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A glamorous American multimillionairess, Alice de Janze left her aristocratic French husband for an English lover, and went through a failed murder-suicide. She then left Paris and went to Kenya's Happy Valley in Africa (where many prominent English lived) and became the lover of womanizer Joseph Errol. In 1941, Errol was shot in his car on an isloated road. The crime remains unsolved. What really happened on that fateful evening in an era of unimaginable wealth and indulgence is the subject of this book.

Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, are en route to California to settle her family's estate. Once they arrive, a series of mysterious deaths leads them from the winding streets of Chinatown to the unspoken secrets of a parent's marriage and the tragic accident that Mary alone survived. She discovers that even a forgotten past never dies and that it can kill again.

With gorgeous new packaging, a new introduction, and an updated bibliography, this reissue celebrates the classic novel that set the style for a whole new class of literature: novels of an outcast from civilization finding refuge in the tropics. This is a story of dramatic action and psychological penetration, a work that critic Morton Danwen Zabel calls an example of Conrad's "central theme ... the grip of circumstances that enforce self-discovery and its cognate, the discovery of reality of truth.".

A satirical panorama of upper-middle-class life and manners in London at the beginning of the nineteenth century featuring Becky Sharp, who must use all her wit, charm, and considerable sex appeal to escape her drab destiny as a governess.

Lucy Snowe makes her way by teaching, as she unhappily watches John Bretton's infatuation for the flirt, Ginevra Fanshawe. She then falls in love with and transforms the professor, Monsieur Paul Emanuel.

A 1934 satirization of a segment of English society in which all the characters have money but few other qualities to recommend them.