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Tell tale : stories / Jeffrey Archer.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2017Edition: First U.S. editionDescription: 259 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781250066923
  • 1250066921
Contained works:
  • Archer, Jeffrey, 1940- Unique
  • Archer, Jeffrey, 1940- Who killed the mayor?
  • Archer, Jeffrey, 1940- View of Auvers-sur-Oise
  • Archer, Jeffrey, 1940- Gentleman and a scholar
  • Archer, Jeffrey, 1940- All's fair in love and war
  • Archer, Jeffrey, 1940- Car park attendant
  • Archer, Jeffrey, 1940- Wasted hour
  • Archer, Jeffrey, 1940- Road to Damascus
  • Archer, Jeffrey, 1940- Cuckold
  • Archer, Jeffrey, 1940- Holiday of a lifetime
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 823/.914 23
LOC classification:
  • PR6051.R285 A6 2017
Contents:
Unique -- Who killed the mayor? -- View of Auvers-sur-Oise -- A gentleman and a scholar -- All's fair in love and war -- The car park attendant -- A wasted hour -- The road to Damascus -- The cuckold -- The holiday of a lifetime -- Double or quits -- The senior vice president -- A good toss to lose -- The perfect murder.
Summary: Find out what happens to the hapless young detective from Naples who travels to an Italian hillside town to find out Who Killed the Mayor? and the pretentious schoolboy in A Road to Damascus, whose discovery of the origins of his father's wealth changes his life in the most profound way. Revel in the stories of the 1930's woman who dares to challenge the men at her Ivy League University in A Gentleman and A Scholar while another young woman who thumbs a lift gets more than she bargained for in A Wasted Hour. hese wonderfully engaging and always refreshingly original tales prove not only why Archer has been compared by the critics to Dahl and Maugham, but why he was described by The Times as probably the greatest storyteller of our age.
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BOOK Meaford Public Library Fiction Fiction FIC Arche (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 15301
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Unique -- Who killed the mayor? -- View of Auvers-sur-Oise -- A gentleman and a scholar -- All's fair in love and war -- The car park attendant -- A wasted hour -- The road to Damascus -- The cuckold -- The holiday of a lifetime -- Double or quits -- The senior vice president -- A good toss to lose -- The perfect murder.

Find out what happens to the hapless young detective from Naples who travels to an Italian hillside town to find out Who Killed the Mayor? and the pretentious schoolboy in A Road to Damascus, whose discovery of the origins of his father's wealth changes his life in the most profound way. Revel in the stories of the 1930's woman who dares to challenge the men at her Ivy League University in A Gentleman and A Scholar while another young woman who thumbs a lift gets more than she bargained for in A Wasted Hour. hese wonderfully engaging and always refreshingly original tales prove not only why Archer has been compared by the critics to Dahl and Maugham, but why he was described by The Times as probably the greatest storyteller of our age.

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