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G. D. H. Cole (1889–1959)

Autor/a de The Common People, 1746-1946

167+ obres 1,076 Membres 10 Ressenyes 1 preferits

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Obres de G. D. H. Cole

The Common People, 1746-1946 (1938) 110 exemplars
The Murder at Crome House (1927) 32 exemplars
The Death of a Millionaire (1925) 31 exemplars
Persons and periods : studies (1945) 31 exemplars
The meaning of Marxism (1948) 30 exemplars
A History of Socialist Thought (1931) 24 exemplars
The Brooklyn Murders (1923) 23 exemplars
The people's front (1937) 16 exemplars
Chartist Portraits (1989) 15 exemplars
End of an Ancient Mariner (1933) 13 exemplars
Self-government in industry (1917) 12 exemplars
Death in the Quarry (1934) 11 exemplars
Socialism in Evolution (1938) 11 exemplars
Dead Man's Watch (1931) 11 exemplars
Last Will and Testament (1936) 10 exemplars
Scandal at School (1935) 9 exemplars
The Man From the River (1928) 9 exemplars
Death of a Star (1932) 8 exemplars
Big Business Murder (1935) — Autor — 8 exemplars
Europe, Russia and the future (1941) 8 exemplars
Off with her Head! (1938) 8 exemplars
Burglars In Bucks (1930) 8 exemplars
Studies in class structure (1964) 8 exemplars
The Walking Corpse (1931) 7 exemplars
The Blatchington Tangle (1926) 7 exemplars
Robert Owen (1930) 7 exemplars
The Condition of Britain (1937) — Autor — 7 exemplars
Oxford Poetry 1915 6 exemplars
Double Blackmail (1939) 6 exemplars
Samuel Butler (2005) 6 exemplars
Poison In The Garden Suburb (1929) 6 exemplars
A Lesson in Crime (1933) 6 exemplars
What Marx Really Meant (1934) 5 exemplars
Dr. Tancred Begins (1935) 5 exemplars
Fabian socialism (1971) 5 exemplars
The Missing Aunt (1937) 5 exemplars
The Brothers Sackville (1936) 5 exemplars
A century of co-operation (1944) 5 exemplars
Social Theory (1930) 5 exemplars
The life of William Cobbett (1971) 5 exemplars
Socialist Economics (1950) 4 exemplars
Death in the sun 4 exemplars
The Essential Samuel Butler (1950) 4 exemplars
Knife in the Dark (1942) 4 exemplars
Essays in social theory (1979) 3 exemplars
Murder at the Munition Works (1940) 3 exemplars
A guide to modern politics (1934) 3 exemplars
British Trade Unionism To Day (1945) 3 exemplars
Death of a bride 3 exemplars
The Affair at Aliquid (1933) 3 exemplars
Disgrace to the College (1937) 2 exemplars
Counterpoint murder (1940) 2 exemplars
Workshop organisation (1973) 2 exemplars
Attempts at General Union: (1818) 2 exemplars
Oxford Poetry 1910-1913 (1914) — Editor — 2 exemplars
Toper's End (1942) 2 exemplars
The Toys of Death 2 exemplars
Greek tragedy (1939) 2 exemplars
Wilson and some others (1940) 2 exemplars
the Social Contract 1 exemplars
Selected Poems {The Ormond Poets} (1928) — Editor — 1 exemplars
Banks and Credit 1 exemplars
War Aims 1 exemplars
John Burns (1943) 1 exemplars
Building and Planning (1945) 1 exemplars
What is ahead of us? (2023) 1 exemplars
Oxford Poetry 1914 - 1916 (1917) — Editor — 1 exemplars
Oxford poetry, 1914 1 exemplars
New beginnings 1 exemplars
Economic planning (1971) 1 exemplars
Is this socialism? 1 exemplars
Que é socialismo? 1 exemplars

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The Social Contract and Discourses (1950) — Traductor, algunes edicions888 exemplars
The Floating Admiral (1931) — Col·laborador — 799 exemplars
The Oxford Book of English Detective Stories (1990) — Col·laborador — 399 exemplars
Murder by the Book: Mysteries for Bibliophiles (2021) — Col·laborador — 168 exemplars
Women Sleuths (1985) — Col·laborador — 130 exemplars
Miraculous Mysteries: Locked Room Mysteries and Impossible Crimes (2017) — Col·laborador — 103 exemplars
Lady on the Case: 22 Female Detective Stories (1988) — Col·laborador — 76 exemplars
The Vintage Book of Classic Crime (1993) — Col·laborador — 33 exemplars
Murder on a Winter's Night (2021) — Col·laborador — 32 exemplars
Bodies from the Library 4 (2021) — Col·laborador — 30 exemplars
The Mystery Book (1934) — Col·laborador — 29 exemplars
The Great Book of Thrillers (1935) — Col·laborador — 27 exemplars
The Boys' Second Book of Great Detective Stories (1940) — Col·laborador — 26 exemplars
Crimes of Cymru: Classic Mystery Tales of Wales (2023) — Col·laborador — 24 exemplars
Murder by the Seaside (2022) — Col·laborador — 22 exemplars
France 1940-1955 (1956) — Pròleg, algunes edicions21 exemplars
The Second Century of Detective Stories (1938) — Col·laborador — 12 exemplars
Essays in labour history (1960) — Honoree — 9 exemplars
Detection Medley (1939) — Col·laborador — 7 exemplars
The Big book of detective stories — Col·laborador — 4 exemplars
Selected Lyrics — Editor — 2 exemplars
Europe into the Abyss; Behind the Scenes of Secret Politics (1938) — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
The great detectives — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars

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Warning: for reasons explained below, this review may contain spoilers for another book by the Coles, Dr Tancred Begins.
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!
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JonRob | Mar 18, 2022 |
A highly entertaining read, among the best by this married double act. When a body is found in the sea near a Devonshire village, Sir Charles Wylie decides that the local police are not competent enough to investigate it and starts doing so himself. There's an interesting combination of amateur and professional detection, with Sir Charles a fairly sympathetic figure despite his flaws, and Superintendent Wilson intervening to bring the whole thing to a rather sedate but satisfying ending. The identity of the killer isn't a total surprise, but nevertheless many people won't fathom the whole of the plot… (més)
 
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JonRob | Sep 4, 2021 |
Dick Preston, at his aunt’s invitation, is staying at the country home of Lord and Lady Blatchington. After an early swim on his first morning there, Dick visits the library only to stumble across the dead body of a man, who is not a member of the house party. Of course, the many guests and the members of the household all seem to have something they want to hide from the police. When an arrest is imminent, Superintendent Wilson, no longer of Scotland Yard, is asked to prove the innocence of the suspect.

I’m enjoying this series by GDH and Margaret Cole, which are good examples of Golden Age detective fiction. Not as good as a Christie, Sayers, Marsh, or Allingham, they are nonetheless enjoyable works. I’m surprised that the books were never republished, although the attitude toward African natives in this book may be very jarring unless one keeps in mind that the book was written in the 1920s and was unfortunately reflective of that time. I plan to read as many in this series as I can get from interlibrary loans.
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rretzler | Jan 25, 2019 |
The Death of a Millionaire is the second book in the Superintendent Wilson series by GHD and Margaret Cole, who were members of the Detection Club. It is an excellent example of a piece of the Golden Age of Detection fiction, and I’m a little surprised that the British Library hasn't republished the series. The copy I borrowed from ILL was a copy of the first US edition.

Superintendent Wilson and Inspector Braikie are very stumped with the case of a millionaire whose secretary seems to have murdered him in his hotel room. No body was found -however, the blood found at the scene, a witness locked in the closet and several eyewitnesses reporting that the secretary left the hotel with a large trunk and the missing millionaire seem to be conclusive evidence.

Although I highly enjoyed this book, the plot seemed a little unnecessarily complex. Overall, I thought it worked well, as it was an original idea. I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys Golden Age detective fiction.
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rretzler | Jan 17, 2019 |

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