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Sixteen-year-old Seth Anomundy is thinking of dropping out of high school to solve his mom's murder. The police don't seem to care about the death of Seth's mother, so he takes it upon himself to find her killer. Seth brings along a new love, a beautiful rich girl named Azura Lear. But instead of finding answers, Seth may be putting Azura and himself in the greatest danger of their lives. With an acid wit and a pair of quick fists, Seth faces down a gang of baseball-bat-wielding high school show more jocks, Azura's suspicious father, and King George, a teenage thug who wants Seth dead. And in between, Seth takes on the toughest job of all: navigating the complex world of high school.Here is Tom Llewellyn, author of The Tilting House, doing what he does best: spinning a lightning fast plot and pouring in plenty of violence, but still keeping his characters' souls fully intact.Praise for Tom Llewellyn's previous novel, "The Tilting House":"...a genre-bending page-turner with plenty of room in its eaves for sequels. One to watch." - Kirkus Reviews"I thoroughly enjoyed reading this imaginative, fully-realized mystery/suspense novel...a most satisfying read for any age. Highly recommended." - Calliope Magazine"...inventive, gripping, and shot through with macabre details..." - Publishers Weekly show lessTags
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Stylish 1920s English page turner about a smart South African who exposes long cons in London.
Not as good as the other Edgar Wallace I read. The "twister" is a man who in fact only "twists" the bad guys trying to trick him. The slang is a little hard for me to understand. The creepy bad guy this time is Dutch and may or may not be a brilliant scientist but seems to have trouble relating to women sanely. The detective is an interesting character. The ending is rather sudden and we just assume that all the good guys live happily ever after.
Anthony Braid, abile e fortunato finanziere della City, è abituato a dominare nella Borsa come sui campi delle corse;
impeccabile ma talvolta spietato, gode della fiducia degli amici e rappresenta un vero perìcolo per i suoi avversari.
È lui il responsabile della prematura fine di un aristocratico londinese improvvisatosi finanziere? Il compito di trovare
una risposta a questa e ad altre domande spetta all'ispettore Elk, di Scotland Yard.
impeccabile ma talvolta spietato, gode della fiducia degli amici e rappresenta un vero perìcolo per i suoi avversari.
È lui il responsabile della prematura fine di un aristocratico londinese improvvisatosi finanziere? Il compito di trovare
una risposta a questa e ad altre domande spetta all'ispettore Elk, di Scotland Yard.
Apr 7, 2010Italian
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Among the most prolific of all authors of adventure fiction was the redoubtable Edgar Wallace. Born in London, Wallace received his early education at St. Peter's School and the Board School. Wallace served in the Royal West Kent Regiment in England and later as part of the Medical Staff Corps stationed in South Africa. During World War I, Wallace show more acted as a special interrogator for the War Office. As was the case with a number of successful popular authors, Wallace experienced a rich and diverse life before turning to professional writing. From 1886 to the 1930s, he worked in a printing shop, a shoe shop, and a rubber factory, and served as a merchant sailor and milk deliverer. Beginning in 1899, Wallace became a journalist and wrote variously for the London Daily Mail and the Rand Daily News, among others; he also worked with the racing periodicals, having founded two of them---Bibury's Weekly and R. E. Walton's Weekly. Like Sax Rohmer, Wallace earned a fortune from his writings, yet, because of a lack of business sense and a tendency to overspend, he died in debt. A prodigious writer of fiction, Wallace published, over the course of his professional life, some 173 books and wrote 17 plays. Many of his adventure narratives featured elements of crime or mystery, but they all thrived on action. Although Wallace's handling of plot was superb and he was respected for his ability to blend suspense with humor, he was less successful with his characters, who tended to be two-dimensional and stereotyped. One of his early crime adventures, The Four Just Men (1906), introduced what was to become a trademark for Wallace---lurid sensationalism coupled with dramatic violence. Wallace published in a wide range of genres, including poetry, short fiction, autobiography, and epic political history. Regrettably, much of what he wrote has lapsed into obscurity today. As sometimes is the problem with popular fiction, perhaps it was too hurriedly written---too intimately connected with its contemporary audience---to stand the ultimate test of time. But Wallace's work was highly influential, especially in the American pulp magazine markets of the Great Depression, and stands today, despite its many flaws, as some of the most effective literary adventures ever written. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- The Twister
- Original title
- The Twister
- Alternate titles*
- Il signore della City; Il furfante gentiluomo
- Original publication date
- 1928
- People/Characters
- Mr. Anthony Braid; Lord Frensham; Ursula Frensham
- Important places
- London, England, UK
- First words
- In the summer of nineteen-twenty-something, a little trainer of racehorses and a jockey were at variance.
- Quotations
- The investments had prospered: the gilt edge of the stocks originally purchased had deepened auriferously. (pp. 17-18)
"... Money is a definite thing. It matters nothing whence it comes. You may win a fortune by my discovery, you may also win a fortune by its promise." (p. 166) - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"That saves a whole lot of trouble," said Elk.
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