books by Philip Gooden     books:     Philip Gooden      An Honorable Murderer: A Shakespearean Murder-Mystery Featuring Nick Revill Philip Gooden Carroll & Graf, 2005 Gooden stages another triumph! Philip Gooden's sixth "Shakespearean Murder Mystery Featuring Nick Revill," appears to be the best crafted yet of this series. In "An Honorable Murderer," Gooden uses his knowledge of Shakespeare (and the time) to present another very-readable historical adventure. ...             Death of Kings: A Shakespearean Murder Mystery Philip Gooden Carroll & Graf, 2001 Gooden stages another triumph! Philip Gooden's "Shakespearean Murder Mystery featuring Nick Revill" is a well-written, cleverly presented historical mystery. In "Death of Kings," Gooden's Elizabethan players (lead by Revill) are involved, once more, in timely political intrigue. It is 1601 and ...             Name Dropping: Darwinian Struggles, Oedipal Feelings, and Kafkaesque Ordeals---An A to Z Guide to the Use of ... Philip Gooden St. Martin's Press, 2008 Have you ever had a Hitchcockian experience (in the shower, perhaps?) or met someone with a distinctly Ortonesque outlook on life? What exactly do we mean when we describe a scene as Dickensian, or when we call a politician?s style Churchillian or Thatcherite? What would you call a romantic, brooding, dangerous, and untamed person? Heathcliffian? ...             The Durham Disappearance Philip Gooden Soho Constable, 2009 Praise for Philip Gooden: "Gooden may be one of the best history-mystery writers going. . . . Marvellous."- Booklist (starred review) In England in 1847, newlyweds Tom and Helen Ansell become involved with spiritualism and stage magic. When a famous medium is found dead, Helen is the main suspect. In order to prove her innocence, she and Tom ...             Faux Pas: A No-nonsense Guide to Words and Phrases Philip Gooden Walker & Company, 2006 Learning foreign words has never been so much fun! Great book, and an important one in this global village we now live in. One quibble from the American side of the Pond. Most of the context statements are from British papers, and some of the references are hard to understand for us Yankees. Case in point: Gooden cites ...             Who's Whose: A No-Nonsense Guide to Easily Confused Words Philip Gooden Walker & Company, 2005 Who's Whose: A No-Nonsense Guide to Easily Confused Words I love this book; it is well written and easy to understand. I recommend it to those who want to avoid confusion in written expression.             The Salisbury Manuscript Philip Gooden Soho Constable, 2008 interesting Victorian amateur sleuth In 1873, London attorney Thomas Ansell travels to Salisbury to pick up Canon Felix Slater's manuscript of his father's explicit memoir. George Slater was a compatriot of the great romance authors like Lord Byron, but his reputation was earned for his hedonistic ways ...             The Mammoth Book of Literary Anecdotes: Over Five Centuries of Recollections, Essays and Quotes (Mammoth ... Running Press, 2002 Who would write who had anything better to do? asked Lord Byron rhetorically, and in this amusing and informative anthology author Philip Gooden finds hundreds of illuminating anecdotes to reveal what writers got up to when they were not sitting at the typewriter or wielding quill pens. Over 250 stories of famous writers off-duty, from the ...             Sleep of Death: A Mystery of Shakespearean London Philip Gooden Carroll & Graf, 2000 Sleep of Death This was a truly great read! Nick Revill, an aspiring actor with the Chamberlin's Men, investigates the death of a wealthy landowner, who seems to have died in a fashion similar to that of Hamlet's father. Is art imitating fiction or is there something more sinister ...             Mask of Night: A Shakespearean Murder Mystery Philip Gooden Carroll & Graf, 2004 Gooden shows the "light in yon window"! His Elizabethan "mysteries" featuring young Nick Revill have all been entertaining reading--so far in this series--and "Mask of Night" lives up to Philip Gooden's reputation. Fast paced and entwined with innuendos, nuanced with intrigue, and, of course, a conclusive ...             The Pale Companion: A Shakespearean Murder Mystery Philip Gooden, 2003 A very good book. Goodin writes a very good story with a excellent, clever dialogue that feels true to the period without being over the top. The historic detail and settings are well done. But it's the character of Nick that really drives the story. I am a big fan of this series, ...             FAUX PAS: A NO-NONSENSE GUIDE TO WORD AND PHRASES FROM OTHER LANGUAGES PHILIP GOODEN A C BLACK, 2005             La muerte de los reyes/ Death of Kings Philip Gooden Jaguar Books, 2006             Guide to Better English Philip Gooden Peter Collin Publishing, Ltd., 2001 Aiming to provide a lively, practical and sometimes entertaining guide to improving aspects of the reader's English, this book takes as its starting point not the building-blocks of language encountered in traditional grammar books, but rather some of the common errors committed and problems encountered by users of English. An A-Z section focuses ...             Alms for Oblivion: A Shakespearean Murder Mystery Philip Gooden Carroll & Graf, 2003 Gooden gives the readers a good one! "Alms for Oblivion" is the fourth in the series "A Shakespearean Murder Mystery" by Philip Gooden. The author in each of these four takes a Shakespeare play as its literary theme--and so far so good. This series, featuring the young player Nicholas Revill, is an ...          products you might be interested in search for books disappearance, kafkaesque, murder-mystery, no-nonsense, recollections, shakespearean      toavi.com    web we recommend Sleep of Death randomly chosen book: The Ultimate Rock Guitar Fake Book (Fake Books)