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The gentleman tied to the lamppost on Westminster Bridge is most elegantly attired--fresh boutonniere, silk hat, white evening scarf--and he is quite, quite dead, as a result of his thoroughly cut throat. Why should anyone kill Sir Lockwood Hamilton, the kindest of family men and most conscientious member of Parliament? Before Inspector Thomas Pitt can even speculate on the reasons, a colleague of Sir Lockwood's meets the same fate in the same spot. Public indignation is boundless, and clever Charlotte Pitt, Thomas's wellborn wife, can't resist helping her hard-pressed husband, scouting...

On a patrol boat near Waterloo Bridge, police superintendent William Monk notices a young couple engaged in an intense discussion. Seconds later, the two plunge to their deaths in the icy waters of the Thames. Was it an accident, a suicide, or a murder? Ever the investigator, Monk learns that the woman, Mary Havilland, had planned to marry the fair-haired man who shared her fate. He also discovers that Mary s father had recently died in a supposed suicide. But Mary s friends share their own darks suspicions with Monk, who now faces the mysteries surrounding "three" deaths. Aided by his...

This book fills a gap in our knowledge of the practice of international marketing. The functions provided by international trade intermediaries (ITIs), on behalf of manufacturers unable or unwilling to assume them has been studied before. However, their evolution in the context of the challenging international environment, which is traced and analyzed here by Anne C. Perry, has not been previously addressed. New empirical data on ITIs and their survival strategies is reported, and a conceptual model of their evolution based on organization, marketing, and international-business theories is...

When Inspector Thomas Pitt is asked to reopen a three-year-old murder case that had taken place in London's luxurious Hanover Close, he is all too aware that his superiors want him to simply smooth things over. But penetrating the reserve of high society households will take more finesse than Pitt can muster. Enter Charlotte Pitt, his wellborn wife, and her sister, Emily. As the social equals of the inhabitants of the Close, the women are privy to conversations that would never reach the ears of a mere policeman. What they find is a secret so shocking it will lead to more...

Als Charlotte von der Verzweiflung ihrer Mutter erfährt, weil sie ein Medaillon mit einem kompromittierenden Bild verloren hat, ahnt sie nicht, dass dies nur der Anfang einer Reihe bizarrer Ereignisse ist, die mit einem plötzlichen Tod enden werden. Denn hinter der prächtigen Eleganz des Rutland Place, wo Charlottes Mutter lebt, verbergen sich schreckliche Geheimnisse - Geheimnisse, die so entsetzlich sind, dass nur Mord sie verbergen kann. Aber die gefährliche Beharrlichkeit von Charlotte und die stille Geduld von Inspektor Pitt werden es ermöglichen, dieses höchst makabere und...