The Matchmaker of Perigord, Stuart Julia

Автор: Stuart Julia
Название: Last Pearlfisher of Scotland
ISBN: 1784704296 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784704292
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: McBride is having a tough time. The last expert in the ancient art of pearl fishing, he`s on a quest to track down the pearl that will complete a necklace for his wife, Elspeth, convinced that the love token will save their marriage.

Автор: Stuart Julia
Название: The Pigeon Pie Mystery
ISBN: 0307947696 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780307947697
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 1375.00 р.
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When Indian Princess Alexandrina--nickname "Mink"--is left penniless by the sudden death of her father, Queen Victoria grants her a grace-and-favor home in Hampton Court Palace. Though it's rumored to be haunted, Mink and her lady's maid, Pooki, have no choice but to take the Queen up on her offer and join the palace's eccentric collection of guests. But when a reviled General-Major dies after eating a pie Pooki made, it makes her the number one suspect in a murder investigation.

Not about to let her faithful servant hang, Mink begins an investigation of her own. . . only to discover that Hampton Court isn't such a safe place to live after all.

Автор: Stuart Julia
Название: The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise
ISBN: 030747691X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780307476913
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: Brimming with charm and whimsy, this national bestseller set in the Tower of London has the transportive qualities and delightful magic of the contemporary classics Chocolat and Amelie.

Balthazar Jones has lived in the Tower of London with his loving wife, Hebe, and his 120-year-old pet tortoise for the past eight years. That's right, he is a Beefeater (they really do live there). It's no easy job living and working in the tourist attraction in present-day London.

Among the eccentric characters who call the Tower's maze of ancient buildings and spiral staircases home are the Tower's Rack & Ruin barmaid, Ruby Dore, who just found out she's pregnant; portly Valerie Jennings, who is falling for ticket inspector Arthur Catnip; the lifelong bachelor Reverend Septimus Drew, who secretly pens a series of principled erot-ica; and the philandering Ravenmaster, aiming to avenge the death of one of his insufferable ravens.

When Balthazar is tasked with setting up an elaborate menagerie within the Tower walls to house the many exotic animals gifted to the Queen, life at the Tower gets all the more interest-ing. Penguins escape, giraffes are stolen, and the Komodo dragon sends innocent people running for their lives. Balthazar is in charge and things are not exactly running smoothly. Then Hebe decides to leave him and his beloved tortoise "runs" away.

Filled with the humor and heart that calls to mind the delight-ful novels of Alexander McCall Smith, and the charm and beauty of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise is a magical, wholly origi-nal novel whose irresistible characters will stay with you long after you turn the stunning last page.