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A memoir of living in an old house in the Old City of Damascus immediately before the 2011-2012 upheavals. The book discusses the lives of ordinary people and how Damascus came to be the way it was, a human face on the "terrorist" image given in the international media
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Superintendent Le Fanu of the Indian Police Service in 1920s Madras has to unravel the murder of a young Englishwoman visiting the city. He does so, but uncovers some sides of the city the elite rulers want kept hidden as nationalist politics threaten the British future
i>A Madras Miasma /i>introduces Chris Le Fanu of the Crime Unit in the 1920s Madras branch of the Indian Police Service. After serving in the war he sees India, and his colleagues differently, and sympathises with Indian aspirations to independence. That puts him on a crash course with his immediate boss and with his colleagues.
Personally, his wife has left him and he is now involved with his Anglo-Indian housekeepr, risking further enmity from the European community in Madras which despises mixed race liaisons.
A young woman visiting from England is murdered, and Le Fanu | |  | | A People's Collector in the British Raj: Arthur Galletti
The life of an eccentric British civil servant in India in the early twentieth century, his troubles with his employers, and his family life.
This is the most comprehensive life account of an Indian Civil Service (ICS) member yet available. It is based on extensive archival materials gathered in India, the United Kingdom, and Italy, as well as on extensive family archives never before available.
The story is of an extremely talented man born to an Italian father and an English mother, and who was fluent in several languages. His intellect was overshadowed by his personality which was produced both by his upbringing, and by undiagnosed medical conditions.
The result was that a man expected to rise to th |
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Caught in the Act
by Paul Lonardo
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 "We walked in on a surreal scene. There are few words, if any, to accurately describe the abject horror..."
What Jeannie and Kevin McDonough saw was a wanted, multi-state serial killer about to take his next victim - their own daughter. W |
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