Mrs Macks Mini Mysteries

Where's Sherlock Holmes when you need him? Here's a book with over a thousand mini-mysteries made to order for readers who love language -- and a challenge. Mrs. Mack's Mini-Mysteries cover wide-ranging subjects... literature, history, sports, music, science, politics.... you name it. Test the knowledge you've accumulated throughout your life. These MMMMs are filled with loads of information. They're also fun to solve. So sharpen your pencil and sharpen your wits and have at it! Who says you need Sherlock Holmes?

Many bibliographers focus on women who write. Lawyer Barnett looks at women who detect, at women as sleuths and at the evolving roles of women in professions and in society. Excellent for all women's studies programs as well as for the mystery hound.

*READERS' FAVORITE INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARDS SILVER MEDALIST Three Siblings. One Year. Everything Changes. Stained glass artist Callie Davis is in desperate need of a vacation. Burnt out and on the edge of a nervous breakdown, she’s taking refuge on Massachusetts’ tiny Carter Island. Callie yearns for long, lazy days and pretty walks on the beach—blessed solitude and an escape from the pressures of her career and complications of her life. Then she bumps into gorgeous Nate Carter, and everything changes. Sheriff Nathan Carter couldn’t be happier now that the height of the summer season has finally come and gone. After four endless months, tourists have packed their bags and headed for the mainland. The quiet days of autumn are about to befall the town—the way Nate and his fellow Sandersonians like it best. But nothing ends up quite the way Nate expects when he meets the beautiful blond with the big blue eyes. Callie’s pretty smiles hide secrets—deep, dark mysteries that have the potential to rip apart their lives.

Christianna Brand’s fiction features brisk prose, wry twists, plots that lure the reader into a false sense of having figured every contingency, and ironic turns that not only spice the narrative but supply its lifeblood. No one has read a Brand story who has failed to read the last sentence. Christianna Brand was born Mary Christianna Milne in Malaya in 1907. She spent her childhood in India. At 17 she learned her father had lost all his money. Without a shred of training or experience she found herself faced with earning a living. She held a string of jobs, but lent little distinction to any of them: nursery governess, packer of beaded dresses for export, hostess in a plush nightclub, professional ballroom dancer, model in Bond Street dress shops, and, “most hopeless of all,” secretary. In 1939, lacking any training in litera­ture or journalism, Mary Milne decided to try writing fiction. Her first novel, Death in High Heels, was rejected by 15 publishers before The Bodley Head took it in 1941, published under the pen name, Christianna Brand.

Every great home cook needs a go-to list of delicious, fail-safe recipes, from the perfect crispy hasselback potatoes to the ultimate roast pork with crackling and the foolproof cheesecake that will have people requesting the recipe every time. Nobody is better qualified than Matt Preston to bring you this kind of knowledge, to share with you the secrets to cooking everything better. Matt reveals here for the first time the secrets and tips he has picked up over his many years food writing, TV presenting and working alongside some of the greatest cooks of our time - be they CWA matriarchs or Marco Pierre White. These are the building blocks for better cooking and they've never been easier to master. This is a specially formatted fixed layout ebook that retains the look and feel of the print book.