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  • Three Farces and a Comedy

    by Ben Travers ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Playwrights
    In a writing career of over 60 years, Ben Travers is regarded as the master of the ‘Aldwych Farces’. This collection is being published at a time where farces are coming back into fashion following the smash hit of One Man Two Guvnors, and the success of The Magistrate both at the National Theatre, as well as the recent productions of Noises Off and What the Butler Saw. The four plays in this ... Read more

    $23.89 USD

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    Ben Travers: A BBC Radio Drama Collection

    Six Full-Cast Comedy Productions including A Cuckoo in the Nest, Rookery Nook & other farces

    by Ben Travers ...
    Narrated by Judi Dench, Michael Williams, Penelope Wilton, Alex Jennings, Joan Hickson, Ian Lavender, Brett Usher, Freddie Jones, Melinda Walker, Henry McGee, Alan Curtis, Desmond Barrit, Elizabeth Spriggs, Gillian Lewis, Full Cast ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 20 min

    Six classic farces from the renowned comedy writer, with casts including Judi Dench, Michael Williams, Joan Hickson, Alex Jennings and Penelope WiltonIn the 1920s and ’30s, Ben Travers proved himself a master of comic confusion with his hugely successful Aldwych farces. Featuring battle-axe mothers-in-law, beleaguered wives, henpecked husbands and a host of humorous misunderstandings, they wowed ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • The Country Girls: Three Novels and an Epilogue

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    by Edna O'Brien ...
    Series series FSG Classics
    A treasure of world literature back in print, featuring a new introduction by Eimear McBrideThis omnibus edition includes the novels The Country Girls, The Lonely Girl, and Girls in Their Married Bliss.The country girls are Caithleen “Kate” Brady and Bridget “Baba” Brennan, and their story begins in the repressive atmosphere of a small village in the west of Ireland in the years following World ... Read more

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    by Mick Finlay ...
    Series Book 1 - An Arrowood Mystery
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    by Lena Kennedy ...
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    by Elizabeth Daly ...
    Series Book 4 - Henry Gamadge
    From Agatha Christie's favorite American author—an amateur sleuth helps a Manhattan widow who fears her husband's killer is stalking her.Acquitted of murdering her wealthy husband, Mrs. Vina Gregson remains essentially a prisoner, trapped in her elegant New York apartment with occasional furtive forays to her Connecticut estate. A jury may have found her innocent, but Mrs. Gregson remains a ... Read more

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  • Father! Father! Burning Bright

    by Alan Bennett ...
    Alan Bennett's second story. This time, set in the 1970s, in classic Bennett country, Yorkshire. 'On the many occasions Midgley had killed his father, death had always come easily. He died promptly, painlessly and without a struggle. Looking back, Midgley could see that even in these imagined deaths he had failed his father. It was not like him to die like that. Nor did he.' Midgley is determined ... Read more

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    by Patricia Moyes ...
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    Edited by Martin Edwards ...
    Series series British Library Crime Classics
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  • The Case of the Curious Client

    A Ludovic Travers Mystery

    by Christopher Bush ...
    Near the right temple was a hole, and down the forehead and along the nose was dried blood.“Shot, by God! No wonder the poor old devil couldn’t hear.”When the telephone bell rings in Bill Ellice’s Broad Street Detective Agency, it happens to be Ludovic Travers who takes the call. The new client is certainly out of the ordinary, for he claims that his life is in danger. He wants the firm to trace a ... Read more

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