Henry Chancellor Livres

Colditz high security camp contained every presistent escaper, trouble maker and valuable hostage captured by the Germans in World War II. It was considered escape proof but the very opposite proved to be true. The prisoners pooled their collected talents to create the greatest escape academy of the war. Now, for the first time in Colditz, Henry Chancellor tells the prisoners' own story. Many have never spoken before but using over fifty original interviews, the English, French, Dutch and Polish officers, and their guards describe their experiences in the notorious castle, and their escape across Nazi Germany. This book grew out of the television series, Escape From Colditz, which was twelve years in the making, won sweeping critical praise and has been shown around the world. It is a story of breathtaking ingenuity and daring, a game of wit between captives and captors.

Excerpt from Seventh Biennial Report of the State Board of Health of Maryland: January, 1888 The Act of Assembly creating the State Board of Health passed at the January session of the Legisla ture in 1874, and amended at the January session of 1880, provides that the Secretary of said Board shall. At each regular session of the Legislature submit, through the Board, a full report of his investigations with such suggestions and recommendations as he may deem proper. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Seven winners. Seven victims. One prize. Mid-July. London. A heatwave. It's too hot to sleep. Somewhere in a field in England, a wealthy man buries a sword he believes to be Excalibur. He challenges the public to find it. He wants you to play his game, and he promises it will be different, exciting, strange. It is. Over the course of a week, a series of bizarre stunts capture the nation's imagination. The treasure hunt for Excalibur is front-page news. But as the game gathers pace a series of extraordinary murders takes place. To Detective Frank Moke, they bear all the hallmarks of a famous unsolved case almost twenty years before. It has haunted him ever since. Could there be any connection between these new crimes and the treasure hunt? With his rookie assistant, Morgan Luttrell, Moke descends into a world of coincidence and manipulation where the killer is always a step ahead. And the truth is closer than anyone knows... Sweeping, fast-paced and intricately plotted, Scissorman introduces Frank Moke, the draughtsman detective.

Tom je zpátky ve Scatterhornově muzeu a má zde zůstat, než se jeho rodiče vrátí z cest. Pak se však objeví nečekaná návštěvnice, Pearl Smoothová, a tvrdí, že jejího otce a bratra, ba co horšího, i Tomovy rodiče zajal chlapcův úhlavní nepřítel, starý známý don Askary. Tom a Pearl se spolu vydají rodičům na pomoc. Cestují časem, exotickými krajinami, zažijí spoustu nebezpečných dobrodružství a nakonec se dostanou až do tajuplného skrytého světa Scarazandu, do pevnosti patřící samotnému donu Askarymu.

Wer kann schon von sich behaupten, in einem Museum voller ausgestopfter Tiere zu wohnen oder an einer echten Tigerjagd teilgenommen zu haben? Seit Tom bei Onkel Jos und Tante Melba in Dragonport lebt, ist jeder Tag ein Abenteuer. Aber als dann - wie aus dem Nichts - der unheimliche Schokoladenfabrikant Don Gervase aus Peru auftaucht, wird es gefährlich. Was weiß er über Toms Eltern, die bei ihrer Suche nach seltenen Käfern in der mongolischen Steppe verschwunden sind? Und warum will er mit allen Mitteln in den Besitz des Museums gelangen? Welches Geheimnis birgt das alte Gemäuer? Tom bleibt nicht viel Zeit herauszufinden, worauf Don Gervase es wirklich abgesehen hat.

Kaum haben die Sommerferien bei Onkel Jos und Tante Melba begonnen, da wird Tom auch schon in ein neues Abenteuer verwickelt: Pearl, die Tochter eines Funkspions, ist soeben mit einem Wetterballon in Dragonport gelandet und braucht dringend Toms Hilfe: Ihre Familie wurde entführt und dahinter steckt niemand anderes als der unheimliche Don Gervase. Hat er sie in sein unterirdisches Käferreich verschleppt? Tom und Pearl nehmen die Verfolgung auf. Doch mit Insekten ist nicht zu spaßen.