Book Review:How to Photograph the Outdoors in Black and White

How to Photograph the Outdoors in Black and White
Publisher: Stackpole Books; 1st edition (March 1999) | ISBN-10: 0811724506 | 122 pages | 6.42 mb

"An excellent resource for the nature photographer who'd like to expand into black and white, George Schaub's book packs a solid one-two punch of inspirational photos and educational text."--Peter Kolonia, senior editor, Popular Photography

Product Description
*129 b/w photos
* 7 x 9
* Basic and advanced techniques and equipment
* How to visualize and compose in black and white

This practical guide, the ninth in Stackpole's popular How to Photograph series, shows in clear text and a wealth of photos how to "see" in black and white, select film and accessories, and use your equipment to master the classic medium of Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, and Minor White.

George Schaub teaches at the New School/Parsons School of Design in New York. He has written many books on photography and is a frequent contributor to Shutterbug's Outdoor & Nature Photography. He lives on Long Island.

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Book Review:Black & White Landscape Photography

John Collett, David Collett - Black & White Landscape Photography
Amherst Media, Inc. | 1999 | ISBN: 1584280042 | 128 pages | PDF | 2 MB

Because landscape photographers are at the mercy of quickly changing weather, uneven illumination, poor contrast or limited tonal range, and other elements, this book shares the skills and techniques needed to turn these liabilities into assets. It explores types of landscape photography, explains what equipment works best, and describes how to find a balance between creativity and technique. It tells how to see the palette of natural light and the tonalities that make for outstanding photography and discusses focus, depth of field, and controlling tonalities in black- and-white landscapes.

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Book Review:Creative Black and White Photography: Advanced Camera and Darkroom Techniques

Creative Black and White Photography: Advanced Camera and Darkroom Techniques
English | 2008 | 232 pages | PDF | 12.75 MB

Creative Black-and-White Photography guides photographers at all levels in producing the aesthetically advanced, carefully crafted images they’ve always dreamed of making. In his sequel to Mastering Black-and-White Photography, photographer Bernhard J Suess again makes complex technical and aesthetic problems easy to understand and master. He addresses intricate questions of film exposure and development control, camera filters, creative use of print contrast, dodging and burning, bleaching, and digital imaging. Discussing the many choices he makes in his own photography and why, Suess illustrates the decisions essential to successful black-and-white images.

The book includes more than eighty black-and-white photos, tracing the evolution of images from idea to final print. Each example is accompanied by a detailed explanation of the artistic and technical processes involved as well as a helpful look at how and why the photographer decided to use the techniques. Whether choosing a camera format, arranging a background, or composing a portrait, this invaluable resource shows photographers how to balance different elements in a picture and take advanced steps in creating better black-and-white photographs. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Book Review:Creative Black and White: Digital Photography Tips and Techniques

Creative Black and White: Digital Photography Tips and Techniques
Wiley | 2010 | ISBN: 0470597755 | 240 pages | PDF | 11,1 MB

Black-and-white photography poses unique challenges; without color to guide the eye, contrast, lighting, and composition take on even more importance. Renowned photographer Harold Davis explains these elements and demonstrates the basic rules of black and white photography as well as when and how to break them. He breaks through the complexity of this photographic medium, explores opportunities for black-and-white imagery, and shows how to capitalize on every one.

Richly illustrated with the author's own images, this beautiful guide presents the skills needed for great black-and-white photos while encouraging your confidence and creativity.

* Goes beyond basics to teach photographers how to conquer the challenges posed by black-and-white photography
* Appeals to professionals and serious amateurs who are interested in exploring creative black-and-white imagery
* Presents photography fundamentals and shows how black and white requires some of the rules to be bent
* Encourages creative thinking and confidence
* Lavishly illustrated with Harold Davis's outstanding monochromatic photos

Whether you're a professional just venturing into black and white or a serious amateur, Creative Black & White will both educate and inspire you.

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Book Review:Improve Your Photography: 50 Essential Digital Photography Tips & Techniques

Improve Your Photography: 50 Essential Digital Photography Tips & Techniques
Publisher: CreateSpace | ISBN : 451508409 | March 31, 2010 | 132 pages | PDF | 6.6MB

Improve Your Photography is a collection of 50 digital photography tips & techniques from digital photography author and instructor, Kevin L. Moss. Known for his easy to understand style, Kevin proceeds to describe individual techniques that will help you become a better photographer. The book is enjoyable and beneficial for both amateur and advanced photographers alike. Topics in the book also includes how to manage your image library, extreme cropping, explaining 8 and 16 bit modes, using the gradient tool, understanding layers, Photoshop and Elements toolbox tools, file formats and sizing, proper ISO settings, infrared photography and simple lighting setups for the home studio. There are 50 digital photography techniques accompanied by beautiful color images and illustrations. Its easy reading, and its here for the photographer, no matter what level, to enjoy.

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Book Review:Better Available Light Digital Photography

Better Available Light Digital Photography
English | 2009 | 166 pages | PDF | 8 MB

This classic book on available light photography is back, thoroughly updated for digital photography and, for the first time, is packed with stunning, full color images throughout. Creating great images under less-than-ideal lighting conditions is one of the most difficult, yet rewarding, experiences in photography. Challenge yourself, and with this book by your side you won’t be disappointed. Photography expert Joe Farace and Pulitzer Prize winner Barry Staver use real-world examples of their own images to give you invaluable advice on how to get the shot right the first time.

From practical tips, such as how to deal with inclement weather while shooting outdoors, to detailed information about getting great shots at your cousin’s or your client’s wedding, to brand new chapters on noise and white balance, you’ll find everything that you need to turn your ordinary night and low-light shots into masterful works of art.

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Book Review:The Digital Photography Book Volum 3

The Digital Photography Book, Volume 3
Publisher: Peachpit Press | 2009 | PDF | 264 pages | ISBN: 0321617657 | 16.2 MB

Scott Kelby, author of The Digital Photography Book, volume 1 (the world’s best-selling digital photography book of all time), is back with a follow-up to his volume 2 smash best seller, with an entirely new book that picks up right where he left off. It’s even more of that “Ah ha—so that’s how they do it,” straight-to-the-point, skip-the-techno-jargon stuff you can really use today to make your shots even better.

This book truly has a brilliant premise, and here’s how Scott describes it: “If you and I were out on a shoot and you asked me, ‘Hey Scott, I want the light for this portrait to look really soft and flattering. How far back should I put this softbox?’ I wouldn’t give you a lecture about lighting ratios, or flash modifiers. In real life, I’d just turn to you and say, ‘Move it in as close to your subject as you possibly can, without it actually showing up in the shot.’ Well, that’s what this book is all about: you and I out shooting where I answer questions, give you advice, and share the secrets I’ve learned, just like I would with a friend—without all the technical explanations and techie photo speak.”

Each page covers a single concept on how to make your photography better. Every time you turn the page, you’ll learn another pro setting, tool, or trick to transform your work from snapshots into gallery prints. If you’re tired of taking shots that look “okay,” and if you’re tired of looking in photography magazines and thinking, “Why don’t my shots look like that?” then this is the book for you.

This isn’t a book of theory—full of confusing jargon and detailed concepts. This is a book on which button to push, which setting to use, and when to use it. With nearly 200 more of the most closely guarded photographic “tricks of the trade,” this book gets you shooting dramatically better-looking, sharper, more colorful, more professional-looking photos every time.

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Book Review: Light and Lens: Photography in the Digital Age

Light and Lens: Photography in the Digital Age
Publisher: Focal Press | 2007 | PDF | 416 pages | ISBN: 024080855X | 23.23 Mb

Light & Lens: Photography in the Digital Age is a groundbreaking introductory book that clearly and concisely provides the instruction and building blocks necessary to create thought-provoking digitally based photographs. It is an adventurous idea book that features numerous classroom-tested assignments and exercises from leading photographic educators to encourage you to critically explore and make images from the photographers' eye, an aesthetic point of view.

Acquire a basic foundation for digital photography. Light and Lens covers the fundamental concepts of image-making; how to use today's digital technology to create compelling images; and how to output and preserve images in the digital world.

Explore the history, theory and methods of digital image-making. Light and Lens translates the enduring aesthetics of art photography into the digital realm. You'll view, capture and think about images from a new perspective.

Increase your ability to analyze, discuss and write about your own work and the images of others.

Learn with exercises and assignments by leading digital educators. Innovative techniques will train your eye to make the strongest visual statement.

Solve visual problems and overcome image challenges. Whether you use a digital SLR or a point-and-shoot camera, you'll get new strategies to master composition, design and light.

View the full range of the digital terrain with stunning images and commentary by over 190 international artists.

Robert Hirsch is a renowned photographer, educator, historian and writer. His book credits include Photographic Possibilities: The Expressive Use of Ideas, Materials and Processes; Exploring Color Photography: From the Darkroom to the Digital Studio; and Seizing the Light: A History of Photography. He has had many one-person shows and curated numerous exhibitions. Hirsch has also conducted many workshops and interviewed eminent photographers of our time. The former executive director of CEPA Gallery, he is now the director of Light Research in Buffalo, New York, and on the Visual Studies faculty of University of Buffalo/The State University of New York.

* Applies technology in the service of ideas
* Emphasizes conceptual problem solving in photography today
* Full of beautiful and inspiring images

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Book Review:How To Do It Yourself Ebooks Collection

How To Do It Yourself Ebooks Collection | 19.4MB

A great collection include 160 DIY ebooks

30 Quick Fixes For Everyday Disasters.pdf
4×8 Utility Trailer-Drawings.pdf
4×8 Utility Trailer-Instructions.pdf
A Guide To Building Outdoor Stairs.pdf
About Bathrooms.pdf
About Kitchens.pdf
About Pvc Windows.pdf
Actions To Prevent Flooding Around The House.pdf
Add A Radiator.pdf
Add A Wall Light.pdf
Adding A Socket.pdf
Air Bricks.pdf
All About Decking.pdf
Artex And Plaster.pdf
Backyard Pond.pdf
Basic Plumbing.pdf
Bonus Utility Trailer Plan !.pdf
Boxing In Pipes.pdf
Brick Bonds.pdf
Bricklayers Tool Kit.pdf
Brickwork.pdf
Build A Brick Barbecue.pdf
Build A Carport.pdf
Build A Shed.pdf
Build A Shower Cubicle.pdf
Building A Basic Cupboard.pdf
Building A Dry Stone Wall.pdf
Building Regulations Electrical Safety Jan 2005.pdf
Building Traditional Casing For New Windows.pdf
Built In Storage Space.pdf
Cement & Mixes.pdf
Ceramic Tiles For Worktops.pdf
Change A Door Handle.pdf
Changing Taps.pdf
Cladding.pdf
Closing And Opening An Existing Fireplace.pdf
Colour Combinations.pdf
Colour Schemes.pdf
Consumer Unit.pdf
Cornices And Coving.pdf
Corrugated Sheet Roofing.pdf
Create A Town Garden And Patio.pdf
Curing An Air Lock In A Hot Water Pipe.pdf
Deck Marking.pdf
Deck Post Holes.pdf
Deck Structural Design.pdf
Decking Steps.pdf
Design,plan & Fit A Kitchen.pdf
Designing Your Garden.pdf
Planning A New Internal Partition.pdf
Planning Permission And Building Regulations.pdf
Plumbing Care And Repair.pdf
Pointing Brickwork.pdf
Producing Drawings For Planning Permission.pdf
Pvc And Polycarbonate Roofing.pdf
Radial Circuit.pdf
Remove A Radiator.pdf
Removing Or Plastering Over Artex.pdf
Renovating Wood.pdf
Repairing A Dripping Tap.pdf
Replace Broken Tiles.pdf
Replacing A Brick.pdf
Safe Diy.pdf
Sandpapers No2.pdf
Shelving And Storage.pdf
Size Conversion Charts.pdf
Spanners And Wrenches.pdf
Sticky Door.pdf
Sunshine Ceiling(1).pdf
Sunshine Ceiling(2).pdf
Three Layer Felt Roofing.pdf
Timber Care.pdf
Timber Cutting Hand Saws.pdf
Timber Decking.pdf
Tow Dolly Plans.pdf
Towing Dolly Instructions.pdf
Upvc Fascia.pdf
Wainscotting.pdf
Wall Fixings For Hollow & Solid Surfaces.pdf
Wall Tiling.pdf
Wallpaper A Ceiling.pdf
Wallpaper Stripping.pdf
Wallpapering Techniques.pdf
Waterproof Your Roof.pdf
Wiring A Junction Box.pdf
Wiring A Ring Main.pdf
Wooden Interior Doors.pdf

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Book Review:Stoppees' Guide to Photography and Light: What Digital Photographers, Illustrators, and Creative Professional must know

Stoppees' Guide to Photography and Light: What Digital Photographers, Illustrators, and Creative Professionals Must Know

Publisher: Focal Press | 2008 | PDF | 504 pages | ISBN: 0240810635 | 51.44 Mb

Brian & Janet Stoppee have incorporated their decades of daily, hands-on expertise at image-making plus their leading seminars and one-on-one training into the most comprehensive guide to photographic lighting available!

Its impossible to be successful in photography without a mastery of light. Its the basis of all things photographic. The Stoppees welcome the reader into their professional world with a conversational tone that makes you feel as if you are a member of their team in pre-production planning, out on a shoot, or back at their studio, in post-production. Theyve packed the book with full color, vibrant images and lighting diagrams that make the technology easy to quickly understand. This compendium of professional know-how shows you how to both manipulate natures light and create natural-looking illumination with artificial light sources. Whether youre a professional photographer, you use photography in your profession, or you just want your images to look more professional, this book is your resource to creating far superior digital images.

Youll gain a greater understanding of:

* Lights Properties
* Digital Exposure
* Optics
* Metering
* Color
* Pre-Production
* Adobe Camera Raw
* Scanning
* Light Modifying Tools
* Support Systems
* Daylight Fluorescent
* HMI
* Wireless Battery Flash
* Digital Studio Flash
* Digital Tablets
* Painter
* Professional Printing
...and much more, just like the worlds top image-makers.

The Stoppees darkroom is all digital, so without this guide to photography and light, youll be left in the dark ages!

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Book Review:Professional Windows Phone 7 Application Development: Building Applications and Games Using Visual Studio, Silverlight, and XNA

Professional Windows Phone 7 Application Development: Building Applications and Games Using Visual Studio, Silverlight, and XNA
Publisher: Wrox | ISBN: 0470891661 | November 9, 2010 | PDF | 624 pages | 49MB

A one-of-a-kind book on Windows Phone 7 development
While numerous books cover both Silverlight and XNA, there lacks a resource that covers the specifics of Windows Phone 7 development. This book fills that void and shares the specifics of building phone applications and games. You’ll learn how to get started with designing, building, testing, and deploying mobile applications for Windows Phone 7. Working examples used throughout the book cover how to design and layout a Windows Phone 7 application, interact with the device, and even sell your applications.

* Fills the void in the market for an instructional book on developing applications for Windows Phone 7
* Offers an overview of Windows Phone and discusses the necessary tools
* Explains how to work with multiview applications
* Addresses tool bars, pickers, table views, navigation controllers, application setting, and user defaults
* Reviews drawing with XNA, using the camera, and understanding basic data persistence

Explore the exciting possibilities of Windows Phone 7 development with this invaluable reference.

Test and deploy rich mobile applications for Windows Phone 7

The inclusion of Silverlight and XNA on Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 offers you the opportunity to create unique applications for this smart phone. Using tools such as Visual Studio, Expression Blend, and the device emulator, this book shows you how to take your Windows Phone 7 applications from the drawing board to the marketplace. Helpful examples throughout the book and on the website demonstrate how to design and lay out a Windows Phone 7 application, interact with the device, and even sell your applications.

Professional Windows Phone 7 Application Development:
*Provides an overview of Windows Phone 7 tools and user interface basics
*Explains how to use the panorama, pivot and map controls, navigate between pages, and work with application settings
*Shares techniques for working with multiview applications, auto-rotating, and auto-sizing
*Offers advice for understanding application life cycle management and XNA game development
*Uncovers tips for utilizing taps, touches, and gestures, and working the camera
*Includes download-able examples from the website and discusses best practices for building mobile applications.

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Book Review:Windows Phone 7 Plain & Simple

Windows Phone 7 Plain & Simple
Microsoft Press | 2010 | ISBN: 0735643423 | 288 pages | PDF | 30 MB

Get the guide that makes learning Windows Phone 7 plain and simple!
This full-color, no-nonsense book shows you the quickest ways to set up and use your new phone — with easy-to-follow steps, screen-shots and concise, straightforward language.
Here’s WHAT you will learn:
Set up your phone straight out of the box
Make and answer calls, and enter your contacts
Read and send e-mail and text messages
Work with the calendar
Search and browse the Web
Play music and video, and take pictures

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Book Review:Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Inside Out

Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Inside Out
Microsft Press | 2010 | ISBN: 0735640610 | 1248 pages | PDF | 40 MB

Dive into Exchange Server 2010 and SP1—and discover how to really put your messaging solutions to work! This well-organized and in-depth reference packs all the details you need to deploy and manage Exchange 2010, including hundreds of time saving solutions, expert tips, and workarounds
Topics include preparing for the deployment of Exchange 2010; new features of Service Pack 1; using Remote PowerShell and the Exchange Management Shell; understanding how the new Role Based Access Control (RBAC) permissions model works and how to customize it to your requirements; the new high availability model for the Exchange Store and how to approach designs for Database Availability Groups; using compliance features such as archive mailboxes, retention policies, and multi-mailbox discovery searches; the new role of the Client Access Server as the MAPI endpoint for Microsoft Outlook clients; the redesign of Outlook Web App (OWA) and the introduction of the Exchange Control Panel; and many more topics to ease the roll-out of Microsoft’s latest messaging server.

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Book Review:The History of Art: The Essential Guide to Painting Through the Ages

The History of Art: The Essential Guide to Painting Through the Ages
Arcturus foulsham | 2007-08-09 | ISBN: 057203377X | 208 pages | PDF |2.8 MB

Description:

This work takes a fascinating and thought-provoking look at the major movements in the history of Western painting. It provides information about the topic ranging from the glories of High Renaissance Italy through the Romantics and Impressionists to the radical Abstract Expressionists. It contains a beautiful and colourful illustrated summary of painting's greatest works.

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Book Review:Gardner's Art through the Ages: A Global History

Gardner's Art through the Ages: A Global History
English| PDF | 233 MB

The most widely read history of art in the English language for more than 80 years, GARDNER has built its stellar reputation on the inclusion of the most significant images and monuments, discussions of these images in their full historical and cultural context, reproductions of unsurpassed quality, scholarship that is up-to-date and deep, and more help for students and instructors than any other survey text. The 13th Edition adds to this heritage with new images and new full-color reconstructions, as well as a unique ?scale? feature that helps students visualize the size of each work.

Product Details
Hardcover: 1104 pages
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing; 13 edition (January 1, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0495799866
Product Dimensions: 11.7 x 9.8 x 2.3 inches

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Documentary Review:Muhammad- Legacy of a Prophet (2002)

Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet
Country:USA
Language:English
DVD Release Date: December 18, 2002
Genres:Documentary
Run Time: 120 minutes
Cast:Michael Wolfe & Alex Kronemer
Filming Locations:
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Dearborn, Michigan, USA
Mecca, Saudi Arabia

Description:
Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet tells the story of a seventh century prophet who changed world history in 23 years, and continues to shape the lives of more than 1.2 billion people. Three years in the making, the film takes viewers not only to ancient Middle Eastern sites where Muhammad's story unfolds, but into the homes, mosques and workplaces of some of America's estimated seven million Muslims to discover the many ways in which they follow Muhammad's example.

FOR NON-MUSLIMS: You will find this production very informative and non-biased-as the main producers and creators of this production are three Muslim, Christian, and Jewish Americans (strange, but true). The guests who are interviewed also come from different faiths; so this production is not about a group of Muslims going on and on about how wonderful the prophet was. You will learn about how this religion got started, how did Muhammad become the prophet of Islam, and how did he lead Muslims around him and throughout centuries. The production mixes between past life of the prophet and how Muslims behave today. The universality of the production and interviews are very well presented.

FOR MUSLIMS: If you live or lived in a Muslim country and learned about Islam and the prophet since childhood, most likely, you won't find much to learn about the prophet that you didn't already know. However, the examples of Muslim Americans and what they're doing in their daily lives to live the Muslim way of life are truly inspiring and worth seeing. If it's for nothing else, it makes you proud of seeing some good Muslims who are just ordinary people.

The producers had a major challenge for not being allowed to show any illustrations or create any reenactments portraying Prophet Muhammad, who's the lead character, since that's not welcomed by Islam.

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Movie Review: War and Peace (1956)

War and Peace (1956)

Writers:Leo Tolstoy (novel), Bridget Boland (screenplay)
Country:Italy | USA
Language:English | Italian | Russian
Release Date:21 August 1956 (USA)
Genres:Drama | Romance | War
Run time: 208 min
Plot:
Napoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia including his disastrous 1812 invasion serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of two aristocratic families.
Director:King Vidor
Cast:
udrey Hepburn     ... Natasha Rostova
Henry Fonda     ...Pierre Bezukhov
Mel Ferrer     ... Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
Vittorio Gassman     ... Anatol Kuragin
Herbert Lom     ...Napoleon

IMDB INFO:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049934/

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Book Review:Beginning WordPress 3

Beginning WordPress 3
Publisher: Apress 2010 | 432 Pages | ISBN: 1430228954 | PDF | 10 MB

One of the most popular open source blogging and content management systems, WordPress lets you create a website to promote yourself or your business quickly and easilya€"and better yet, it's free. WordPress is a flexible, user-friendly system, and it can be extended with a variety of themes and plugins.
Beginning WordPress 3 is a complete guide for the beginning developer who wants to start using WordPress. You'll learn how to publish and manage online content, add media, create widgets and plugins, and much more.

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Book Review:Lord Edgeware Dies - Christie_ Agatha

Book :Lord Edgware Dies
Author: Agatha Christie   

Agatha Christie enters the world of the London theater in this novel, making most of the characters actors and actresses. Jane Wilkinson, a beautiful and popular actress, is in private life the wife of Lord Edgware. The marriage has never been happy, and now Jane wants to divorce Edgware and marry another man. She asks Poirot to intercede for her with her husband and get him to agree to the divorce. When Poirot meets with Lord Edgware he finds the baron very agreeable and says he has informed his wife of this previously in a letter. Jane insists she never received the letter, but is thrilled at the news.

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Book Review:Hickory Dickory Dock - Christie_ Agatha

Book:Hickory Dickory Dock
Author: Agatha Christie   

Hercule Poirot is startled when Miss Lemon, his "perfect machine" of a secretary, makes three mistakes in typing a simple letter. Clearly, something is amiss. Miss Lemon, on questioning, reveals that she is worried about her sister, Mrs. Hubbard. After spending her married life in Singapore, Mrs. Hubbard has returned to England a widow, where she is living as matron of a youth hostel in Hickory Road, an establishment that caters to an international group of students. It seems that things, "odd things," have been disappearing from the hostel, "And all in rather an unnatural way." Miss Lemon suspects it's something more than petty thievery or kleptomania, and Poirot agrees to meet Felicity Lemon's distressed sibling.

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