This text comprises a detailed treatise on the Morgan - or Black Hawk - a dynasty of famous American racing horses. Contained herein is a fascinating exploration of one of the most popular and enigmatic families of race horses in American sporting history. It includes information on their known history, the controversy and mystery surrounding them, and much more besides. This text will be of considerable value to anyone with an interest in the Morgan dynasty, or in notable racing pedigrees...

Though one of America’s best known and loved novels, Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has often been the object of fierce controversy because of its racist language and reliance on racial stereotypes. This collection of fifteen essays by prominent African American scholars and critics examines the novel’s racist elements and assesses the degree to which Twain’s ironies succeed or fail to turn those elements into a satirical attack on racism.Ranging from the lauda...

Ethics, Literature, and Theory: An Introductory Reader brings together the work of contemporary scholars, teachers, and writers into lively discussion on the moral role of literature and the relationship between aesthetics, art, and ethics. Do the rich descriptions and narrative shapings of literature provide a valuable resource for readers, writers, philosophers, and everyday people to imagine and confront the ultimate questions of life? Do the human activities of storytelling and complex...

Will someone kill to keep their secret?Almost two years have passed since wildfires ravaged the tiny town of Bullock, and Melbourne journalist Georgie Harvey is on assignment in the recovering town to write a feature story on the anniversary of the tragedy.Across the state in Daylesford, police officer John Franklin is investigating a spree of vandalism and burglaries, while champing to trade his uniform for the plain clothes of a detective.When Georgie's s...

Ehrlich gesagt ist es ungehörig, wenn nicht sogar gesetzwidrig, daß die wenigen Personen, die das traurige Vorrecht besitzen, im Irrengefängnis von Broadmoor aus- und eingehen zu können, auf irgendeinen auffallenden Insassen besonders aufmerksam gemacht werden. Es war dann meistens jemand, der sehr berüchtigt gewesen war, oder dessen Verbrechen das allgemeine Interesse in höchster Spannung gehalten hatten, bis Gerichtsärzte und Gerichtshof ihn nach diesem Platze ohne Hoffnung verbannten.

Three missing children. A wild storm. A long way from home.Melbourne journalist Georgie Harvey is on hand when three children disappear from a police-run camp in the Dandenong Ranges. When Daylesford cop John Franklin hears the news, he is on secondment 200 kilometers away. Feeling responsible for the young siblings, he abandons his post to join the search.Somebody saw the children. Somebody knows something. Every minute is vital.Frustration and desperation mount as...

‘A beautifully written police procedural, where the characters are every bit as important as the plot. Brilliantly captures the impact of small-town tragedy, as investigators struggle to cope even as they work towards solving an horrendous crime.’—Chris Hammer, winner of the UK CWA New Blood Dagger Award for ScrublandsHow many lives can one incident shatter?For one Daylesford cop, this will be their last callout. Another may not make it. A ...

All four books in 'Georgie Harvey And John Franklin', a series of rural crime fiction by Sandi Wallace, now in one volume!Tell Me Why: Melbourne writer Georgie Harvey heads to the mineral springs region in central Victoria to look for a missing farmer, and soon links the woman’s disappearance with the unsolved mystery surrounding her husband. Meanwhile, maverick police officer and solo dad John Franklin is working a case that’s a step up from Daylesford’s usual sof...

On 20 January 1931, Mrs Julia Wallace was brutally battered to death in the parlour of her home in Anfield, Liverpool. In April of that year, William Herbert Wallace, Julia's husband, was found guilty of her seemingly motiveless murder and sentenced to death by hanging. Yet on 19 May 1931, the sentence was overturned at the Court of Appeal. Since that day, the question of who killed Julia Wallace has remained unanswered. Now, John Gannon has undertaken painstaking research of all relevant ...

Vor Jahren wurde das geniale, aber wahnsinnige Verbrecherhirn John Flack hinter Schloss und Riegel gebracht. Damals wurde er von einem seiner Verbrecherkollegen, einem Italiener namens George Ravini verraten und durch Mr. J. G. Reeder verhaftet, der nun den Rang des Chefdetektivs des Generalstaatsanwaltes bekleidet. Doch nun ist dem 70jährigen Flack die Flucht gelungen und Mr. Reeder muss befürchten, dass der wahnsinnige Verbrecher es nun auf ihn abgesehen haben könnte. Aus diesem Grund dr...

John Wallace discusses church planting in the Anglo-Catholic wing of the Church of England as a piece of Practical Theology and engages also with areas of missiology and ecclesiology.He engages extensively with literature around church planting and the tension between the Fresh Expressions agenda, of which church planting is one element, and the traditional role of the historic parish and its church.The author also looks at specific historical Anglo-Catholic literature in o...

Es gibt eine Regel. Traue niemandem!Ohne es zu wollen ist John Wallace der größten Verschwörung der Welt in die Quere gekommen. Mit tödlichen Folgen. Er wurde bis zum bitteren Ende verfolgt und gequält. Aber letztlich war nicht er selbst es, der den höchsten Preis bezahlen musste, sondern die Liebe seines Lebens. Noch immer sieht er Connies Gesicht, wenn er nachts die Augen schließt. Nur die Abgelegenheit der afghanischen Berge, in die er sich zurückgezogen hat, sc...