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  • 1
    UID:
    b3kat_BV024061639
    Format: 1 DVD, PAL, Ländercode 2, 152 Min., farb., stereo , 12 cm
    Note: Dolby digital 5.1. - Presented in 1.85:1 aspect ratio , Orig.: Großbritannien 1999 , Enth. director's commentary , Hard of hearing engl. subtitles
    Language: English
    Subjects: English Studies
    RVK:
    Keywords: Fiktionale Darstellung ; DVD-Video
    Author information: Leigh, Mike 1943-
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  • 2
    UID:
    kobvindex_ZLB34078577
    Format: 2 MP3-CD (15 Std. 54 Minuten)
    Edition: 2016
    Uniform Title: Magpie Murders
    Note: 〈b〉Originalausgabe in englischer Sprache〈/b〉 , 〈b〉MP3 Format〈/b〉
    Language: English
    Author information: Horowitz, Anthony
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  • 3
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    HarperAudio
    UID:
    kobvindex_ZLB34796280
    Edition: Unabridged
    ISBN: 9780062676894
    Content: "Magpie Murders is a double puzzle for puzzle fans, who don't often get the classicism they want from contemporary thrillers. 8212 Janet Maslin , The New York TimesA New York Times Bestseller | #1 Indie Next Pick | NPR Best Book of 2017 | Amazon Best Book of 2017 | Washington Post Best Book of 2017 | Esquire Best Book of 2017 From the New York Times bestselling author of Moriarty and Trigger Mortis, this fiendishly brilliant, riveting thriller weaves a classic whodunit worthy of Agatha Christie into a chilling, ingeniously original modern-day mystery. When editor Susan Ryeland is given the manuscript of Alan Conway's latest novel, she has no reason to think it will be much different from any of his others. After working with the bestselling crime writer for years, she's intimately familiar with his detective, Atticus P252 nd, who solves mysteries disturbing sleepy English villages. An homage to queens of classic British crime such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers, Alan's traditional formula has proved hugely successful. So successful that Susan must continue to put up with his troubling behavior if she wants to keep her job. Conway's latest tale has Atticus P252 nd investigating a murder at Pye Hall, a local manor house. Yes, there are dead bodies and a host of intriguing suspects, but the more Susan reads, the more she's convinced that there is another story hidden in the pages of the manuscript: one of real-life jealousy, greed, ruthless ambition, and murder. Masterful, clever, and relentlessly suspenseful, Magpie Murders is a deviously dark take on vintage English crime fiction in which the listener becomes the detective. "
    Content: Biographisches: " Allan Corduner starred as Sir Arthur Sullivan in Mike Leigh's Topsy Turvy . Other films include Moonlight Mile , The Green Zone , and Yentl . He has extensive theater credits on Broadway and in London's West End. " Rezension(2): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: Starred review from February 6, 2017 Bestseller Horowitz ( The House of Silk ) provides a treat for fans of golden age mysteries with this tour de force that both honors and pokes fun at the genre. In the prologue, an unnamed editor sets the tone by describing how reading the manuscript of Magpie Murders, the ninth novel in a bestselling mystery series by Alan Conway, cost her her job and many friendships. In the text of the manuscript itself (which is accompanied by a bio of Conway and blurbs from real-life authors Ian Rankin and Robert Harris), Poirot-like sleuth Atticus P195" Rezension(3): "〈a href=http://www.audiofilemagazine.com target=_blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/audiofile_logo.jpg alt=AudioFile Magazine border=0 /〉〈/a〉:Listen straight through--or savor slowly? That will be your struggle because Horowitz's delicious mystery-within-a-mystery is, as they say, fiendishly clever and terrifically narrated. Samantha Bond begins enticingly with her husky vibrato and fully realized performance as a contemporary book editor who's been given a murder-mystery manuscript. Soon, we're in the midst of that book, set in 1955 and performed by Allan Corduner with a delightful bow toward the storytellers of old. A village busybody has fallen and broken her neck, and when her boss is murdered (a suit of armor is involved), famous detective Atticus Pund arrives to assist the police. When the manuscript ends abruptly, our editor determines to follow the clues, a potentially lethal decision. Oh boy, oh boy. A.C.S. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award � AudioFile 2017, Portland, Maine" Rezension(4): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: Starred review from September 4, 2017 Horowitz’s new novel salutes the whodunit by presenting two sterling examples of it173" Rezension(5): "〈a href=http://lj.libraryjournal.com/ target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/libraryjournal_logo.png alt=Library Journal border=0 /〉〈/a〉: Starred review from April 1, 2017 Horowitz's fourth adult novel (after Trigger Mortis) presents two mysteries for the price of one, crafting a classic whodunit within a modern mystery. Susan Ryeland is an editor for a small press whose success rests on the old-fashioned mystery novels of Alan Conway. Returning from escorting an author on a book tour, she finds Alan's latest Atticus Pund manuscript, Magpie Murders, on her desk. Upon reaching the novel's end, she finds that the last chapter is missing. When she informs her boss, Charles Clover, he tells her that Alan has committed suicide. Susan searches for the lost chapter, and in the process comes to believe that Alan's death was no suicide. Using clues buried in the manuscript, she investigates his death. While Susan and the fictional Atticus are very different characters, they use similar techniques to tease out the clues and hints to bring each mystery to resolution. VERDICT Both stories might stand alone, but combined, they result in a delightful puzzle. Fans of Agatha Christie and the BBC's Midsomer Murders and Foyle's War (both written by Horowitz) will relish this double mystery. [See Prepub Alert, 12/12/16,Editors' Spring Picks, LJ 2/15/17.]--Terry Lucas, Shelter Island P.L., NY Copyright 2017 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission. " Rezension(6): "〈a href=http://lj.libraryjournal.com/ target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/libraryjournal_logo.png alt=Library Journal border=0 /〉〈/a〉: January 1, 2017 Making her way through a manuscript from cantankerous but hugely popular crime writer Alan Conway, put-upon editor Susan Ryeland senses an undercurrent suggesting a real-life case of murder. With a 150,000-copy first printing. Copyright 2017 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission. " Rezension(7): "〈a href=http://lj.libraryjournal.com/ target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/libraryjournal_logo.png alt=Library Journal border=0 /〉〈/a〉: May 15, 2017 Agatha Christie fans will line up for this salute to Golden Age whodunits from Horowitz (Alex Rider series). When editor Susan Ryeland receives best-selling mystery author Alan Conway's new manuscript, she is annoyed to discover the final chapter is missing and that Conway has committed suicide. Susan begins to suspect that the irascible Conway's book hides murderous secrets related to his death. (LJ 4/1/17) Copyright 2017 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission. " Rezension(8): "〈a href=http://www.kirkusreviews.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/kirkus_logo.png alt=Kirkus border=0 /〉〈/a〉: Starred review from March 15, 2017 A preternaturally brainy novel within a novel that's both a pastiche and a deconstruction of golden-age whodunits.Magpie Murders, bestselling author Alan Conway's ninth novel about Greek/German detective Atticus Pund, kicks off with the funeral of Mary Elizabeth Blakiston, devoted housekeeper to Sir Magnus Pye, who's been found at the bottom of a steep staircase she'd been vacuuming in Pye Hall, whose every external door was locked from the inside. Her demise has all the signs of an accident until Sir Magnus himself follows her in death, beheaded with a sword customarily displayed with a full suit of armor in Pye Hall. Conway's editor, Susan Ryeland, does her methodical best to figure out which of many guilty secrets Conway has provided the suspects in Saxby-on-Avon--Rev. Robin Osborne and his wife, Henrietta,Mary's son, Robert, and his fiancee, Joy Sanderling,Joy's boss, surgeon Emilia Redwing, and her elderly father,antiques dealers Johnny and Gemma Whitehead,Magnus' twin sister, Clarissa,and Lady Frances Pye and her inevitable lover, investor Jack Dartford--is most likely to conceal a killer, but she's still undecided when she comes to the end of the manuscript and realizes the last chapter is missing. Since Conway in inconveniently unavailable, Susan, in the second half of the book, attempts to solve the case herself, questioning Conway's own associates--his sister, Claire,his ex-wife, Melissa,his ex-lover, James Taylor,his neighbor, hedge fund manager John White--and slowly comes to the realization that Conway has cast virtually all of them as fictional avatars in Magpie Murders and that the novel, and indeed Conway's entire fictional oeuvre, is filled with a mind-boggling variety of games whose solutions cast new light on murders fictional and nonfictional. Fans who still mourn the passing of Agatha Christie, the model who's evoked here in dozens of telltale details, will welcome this wildly inventive homage/update/commentary as the most fiendishly clever puzzle--make that two puzzles--of the year. COPYRIGHT(2017) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. " Rezension(9): "〈a href=https://www.booklistonline.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/booklist_logo.png alt=Booklist border=0 /〉〈/a〉: April 15, 2017 Horowitz's unusual stand-alone combines two books in onethe first, set in 1950s England, is a wonderfully written Agatha Christiestyle whodunit complete with vicar, village, and vengeance. The second, set in modern times, stars an editor who must solve a mystery surrounding that whodunit, as her publishing house's fortunes rest upon its success. While the first story is more enjoyable than the second, which drags a little, this is overall a very entertaining set of tales, and readers will enjoy finding clues in the whodunit that will help solve the mystery in the latter tale. Perfect for readers of Christie and Sophie Hannah, for lovers of mysteries with a splash of metafiction, and, of course, for fans of Horowitz's other work in multiple genres, for both young people and adults. In addition to fiction, Horowitz is the acclaimed creator and writer of such popular TV crime series as Foyle's War and Midsomer Murders.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2017, American Library Association.) "
    Note: Auszeichnungen: Audio Publishers Association:Audie Award Nominee
    Language: English
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  • 4
    UID:
    kobvindex_ZLB34796561
    Edition: Unabridged
    ISBN: 9780062955487
    Series Statement: Susan Ryeland
    Content: " Featuring his famous literary detective Atticus Pund and Susan Ryeland, hero of the worldwide bestseller Magpie Murders, a brilliantly complex literary thriller with echoes of Agatha Christie from New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz. Retired publisher Susan Ryeland is living the good life. She is running a small hotel on a Greek island with her long-term boyfriend Andreas. It should be everything she's always wanted. But is it? She's exhausted with the responsibilities of making everything work on an island where nothing ever does, and truth be told she's beginning to miss London. And then the Trehearnes come to stay. The strange and mysterious story they tell, about an unfortunate murder that took place on the same day and in the same hotel in which their daughter was married8212 a picturesque inn on the Suffolk coast named Farlingaye Halle8212 fascinates Susan and piques her editor's instincts. One of her former writers, the late Alan Conway, author of the fictional Magpie Murders, knew the murder victim8212 an advertising executive named Frank Parris8212 and once visited Farlingaye Hall. Conway based the third book in his detective series, Atticus Pund Takes the Cake, on that very crime. The Trehearne's, daughter, Cecily, read Conway's mystery and believed the book proves that the man convicted of Parris's murder8212 a Romanian immigrant who was the hotel's handyman8212 is innocent. When the Trehearnes reveal that Cecily is now missing, Susan knows that she must return to England and find out what really happened. Brilliantly clever, relentlessly suspenseful, full of twists that will keep readers guessing with each revelation and clue, Moonflower Murders is a deviously dark take on vintage English crime fiction from one of its greatest masterminds, Anthony Horowitz. "
    Content: Biographisches: " ANTHONY HOROWITZ is the author of the US bestselling Magpie Murders and The Word is Murder , and one of the most prolific and successful writers in the English language,he may have committed more (fictional) murders than any other living author. His novel Trigger Mortis features original material from Ian Fleming. His most recent Sherlock Holmes novel, Moriarty , is a reader favorite,and his bestselling Alex Rider series for young adults has sold more than 19 million copies worldwide. As a TV screenwriter, he created both Midsomer Murders and the BAFTA-winning Foyle's War on PBS. Horowitz regularly contributes to a wide variety of national newspapers and magazines, and in January 2014 was awarded an OBE. " Rezension(2): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: Starred review from September 7, 2020 Bestseller Horowitz’s masterly sequel to 2017’s Magpie Murders finds Susan Ryeland, who misses her previous work as a London book editor and publisher, discontent in her new life running a struggling hotel in Crete. Then she’s visited by Lawrence and Pauline Treherne, the owners of Branlow Hall, an upscale Suffolk hotel, who think she can help in finding their missing daughter, Cecily. Cecily disappeared shortly after calling her parents to say that an injustice had been done. At the time of Cecily’s wedding at Branlow Hall a decade earlier, Frank Parris, a hotel guest, was bludgeoned to death in his room. One of the staff, Stefan Codrescu, was convicted of the murder based on powerful circumstantial evidence. Cecily told her parents on the phone she was convinced of Stefan’s innocence after reading a mystery inspired by the Parris murder by the now deceased Alan Conway, one of Susan’s authors. Susan accepts the Trehernes’ generous fee and travels to Branlow Hall to investigate, which involves looking into Parris’s death and rereading the Conway novel for clues. Horowitz, who matches a baffling puzzle with a sympathetic, flawed lead, has never been better at surprising the reader and playing fair. This is a flawless update of classic golden age whodunits. Agent: Jonathan Lloyd, Curtis Brown (U.K.). " Rezension(3): "〈a href=http://www.audiofilemagazine.com target=_blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/audiofile_logo.jpg alt=AudioFile Magazine border=0 /〉〈/a〉:In this second outing for editor-turned-sleuth Susan Ryeland, narrators Lesley Manville and Allan Corduner deliver pleasures galore in this book within a book full of sleight of hand and red herrings. Manville's crisp, warm voice is engaging, and her emotionally attentive performance nicely differentiates between characters in the Ryeland investigation of a hotelier's disappearance and an earlier murder at the hotel. That murder was purportedly fictionalized in a popular mystery, and just like that, we're in the mystery, read by Corduner. Set in the 1950s, it features detective Atticus Pund investigating the murder of a hotel-owning film star. Corduner has a perfect body-in-the-library voice--erudite, trustworthy, slightly superior--and his amusing characterizations sound of the era. Between them, Horowitz, Manville, and Corduner spirit listeners satisfyingly far away. A.C.S. � AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine"
    Language: English
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  • 5
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    AV-Medium
    [S.l.] : Random House Audiobooks
    UID:
    kobvindex_SLB622666
    Format: 11 CD (840 Min.)
    Edition: Unabridged
    ISBN: 9781846570902
    Language: German
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  • 6
    UID:
    kobvindex_ZLB35065598
    Edition: Unabridged
    ISBN: 9780593666593
    Content: " NATIONAL BESTSELLER ,bull,nbsp,rom the bestselling, award-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments , a dazzling collection of short stories that look deeply into the heart of family relationships, marriage, loss and memory, and what it means to spend a life together If you consider yourself an Atwood fan and have only read her novels: Get your act together. You&rsquo,e been missing out.&rdquo,&mdash,i〉The New York Times Book Review, Rebecca Makkai, ,est-selling author of The Great Believers Margaret Atwood has established herself as one of the most visionary and canonical authors in the world. This collection of fifteen extraordinary stories&mdash,ome of which have appeared in The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine &mdash,xplore the full warp and weft of experience, speaking to our unique times with Atwood&rsquo, characteristic insight, wit and intellect. ,br〉The two intrepid sisters of the title story grapple with loss and memory on a perfect summer evening,&ldquo,mpatient Griselda&rdquo,explores alienation and miscommunication with a fresh twist on a folkloric classic,and &ldquo,y Evil Mother&rdquo,touches on the fantastical, examining a mother-daughter relationship in which the mother purports to be a witch. ,t the heart of the collection are seven extraordinary stories that follow a married couple across the decades, the moments big and small that make up a long life of uncommon love&mdash,nd what comes after. Returning to short fiction for the first time since her 2014 collection Stone Mattress, Atwood showcases both her creativity and her humanity in these remarkable tales which by turns delight, illuminate, and quietly devastate."
    Content: Rezension(1): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: Starred review from March 6, 2023 Atwood ( The Handmaid’s Tale ) explores love and loss in this brilliant collection that mixes fantastical stories about the afterlife with realism. “Metempsychosis: Or, The Journey of the Soul,” an amusing story of reincarnation, follows a narrator whose soul has jumped “directly from snail to human, with no guppies, basking sharks, whales, beetles, turtles, alligators, skunks, naked mole rats, aardvarks, elephants, or orangutans in between.” “The Dead Interview” features an imaginary interview between Atwood and George Orwell, while in “Wooden Box,” the narrator copes with the death of a longtime partner. Among the entries with a more realist bent are the linked stories that explore the strong bond between Nell and Tig after decades of marriage of. In “First Aid,” Nell and Tig take a course from an emergency responder, which leads them to realize they’d prefer “the illusion of safety” rather than face the facts of mortality. “Better to march along through the golden autumn woods, not very well prepared, poking icy ponds with your hiking pole, snacking on chocolate, sitting on frozen logs, peeling hard-boiled eggs with cold fingers as the early snow sifts down and the day darkens,” Atwood writes, evoking the magic of everyday life. She’s writing at the top of her considerable powers here." Rezension(2): "〈a href=http://www.audiofilemagazine.com target=_blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/audiofile_logo.jpg alt=AudioFile Magazine border=0 /〉〈/a〉:On audio, Margaret Atwood's new collection of short pieces is a mixed bag, both texts and performances. Many of these entries are less stories than witty finger exercises. Examples: Atwood has a conversation with a post-body George Orwell. Hypatia of Alexandria dryly describes being murdered by a misogynist mob with clam shells. A man comes to realize his wife has the soul of a snail. A teenage girl believes her mother is a witch. Most of the professional performances, particularly Linda Lavin's and Bahni Turpin's, are crisply effective. Less successfully, Atwood performs most of the elegiac Tig and Nell stories herself, including the title story. Psychologically shrewd though she is, her Canadian inflections distract, and some will miss the smooth polish of the trained actors. B.G. � AudioFile 2023, Portland, Maine"
    Language: English
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  • 7
    UID:
    kobvindex_ZLB01398084
    Format: 1 DVD (92 Minuten) , 1 DVD , farb., Dolby digital 5.1 , Ländercode 2, Min. 92 , 12 cm
    Note: Orig.: UK, USA 2001
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  • 8
    UID:
    almahu_9948391492202882
    Format: 1 online resource (5 audio files (58 min., 25 sec.)) : , digital, stereo
    ISBN: 1-58081-720-3
    Content: Adapted from the diaries of Richard Wagner, Beethoven's music soars in the background as a poor young composer named Richard Wagner struggles toward Vienna to meet the composer he idealizes.
    Note: Previously issued on CD: Los Angeles: LA Theatre Works, 2010. , Translated from the French.
    Additional Edition: ISBN 1-58081-719-X
    Language: English
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  • 9
    UID:
    kobvindex_ZLB34799131
    Edition: Unabridged
    ISBN: 9781984838278
    Content: " Read the novel New York Times bestselling author of The Alice Network Kate Quinn called easily one of the best novels I have read all year! A critically acclaimed, multi-layered romance set in the perilous days of World Wars I and II, where gods hold the fates8212 and the hearts8212 of four mortals in their hands. They are Hazel, James, Aubrey, and Colette. A classical pianist from London, a British would-be architect-turned-soldier, a Harlem-born ragtime genius in the U.S. Army, and a Belgian orphan with a gorgeous voice and a devastating past. Their story, as told by goddess Aphrodite, who must spin the tale or face judgment on Mount Olympus, is filled with hope and heartbreak, prejudice and passion, and reveals that, though War is a formidable force, it's no match for the transcendent power of Love. Hailed by critics, Lovely War has received seven starred reviews and is an indie bestseller. Author Julie Berry has been called a modern master of historical fiction by Bookpage and a celestially inspired storyteller by the New York Times , and Lovely War is truly her masterwork."
    Content: Biographisches: "JULIE BERRY (julieberrybooks.com) is the author of The Passion of Dolssa , All the Truth That's in Me , The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place , Secondhand Charm , The Amaranth Enchantment , and the Splurch Academy series." Biographisches: "JULIE BERRY (julieberrybooks.com) is the author of The Passion of Dolssa , All the Truth That's in Me , The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place , Secondhand Charm , The Amaranth Enchantment , and the Splurch Academy series." Rezension(3): "〈a href=http://www.audiofilemagazine.com target=_blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/audiofile_logo.jpg alt=AudioFile Magazine border=0 /〉〈/a〉:An extraordinary ensemble of seven talented narrators enacts several interwoven stories. The audio begins in 1945 as Greek gods argue about the nature of love. Jayne Entwistle's Aphrodite is mature and certain as she frames the story of humans who fall in love during WWI. These characters are Hazel and James, who meet just before James ships out. Fiona Hardingham expresses Hazel's innocence in love, and later, in war. But most poignant is Steve West's portrayal of James, whose battle fatigue and guilt over killing soldiers allow listeners to understand the horrors and trauma of war. All that said, while the narrators' depictions are spot-on and help listeners appreciate the author's lyrical writing, the complexity of this story may be better appreciated on the page. S.W. � AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine"
    Note: Auszeichnungen: Young Adult Library Services Association:Best Fiction for Young Adults
    Language: English
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  • 10
    UID:
    b3kat_BV024058414
    Format: 1 Videokassette (VHS, 155 Min.)
    Note: Fernsehmitschnitt: ARD 27.02.2003 , Orig. mit dt. Untertiteln
    Language: English
    Author information: Leigh, Mike 1943-
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