[PDF] The Case Of The Caretaker eBook

Author : Agatha Christie
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 44,37 MB
Release : 2011-09-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0062129732

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Doctor Haydock, the resident GP of St. Mary Mead, hopes to cheer up Miss Marple as she recovers from the flu with a little story. The tale revolves around the return of the prodigal son of Major Laxton, the devilishly handsome Harry Laxton. Harry, after leading a life of childish indiscretions and falling head over heels for the village tobacconist’s daughter, has made good and returned to lay claim to his tumbling childhood home and introduce the village to his beautiful new wife. But, the villagers are prone to gossip about young Harry’s past, and one person in particular cannot forgive him for tearing down the old house. Will Miss Marple’s acumen be up to the task of solving the story?

Author : Erle Stanley Gardner
Publisher : Fawcett
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,11 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : 9780345321565

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"In his will, Peter Laxter guaranteed his faithful caretaker a job and a place to live for life. But Laxter's grandson Sam says the deal doesn't include the caretaker's cat. When Perry Mason takes the case, he finds there's much more at stake than an old man's cat -- a million dollars to be exact. And as he investigates, he finds a web of greed and treachery among the heirs. But which one actually pulled off the almost perfect crime?"--bn.com.

Author : Agatha Christie
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 25,34 MB
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0007452055

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A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.

Author : Agatha Christie
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 7 pages
File Size : 28,24 MB
Release : 2004-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0061748064

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Despite the title, the stories collected here recount cases from the middle of Miss Marple's career. They are: 'Sanctuary'; 'Strange Jest'; 'Tape-Measure Murder'; 'The Case of the Caretaker'; 'The Case of the Perfect Maid'; 'Miss Marple Tells a Story'; 'The Dressmaker's Doll'; 'In a Glass Darkly'; 'Greenshaw's Folly.'

Author : Chris Martin
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,84 MB
Release : 2019-12
Category :
ISBN : 9781907432453

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Set high up on the cliffs in the grounds of a ruined monastery is Blinkton High School. Here resides the enigmatic Inky Stevens - a talented and astute student, better known as "the Great School Detective". Working from his secret break-time hideaway, Inky is approached by an unusual client: the caretaker Fred Varley, who is distraught over the loss of the school keys. Who has stolen them? And what is the thief's motive? Can Inky and his two sidekicks solve the mystery and retrieve the keys before Fred has to confess his negligence to the terrifying headmistress ("The Snake")?

Author : A. X. Ahmad
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 31,74 MB
Release : 2013-05-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1250016835

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Who is the caretaker hiding in the shadows of the Martha's Vineyard mansions he tends? Back in India, Ranjit Singh commanded an elite army squad. But that was years ago, before his Army career ended in dishonor, shattering his reputation. Driven from his homeland, he is now a caretaker on the exclusive resort island of Martha's Vineyard, looking after the vacation homes of the rich and powerful. One harsh winter, faced with no other choice, he secretly moves his family into the house of one of his clients, an African-American Senator. Here, his wife and daughter are happy, and he feels safe for the first time in ages. But Ranjit's idyll is shattered when mysterious men break into the house. Pursued and hunted, Ranjit is forced to enter the Senator's shadowy world, and his only ally is Anna, the Senator's beautiful wife, who has secrets of her own. Together, they uncover a trail of deception that leads from the calm shores of the Vineyard to countries half a world away. And when his investigation stirs up long forgotten events, the caretaker must finally face the one careless decision that ruined his life- and forced him to leave India. A gripping tale of hidden histories, political intrigue and dangerous attractions, A. X. Ahmad's The Caretaker introduces a new hero for our times: an immigrant caught between two worlds and a man caught between two loves.

Author : Doon Arbus
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 44,35 MB
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811229505

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A lush, disorienting novel, The Caretaker takes no prisoners as it explores the perils of devotion and the potentially lethal charisma of things Following the death of a renowned and eccentric collector—the author of Stuff, a seminal philosophical work on the art of accumulation—the fate of the privately endowed museum he cherished falls to a peripatetic stranger who had been his fervent admirer. In his new role as caretaker of The Society for the Preservation of the Legacy of Dr. Charles Morgan, this restive man, in service to an absent master, at last finds his calling. The peculiar institution over which he presides is dedicated to the annihilation of hierarchy: peerless antiquities commune happily with the ignored, the discarded, the undervalued and the valueless. What transpires as the caretaker assumes dominion over this reliquary of voiceless objects and over its visitors is told in a manner at once obsessive and matter-of-fact, and in language both cocooning and expansive. A wry and haunting tale, The Caretaker, like the interplanetary crystal that is one of the museum’s treasures, is rare, glistening, and of a compacted inwardness. Kafka or Shirley Jackson may come to mind, and The Caretaker may conjure up various genres—parables, ghost stories, locked-room mysteries—but Doon Arbus draws her phosphorescent water from no other writer’s well.

Author : Harold Pinter
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 18,71 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780802150875

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Jacket description.back: In all of Pinter's plays, seemingly ordinary events become charged with profound, if elusive, meaning, haunting pathos, and wild comedy. In The Caretaker, a tramp finds lodging in the derelict house of two brothers; in The Dumbwaiter, a pair of gunmen wait for the kill in a decayed lodging house. Harold Pinter gradually exposes the inner strains and fear of his characters, alternating hilarity and character to create and almost unbearable edge of tension.

Author : Agatha Christie
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 34,67 MB
Release : 2011-09-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0062129694

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Miss Politt has been waiting and waiting outside Laburnum Cottage for Mrs. Spenlow, to no avail. She nervously acquires the help of her next-door neighbor, whose gumption and persistence reveal that Mrs. Spenlow is dead on the hearthrug. The whole of St. Mary Mead is convinced the murderer is Mr. Spenlow, who shows no emotion upon his wife’s sudden death, but, with characteristic diligence, Miss Marple reveals that it is perhaps not that simple.