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The Thin Man (Popular Penguins Crime) by Dashiell Hammett
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Category: Penguin Crime Classics | Series: Green Popular Penguins
Ex-detective Nick Charles attracts trouble like a magnet. He thinks his sleuthing days are over, but when Julia Wolf, a former acquaintance, is found dead, her body riddled with bullets, Nick - along with his glamorous wife, Nora - can't resist making a few enquiries. Clyde Miller Wynant, Julia's lover ...Show more
The Thirty-Nine Steps (Popular Penguins Crime) by John Buchan
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Category: Penguin Crime Classics | Series: Green Popular Penguins
In prohibition-era New York, Nick Charles plans to enjoy a quiet Christmas with his glamorous wife, Nora, their Schnauzer, Asta, and a case of good scotch. But the bullet-riddled corpse of a former lover, a missing inventor and a junked-up hoodlum with a careless attitude to guns force him out of retire ...Show more
The Trial: Popular Penguins by Franz Kafka
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Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
The Trial (Der Process in German) is a novel written by Franz Kafka from 1914 to 1915 and published in 1925. One of his best-known works, it tells the story of a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed neither to him nor to the reader. Heavi ...Show more
The War of the Worlds: Popular Penguins by H. G. Wells
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Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins
The night after a shooting star is seen streaking across the sky, a cylinder is discovered near London. Armed with just a white flag, the locals approach the mysterious object only to be burned alive by heat-rays as horrific, tentacled invaders emerge. Soon, the whole of human civilization is under thre ...Show more
The Well: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1986 (Popular Penguins) by Elizabeth Jolley
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Driving one night along the deserted track that leads to the farm, Miss Hester Harper and Katherine run into a mysterious creature. They dump the body into the farm's deep well but the voice of the injured intruder will not be stilled and the closer Katherine is drawn to the edge of the well, the farthe ...Show more
The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Toward the end of the Vietnam era, in a snug little Rhode Island seacoast town, wonderful powers have descended upon Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie, bewitching divorc es with sudden access to all that is female, fecund, and mysterious. Alexandra, a sculptor, summons thunderstorms; Jane, a cellist, floats on ...Show more
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: Popular Penguins by L. Frank Baum
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is an American children's novel written by author L. Frank Baum. The story chronicles the adventures of a young farm girl named Dorothy in the magical Land of Oz, after she and her pet dog Toto are swept away from their Kansas home by a cyclone. The novel is one of the best-kn ...Show more
Treasure Island: Popular Penguins by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
Originally designed as a story for boys, Stevenson's novel is narrated by the teenage Jim Hawkins, who outwits a gang of murderous pirates led by that unforgettable avatar of amorality, Long John Silver. But Treasure Islandhas also had great appeal for adult readers and was admired by Mark Twain, Rudyar ...Show more
Trent's Last Case (Popular Penguins Crime) by E. Clerihew Bentley
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Category: Penguin Crime Classics | Series: Green Popular Penguins
When a scheming American capitalist is found dead in the garden of his English country house, two immediate matters confound amateur detective Philip Trent: why is the dead man not wearing his false teeth, and why is his young widow seemingly relieved at his death? The newly widowed Mabel Manderson - 't ...Show more
Tropical Issue (Popular Penguins Crime) by Dorothy Dunnett
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Category: Penguin Crime Classics | Series: Green Popular Penguins
Rita Geddes is a dyslexic make-up artist whose appearance seems to change with the weather. She is called to Johnson Johnson's apartment to fix the make-up of the famous Natalie Sheridan. However, Johnson, who is seemingly recovering from an accident, which turns out to be a murder attempt, is also pres ...Show more
Usage & Abusage by Eric Partridge
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Category: On Writing | Series: Popular Penguins
Usage and Abusage is Penguin's classic linguistic reference book that not only tells you how to use English correctly, but is also a declaration of war on its misuse. Covering grammatical problems, words that are commonly abused and confused, matters of style, as well as providing advice on how to commu ...Show more
Vile Bodies: Popular Penguins by Evelyn Waugh
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
In the years following the First World War a new generation emerges, wistful and vulnerable beneath the glitter. The Bright Young Things of twenties Mayfair, with their paradoxical mix of innocence and sophistication, exercise their hedonistic whims and vile bodies in every kind of capricious escapade. ...Show more