Foul Play Suspected

Author: John Wyndham
Publisher: Modern Library
ISBN: 0593445694
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
A rediscovered, outstandingly prescient crime novel written in the lead-up to World War II, by one of the twentieth century’s most brilliant—and neglected—science fiction and horror writers, whom Stephen King called “the best writer of science fiction that England has ever produced.” “Genuinely creepy . . . Wyndham really was a terrific storyteller.”—Jo Walton England, 1935: Phyllida Shiffer’s marriage has just ended in divorce. She heads home, expecting to be welcomed with open arms by her father, a brilliant (if slightly distracted) scientist. But her father’s house is locked up; he is nowhere to be found; and there are suspicious men who seem to think that Phyllida herself might hold the key to her father’s latest scientific discovery. . . .

Jolly Foul Play

Author: Robin Stevens
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481489100
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384

Book Description
"Daisy and Hazel must solve another murder at Deepdean when a bullying Head Girl turns up dead on Bonfire Night"--

Foul Play

Author: Joe Humphreys
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 292

Book Description
Shows how our belief in the value of sport is misplaced. Tracing the history of organised game-playing, this book argues that sport is a last refuge for sexism, racism, homophobia and animal cruelty. It cites neglected research in psychology, showing how playing sport tends to impinge negatively on your morals.

Foul Play

Author: Franklin W. Dixon
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's
ISBN: 9781847383433
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 184

Book Description
The Hardy brothers are called in to investigate when the ATAC hears that a major college football team is about to throw a championship game. Everyone from the star quarterback to the coach are in play as suspects, and the clock is running out for Frank and Joe to score another mission touchdown.

Foul Play

Author: Peter Lerangis
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780679800903
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148

Book Description
The Three Investigators look into mysterious accidents plaguing the star of a new musical.

Foul Play

Author: Mike Rowbottom
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408155796
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
'Foul Play' offers an inside track on the dark arts employed in sport to gain an unfair advantage - on the football or rugby field, on the tennis or squash court, on the athletics track and the golf course, even on the bowling green or the Subbuteo table.

Foul Play

Author: Charles Reade
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 292

Book Description

Foul Play

Author: Mike Rowbottom
Publisher: Bloomsbury Paperbacks
ISBN: 9781408843444
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
There is cheating. And then there is cheating. But where does one end and the other start? Doping. Fixing. Sledging. Intimidating. Time-wasting. Diving. Ever since sporting contests began there have been rules, and for many competitors those rules have been there to be broken. Or maybe just bent a little . . . Foul Play offers an inside track on the dark arts employed in sport to gain an unfair advantage-on the football or rugby field, on the tennis or squash court, on the athletics track and the golf course, even on the bowling green or the Subbuteo table. Some cheating in sport is considered virtually par for the course, while other forms are completely unacceptable. But who, ultimately, makes that judgement? From ball-tampering and bribery in cricket to rugby union's 'Bloodgate' scandal; from Diego Maradona's Hand of God to Alex Ferguson's managerial mind games; from the dodgy dealing of the ancient Greeks and the wily cunning of W.G. Grace to the doping scandals engulfing Marion Jones and Lance Armstrong, it's all here. Foul Play-sometimes funny, sometimes shocking-provides all the evidence you'll ever need that the sporting world is often anything but.

Foul Play

Author: Robert Paul Szekely
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595244270
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 376

Book Description
Foul Play is divided into three parts: The first third deals with suspense, mystery, a death-defying illness, and a touching, soon to be aborted, love affair. All the characters in the story have auto-related names, which continues my trademark from my first book, Murder By Proxy, where all the characters were named after intoxicating beverages. The middle of the story tells us how the H.W.B. SOCIETY deals with the pain and suffering of the people who have been accidentally hit with a batted ball or an errant bat flying from a player's hands during major league ballgames. Sounds serious? Yes, it has its moments, but the chapters are also liberally sprinkled with my own special bend of sly humor. Can you imagine Amy Lamborghini, a tall sexy beauty, with a bat in her hands? Numerous conflicts arise in last part of the book, ending with unexpected resolutions and a heart-warming finale that is sure to bring tears to your eyes.

Foul Play

Author: Beverly Scudamore
Publisher: James Lorimer & Company
ISBN: 1552776220
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 115

Book Description
Remy and Alison play on rival soccer teams. Remy hasn't trusted Alison ever since her former friend attended an elite soccer camp in England last summer. When Remy finds out Alison has a special plan to beat Remy's team in the tournament, she becomes convinced that Alison will sabotage her team's players. Foul Play is an entertaining story of misguided revenge, and the importance of communication in true friendship. [Fry Reading Level - 3.5.