Books with author Penelope Dellaporta

Set in 1919, young couple Tommy Beresford and Tuppence Cowley form a partnership, hiring themselves out as "young adventurers." Their first case, however, is more of an adventure than they expect - working to find documents that, if they were known to the general public, would fuel a communist revolution in Britain.Undercover agents Tommy and Tuppence know that Jane Finn was carrying top secret documents when she disappeared five years ago. What they don't know is that a killer is targeting a sinister older woman because she knows all about Jane. Soon Tommy and Tuppence are in grave danger.

Agatha Christie's first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, introduces the characters of Hercule Poirot, Chief Inspector Japp, and Captain Arthur Hastings. In the midst of World War I, the residents of Styles wake one morning to find Emily Inglethorpe has been fatally poisoned. Captain Hastings, staying with the family, enlists the help of his old friend, Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. With the evidence mounting against one member of the family, Poirot uses his technique to prove who really killed Emily. The novel is told in first person by Hastings and features many of the elements that, thanks to Christie, would become icons of the Golden age of detective fiction: it is set in a large, isolated country manor and features half a dozen suspects, most of whom are hiding facts about themselves; the book includes maps of the house and the murder scene and a drawing of a fragment of a will; and there are a number of red herrings and surprise plot twists. This title can only be shipped within the United States

Ist in the series of Adam Dalgliesh mysteries. Books on Tape-Collector's edition.... "Sally Jupp was not above using her body in her climb up the social ladder. But now that body is dead. Dark bruises from a strangler's fingers marring its lily-white throat. Someone had paid the wages of sin. And it's up to Chief Inspector Adam Dalgliesh to find out who."

The Steen Psychiatric Clinic enjoys the most enviable reputation in London. But when its administrative head dies with a chisel driven through her heart, a powerful phallic symbol clutched in her arms, its luster suddenly dims. Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh gets a call. He finds not only psychiatry, but sex and drugs. Clues point to a cunning killer whose web may even include Dalgliesh himself.

THE HOUSE OF MIRTH stands as the work that established Edith Wharton's literary reputation. In it, she discovered her major subject: the fashionable New York society in which she had been raised. She described its power to debase both people and ideals. This theme forms the dramatic core of this deftly styled book. A brilliant portrayal of human frailty, Louis Auchincloss termed THE HOUSE OF MIRTH "uniquely authentic among American novels of manners."

Some secret plans have survived the sinking of the Lusitania, and amateur sleuths Tommy and Tuppence are on the trail of international spies in order to recover them. "Young Adventurers Limited" is a brand new private detective agency, set up by the dashing Tommy Beresford and the resourceful Tuppence Cowley. Their first assignment is to track down some secret documents that disappeared after the sinking of the Lusitania. Soon they are on the trail of the mysterious Mr. Brown, the head of an international gang of crooks-and in more danger than they bargained for!