G. D. H. Cole (1889–1959)
Autor(a) de The Common People, 1746-1946
About the Author
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Obras por G. D. H. Cole
Towards A Libertarian Socialism: Reflections on the British Labour Party and European Working-Class Movements (2021) 21 exemplares
Four Great Detective Novels [The Murder of Roger Ackroyd | The Red House Mystery | The Rasp | The Man from the River] (1938) 13 exemplares
A History of Socialist Thought. Vol. 3, The Second International, 1889-1914, Part 1 only (1956) 9 exemplares
A History of Socialist Thought. Vol. 3, The Second International, 1889-1914, Part 2 only (1963) 9 exemplares
The Intelligent Man's Guide to the Post-War World 8 exemplares
A History of Socialist Thought. Vol. 4, Communism and Social Democracy, 1914-1931, Part 2 only (1958) 8 exemplares
A History of Socialist Thought. Vol. 4, Communism and Social Democracy, 1914-1931 (1958) 7 exemplares
Great Britain in the post-war world 7 exemplares
Oxford Poetry 1915 6 exemplares
An introduction to trade unionism 5 exemplares
A History of Socialist Thought. Vol. 4, Communism and Social Democracy, 1914-1931, Part 1 only (1969) 5 exemplares
Death in the sun 4 exemplares
English Economic History 1922 3 exemplares
Historia del pensamiento socialista. Tomos 1 a 7 2 exemplares
Facts for Socialists (Fabian Research Series 184) 2 exemplares
Principles of economic planning 2 exemplares
Modern theories and forms of industrial organisation 2 exemplares
Politics and literature. 2 exemplares
The Toys of Death 2 exemplares
The case for industrial partnership 2 exemplares
Beaumont & Fletcher : lyrics from the plays — Editor — 1 exemplar
Historia del pensamiento socialista, III. La Segunda Internacional, 1889-1914. (Primera parte) (Spanish Edition) (2020) 1 exemplar
Oxford poetry, 1910-1913 1 exemplar
Que é socialismo? 1 exemplar
Che cosa è il denaro? 1 exemplar
The machinery of socialist planning 1 exemplar
Historia de las ideas políticas 1 exemplar
War Aims 1 exemplar
Energetics of the Geomagnetic Storms 1 exemplar
Victory or vested interest? 1 exemplar
the Social Contract 1 exemplar
Banks and Credit 1 exemplar
Planning of world trade 1 exemplar
William Morris as a socialist : a lecture given on 16th January 1957 to the William Morris Society at the Art Workers'… (1977) 1 exemplar
Workers' control series 1 exemplar
In Peril of His Life 1 exemplar
Fatal Beauty 1 exemplar
British Working Class Movement, The 1 exemplar
A Plan for Democratic Britain 1 exemplar
Oxford poetry, 1914 1 exemplar
New beginnings 1 exemplar
Thomas Campion: Selected Poems. (The Ormond Poets Number 9) — Editor — 1 exemplar
Birthday gifts, and other stories 1 exemplar
The Dialectic -- Conclusion 1 exemplar
Workers' control for railwaymen 1 exemplar
Is this socialism? 1 exemplar
G. D. H. Cole on Labour's foreign policy 1 exemplar
Control socialista de la industria 1 exemplar
Guide to the Elements of Socialism 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Miraculous Mysteries: Locked Room Mysteries and Impossible Crimes (2017) — Contribuidor — 106 exemplares
Crime On Her Mind: Fifteen Stories of Female Sleuths from the Victorian Era to the Forties (1975) — Contribuidor — 104 exemplares
101 Years' Entertainment: The Great Detective Stories 1841-1941 (1941) — Contribuidor — 102 exemplares
Stories in prose, stories in verse, shorter poems, lectures and essays (1942) — Editor — 26 exemplares
Academy Mystery Novellas: Women Sleuths, Police Procedurals, Locked Room Puzzles, Great British Detectives ( BOX Set) (1985) — Contribuidor — 14 exemplares
Sleuths: Twenty-Three Great Detectives of Fiction and Their Best Stories (1931) — Contribuidor — 6 exemplares
Selected Lyrics — Editor — 2 exemplares
The Fourth Crime Club Omnibus: The Devil Man / Mystery at Friar's Pardon / Death Comes to Perigord / Dead Man's Watch (1937) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
The great detectives — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Cole, George Douglas Howard
- Data de nascimento
- 1889-09-25
- Data de falecimento
- 1959-01-14
- Localização do túmulo
- Golders Green Crematorium, London, England
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- Local de nascimento
- Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
- Local de falecimento
- London, England, UK
- Locais de residência
- London, England, UK
- Educação
- University of Oxford (Balliol College)
St Paul's School, London, England, UK - Ocupações
- historian
economist
writer (economy and detectives)
philosopher - Relações
- Cole, Margaret Isabel (wife)
- Organizações
- Fabian Society
Detection Club
Membros
Críticas
Listas
Prémios
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Associated Authors
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 167
- Also by
- 32
- Membros
- 1,109
- Popularidade
- #23,170
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Críticas
- 10
- ISBN
- 148
- Línguas
- 4
- Marcado como favorito
- 1
Dr Ben Tancred is a private investigator who appears in two books by G. D. H. and M. Cole. Unusually, although both publlshed within a year of each other, they are set about twenty-five years apart. What is more, several of the characters in the earlier book also appear in this one, which means that they should be read in chronological order if possible. Unfortunately, they are both quite scarce books, particularly the first of the two, and I've only read this, the second. (It was reprinted some years ago as part of the Crime Club series "The Disappearing Detectives", but I don't think this had a very large print run.)
Dr Tancred is approached by an old acquaintance, Sarah Pendexter, in connection with the recent death of Lord St. Blaizey. She believes very strongly that it was murder (which view she shares with the doctor who examined the body) and that it was committed by her nephew, Rupert. However, this view appears to be mainly based on her claim that she saw the murder committed in a vision (she is a religious fanatic, and many people consider her insane). However, Tancred thinks that her other claim, to have seen Rupert riding on a horse in the vicinity of the crime (which was carried out by knocking the old man off his horse, in the woods near his residence), to be more credible, and eventually he decides to agree to investigate the case.
After consulting Superintendent Wilson (who was involved in the previous case, but plays only a small part in this one), Tancred goes down to the area where the victim lived (in Cornwall, near the river Fowey) and starts to look into the case. Another person whom he had met before is Rupert's sister Helen, who is now married to the victim's son, and hence has become Lady St Blaizey as a result of her father-in-law's death. Could she be involved in the murder? We have learned in the first chapter that she was previously tried for the murder of her stepfather (the story of this is told in the earlier book), and Ben was the main person responsible for her acquittal. He thought that he knew who really was the killer on the earlier occasion, but was unable to prove it, and that person is the principal suspect now. However, it takes a good deal of investigation to bring the case to a climax, with other issues involving a possibly forged will and a second murder.
It should be added that the book is set in a real area, with only slight changes to some place names (the reasons for which don't entirely make sense) and I was interested to note, by comparing the map provided with a modern road-map, that the area covered would today have to include the Eden Project!… (mais)