Product Description: The first book to deal with the history and source of complete superstitions which exist, or have existed among British people throughout the world. They are presented in encyclopaedic form, so that any individual superstition, or collective superstitions related to one particular subject, can be found under a specified heading...read more

Product Description: Doctor Harry Manson, Scotland Yard's Forensic Scientist, was packed off by the Assistant Commissioner (Crime) to a rural country house to recover his health. When Manson opened a book in the library for the sake of a few moments' relaxed reading, it also opened his legendary suspicious mind and led him on to plot and counter-plot, forgery, blackmail - and murder...read more

Product Description: Drug addiction is growing more menacing both in Britain and in America. Drugs are being popularized in songs, on records and in plays. This is a fictional story, but based in part on fact, of the underground drug traffic in Britain...read more

Product Description: In this story of greed and carefully-planned murder, a dead man had been sitting in a chair for two days in a seaside bungalow that had been ravaged by a searcher. A mysterious woman had cooked a poisoned meal in the bungalow - but she could not be traced...read more

Product Description: British Plant Communities is the first systematic and comprehensive account of the vegetation types of this country. It covers all natural, semi-natural and major artificial habitats in Great Britain (but not Northern Ireland), representing the fruits of fifteen years of research by leading plant ecologists...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: William Coppock, a well-known jeweller, was found dead in his car which was half submerged in the River Thames at Henley. An inquest decided that he had died from misadventure. Two months later, for no reason at all except his legendary "suspicious mind", Doctor Manson, Scotland Yard's homicide chief, had the body exhumed - and found murder; and a ring of remarkable frauds...read more

Product Description: Seven men and a woman were in the first-class coach of a train from London to Brighton. They had travelled together each evening for months. That night one of them, Alexis Mortensen, editor of a scurrilous newspaper, died from strychnine poisoning...read more

Product Description: Why did Sir John Appleby disinherit his wife and son and leave his estates and large fortune "to my daughter"? The girl had been dead for four years. What was the secret of eight mysterious years missing from his life? Had his wife, or his son, brought about his death to get his money? These were the problems confronting Doctor Manson, Scotland Yard's scientist head, before he solved an intricate plot of murder, revenge and greed...read more

Product Description: When Myra Harrison, an English visitor to South Africa, was found dead, her body had no disease, there were no marks of violence, and pathological examination gave no reaction to any known poison. Yet, she had been murdered; there was no other explanation...read more

Product Description: To successfully keep Cockatiels, owners need to know about proper housing, health care, feeding, and training--all of which are provided in this useful book. Ideal for beginners or those thinking about sharing their life with one or more of these friendly birds.

Product Description: Book by Radford, E.