya In 1941, with London burning in the Blitz, a group of hedonistic English nobles partied shamelessly in Kenya. Far removed from falling bombs, the wealthy elites of “Happy Valley” indulged in morphine, alcohol, and unrestricted sex, often with their friends’ spouses. But the party turned sinister in the early hours of a January morning for Josslyn Hay, Lord Erroll, who had been enjoying the favors of the beautiful young wife of a middle-aged neighbor. Hay was found dead, a bullet in his brain. The murder shocked the close-knit community of wealthy expatriates in Nairobi and shined a harsh light on their louche lifestyle. Three decades later, author James Fox researched the slaying of Lord Erroll, an unsolved crime still sheathed in a thick cloud of rumor and innuendo. What he discovered was both unsettling and luridly compelling. White Mischief is a spellbinding true-crime classic, a tale of privileged excess and the wages of sin, and an account of one writer’s determined effort to crack a cold and craven killing.
Author | : Paul Spicer |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2010-05-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0857200100 |
In Kenya's 'Happy Valley' in the years spanning the 1920s to the 1940s no one paid too much attention to the privileged colonial set as they farmed their estates, partied until dawn and indulged in extra-marital affairs. Not until Josslyn Hay, Earl of Erroll, was shot dead at the wheel of his Buick in the early hours of 24 January 1941. Some said the good-looking womaniser had it coming. He was a philanderer who could have had any number of enemies among cuckolded husbands who wanted revenge. Ageing Jock Delves Broughton stood trial for Erroll's murder but was acquitted and the mystery remained unsolved - until now. American heiress Alice de Janzé had been conducting a clandestine affair with Joss for years. Married into French aristocracy, her stunning beauty was to prove a fatal lure to men of adventure. Previously tried by a French court for shooting one of her lovers, scandal followed her wherever she went. She arrived in Kenya as a newly married Countess in the 1920s, but by 1941 she had turned forty and the years of partying had taken their toll. Pushed aside by Erroll for younger lovers, and increasingly isolated, Alice threw herself into an act of desperation, resulting in his murder and her own tragic demise. The Temptressnot only solves the mystery of Josslyn Hay's murder with the utmost conviction - it eloquently paints a portrait of a volatile, captivating woman.
Author | : Tim Madge |
Publisher | : Mainstream Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Coca |
ISBN | : 9781840184051 |
Cocaine and the coca plant, from which it is made, have a unique place in the history of recreational and illegal drugs. Despite governments vowing to eliminate it, cocaine has kept its status as the `champagne drug', associated in many peoples minds with a high-living, high-rolling lifestyle. It has long been the choice of emperors, kings politicians and pop stars. It was used 100 years ago by King Edward VII and his coterie at Balmoral; by Bleriot as he flew over the English Channel for the first time; and by millions of ordinary citizens in the USA - notably in the first decade of production of the most famous soft drink of them all Coca-Cola. This comprehensive book seeks to explain the cultural history of cocaine and the coca plant. White mischief journeys back many thousand of years ago to discover the drug's first use in South America -particulary among the Inca, who revered it as the `food of the gods' The author examines the rise of cocaine as a recreational drug. And he tells of the astonishing array of medics in Europe - including Sigmund Freud - who pushed it as the wonder drug of the age in the 1880s.
Author | : Laura Goode |
Publisher | : Candlewick Press |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2011-07-12 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0763646407 |
Esme Rockett, also known as MC Ferocious, rocks her suburban Minnesota Christian high school with more than the hip-hop music she makes with best friends Marcy ( DJ SheStorm) and Tess (The ConTessa) when she develops feelings for her co-MC, Rowie (MC Rohini).
Author | : Steve Stern |
Publisher | : Graywolf Press |
Total Pages | : 493 |
Release | : 2012-09-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1555970591 |
"In the 25 years since [Stern] published his first book, younger Jewish writers have run with a similar shtick . . . But Stern was there first." —The Toronto Globe and Mail The Book of Mischief triumphantly showcases twenty-five years of outstanding work by one of our true masters of the short story. Steve Stern's stories take us from the unlikely old Jewish quarter of the Pinch in Memphis to a turn-of-thecentury immigrant community in New York; from the market towns of Eastern Europe to a down-at-the-heels Catskills resort. Along the way we meet a motley assortment of characters: Mendy Dreyfus, whose bungee jump goes uncannily awry; Elijah the prophet turned voyeur; and the misfit Zelik Rifkin, who discovers the tree of dreams. Perhaps it's no surprise that Kafka's cockroach also makes an appearance in these pages, animated as they are by instances of bewildering transformation. The earthbound take flight, the meek turn incendiary, the powerless find unwonted fame. Weaving his particular brand of mischief from the wondrous and the macabre, Stern transforms us all through the power of his brilliant imagination.
Author | : Rob Jackson |
Publisher | : Boyds Mills Press |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781590782545 |
Offers young readers a delightful way to appreciate the attributes and behaviors of various animals.
Author | : Glen Cook |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2014-03-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0765334208 |
Arnhand, Castauriga, and Navaya lost their kings. The Grail Empire lost its empress. The Church lost its Patriarch, though he lives on as a fugitive. The Night lost Kharoulke the Windwalker, an emperor amongst the most primal and terrible gods. The Night goes on, in dread. The world goes on, in dread. The ice builds and slides southward. New kings come. A new empress will rule. Another rump polishes the Patriarchal Throne. But there is something new under the sun. The oldest and fiercest of the Instrumentalities has been destroyed--by a mortal. There is no new Windwalker, nor will there ever be. The world, battered by savage change, limps toward its destiny. And the ice is coming. Working God's Mischief is the savage, astounding new novel of The Instrumentalities of Night, by Glen Cook, a modern master of military fantasy.
Author | : Martin Clark |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2007-12-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307427277 |
Of The Many Aspects of Mobile Home Living, Martin Clark’s first novel, the New York Times Book Review wrote, “Like Nick Hornby in High Fidelity and Thomas McGuane in Nothing But Blue Skies, Clark has produced an oddly stirring portrait of a man in existential disarray.” Which–noted Malcolm Jones in Newsweek–“made me laugh so hard I fell off the sofa.” Plain Heathen Mischief ups the existential ante, as Joel King, a defrocked Baptist minister, finds life even more bedeviling once he’s served six months for a career-ending crime he might not even have committed. Now his incommunicado wife wants a divorce, the teenage vixen of his disgrace is suing him for a cool $5 million, a fresh start in Montana offers no hope for ex-cons of any religious persuasion, and the refuge provided by his sister turns as nasty as his parole officer. Talk about a crisis of faith. On the upside, a solicitous member of Joel’s former congregation invites him into a scam that could yield some desperately needed cash, and soon the down-on-his-luck preacher is involved with a flock of charming con men, crooked lawyers, and conniving youth. In a feat of bravura storytelling, Martin Clark ranges from the cross to the double cross, from Virginia to Las Vegas, from jail cells to trout streams, as he follows his Job-like hero through dubious choices and high-dollar insurance hustles to a redemption that no reader could possibly predict. Wildly imaginative, at times comic, at times profoundly sobering, and even more audacious than his wonderfully idiosyncratic debut, Plain Heathen Mischief is a spiritual revelation of the first order.
Author | : Frances Osborne |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2010-05-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0307476421 |
A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year An O, The Oprah Magazine #1 Terrific Read In an age of bolters—women who broke the rules and fled their marriages—Idina Sackville was the most celebrated of them all. Her relentless affairs, wild sex parties, and brazen flaunting of convention shocked high society and inspired countless writers and artists, from Nancy Mitford to Greta Garbo. But Idina’s compelling charm masked the pain of betrayal and heartbreak. Now Frances Osborne explores the life of Idina, her enigmatic great-grandmother, using letters, diaries, and family legend, following her from Edwardian London to the hills of Kenya, where she reigned over the scandalous antics of the “Happy Valley Set.” Dazzlingly chic yet warmly intimate, The Bolter is a fascinating look at a woman whose energy still burns bright almost a century later.