The saga of three generations of a remarkable family in the rugged Australian Outback.
Mária Borbás Books
From Grandfather Aristade to twelve-year-old Josephine, three generations of Leonides all live together in a large gabled house. When old Aristade is murdered, they assume it is by an outsider. Only the second death tells them there's a killer in the family.
A Pocket Full of Rye
- 188 pages
- 7 hours of reading
BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation starring June Whitfield as the deceptively mild spinster sleuth. A Pocket Full of Rye; With only one bizarre clue to the agonizing death of a wealthy financier, Miss Marple must unravel a mystery hidden in a child's nursery rhyme that is to prove one of the strangest cases of her life.
The Grass Is Singing
- 208 pages
- 8 hours of reading
Author's first novel often considered her best. Relationship between a white woman and a black man.
'Anyone who murdered Colnonel Protheroe, ' declared the parson, brandishing a carving knife above a joint of roast beef, 'would be doing the world a favour!' It was a careless remark for a man of the cloth. And one which was to come back and haunt the clergyman just a few hours later - when the Colonel is found shot dead in the clergyman's study. But as Miss Marple soon discovers, the whole village seems to have had a motive to kill Colonel Protheroe. -- back cover
Herinneringen, anecdotes, korte verhalen en satirische observaties van de auteur en zijn alter ego Kilgore Trout.
Karácsonyi ének
- 252 pages
- 9 hours of reading
