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24 Obras 416 Miembros 4 Reseñas

Sobre El Autor

Martin Stephen is High Master of Manchester Grammar School.
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Series

Obras de Martin Stephen

The Galleons' Grave (2005) 25 copias
The Rebel Heart (1641) 16 copias

Etiquetado

Conocimiento común

Fecha de nacimiento
1949

Miembros

Reseñas

Sir Henry Gresham is a spy with an ambivalent relationship to Robert Cecil, James I & VI's Chief Secretary and spymaster. So his suspicions are aroused when Cecil sends him off on a wild goose chase concerning Francis Bacon although rumours are rife in London of a Catholic plot. If Catesby was as much of an egomaniac as his portrayal here, his ghost must be spitting in fury every bonfire night at the fact that Guy Fawkes is the one who is remembered and burned in effigy every year rather than him.

I will definitely be reading the second Henry Gresham novel at some point.
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isabelx | Mar 15, 2011 |
After the Jacobean settings of the first two books in the series, "The Galleons' Grave" returns to an earlier time in Henry Gresham's life, when he was involved in spying on the Spanish in the run-up to an attempted invasion of England.

I felt that it fell a bit flat compared to the previous books' investigations into the gunpowder plotters and the question of who wrote Shakespeare's plays. Too much time was spent on interminable sea journeys, there wasn't enough action and Gresham's ward was just irritating.… (más)
 
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isabelx | Mar 15, 2011 |
Sir Henry Gresham is summoned by the dying spymaster Robert Cecil to retrieve some of the King's personal letters which could cause his downfall if they were to become public. Following the track of the mysterious bookseller who has the letters leads Gresham to investigate another mystery - who really wrote Shakespeare's plays?
½
 
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isabelx | Mar 15, 2011 |
A well-structured anthology of exam questions from papers of the 1940s and 1950s in Arithmetic, General English, Comprehension, General Intelligence/Knowledge, and essays. These are great fun as the basis of a party game.
 
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TheoClarke | Jan 2, 2009 |

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Estadísticas

Obras
24
Miembros
416
Popularidad
#58,580
Valoración
½ 3.4
Reseñas
4
ISBNs
63
Idiomas
1

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