When Windsor Castle's mild-mannered art curator is found dead with an official sword in his back and a Royal Garter around his knee, housemaid Jane Bee puts her dusting on hold to catch a ceremonious killer. And though the evidence points to a moody Court painter, Jane searches for a killer closer to the family.
This second volume completes the story begun in "Walter B. Cannon: The Life and Times of a Young Scientist", tracing the middle and late years of one of America's most distinguished medical scientists. It resumes during World War II with Cannon's battlefield work on traumatic shock in England and France, and follows him to Harvard Medical School ...
Newspaper reporter Leo Fabian doesn't think of himself as an opportunist. But when the object of his desire, Stevie Lord, loses the object of her desire to murder, he finds a whole new way to penetrate a woman's heart. Who would want to kill Michael Rossiter anyway? Scion of an old Winnipeg newspaper family, he may have been rich, but he didn't ...
At Sandringham, a young woman disguised as the Queen and wearing a tiara that was stolen from the Duchess of Windsor 50 years previously, is found beaten to death. Jane Bee and Her Majesty investigate.
Edition: First Edition.
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Cooper-Hewitt Museum
Date Published: 1969
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. Size: 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall; Type: Hard Back FIRST PRINTING. LARGE HARDCOVER BOOK AND JACKET IN FINE CONDITION. MYLAR JACKET COVER. Beautifully illustrated with 33 color plates and 100 b/w photographs. 9 x 11" tall. The history of enamelling dating back three thousand years to Mycenaean Greece. Includes detailed explanations of the production of cloisonne, champleve, and plique-a-joour and painted enamels and their many variations. Also includes a chapter-by-chapter ... read more
Description: AUTO: BENISON. (CANNON) Benison, Saul; Barger, A. C. & Wolfe, E. L. WALTER B. CANNON: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF A SCIENTIST. Cambridge 1987, dw, 520pp. INSCRIBED BY BENISON. First edition. read more
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