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The Dead Duck Bounced

The Dead Duck Bounced

Author: John Humphries

Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing

ISBN: 9781803810942

Category: Fiction

Page: 309

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What became of Harold Prettyman, a German agent captured by the British during World War Two? Eighty years later, an investigation by reporter Jack Flynt seems to end at a new dormer bungalow with white pebble-dash walls, not the grey stone terraced house in the Welsh valleys from which, according to a recently declassified MI5 file, Prettyman operated a radio transmitter from the attic alerting German U-Boats to Allied shipping movements. Dead ducks are news stories destined for the News Editor’s spike and Flynt suspects he has found one until a letter arrives at the bungalow with the same coded message --Many Happy Returns Harold Prettyman--used by Prettyman and his accomplice in 1940. But there are no Allied food convoys in the North Atlantic and, believing the letter a hoax Flynt’s newspaper moves him to another assignment—the disappearance of a Foreign Office diplomat suspected of fleeing to Moscow like his predecessors Burgess and Maclean. But Scotland Yard seems more interested in the Coal Miner, a missing Van Gogh masterpiece looted by the Red Army Trophy Brigade as war reparations, but now the focus of an exhibition at Tate Britain after being returned to its owner by the Commission for the Recovery of Looted Art in Europe. The painting discovered hanging on the kitchen wall of the apartment of a dead Trophy Brigade officer had been taken in lieu of pension. Private homes, art galleries and museums across the Russian Federation continue to hold large quantities of booty from the Second World War, worthless since President Putin banned the repatriation of cultural artifacts, but priceless in the West. So, is the Coal Miner exhibited at the Tate the missing Van Gogh or a forgery made by a copyist at the Hermitage in St Petersburg? A zig-zag trail leads Flynt's search for Harold Prettyman into the world of Diplomatic Bags, fakes, and money laundering.
Speaking of Animals
Language: en
Pages: 472

Speaking of Animals

Authors: Robert Allen Palmatier
Categories: Reference
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995 - Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group

Entries include a definition, date of first use, source of the definition, animal on which it is based, and more
The Tree of Young Dreamers
Language: en
Pages: 558

The Tree of Young Dreamers

Authors: Frank Sousa
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-04 - Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Brought up in the Depression, Johnny DaSilva is leader of a fun and imaginative gang that lives out their dreams in the Big Tree in which each has a branch that serves as the Lone Ranger's Silver, the race car of Morey Amsterdam, the rocket ship of Buck Rogers, the
Joyful in Thebes
Language: en
Pages: 544

Joyful in Thebes

Authors: Kathlyn M. Cooney, Richard Jasnow
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-08-25 - Publisher: ISD LLC

An international group of scholars have contributed to Joyful in Thebes, a Festschrift for the distinguished Egyptologist Betsy M. Bryan. The forty-two articles deal with topics of art history, archaeology, history, and philology representing virtually the entire span of ancient Egyptian civilization. These diverse studies, which often present unpublished material
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Language: en
Pages:

Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications

Authors: Kathlyn M. Cooney, Richard Jasnow
Categories: Government publications
Type: BOOK - Published: - Publisher:

Books about Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Short Money
Language: en
Pages: 320

Short Money

Authors: Pete Hautman
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-05-07 - Publisher: Open Road Media

Desperate for cash, small town cop Joe Crow takes a security job that could cost him his life Joe Crow celebrates his thirty-third birthday in his patrol car, watching for speeders and sniffing fat lines of cocaine. A depressed cop with a faltering marriage, a rotten stomach, and an increasingly

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