Fehr, RudiOverview
Most widely held works by
Rudi Fehr
Key Largo
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3 editions published between 1989 and 2005 in English and held by 544 libraries worldwide A hurricane swells outside, but that is nothing compared to the storm that rages inside the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holes up, holding hostage the hotel owner Nora Temple, her invalid father-in-law, and ex-GI Frank McCloud. McCloud's the one man capable of standing up against the belligerent Rocco, but postwar world realities may have taken all the fight out of him.
The damned don't cry
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1 edition published in 2005 in English and held by 296 libraries worldwide Ethel Whitehead learns there's only one way for a woman to survive in a man's world : be as tempting as a cupcake and as tough as a 75-cent steak. Ethel moves from the wrong side of the tracks to a mobster's mansion in high society one man at a time. Some of those men love her. Some use her. And one, a high-rolling racketeer, abuses her. When the racketeer murders his rival in Ethel's swanky living room, she flees a sure murder rap, right back to the poverty she thought she had escaped. And this time there may not be a man to pick up the pieces of her shattered life.--Container.
Prizzi's honor
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1 edition published in 1999 in English and held by 148 libraries worldwide Charley Partanna is a hit-man who works for the Prizzis, one of the richest crime syndicate families in the country. Unbeknownst to Charley, the Prizzis just hired Irene Walker, a free-lance killer, to eliminate someone who double-crossed them. When Irene and Charley fall in love their jobs become complicated, especially when each is given a contract that neither can go through with.
Humoresque
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1 edition published in 1990 in English and held by 131 libraries worldwide A glamorous but alcoholic socialite, trapped in a marriage to an older man, finds herself falling in love with the young musician whose performance she is underwriting.
House of wax
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1 edition published in 1991 in English and held by 95 libraries worldwide Vincent Price is Prof. Henry Jarrod, a renowned wax sculptor plunged into madness when an arsonist destroys his life's work. No longer able to use his flame-scarred hands, Jarrod comes up with a new way of restocking his House of Wax. Aided by Igor, he dips his hapless victims in wax!
Watch on the Rhine
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1 edition published in 2000 in English and held by 57 libraries worldwide A German Resistance leader brings his family to America, only to find that the Nazis will soon threaten them again in the U.S.
Dial M for murder My little duckaroo
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1 edition published in 1983 in English and held by 56 libraries worldwide In a love triangle, a husband plots to murder his wife. When things go awry, the wrong victim falls and there's no escaping the deadly consequences.
A stolen life
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1 edition published in 2010 in English and held by 30 libraries worldwide Davis plays identical twins -- one good, one evil -- who are both in love with the same man.
Ahmet : Geschichte einer Kindertherapie
by Anneliese Ude
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1 edition published in 1981 in German and held by 25 libraries worldwide
Rittmeister Sosnowski
by Michael Alexander Soltikow
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1 edition published in 1954 in German and held by 11 libraries worldwide
Man kann ruhig darüber sprechen : heitere Geschichten und Plaudereien
by Heinrich Spoerl
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in German and held by 10 libraries worldwide
Neujahrsbuch : Spruchblätter : Altes und Neues
by Cäsar Flaischlen
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1 edition published in 1920 in German and held by 8 libraries worldwide
Die 15 Weltwunder : vom babylonischen Turm zur Atomstadt
by René Poirier
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1 edition published in 1958 in German and held by 7 libraries worldwide
Das unnütze Geschlecht : wo lebt die Frau am glücklichsten
by Oriana Fallaci
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1 edition published in 1965 in German and held by 5 libraries worldwide
Des Waidmanns Weib
by Marianne Mertens
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1 edition published in 1976 in German and held by 4 libraries worldwide
Leonardo da Vinci : historischer Roman
by Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky
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1 edition published in 1920 in German and held by 3 libraries worldwide
A stolen life
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2 editions published between 1992 and 2010 in English and held by 2 libraries worldwide Davis plays identical twins -- one good, one evil -- who are both in love with the same man. Instead of using makeup or hair tricks to differentiate the twins, Davis relies on something much more effective, acting talent.
Alte Legenden von Jungfrauen und Büsserinnen
by Jacobus
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1 edition published in 1922 in German and held by 2 libraries worldwide more
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Adolescent psychotherapy Adultery America Anecdotes Animated films Anti-Nazi movement Case studies Child psychotherapy Comedy films Drama Engineering Eskimos Fathers and daughters Feature films Feature films Fiction Fiction films Film adaptations Film noir Films for the hearing impaired Florida--Key Largo Folk literature, Icelandic Folklore Fugitives from justice Gangster films Gangster films Gangsters Germany History Horror films Humor Hunting Hurricanes Huston, John,--1906-1987 Iceland Leonardo,--da Vinci,--1452-1519 Murder Nazis New York (State)--New York Tales Translations Twin sisters United States Veterans Video recordings--for the hearing impaired Violinists Wax figures Waxworks Women--Social conditions World War (1939-1945)
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