A Monstrous Regiment of Women: A Novel of Suspense Featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock HolmesSt. Martin's Publishing Group, 15.07.1995 - 336 Seiten Winner of the Nero Wolfe Award |
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... Veronica Beaconsfield, a lodgings mate in Oxford who had read Greats a year ahead of me, an unpretty person who guiltily loved beautiful things and invested vast amounts of time and money in Good Works. We had been close at one time ...
... Veronica's house was one of ten or twelve that huddled claustrophobically around the yard with its green and dripping pump. One house was missing, plucked from its neighbours during the bombing of London like a pulled tooth. The bomb ...
... Veronica herself spent most of her time and money trying to live it all down. Even while an undergraduate at Oxford, she had been the moving force behind a number of projects, from teaching illiterate women to read to the prevention of ...
... Veronica's idea of a well-stocked kitchen ran to yoghourt, charcoal biscuits, and vitamin pills (healthy body, healthy mind), but a rummage through the cupboards left me with a bowl of some healthy patent cereal that looked like wood ...
... of this particular case) willing to become involved only with women as brittle and frivolous as they were. Veronica no longer wore the ring. I listened in silence and watched her eyes roam over A Monstrous Regiment of Women 23.
Inhalt
Chapter 14 | 163 |
Chapter 15 | 185 |
Chapter 16 | 200 |
Chapter 17 | 205 |
Chapter 18 | 224 |
Chapter 19 | 235 |
Chapter 20 | 248 |
Chapter 21 | 262 |
Chapter 9 | 101 |
Chapter 10 | 114 |
Chapter 11 | 123 |
Chapter 12 | 140 |
Chapter 13 | 151 |
Postscript | 275 |
Discussion Questions | 283 |
Author Interview | 287 |
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