Half Light And Let S Dance

Richard Beaumont hoped to see the elusive crow on the Dover cliffs. Instead he sees a young woman falling to her death. No-one recognises her, no-one has reported her missing and Richard returns, shaken, to his wife, but instead of finding solace in Lilian's company, he locks himself away and obsessively paints the scene of the woman's broken body on the rocks. His cool behaviour towards her takes Lilian to the flat below and the worldly-wise company of Sarah Fortune. But Sarah, once Richard's lover, is awkward with her and is also preoccupied with her brother's unbreakable habit of cat-burglary and the suspicious traffic to the penthouse at the top of the mansion block. Unable to forget what he witnessed, Richard returns to the coast and is befriended by the local police surgeon. Recently widowed, John is depressed, not so much by his wife's death but by the realisation that his marriage had been a loveless void. Recognising the symptoms, Richard introduces him to Sarah so that she can no longer ignore the Beaumonts' troubles and is drawn into helping to trace where the dead girl came from and in so doing reveals a trade which is both breathtakingly lucrative and chillingly cruel.

Half Light Elisabeth is a restorer of paintings, delighting in her work as she coaxes secrets from damaged canvas. One day she disappears. Her lover Francis, his fears dismissed by the police, searches for her with the help of Annie Macalpine, an antiques dealer. Annie finds out that Elisabeth is trapped in an elegant prison, restoring art for a wealthy collector, whose grip on reality is giving way as his grip on Elisabeth is tightening... Let's Dance Isabel Burley returns to her childhood home to look after her mother, who has Alzheimer's disease. Serena is prey to the threats of failing memory, her inability to run her own home - and the local villains who are eyeing her isolated house. But Isabel finds that a further threat comes from within, as the two women struggle with their love/hate relationship that has roots deep into the past.

A reference and overview of the genre of crime fiction, primarily covering the 1950s onwards, although major earlier writers, such as Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler, also have entries.

Let's Dance: A Celebration of Ontario's Dance Halls and Summer Dance Pavilions is a nostalgic musical journey, recapturing the unforgettable music of youth and lasting friendships, the days when the live mellow sounds of Big Bands wafted through the air – Louis Armstrong, the Dorsey Brothers, Bert Niosi, Art Hallman, Johnny Downs, Mart Kenney, Bobby Kinsman, Ronnie Hawkins ... Throughout the 1920s to the '60s, numerous legendary entertainers drew thousands of people to such memorable venues as the Brant Inn in Burlington, Dunn's Pavilion in Bala, the Stork Club at Port Stanley, to the Club Commodore in Belleville and the Top Hat Pavilion in North Bay – and the hundreds of other popular dance venues right across Ontario. From the days of jitney dancing through the introduction of jazz and the Big Bands era to the sounds of some of Ontario's best rock groups, people of all ages came to dance and some to find romance on soft summer nights.

An invaluable source of information on the personalities and organizations of the literary world.

Why should a man want to destroy his brother? Or his brother's wife? For John Smith, a man without conscience, a soul incapable of redemption, the motive was simple. Someone who had stolen the only person he had ever loved--his twin brother, Cannon. And Johnny would stop at nothing to be his brother's keeper once more. When Cannon, sometime bomb-maker and artist, is released from prison he goes into hiding, eschewing Johnny's destructive and overwhelming brand of brotherly love. He turns instead to Sarah Fortune, a lawyer whose rag-tag clients draw her into their own desperate lives. Sarah Fortune finds herself centre stage in a drama of extraordinary proportions when she takes on Cannon's cause, concealing him and his wife, Julie, from the brother intent on hunting them down.

Ashok Banjara is one of India's mega-movie stars, a man of great ambition and dubious morals. With irrepressible charm and a genius for satire, Tharoor portrays the Indian film world in all its Hollywoodesque glitz and glamor as a metaphor for Indian society. Onscreen fiction and offscreen reality intertwine to weave a tapestry of power and privilege, seduction and betrayal, and politics and intrigue, that is at once colorful, entertaining, and deadly serious. A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year.