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In Craven House, among the shifting, uncertain world of the English boardinghouse, with its sad population of the shabby genteel on the way down and the eternal optimists who would never get up or on, the young Patrick Hamilton, with loving, horrified fascination, first mapped out the territory that he would make uniquely his own. Although many of Hamilton's lifelong interests are here, they are handled with a youthful brio and optimism conspicuously absent from his later work.

***SOON TO BE A MAJOR FILM BY WHIT STILLMAN, DIRECTOR OF A NIGHT AT CLARIDGE'S*** 'All his novels are terrific, but this one is my favourite' Sarah Waters Measuring out the wartime days in a small town on the Thames, Miss Roach is not unattractive but no longer quite young. The Rosamund Tea...

Patrick Hamilton is renowned for his gritty, slice-of-life tales chronicling the hopes, dreams and obsessions of London's working class in the inter-war years. This collection brings together his key pieces, together with some lesser-known classics and a bonus 2004 documentary exploring his achievements and legacy.

London, 1939, and in the grimy publands of Earl's Court, George Harvey Bone is pursuing a helpless infatuation. Netta is cool, contemptuous and hopelessly desirable to George. George is adrift in a drunken hell except in his dead moments, when something goes click in his head and he realises, without a doubt, that he must kill her.

As World War II drags on, the lonely Miss Roach flees London for the dull but ostensible safety of a suburban boarding house in this “pitch-perfect comedy” about “the passions and tensions of war” (The Independent). England in the middle of World War II, a war that seems fated to go on...

This classic Victorian thriller was first produced in 1935. Jack Manningham is slowly, deliberately driving his wife, Bella, insane. He has almost succeeded when help arrives in the form of a former detective, Rough, who believes Manningham to be a thief and murderer. Aided by Bella, Rough...

This anthology brings together 20 texts which were vital in forging the United States and its constitution as we know it.

A psychological murder mystery covered and resolved in one evening.

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Patrick Hamiltons Theaterstück "Cocktail für eine Leiche" erschien 1929 unter dem Titel "Rope" und wurde noch im gleichen Jahr in London und am Broadway uraufgeführt. Auch die Handlung spielt 1929, in einem Londoner Wohnhaus. Hier haben die Studenten Brandon und Granillo gerade den vermeintlich perfekten Mord verübt. Das Opfer, ihren Kommilitonen Ronald, verstauen sie in einer Truhe im Wohnzimmer. Ronald hatte ihnen nie etwas getan. Es gibt kein Motiv - außer zu "beweisen", dass unentdeckter Mord möglich ist und herauszufinden, wie morden sich anfühlt.

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Hier haben die Studenten Brandon und Granillo gerade den vermeintlich perfekten Mord verübt. Das Opfer, ihren Kommilitonen Ronald, verstauen sie in einer Truhe im Wohnzimmer. Ronald hatte ihnen nie etwas getan. Es gibt kein Motiv – außer zu "beweisen", dass unentdeckter Mord möglich ist und herauszufinden, wie morden sich anfühlt.