Gallery
Автор: Todd Ph.D. Komarnicki
Год издания: 0000
gallery |Ë?gal…erÄ?|<br><br>1 a room or building for the display or sale of works of art – a collection of pictures.<br><br>2 a horizontal underground passage, esp. in a mine.<br><br>PHRASES<br><br>Play to the gallery – act in an exaggerated or theatrical manner, esp. to appeal to popular taste.
The Whispering Gallery
Автор: Mark Sanderson
Год издания:
Mark Sanderson does for the 30s what Jake Arnott did for 60s London – vividly revealing its hidden underworld in this follow up to Snow HillOn a sweltering day in July 1937, reporter John Steadman is in London’s St Paul’s Cathedral waiting for his girlfriend … But romance is pushed aside when he witnesses a man falling to his death from the Whispering Gallery, killing a priest in the process. Did he jump or was he pushed?Two days later Johnny receives the first of a series of grim packages at the offices of his newspaper, the Daily News. Each contains the body part of a woman and an enigmatic note, one of which says that he will be the murderer’s final victim.To catch a killer, Johnny must set himself up as bait – with police and a fascinated public looking on. But he still has to uncover the tragic truth behind the double-death in the cathedral…