MORIARTY By John Gardner Harcourt. 298 pp. $24 The English writer John Gardner, who died last year at the age of 80, served in the Royal Marines during World War II, spent seven years as a Church of England priest, and then decided he'd rather write spy novels. He began with comic novels about a ...

Kiedy napisano: 2008-11-24

"Moriarty" by John Gardner

Do wyboru: Ciekawostki

A Story With a Few Holes

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