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| the gondola scam: The Gondola Scam Jonathan Gash, 1985-03-05 |
| the gondola scam: The Gondola Scam Jonathan Gash, 2014-04-03 Antiques and women are really the only things that I'm interested in. Getting them in the right order can be a problem, because even a fake antique can be absolutely fascination - especially if it drives someone to commit murder. Antiques and women are what led me to Venice on the trail of the killer, and there my modest talents saw me blagging my way into a job as a tour guide as well as lending a hand as a sculptor. My credentials as a tour guide were as bogus as the forgery I was chiselling and it becan to feel like everywhere I turned, nothing was as it seemed. Antiques and women almost got me killed when the bullets started flying . . . |
| the gondola scam: The Gondola Scam Jonathan Gash, 1984-01-01 |
| the gondola scam: Lovejoy John Gash, Jonathan Gash, 1991 |
| the gondola scam: The Gondola Scam Jonathan Gash, 2014-04 Antiques and women are really the only things that I'm interested in. Getting them in the right order can be a problem, because even a fake antique can be absolutely fascination - especially if it drives someone to commit murder. Antiques and women are what led me to Venice on the trail of the killer, and there my modest talents saw me blagging my way into a job as a tour guide as well as lending a hand as a sculptor. |
| the gondola scam: Harper's Encyclopædia of United States History from 458 A.D. to 1902 , 1901 |
| the gondola scam: Comic Crime Earl F. Bargainnier, 1987 The actual world of crime is not a subject for laughter, but rather for anger or tears. The world of fiction, however, is a different matter. Most crime fiction is much nearer the comic than the tragic. In the oldest sense of the term comedy - that no matter the difficulties, misunderstandings, or even deaths, the evil are thwarted and the good rewarded - crime fiction is essentially comic. The following eleven original essays cover a wide range in time, authors, forms of fiction, and types of comedy. I hope readers will be both informed and entertained by this excursion into British and American humor and homicide, comedy and crime. -- |
| the gondola scam: Talking Book Topics , 1986 |
| the gondola scam: British Mystery and Thriller Writers Since 1960 Gina Macdonald, 2003 Spans much of the modern history of the mystery genre and, along with it, many of the political and social changes from the classical detective story, the World War II spy story, and the Cold War thriller to postmodern detective and spy adventures and the politics of terrorism and confrontation of the twenty-first century. |
| the gondola scam: Every Last Cent Jonathan Gash, 2002-07-01 Lovejoy decides to assemble a mass of antiques in order to try to bargain his way out of some serious trouble. He persuades one of his favourite ladies to help him, but tragedy strikes. Now, Lovejoy is running scared, particularly when the death toll around him starts to mount. |
| the gondola scam: Prohibition A Mike Hockney, 2011-09-29 She's their best agent. Now they've given her a new mission. Sarah Harris must kill presidential candidate Robert Montcrieff on his wedding day in St Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan. There's just one problem: Sarah is Montcrieff's bride. She has one week to persuade them they've made a terrible mistake. Her frantic search for answers will bring her face to face with Sin for Salvation, an ancient cult with murderous rituals. Its members aspire to commit an ultimate sin known as Prohibition A. The cult preaches a hypersexual creed that has seduced Wall Street's highest flyers. They enlist recruits in the world's most exclusive nightclub, revolving around a sado-masochistic fantasy journey through Dante's nine circles of hell. But when its wealthy clientele leave the club, it's neither lust nor lucre they have on their minds. It's murder. |
| the gondola scam: Sequels Janet Husband, Jonathan F. Husband, 1990 A reference book for librarians and users of public libraries which provides easy access to information on good recreational reading. This revised edition features expanded coverage of mystery and science fiction. New indexes allow access by subject, genre and main characters. |
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| the gondola scam: The Listener , 1984 |
| the gondola scam: Listener and BBC Television Review , 1984-04 |
| the gondola scam: Bowker's Guide to Characters in Fiction 2007 , 2008-02 |
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| the gondola scam: Library Journal , 1984 |
| the gondola scam: The Bibliography of Regional Fiction in Britain and Ireland, 1800–2000 Keith D. M. Snell, 2017-03-02 Pioneering and interdisciplinary in nature, this bibliography constitutes a comprehensive list of regional fiction for every county of Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England over the past two centuries. In addition, other regions of a usually topographical or urban nature have been used, such as Birmingham and the Black Country; London; The Fens; the Brecklands; the Highlands; the Hebrides; or the Welsh border. Each entry lists the author, title, and date of first publication. The geographical coverage is encompassing and complete, from the Channel Islands to the Shetlands. An original introduction discusses such matters as definition, bibliographical method, popular readerships, trends in output, and the scholarly literature on regional fiction. |
| the gondola scam: Pearlhanger Jonathan Gash, 2014-04-03 I don't much like working for clients. It means that I have to follow someone else's instructions, and I've never been too good at that. When those instructions came from a spirit guide at a seance, I just had to laugh. Well, you would, wouldn't you? The rather attractive young woman whose husband the spook had said I should help her to fine took me on a quest that turned into a trail of lucrative antiques deals, spoiled only when the police came plodding in and I found myself up to my neck in forgeries and murders. Situation normal, really. Then the killer turned his attentions to me, just as the spirit had said he would, and I certainly wasn't laughing an more. |
| the gondola scam: The Sleepers of Erin Jonathan Gash, 2013-11-07 You know things are going badly when you've been stabbed, hospitalized and arrested for a crime that, not only did you not commit, you actively attempted to prevent. Top that off with a pending appearance in court before a judge whose wife you know rather better than he does, and you start to think that visiting an ancient Irish tomb with a gang of ruthless villains sounds like a perfectly reasonable thing to do. All you have to do is to make sure that you don't end up joining the ancient Irish tomb's ancient Irish inhabitants. Nothing's ever that simple, though, is it? Not in my world, anyway. Women have a tendency to confuse matters and when you're dealing with a deranged scarecrow poet and an eastern European hit man whom you know for a fact has never been further east than Billericay in his entire life, things are confusing enough, don't you think? |
| the gondola scam: The Vatican Rip Jonathan Gash, 2013-11-07 I always think that a genuine friend is like a genuine antique - you'd go a long way to find one and you'd do anything to stop one getting broken. When an Italian gentleman made me an offer I couldn't refuse, stopping my friends from getting broken meant stealing a very valuable antique. 'Somebody else has got my antique and I want it back,' was how he put it. 'Who has it?' I asked. Without a flicker of a smile he replied, 'The Pope.' If you think of the Vatican as a big church where the Pope lives, then think again. It is a complete walled city with its own shops, its own bank and its own armed security in the shape of the ridiculously costumed Swiss Guards. Look a bit daft, don't they? But they're well trained and well armed young men. Well, if stealing antiques from the Pope was easy, everybody would be doing it, wouldn't they? |
| the gondola scam: The Oxford Dictionary of Idioms Judith Siefring, 2005-11-10 Did you know that 'flavour of the month' originated in a marketing campaign in American ice-cream parlours in the 1940s, when a particular flavour would be specially promoted for a month at a time? And did you know that 'off the cuff' refers to the rather messy practice of writing impromptu notes on one's shirt cuff before speaking in public? These and many more idioms are explained and put into context in this second edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Idioms. This vastly entertaining dictionary takes a fresh look at the idiomatic phrases and sayings that make English such a rich and intriguing language. A major new edition, it contains entries for over 5000 idioms, including 350 new entries and over 500 new quotations. The text has been updated to include many new idioms using the findings of the Oxford English Reading Programme, the biggest language research programme in the world. The entries are supported by a wealth of illustrative quotations from a wide range of sources and periods. For example: 'Rowling has not been asleep at the wheel in the three years since the last Potter novel, and I am pleased to report that she has not confused sheer length with inspiration.' - Guardian, 2003. 'I made the speech of a lifetime. I had them tearing up the seats and rolling in the aisles.' - P.G. Woodhouse, 1940. Many entries include boxed features which give more detailed background on the idiom in question. For example, did you know that 'taken aback' was adopted from nautical terminology, and described a ship unable to move forward because of a strong headwind pressing its sails back against the mast? The text has been entirely redesigned so that it is both elegant and easy to use. Anyone interested in the quirky side of the English language will have hours of fun browsing through this fascinating and informative volume. |
| the gondola scam: The Tartan Ringers Jonathan Gash, 2014-04-03 I like to think that, when feeling my way carefully through the rituals of passion, the lady in question has pretty much my full attention and very few things will distract me from the job in hand. A murder just outside is one of them . . . The victim, and two other antiques dealers who also came to a sticky end, were all working the same Scottish connection that I had been cultivation, so I decided to make myself scarce for a while. Where better to hide than at the root of the problem in the wilds of Scotland? There may be nothing very Scottish about me but, when my life's on the line, I can blend into the Highlands like a haggis in the heather. It was also the best place to find out why the antiques trade down south had become such a dangerous business. |
| the gondola scam: Firefly Gadroon Jonathan Gash, 2013-11-07 I don't like to pack too much into an ordinary day and this one had already been pretty eventful - two arguments with women, a fight in a pub, a warning from the Old Bill and a fiasco at auction that lost me an exquisite antique Japanese firefly cage. The trouble was, somebody wanted that little gem even more than I did. It was the key that would unlock a secret they'd to anything to keep under wraps, even murder. If only they could only have gone about their dirty deeds without involving me or my friends, they might have got away with it all, but when the master craftsman bravely trying to teach me the art of gadrooning fell foul of them and paid for it with his life, they had me to deal with . . . |
| the gondola scam: The Cumulative Book Index , 1986 A world list of books in the English language. |
| the gondola scam: Arts & Humanities Citation Index , 1986 A multidisciplinary index covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It fully covers 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, and it indexes individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals. |
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| the gondola scam: The Copperfield Checklist of Mystery Authors Karen Thomas McCallum, Pamela Granovetter, 1992-04 An easy-to-use checklist for mystery readers & collectors. Includes the complete crime works of 100 distinguished writers of crime fiction: Raymond Chandler, Rex Stout, Dorothy Sayers, Agatha Christie, John le Carre, Josephine Tey, Georges Simenon, Ruth Rendell, PD James, Lawrence Block, Tony Hillerman, John D. MacDonald, & more...Exceptionally useful - attractive straightforward presentation - convenient format. The reader can tick off boxes to keep track of books he owns, books he has read, & books he wants to find. Helps the reader avoid buying duplicate copies of the same book. Space for the serious collector to keep track of dustjackets, 1st editions, etc. A nice feature is an appendix containing an extensive Directory of Mystery Booksellers. The COPPERFIELD CHECKLIST OF MYSTERY AUTHORS is Volume Two in THE COPPERFIELD COLLECTION - a handy series of checklists for mystery aficionadoes - designed to help them keep track of their book collections. |
| the gondola scam: Imaginary People David Pringle, 1996 A new edition of the who's who of over 1,400 fictional characters whose names are sometimes so familiar it's difficult to remember they're imaginary. Included in the biographical parade is Ben Casey, Casper, and Fitzwilliam Darcy, a compendium of high, low, and no brow at all, each exactly recorded with a snippet of biographical anecdote. The reference is as equally useful for scholarly work as it is for killing time in aimless pursuits of information. Distributed by Ashgate. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
| the gondola scam: The Subject is Murder Albert J. Menendez, 1986 |
| the gondola scam: Collins Crime Club , 1987 |
| the gondola scam: Cassette Books Library of Congress. National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, 1978 |
| the gondola scam: Buying and Selling Antiques Sara Pitzer, Don Cline, 1986 A professional guide to getting started with minimal investment, identifying antiques that retain their value, even advice on auctions and auctioneers. |
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| the gondola scam: Die Kaapse bibliotekaris , 1984 Issues for Nov. 1957- include section: Accessions. Aanwinste, Sept. 1957- (also published separately) |
| the gondola scam: Make Mine a Mystery Gary Warren Niebuhr, 2003-04-30 Presents a comprehensive guide for mystery and detective fiction, compiling over 2,500 titles from more than 200 authors and including plot overviews, a history of the genre, and a discussion on collection development. |
| the gondola scam: A Rag, a Bone and a Hank of Hair Jonathan Gash, 2001 While in London, Lovejoy visits old friends Arthur and Colette Goldhorn, but finds Goldhorn's respected antique shop has been taken over by a wealthy German businessman. What's more, Arthur is dead, and Colette, an old flame of Lovejoy's, is living on the streets with her 15-year-old son. Lovejoy vows to avenge his friends, but crossing Herr Gluck turns out to be a dangerous game. |
Guide to Riding the Inclines in Pittsburgh - Visit Pittsburgh | Visit ...
The Duquesne Incline is located down the street on W Carson Street just west of the Fort Pitt Bridge in view of Point State Park and has a provided parking lot. This incline carries you to an …
Official site of the Duquesne Incline
Take a step back in time on a century-old cable car and see the best views of downtown Pittsburgh while riding one of the few remaining inclines in the country.
7 Types Of Gondola. A Gondola Is More Than Just A Boat!
A Venetian canal boat is not the only gondola that exists, the name gondola also applies to several different types of transportation and even shelving units. So, what are gondolas like in …
Gondola - Wikipedia
The gondola (English: / ˈ ɡ ɒ n d ə l ə /, Italian:; Venetian: góndoła, Venetian: [ˈɡoŋdoɰa]) is a traditional, flat-bottomed Venetian rowing boat, well suited to the conditions of the Venetian …
Everything You Need to Know About Riding the Pittsburgh Inclines
Mar 7, 2024 · The operator sits in a small building at the top of the mountain and runs the engine that powers the cable. The cable only needs enough power to overcome friction and the …
Duquesne Incline - Station Square®
Duquesne Incline "Take a step back in time on a century-old cable car and see the best views of downtown Pittsburgh while riding one of the few remaining inclines in the country.
GONDOLA Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of GONDOLA is a long narrow flat-bottomed boat with a high prow and stern used on the canals of Venice.
Gondola: Everything About Venice's Most Famous Boat - Venezia …
Mar 7, 2023 · The Gondola is the most famous traditional Venetian boat. It is an 11 m long and 1,42 m wide handmade boat, built with 280 pieces of 8 different kinds of wood, weighing about …
GONDOLA | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary
GONDOLA meaning: 1. a narrow boat with a raised point at both ends, used on canals in Venice 2. in a cable car, ski…. Learn more.
Gondola - Boating and Marine Accessories
Feb 12, 2025 · The gondola is an elegant and iconic flat-bottomed boat synonymous with the waterways of Venice, Italy. Steeped in history, culture, and romance, gondolas are masterfully …
Guide to Riding the Inclines in Pittsburgh - Visit Pittsburgh | Visit ...
The Duquesne Incline is located down the street on W Carson Street just west of the Fort Pitt Bridge in view of Point State Park and has a provided parking lot. This incline carries you to an …
Official site of the Duquesne Incline
Take a step back in time on a century-old cable car and see the best views of downtown Pittsburgh while riding one of the few remaining inclines in the country.
7 Types Of Gondola. A Gondola Is More Than Just A Boat!
A Venetian canal boat is not the only gondola that exists, the name gondola also applies to several different types of transportation and even shelving units. So, what are gondolas like in the rest of …
Gondola - Wikipedia
The gondola (English: / ˈ ɡ ɒ n d ə l ə /, Italian:; Venetian: góndoła, Venetian: [ˈɡoŋdoɰa]) is a traditional, flat-bottomed Venetian rowing boat, well suited to the conditions of the Venetian …
Everything You Need to Know About Riding the Pittsburgh Inclines
Mar 7, 2024 · The operator sits in a small building at the top of the mountain and runs the engine that powers the cable. The cable only needs enough power to overcome friction and the weight …
Duquesne Incline - Station Square®
Duquesne Incline "Take a step back in time on a century-old cable car and see the best views of downtown Pittsburgh while riding one of the few remaining inclines in the country.
GONDOLA Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of GONDOLA is a long narrow flat-bottomed boat with a high prow and stern used on the canals of Venice.
Gondola: Everything About Venice's Most Famous Boat - Venezia …
Mar 7, 2023 · The Gondola is the most famous traditional Venetian boat. It is an 11 m long and 1,42 m wide handmade boat, built with 280 pieces of 8 different kinds of wood, weighing about 400 …
GONDOLA | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary
GONDOLA meaning: 1. a narrow boat with a raised point at both ends, used on canals in Venice 2. in a cable car, ski…. Learn more.
Gondola - Boating and Marine Accessories
Feb 12, 2025 · The gondola is an elegant and iconic flat-bottomed boat synonymous with the waterways of Venice, Italy. Steeped in history, culture, and romance, gondolas are masterfully …
