Author: Gillian Roberts Publisher: Untreed Reads ISBN: 1611874157 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 123
Book Description
In her new novel starring Philadelphia schoolteacher Amanda Pepper, Gillian Roberts once again mixes mystery and mirth. This time Roberts explores Philadelphia's unique flesh and blood "historical monument"-- the Mummers, who live (and perhaps are willing to die) for a few hours of glory every New Year's Day. The famous Mummers' Parade is an extravaganza that draws enormous crowds who cheer through chattering teeth, as more than thirty thousand clowns, string bands, and fancy brigades strut their stuff up Broad Street. But this year, while the music blares and the Mummers dance, a reveling Pierrot suddenly sinks to the ground, shot dead. Amanda is, at first, only a horrified spectator. But when the prime suspect--her friend and fellow teacher at Philly Prep--falsely claims to have been with her at the time of the murder, Amanda can no longer stay on the sidelines. Is the murder a flare-up of deadly rivalries? Is it connected with the disappearance, the week before Christmas, of another Mummer, the heir to a meat-packing family? Does someone disapprove of the Mummers' feathers, sequins, and string bands? And why is no one in the tight-knit world Amanda investigates willing to tell the truth about anything? With Amanda on the scene, the who in whodunit doesn't stay secret for long. In The Mummers' Curse, Gillian Roberts is, as always, at the head of the parade.
Author: Bud Davidge Publisher: Groundwood Books Ltd ISBN: 9780888999603 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
A celebration of a regional Christmas custom tells how Granny's Newfoundland house is visited by the mummers, masked and costumed figures, who turn the night into a wild revel with their jokes and dancing.
Author: Margaret R. Robertson Publisher: University of Ottawa Press ISBN: 177282352X Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 201
Book Description
An examination of the practice of mummery in Newfoundland including a discussion of mummering time, groups, costumes, and behaviour. The author argues that mummery reflects cultural values and is a ritual response to a liminal state.
Author: George Moore Publisher: ISBN: Category : Adultery Languages : en Pages : 500
Book Description
The degradation by drink of a shopkeeper's wife. The novel tells the story of Kate Ede, a bored Midlands housewife unhappily married to an asthmatic draper. When a handsome travelling actor comes to lodge with her family, she succumbs to temptation, with disastrous consequences.
Author: Gillian Roberts
Author: Bud Davidge
Author: L. M. Falcone
Author: Margaret R. Robertson
Author: George Moore
Author: Dorothy Margaret Stuart
Author: George Moore
Author: Patricia Masters
Author: George Moore
Author: George Moore