Category Archives: Accessories
Up Aloft with Old Harry
Up Aloft with Old Harry is another wonderful collection of Des Sleightholme`s batty observations on the sailing scene. Wickedly perceptive, Sleightholme attacks pomposity with scarifying gusto, taking the mickey out of everything and everybody afloat. Such topics as leaking boats, dragging anchors, the charms of twin keels, the Fastnet Race, moving house by boat, chartering
The Magic of the Swatchways
The Magic of the Swatchways was Maurice Griffiths` favourite book. In the words of John Leather, `few sailing books become classics like this one`, and since first publication in 1932 it has lost none of that fresh charm which has endeared it to so many generations of sailing. The book tells of cruising in a
Test Yourself on the Rule of the Road: Lights, Shapes, Sound Signals, Collision Avoidance
This volume is a revision aid in a subject which is compulsory for RYA sailing courses, including Day Skipper, Yachtmaster and the International Certificate of Competence exams, and is essential knowledge for anyone who goes to sea. It provides questions and expanded explanatory answers for each section of the Collision Rules (right of way, lights
Reeds Mathematical Tables and Engineering Formula
This book contains invaluable reference tables and maths formulae for trainee and professional marine engineers. Focussing on subjects most commonly required in mechanical and marine engineering (including a section on naval architecture), the formulae are graduated to cover the subjects at all stages from technician level to degree, from cadet level to the Extra First
Guilty Creatures: A Menagerie of Mysteries
“Curiously enough,” said Dr. Manners, “I know a story in which the detection of a murder turned on the behaviour of a bird: in this instance a jackdaw.”Since the dawn of the crime fiction genre, animals of all kinds have played a memorable part in countless mysteries, and in a variety of roles: the perpetrator,
Verdict of Twelve
A woman is on trial for her life, accused of murder. The twelve members of the jury each carry their own secret burden of guilt and prejudice which could affect the outcome.In this extraordinary crime novel, we follow the trial through the eyes of the jurors as they hear the evidence and try to reach
Bespoke: A Guide to Cycle-Speak and Saddle Slang 18/06/2020
Some sports lend themselves to language: cycling is one of them. With its rich history and culture, and its professional roots across the continent and beyond, cycling has developed a terminology that goes well beyond borders, producing a lexicon all of its own.This book guides the reader through a land where the road to hell
Murder By The Book – Mysteries For Bibliophiles
`If much of the action is set in a bookshop or a library, it is a bibliomystery, just as it is if a major character is a bookseller or a librarian.` – Otto PenzlerA bookish puzzle threatens an eagerly awaited inheritance; a submission to a publisher recounts a murder that seems increasingly to be a
Sailor Song: The Shanties and Ballads of the High Seas
Passed down in the oral tradition and sung traditionally as working songs, sea shanties tell the human stories of life at sea: hard graft, battling the elements, the loss of ships or pining for a lady on shore.Its pages decorated with hand-drawn or wood-cut illustrations from celebrated artist Jonny Hannah, Sailor Song addresses the current
The Widow of Bath
`There are a dozen clever deceptions in the book, twice as many as most writers would have given us.` – Julian Symons in Bloody MurderHugh Everton was intent on nothing more than quietly drinking in the second-rate hotel he found himself in on England`s south coast – and then in walked his old flame Lucy
Till Death Do Us Part
Crime author Dick Markham is in love again; his fiancee the mysterious newcomer to the village, Lesley Grant. When Grant accidentally shoots the fortune teller through the side of his tent at the local fair – following a very strange reaction to his predictions – Markham is reluctantly brought into a scheme to expose his
Cornish Horrors: Tales from the Land`s End
A mariner inherits a skull that screams incessantly along with the roar of the sea; a phantom hare stalks the moors to deliver justice for a crime long dead; a man witnesses a murder in the woods near St. Ives, only to wonder whether it was he himself who committed the crime. Offering a bounty
Thirteen Guests
No observer, ignorant of the situation, would have guessed that death lurked nearby, and that only a little distance from the glitter of silver and glass and the hum of voices two victims lay silent on a studio floor.`On a fine autumn weekend Lord Aveling hosts a hunting party at his country house, Bragley Court.
Silent Nights: Christmas Mysteries
Christmas is a mysterious, as well as magical, time of year. Strange things can happen, and this helps to explain the hallowed tradition of telling ghost stories around the fireside as the year draws to a close. Christmas tales of crime and detection have a similar appeal. When television becomes tiresome, and party games pall,
The Notting Hill Mystery
The Notting Hill Mystery has been widely described as the first detective novel. The story is told by the insurance investigator Ralph Henderson, who is building a case against the sinister Baron R , suspected of murdering his wife in order to claim her life insurance. Henderson descends into a maze of intrigue, including a
The Santa Klaus Murder
Aunt Mildred declared that no good could come of the Melbury family Christmas gatherings at their country residence Flaxmere. So when Sir Osmond Melbury, the family patriarch, is discovered – by a guest dressed as Santa Klaus – with a bullet in his head on Christmas Day, the festivities are plunged into chaos. Nearly every
Death of a Busybody
The eponymous nosy parker in Death of a Busybody is Miss Ethel Tither. She has made herself deeply unpopular in the quintessentially English village of Hilary Magna, since she goes out of her way to snoop on people, and interfere with their lives. On being introduced to her, the seasoned reader of detective stories will
The Cheltenham Square Murder
In the seeming tranquility of Regency Square in Cheltenham live the diverse inhabitants of its ten houses. One summer`s evening, the square`s rivalries and allegiances are disrupted by a sudden and unusual death – an arrow to the head, shot through an open window at no. 6. Unfortunately for the murderer, an invitation to visit
The Pocket Detective: 100+ Puzzles
Polish off your magnifying glass and step into the shoes of your favourite detectives as you unlock tantalising clues and solve intricate puzzles. There are over 100 criminally teasing challenges to be scrutinised, including word searches, anagrams, snapshot covers, and crosswords – a favourite puzzle of crime fiction`s golden age. Suitable for all ages and
The Poisoned Chocolates Case
`All his stories are amusing, intriguing, and he is a master of the final twist` – Agatha Christie`One of the most stunning trick stories in the history of detective fiction` – Julian SymonsGraham and Joan Bendix have apparently succeeded in making that eighth wonder of the modern world, a happy marriage. And into the middle
