This volume in The Seafarers series takes a look at the development and use of battleship technology in World War 1, culminating in a detailed account of the Battle of Jutland and its anticlimactic aftermath.

    The great photographs show us, and the delightful text and captions tell us, how San Francisco's Painted Ladies have enjoyed an astonishing renaissance.

    His random jottings and exquisite illustrations in an attempt to prove his sanity, later became this fascinating journal.

    

    He intends to choose an heir to the family fortune, and he makes it quite clear that everyone- including multimillionaire Bostonian Bertrand Demaury with his wife and family, calculating Phillippe and his countess from Paris and the disarming young German Otto von Wuppertal, whose father has recently killed himself because of financial reverse- will be on trial before his decision is made. One by one, they are summoned while he probes their ambitions with knifelike precision as suspicion and hatred thicken among them.Meg, an impoverished cousin of the Demaurys who lives by their grace and favor as companion to the spoiled Esmeralda Demaury, arrives from England. Ignored by the family, she is captive to the romantic overtures of Lord Peter Chalmers, fiance of Esmeralda.One of the guests dies; the first murder has occurred. Prince Lorenzo Giolitti-Crispi, the titled and handsome but penniless chief of police arrives on the scene. Meg becomes his prime suspect.Against the glittering background of the Venetian Carnival and the elegant Boat Races, the mystery deepens culminating with Gile's announcement of the inheritor to his vast fortune. The shock is electrifying.

    Queen Victoria's family life on the Isle of Wight.