Scotland Yard

Connections

Connections Sort descending Author name Excerpt
death Anna Kavan
Her body was discovered on 5 December 1968 after Rhys Davies and Raymond Marriott got police to break into her flat. She had been dead for at least twenty-four hours. The Scotland Yard Drug Squad...
Literary Setting Wilkie Collins
This book, in which the effects of British colonial rule in India reverberate within English provincial life, is counted amongst the first detective novels, and proved as popular as The Woman in White. In...
Occupation D. H. Lawrence
Thirteen paintings in an exhibition by DHL at the Warren Gallery in London were declared obscene and seized by Scotland Yard .
Becker, George J. D.H. Lawrence. Frederick Ungar, 1980.
23-4
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
371
politics L. S. Bevington
Samuels was then editor of The Commonweal. Bevington's claim that he was a double agent, actually working for the police, and that his attack was engineered by Scotland Yard to damage the anarchist cause...
Textual Features Antonia Fraser
The Dictionary of Literary Biography calls Jemima Shore a new kind of woman detective.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
276
Her independence, intelligence, and literary sensibility are nothing new, but her rejection of marriage and her cheerful sexual promiscuity are...
Textual Features Mary Stewart
Through a series of coincidental events, both Richard and David (who has run away from Loraine and made his way to Marseilles) end up kidnapped by Kramer. Charity attempts to secure help from another guest...
Textual Features Emmuska Baroness Orczy
The narrator of these stories is the ever faithful Mary Granard, Lady Molly's sidekick and admirer and her colleague at Scotland Yard 's Female Division. Mary Granard has been sworn to secrecy about the personal...
Textual Features Judith Kazantzis
Again contemporary documents in facsimile accompany explanatory broadsheets (on the suffrage campaign itself and contextual subjects beginning with The Prison House of Home) and an illustrated timeline, Women in Revolt, running from 1743...
Textual Features Helen Mathers
The story follows a well-known squire named Sir Peter de Pipelpenne who is condemned by a hunting accident to spend the rest of his life in bed.
Pipplepen is the name of a farm near...
Textual Features Hélène Barcynska
The narrator of Chicane, aged twenty-two and called by most characters the Kid, is desperately looking for some means to support herself through visiting countless agencies for the employment of gentlewomen.
Barcynska, Hélène. Chicane. Hurst and Blackett, 1912.
7
The glamorous...
Textual Features L. S. Bevington
On 15 February Bourdin had died, apparently when his home-made bomb went off before he could reach the Observatory. H. B. Samuels , who was known for favouring violent action more than Nicoll, had taken...

Timeline

4 April 1968: The Rev. Martin Luther King, civil rights...

National or international item

4 April 1968

The Rev. Martin Luther King , civil rights leader, was assassinated at a hotel in Memphis, Tennessee.
Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. 3rd revised, Simon and Schuster, 1991.
560, 564
Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.
262
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
428
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
3 April 2008

Texts

No bibliographical results available.