Isabel Kerr was a living doll kept in a manner to which she quickly became accustomed by a wealthy and influential man... Someone didn't like Isabel's habits and the living was a very dead doll... Her sugar got very cold feet when he heard the news - and Nero Wolfe found himself with the promise of ...
A nostalgic, gorgeously illustrated anthology of nineteenth and twentieth century writing on Alexandria At the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Alexandria was a small backwater with a population of less than five thousand. Then in 1801 Muhammad Ali arrived in Egypt as second‐in‐command ...
