"Lady Emily retreats to her villa on the island of Santorini for a brief respite from London. But when she arrives, the housekeeper informs her that the master of the house has returned--Emily's first husband who died a decade earlier.."--

Tragedy strikes when an old friend of Superintendent Tallis walks to meet a speeding train head on. The suicide has shocked the local community and leaves plenty for Inspector Robert Colbeck, the Railway Detective, to uncover. Did the dead man Captain Randall, really take his own life in repentance for some harm he did his wife?

"In a small Bihari village, Captain William T. Meadows finds just the man to further his phrenological research back home: Amir Ali, confessed member of the infamous Thugee cult. With tales of a murderous youth redeemed, Ali gains passage to England, hisvillainously shaped skull there to be studied. Only Ali knows just how embroidered his story is, so when a killer begins depriving London's underclass of their heads, suspicion naturally falls on the...

"Allen has been dropped into a flashback of his surly colleague Yu Kanda's past, where a parade of disturbing secrets reveal themselves - including one that could at long last explain what makes Yu tick!"--P. [4] of cover.

Pencils, a sketchbook, cake, yards of stolen ribbon, thimbles, snuff boxes, a picture of a lover, two live ducks: these are just some of the fascinating things carried by women and girls in their tie-on pockets, an essential accessory throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. This first book-length study of the tie-on pocket combines materiality and gender to provide new insight into the social history of women's everyday lives-from duchesses and country...

"A past kiss with adorably bookish Miss Olivia Norley should be barely a memory for Marlowe Drake, the Duke of Thornstock. After all, there are countless debutantes for a handsome rakehell to charm beyond a young lady whose singular passion is chemistry--of the laboratory type. But Thorn has not forgotten--or forgiven--the shocking blackmail scheme sparked by that single kiss, or the damage caused to both their names. Now Thorn's half-brother, Grey,...

Allen finds that he is going through some sort of change after battling a level 4 akuma. Black Order headquarters introduces a new breed of exorcist and Kanda learns where his status stands within the exorcist operations. This leaves everyone unprepared to deal with the simultaneous worldwide appearance of the servants of the Millennium Earl.