G. D. H. Cole (1889–1959)
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Towards A Libertarian Socialism: Reflections on the British Labour Party and European Working-Class Movements (2021) 21 kappaletta
Four Great Detective Novels [The Murder of Roger Ackroyd | The Red House Mystery | The Rasp | The Man from the River] (1938) 13 kappaletta
A History of Socialist Thought. Vol. 3, The Second International, 1889-1914, Part 2 only (1963) 9 kappaletta
A History of Socialist Thought. Vol. 3, The Second International, 1889-1914, Part 1 only (1956) 9 kappaletta
The Intelligent Man's Guide to the Post-War World 8 kappaletta
A History of Socialist Thought. Vol. 4, Communism and Social Democracy, 1914-1931, Part 2 only (1958) 8 kappaletta
Great Britain in the post-war world 7 kappaletta
A History of Socialist Thought. Vol. 4, Communism and Social Democracy, 1914-1931 (1958) 7 kappaletta
Oxford Poetry 1915 6 kappaletta
A History of Socialist Thought. Vol. 4, Communism and Social Democracy, 1914-1931, Part 1 only (1969) 5 kappaletta
An introduction to trade unionism 5 kappaletta
Death in the sun 4 kappaletta
English Economic History 1922 3 kappaletta
Death of a bride 3 kappaletta
The Toys of Death 2 kappaletta
Principles of economic planning 2 kappaletta
The case for industrial partnership 2 kappaletta
Facts for Socialists (Fabian Research Series 184) 2 kappaletta
Modern theories and forms of industrial organisation 2 kappaletta
Politics and literature. 2 kappaletta
Mrs. Warrender's profession 2 kappaletta
Historia del pensamiento socialista. Tomos 1 a 7 2 kappaletta
Che cosa è il denaro? 1 kappale
William Morris as a socialist : a lecture given on 16th January 1957 to the William Morris Society at the Art Workers'… (1977) 1 kappale
Historia del pensamiento socialista, III. La Segunda Internacional, 1889-1914. (Primera parte) (Spanish Edition) (2020) 1 kappale
Oxford poetry, 1910-1913 1 kappale
The machinery of socialist planning 1 kappale
Energetics of the Geomagnetic Storms 1 kappale
Historia de las ideas políticas 1 kappale
Banks and Credit 1 kappale
the Social Contract 1 kappale
Victory or vested interest? 1 kappale
Beaumont & Fletcher : lyrics from the plays — Toimittaja — 1 kappale
War Aims 1 kappale
Thomas Campion: Selected Poems. (The Ormond Poets Number 9) — Toimittaja — 1 kappale
In Peril of His Life 1 kappale
Birthday gifts, and other stories 1 kappale
G. D. H. Cole on Labour's foreign policy 1 kappale
Planning of world trade 1 kappale
Control socialista de la industria 1 kappale
A Plan for Democratic Britain 1 kappale
British Working Class Movement, The 1 kappale
Oxford poetry, 1914 1 kappale
New beginnings 1 kappale
Workers' control series 1 kappale
The Dialectic -- Conclusion 1 kappale
Workers' control for railwaymen 1 kappale
Is this socialism? 1 kappale
Que é socialismo? 1 kappale
Guide to the Elements of Socialism 1 kappale
Associated Works
Yhteiskuntasopimuksesta, eli, Valtio-oikeuden johtavat aatteet (1762) — Kääntäjä, eräät painokset — 5,410 kappaletta
Miraculous Mysteries: Locked Room Mysteries and Impossible Crimes (2017) — Avustaja — 105 kappaletta
Crime On Her Mind: Fifteen Stories of Female Sleuths from the Victorian Era to the Forties (1975) — Avustaja — 103 kappaletta
Stories in prose, stories in verse, shorter poems, lectures and essays (1942) — Toimittaja — 26 kappaletta
Academy Mystery Novellas: Women Sleuths, Police Procedurals, Locked Room Puzzles, Great British Detectives ( BOX Set) (1985) — Avustaja — 14 kappaletta
Sleuths: Twenty-Three Great Detectives of Fiction and Their Best Stories (1931) — Avustaja — 6 kappaletta
Selected Lyrics — Toimittaja — 2 kappaletta
The Fourth Crime Club Omnibus: The Devil Man / Mystery at Friar's Pardon / Death Comes to Perigord / Dead Man's Watch (1937) — Avustaja — 2 kappaletta
The great detectives — Avustaja — 1 kappale
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Yleistieto
- Virallinen nimi
- Cole, George Douglas Howard
- Syntymäaika
- 1889-09-25
- Kuolinaika
- 1959-01-14
- Hautapaikka
- Golders Green Crematorium, London, England
- Sukupuoli
- male
- Kansalaisuus
- UK
- Syntymäpaikka
- Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
- Kuolinpaikka
- London, England, UK
- Asuinpaikat
- London, England, UK
- Koulutus
- University of Oxford (Balliol College)
St Paul's School, London, England, UK - Ammatit
- historian
economist
writer (economy and detectives)
philosopher - Suhteet
- Cole, Margaret Isabel (wife)
- Organisaatiot
- Fabian Society
Detection Club
Jäseniä
Kirja-arvosteluja
Listat
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Dr Ben Tancred is a private investigator who appears in two books by G. D. H. and M. Cole. Unusually, although both publlshed within a year of each other, they are set about twenty-five years apart. What is more, several of the characters in the earlier book also appear in this one, which means that they should be read in chronological order if possible. Unfortunately, they are both quite scarce books, particularly the first of the two, and I've only read this, the second. (It was reprinted some years ago as part of the Crime Club series "The Disappearing Detectives", but I don't think this had a very large print run.)
Dr Tancred is approached by an old acquaintance, Sarah Pendexter, in connection with the recent death of Lord St. Blaizey. She believes very strongly that it was murder (which view she shares with the doctor who examined the body) and that it was committed by her nephew, Rupert. However, this view appears to be mainly based on her claim that she saw the murder committed in a vision (she is a religious fanatic, and many people consider her insane). However, Tancred thinks that her other claim, to have seen Rupert riding on a horse in the vicinity of the crime (which was carried out by knocking the old man off his horse, in the woods near his residence), to be more credible, and eventually he decides to agree to investigate the case.
After consulting Superintendent Wilson (who was involved in the previous case, but plays only a small part in this one), Tancred goes down to the area where the victim lived (in Cornwall, near the river Fowey) and starts to look into the case. Another person whom he had met before is Rupert's sister Helen, who is now married to the victim's son, and hence has become Lady St Blaizey as a result of her father-in-law's death. Could she be involved in the murder? We have learned in the first chapter that she was previously tried for the murder of her stepfather (the story of this is told in the earlier book), and Ben was the main person responsible for her acquittal. He thought that he knew who really was the killer on the earlier occasion, but was unable to prove it, and that person is the principal suspect now. However, it takes a good deal of investigation to bring the case to a climax, with other issues involving a possibly forged will and a second murder.
It should be added that the book is set in a real area, with only slight changes to some place names (the reasons for which don't entirely make sense) and I was interested to note, by comparing the map provided with a modern road-map, that the area covered would today have to include the Eden Project!… (lisätietoja)