It is 1895 and Sergeant Bartholomew Holmes of Scotland Yard sets out to look into the suicide of a man in a printing works where, nearby is found the naked body of a child.
He follows a murky trail involving pornography, the aristocracy, a music hall hypnotist and the puzzle of a long-forgotten poisoning.
Assisted by Kitty, the Yard's first typist, and Jasper, a street urchin, Holmes uncovers torture, depravity and several corpses before facing death himself in his climactic confrontation with London's most terrifying killer since Jack The Ripper.
It is 1895 and Sergeant Bartholomew Holmes of Scotland Yard sets out to look into the suicide of a man in a printing works where, nearby is found t...
While reading a submitted manuscript - a novel of wartime London - for a publisher friend, Nick Hawthorne becomes mixed up in the death of TV personality Jack Skelton.
With his friend a suspect, Nick teams up with a beautiful detective from Scotland Yard to solve the case and the trail leads to deadly danger in the Yorkshire Dales.
Meanwhile, Shelton reads the manuscript - unfolding a tale of murder and betrayal while bombs drop on London. From a mysterious Whitehall mandarin he learns the significance of the story and its aftermath... and his life is changed for ever.
While reading a submitted manuscript - a novel of wartime London - for a publisher friend, Nick Hawthorne becomes mixed up in the death of TV perso...
Investment is no longer a matter of individual savers directly choosing which shares or bonds to buy. Rather, most of their money flows through a 'chain': an often extended sequence of intermediaries. What goes on in that chain is of huge importance: The world's investment managers, who are now almost as well paid as top bankers, control assets equivalent in value to around a year of total global economic output. In Chains of Finance, five social scientists discuss the ways in which the intermediaries in the chain influence each other, channel the flows of savers' money, enhance...
Investment is no longer a matter of individual savers directly choosing which shares or bonds to buy. Rather, most of their money flows through a 'cha...
