One day in the fall a woman calls at the New York office of Nat Marley, licensed private investigator, to ask him to find Patrick, her missing husband. Marley's enquiries take him to the financial district of Wall Street and an investment company whose returns are too good to be true. Then the police find a body in the trunk of a car – Patrick's car. Whose is the body and where is Patrick?
English Bites! My Fullproof English Learning Formula is the story of a man who goes from being tongue-tied in school to becoming a smooth-talking banker. Through a series of hilarious personal adventures and misadventures, Manish Gupta provides easy solutions to problems faced by language learners. So, whether you're a vernacular speaker, a GRE/GMAT/CAT/XAT aspirant or just a language nut, English Bites! will expand your vocabulary and improve your verbal ability. It may even help you love the English language a little more!
Ronnie Campbell has escaped from prison and Morag Mackenzie has been found murdered. Seven years ago Morag gave evidence in an Edinburgh court that sent Ronnie to prison for murder. Inspector Logan is not sure this case is as straightforward as it seems. She returns to the original crime scene in order to find out the truth.
Hard Times - Oxford Dominoes - Level 3 Thomas Gradgrind believes that facts and money are more important that feelings and imagination. After Cissy Jupe - a circus child - is left along in the world, Gradgrind takes her into his house, looking after her and teacher he facts with his own children Tom and Louisa. Some years later the Gradgrind family meets hard times. Louisa became a prisoner in a loveless marriage, and Tom has problems at work. In the end, Thomas Gradgrind learns the importance of feelings and...
Lessons cover listening with a purpose, predicting or preparing to listen, vocabulary, important details, main ideas, inferences, sequence of events, points of view, and specific information using the play as a catalyst
