Bøger af Harry Bingham

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Full Title: "Boston, Concord & Montreal Railroad vs. Boston & Lowell Railroad"Description: "The Making of the Modern Law: Trials, 1600-1926" collection provides descriptions of the major trials from over 300 years, with official trial documents, unofficially published accounts of the trials, briefs and arguments and more. Readers can delve into sensational trials as well as those precedent-setting trials associated with key constitutional and historical issues and discover, including the Amistad Slavery case, the Dred Scott case and Scopes "monkey" trial."Trials" provides unfiltered narrative into the lives of the trial participants as well as everyday people, providing an unparalleled source for the historical study of sex, gender, class, marriage and divorce.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++Court Record1888Harvard Law School LibraryConcord, N.H.: N.H. Democratic Press Co. 1888

Detective Fiona Griffiths investigates the most chilling, dangerous crime of her career in the fifth book in the mystery series.

In the sixth book in the mystery series, a crime from the past puts Fiona Griffiths' own future at stake.

In the bestselling tradition of Jeffrey Archer and Dick Francis comes a hot new commercial talent.A young scientist, Cameron, has an idea which could revolutionise medicine. She believes that, once published, her findings will change the world.A maverick financier, Bryn, sees the potential, but convinces her that truth alone is never what secures change: it's money, nous and competitive savvy.He persuades her to go into business with him. Their aim: to build a stockmarket company worth a hundred million pounds - big enough to survive assault; strong enough to market Cameron's technology to the entire world.Corinth, a corporation worth a hundred billion dollars, sees Cameron's technology as a threat and aims to wipe out the fledgling enterprise.The story becomes a race to the stockmarket - and a battle to survive.

A riveting novel of friendship, adventure and love against the odds, set in the early days of flight in Prohibition-era America.Abe Rockwell and Willard T. Thornton are famous fighter pilots together in World War I. Willard returns to a hero's welcome in America and launches a film career. Abe just wants to fly - and he has no rich family to support him.When he crash lands in small-town Georgia, the locals recognise Abe and appeal to him for help. Alcohol-smuggling gangsters are trying to oust them from their own homes. But Abe can't see that his one patched-up aircraft can make much difference.Slowly, a plan forms and Abe needs help himself. Enter another tremendously skilled pilot - but it's a woman. Abe doesn't want to take her on, but she's the best there is and brave with it. Neither of them can predict exactly what they've let themselves in for.Willard, meanwhile, forsakes films for banking and rises fast - only to uncover some very dodgy business at the core of the company. He'd like to turn a blind eye but eventually he's in so deep that he can't. The firm is under serious threat, from a devious and resourceful attacker. Which is when Willard realises who it must be, and how he's going to have to team up with someone he'd always overlooked.

An epic tale of brothers divided, family rivalry, fortunes lost and won, set against the dramatic background of the early days of the oil industry.Two boys are raised as brothers. Alan is the son of the lord of the manor, with all the privileges which come with that birthright. The other, Tom, is the son of the gardener. Together, they learn to argue, fight and bond in friendship.Social difference divides their paths as adults but nothing can break their bond until a tragic misunderstanding occurs in the trenches of World War I. Now instead of the closest of friends they will be the bitterest of rivals in a burgeoning industry: oil.From the early days of drilling in Persia, to wildcatting in Texas, to the corridors of Whitehall and Washington, this is the story of two remarkable men and the very different women who loved them.

Eight killer reads from eight bestselling authors - specially written for Quick Reads.

In the fourth instalment of the Fiona Griffiths mystery series, an impossible crime will push our engaging, unusual heroine to her very limits.

The first novel in the powerful Fiona Griffiths mystery series - a detective who will break every rule in the book to crack her case.

The addictive third book in the Fiona Griffiths mystery series sees her take on her toughest case yet.

The mystery series starring crime fiction's most unusual and engaging heroine DC Fiona Griffiths continues.