Books with author Hugh Fraser Sir

Normally, a mere outbreak of petty thefts in a youth hostel wouldn’t be enough to interest the great detective Hercule Poirot. However, the warden of the hostel is sister to Poirot’s secretary Miss Lemon, and concern for her sister is interfering with Miss Lemon’s typing abilities. Poirot finds himself with an intriguing puzzle on his hands, and before long, murder increases the mystery. The fastidious Belgian sleuth is brought to life by the voice of veteran British actor Hugh Fraser.

This volume is from 1914; no illustrations are included in this Kindle version. This time Mrs. Fraser remembers our great Northwest region. A short sample of the book's chapters: 1. The Chinook state: The incorporation of Washington in the Union — Quarrels over boundary lines — Its unique geographical position — Twenty-three million acres of forest and five rivers — The call of free spaces — A man-sized country 2. The Far West at Close Range: Travelling through forest fires — Silence, the first lesson of the West — A steamerette on the Columbia — The mail bag and the mail carrier — I "hit" the hotel— Sixty miles of stage over switchback trails — My landlady and her philosophy —A bachelor's cabin 3. Neck of the Woods: Pioneers and stay-at-homes — The good Samaritan at the half-way house — Amazing scenery — Solitary homes — The spirit of madness — Voices in the cook-stove ! — The triumph of Winter —Whiat the rancher has to face 4. Life and Ethics in the Methow: Schoolmaster's dilemma — Mr. Hasketh's wedding — A hunt for a minister — A stormy wedding trip — One o'clock, and raining cats and dogs! — The bride and the lantern — Something in the cornfield ! — Four-legged visitors — The circus on the porch — Halloween celebrations — The travels of a cook-stove — The mysterious adventures of a yellow-wheeled buggy — An outburst of flowers 5. The " Nebrasky Outfit ": The Chief of the clan starts a town of his own —The Mackenzie shack — Pictures through the door-frame — Mother Flanagan — A baby's funeral — Chan philosophises — A treacherous parent and a bag of feathers — A waiting bride — The preacher's good advice — A lantern, a blanket 6. All About the Neighbours: How Mrs. Dick teamed back to Nebraska — A waggon-load of children — Huckleberry hunting — The moon, the berries, and the big brown bear — When school is out — Girls and horses — Teachers and their trials — A loyal wife — A terrible fire — The horses saved 7. The Spirit of Chance: Luck's revenges — A riotous evening — Bill's dreadful discovery — The skeleton Hand! — How the news was broken to the family — "Someone stayed ! " — "Take me home!" — A survival of feudalism — How the carpenter became a permanency 8. The Canning Season: Our popular berry patch — A carnival of fruit — The Judge has the blues and explains why — An expensive hat — Splitting up the spring — The Judge prophesies — A nervous moment in the printing office — That black bull of Chapman's! — The bear tries the gate — Tracks in the snow — Women and guns 9. In a Forest Garden : A powder headache — The stuff that "comes in handy" — Kitty takes command — Gramophones and ranchers — The New England conscience — A great expedition — The fairy woods — A hothouse in the open air — The white log cabin — A bachelor host — A night with the stars — Tom and Polly — A doomed cat — How Polly was fixed up for the winter 10. Tragedy and Comedy: A troubled mind — A single shot — A sad procession — The genial drummer — "Beer for mine" — Dick's bad joke — The sawmill and the Owner — New wine in old bottles — A record morning's work — Silent noon — In the engine-room — The boiler behaves like a perfect lady 11. Happy-Go-Lucky: The bag of salt — Fireworks — A haunted chimney — Desolation Hill — An enthusiast — The colour scheme — Solitude and peace —Condemned but left standing 12. The Thoroughbred and His Cousins : We decide to improve the breed — A dazzling apparition — Illusive prosperity — A wave of optimism — A lost fine gentleman An interlude at the creamery — Mr. Robinson's opinion of double entry — A horse-tamer's methods — Breaking a " bucker " — A four-footed hypocrite — Beauty and Saidie Plus there are 10 more chapters.

This volume was published in 1913 and contains further reminiscences of a diplomatist's wife in many lands. From the book's Introduction: Since the following is a book of reminiscences, I think I am justified in opening it with one from a side of my life for which no place has been found either in this or the preceding volumes. Some years ago I was honored by an invitation to lecture before a certain distinguished Literary Society comprising among its members many old friends of my own. The pleasure I felt in being about to address these dear people on a subject rather close to their hearts caused me to forget the etiquette usually practised on such occasions. When the final notes of the over- ture died away, I skipped lightly up the steps to the stage; but a strong hand pulled me down, and the President's stern whisper sounded in my ear, " Hold on, hold on ! I must introduce you ! " Feeling very small, I shrank back among the palms and azaleas, while the kind President sounded my praises to the audience, in terms so far beyond my merits that when he drew me forth from my hiding place I was overcome with confusion. For a minute or two I could not find my voice, and I had something like an attack of stage-fright. But I had been introduced! It seems that this book must go through the same ceremony. It came back to me from the Publishers with the curt intimation, " Introduction required." What shall I say of it ? Only this, that it was asked for by the readers of its predecessors and that I hope they will be as kind to it as they were to them. Two years ago, with many tremors and hesitations, I sent the " Diplomatist's Wife in Many Lands " out into the world, trusting that its shortcomings would be forgiven for the sake of certain new and true things it had to tell. Its reception overwhelmed me. The generous appreciation of far greater writers than myself, and the delighted sympathies of readers were conveyed to me by every mail, till my hermitage in the Rockies became peopled by a host of kindred spirits, loving what I loved, enjoying what I enjoyed, and all asking for " more." If the " more " is somewhat less connected than the narrative in the former volumes, that is because many events and experi- ences in my life had to be omitted there for want of space. Such as they are, may the following pages give some pleasure to the readers who have crowned my other work with so much kind approval and heartened the writer's lonely way with so much encouragement. To that encouragement the present venture is due, and to their judgment I commit it, only begging that they will be "to its virtues very kind, to its faults a little blind." Mary Crawford Fraser WiNTHROP, August 24, 1912 Chapters: - From the Odescalchi to Buckingham Palace - In and Out of Bavaria - Sovereigns, Treaties, and Traditions - In Polish Prussia - Tyrants, Soldiers, and Sailors - Friends and Friendly Places - North of the Alps - Sunshine and Shadow in the Penisola - Ravello, Capri, and Ischia - Our Lady of the Rosary at Pompeii - Life at Villa Crawford - The Out-Trail - Purely Domestic - In a South American Capital - Spanish-American Ways and Traditions - " Battle, Murder, and Sudden Death ! ............................................................................... Other books by this author, who also published under the name of Mary Crawford: - A Maid of Japan - Letters from Japan, a Record of Modern Life in the Island Empire - Storied Italy - The Custom of the Country; tales of New Japan - The Stolen Emperor - Italian Yesterdays - Seven Years on the Pacific Slopes - The Shaking of the Sword; Tales of the Far East

Excerpt from Seven Years on the Pacific SlopeThe incorporation of Washington in the Union - Quarrels over boundary lines - Its unique geographical position - Twenty-three million acres of forest and five rivers - The call of free spaces - Life in the raw - A man-sized country - "Live and let live" - Conflicting valuations - Daniel Webster's mistake - The Home Valley, a true Republic - How we came to the Methow - Why we stayed.Just twenty-five years ago, a rather irregular square, occupying the extreme northwest corner of the United States territory, was promoted, as Washington, to the honour of being the twenty-ninth of the now existing forty-five States of the Union. Its sixty-nine thousand square miles of rich, unexplored surface had been quarrelled over for many years, and it was only in 1846 that a boundary line was definitely drawn up and agreed upon by the High Contracting Litigants, Great Britain and the United States.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Lang:- eng, Pages 450. Reprinted in 2015 with the help of original edition published long back. This book is in black & white, Hardcover, sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour Dust Cover, Printed on high quality Paper, re-sized as per Current standards, professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books, there may be some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set, then it is only single volume. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. (Customisation is possible). Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions.Original Title:- Seven years on the Pacific slope [Hardcover] Author:- Fraser, Hugh, Mrs., d. ,Fraser, Hugh C.

Excerpt from The Stolen EmperorNow, far away down the great street a growing roar of acclamation proclaimed the advent of the man in whose honour Kyoto was enjoying this holiday. People stopped talking to their neighbours; even lovers took their eyes from each other's faces to look for the first approach of the guests. The pretty ladies leaned far over their balconies, craning their slender necks to get a view of the coming procession.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ... ii the far west at close range Fate takes up my challenge--The "dashing adventurer"--Travelling through forest fires--Silence, the first lesson of the West--A steamerette on the Columbia--Snags, Cliffs, and Rapids--The mail bag and the mail carrier--I "hit" the hotel--"Farewell, beloved umbrella! "--Rivers in flood--Sixty miles of stage over switchback trails--A tight place--The pious brigand--Mother and Son--The shanty on the hill--A lonely night--My landlady and her philosophy--A bachelor's cabin--His menu--A prosperous invalid--My study in the hay loft--Summer gold and Winter splendours. fate has a startling way of taking one at one's word--or a part of it--sometimes. I remember that, some nine or ten years ago, I was playing round in New York, very much pleased with myself, and things in general, when I received a letter from my eldest son, begging me to return to England, and describing, very charmingly, I must say, the delights of English rural life. In spite of published dates--and photographs--I was feeling at the time about twenty-five years old, and I replied by saying that I should die of boredom in the country in England, and by giving a list of the different homes I meant to have in the States, ending up with "a shanty on the Pacific Slope." Not very long after I flung out that defiance I found the last item of it realised. Purely by accident, and much to my own surprise, the shanty had become my home; and a very real and interesting home too. Hughie always calls me "The Summer One," because my first sight of the far Northwest was granted in the scorching days of August, and was so different to his first experiences that it is worth describing, if only for the sake of the contrast. I had come over from Japan in the Saikyo...

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Excerpt from Letters From Japan, Vol. 2: A Record of Modern Life in the Island EmpireHE name is so beautiful that I must write it at the top of my paper, although I am sitting in the hotel at Kamakura, and I cannot catch a glimpse of the dream island where I spent my yesterday. Enoshima! On a lovely morning of sunshine and showers we left Kamakura, and passed through the low screen of hills which shuts it in to the right. The rain had laid the dust, and the air was keen and saltly sweet; for the night had been a somewhat stormy one. As we rounded down from the hills through deep-cut paths to the shore, we could hear the slow rollers thundering in before we caught a glimpse of the sea itself. Then, as we climbed the crest of a sand dune, it lay wide and near, laughing in the sunshine.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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