The Story of Mary Cornish

Cornish Short Stories: A Collection of Contemporary Cornish Writing

✍ Timpany, Emma; Notley, Felicity (editor) 📂 Fiction 🏛 The History Press 🌐 English ⚖ 2 MB

Ghosts walk in the open and infidelities are conducted in plain sight. Two teenagers walk along a perfect beach in the anticipation of a first kiss. Time stops for nothing – not even for death. Sometimes time cracks, disrupting a fragile equilibrium. The stories are peopled with locals and inc

Cornish Short Stories: A Collection of Contemporary Cornish Writing

✍ Timpany, Emma 📂 Fiction 🏛 The History Press 🌐 English ⚖ 2 MB

Ghosts walk in the open and infidelities are conducted in plain sight. Two teenagers walk along a perfect beach in the anticipation of a first kiss. Time stops for nothing – not even for death. Sometimes time cracks, disrupting a fragile equilibrium. The stories are peopled with locals and inc

The Cornish Mystery: a Hercule Poirot Short Story

✍ Agatha Christie 📂 Fiction 📅 2019 🏛 Pandora's Box 🌐 English ⚖ 11 KB

In Agatha Christie's short story, "The Cornish Mystery," Poirot is asked to help a Cornwall woman who believes she is being poisoned by her husband. When Poirot and Hastings visit her home, they are shocked to find she has died. But is it really her husband who did the poisoning?

Typhoid Mary, The Story of Mary Mallon: Educational Version

✍ Caitlind L. Alexander 📂 Fiction 📅 2013 🏛 LearningIsland.com 🌐 English ⚖ 129 KB

Ask most adults who Typhoid Mary was, and they'll tell you a lie. They'll tell you she was someone who killed hundreds of people. Maybe even thousands. They'll tell you she was a woman who knew she had a deadly disease and didn't care that she spread it to others. But is it true? No. Most of it is n

The Captain's Cornish Christmas: A Captivating Captains Story

✍ Catherine Curzon; Eleanor Harkstead 📂 Fiction 📅 2018 🏛 Pride Publishing 🌐 English ⚖ 213 KB 👁 3 views

For a lonely Cornish lifeboatman and an author who’s more used to crime scenes than love scenes, this Christmas is going to be very merry indeed! When Jago Treherne agrees to man the Polneath lifeboats one snowy Christmas, he knows he can forget turkey and all the trimmings. Yet when he boards a s

The Stories of Mary Gordon

✍ Gordon, Mary 📂 Fiction 📅 2006 🏛 Random House Digital, Inc. 🌐 English ⚖ 410 KB

The stories of Mary Gordon return us to the pleasure of this writer's craft and to her monumental talent as an observer of character and of the ever-fading American Dream. These pieces encompass the pre- and postwar Irish American family life she circles in the early _Temporary Shelter_ series, as w