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The Mammoth Book of Classical Whodunnits

Author : Mike Ashley
Publisher : C & R Crime
ISBN 13 : 1472114922
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Classical Whodunnits written by Mike Ashley and published by C & R Crime. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the golden days of Ancient Greece and Rome, amidst the splendid art and architecture, the philosophy and politics - there was always a full measure of intrigue, mystery and murder. In this new collection twenty-two writers take up their pens to give an enthralling picture of classical crime. Favourite historical detectives such as Gordianus the Finder, Decius Metellus, and Sister Fidelma rub shoulders with eminent temporary sleuths such as Socrates and that honourable man Brutus, whilst other great names - Augustus, Archimedes, and even the spoilt and beautiful goddess of love, Aphrodite herself - also become enmeshed in terrible and ingenious crimes. Contributors include: Keith Heller Edward D. Hoch Phyllis Ann Karr Theodore Mathieson Amy Myers Wallace Nichols Anthony Price Steven Saylor Darrell Schweitzer Brian Stableford Keith Taylor and many more

Classical Whodunnits

Author : Mike Ashley
Publisher : Carroll & Graf Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780786704187
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Classical Whodunnits written by Mike Ashley and published by Carroll & Graf Pub. This book was released on 1997-05-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical detectives Gordianus the Finder, Decius Metellus, and Sister Fidelma rub shoulders in this collection with sometime sleuths Socrates and Brutus. For these mystery stories set in the ancient world, award-winning editor Mike Ashley has selected stories by Lindsay Davis, Edward D. Hock, Phyllis Ann Karr, Steven Saylor, and many others.

Classical Whodunnits

Author :
Publisher : Constable
ISBN 13 : 9781854874634
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (746 download)

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Download or read book Classical Whodunnits written by and published by Constable. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Mammoth Book of Roman Whodunnits

Author : Mike Ashley
Publisher : C & R Crime
ISBN 13 : 1472114876
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Roman Whodunnits written by Mike Ashley and published by C & R Crime. This book was released on 2014-02-27 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty tales of intrigue, murder and mayhem from this most bloodthirsty and exciting of times. With dramatic settings ranging form the Eternal City of Rome to the most remote outposts of her Empire, here are new tales form the masters of the historical detective story, with classic gems and rare reprints - plus a special introduction, and a new Gordianus the Finder novella from Steven Saylor. A Gladiator Dies Only Once, Steven Saylor: set just before the rebellion of Spartacus, Gordianus is sent to investigate, not a murder but a resurrection. Heads You Lose, Simon Scarrow: someone is beheading soldiers during the siege of Jerusalem, but could the assassin be within the Roman camp? Never Forget, Tom HOlt: having defeated Hannibal, Scipio Africanus has a murder to solve and consults a wily Greek philosopher to help him. The Hostage to Fortune, Michael Jecks: during Caesar's invasion of Britain, the murder of one of the hostages causes a real problem for the guards. The Finger of Aphrodite, Mary Reed and Eric Mayer: with Rome under siege by the Ostrogoths, John the Eunuch is faced with a locked room murder. Edited by Edgar Award winner Mike Ashley

The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits

Author : Mike Ashley
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 1472117077
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits written by Mike Ashley and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2015-02-27 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An all-new collection of exciting murder-mysteries with historical settings This new volume of historical murder and mystery contains over 20 specially commissioned stories ranging in period from Ancient Rome to the reign of Good Queen Bess. It features original stories from such masters as Steven Saylor, Peter Tremayne, Philip Gooden, Susanna Gregory, Kate Ellis, Michael Jecks, Edward D. Hoch and Marilyn Todd. · In Steven Saylor?s Roman tale, Poppy and the Poisoned Cake, Gordianus the Finder feels his latest assignment is suspiciously easy to solve. · Edward D. Hoch puts a novel twist on the locked-room mystery by setting it on a ?locked ship? ? Christopher Columbus?s, in fact! · In Flibbertigibbet Paul Finch unleashes a deranged serial killer on Elizabethan London. · Falstaff ?s successor Sir Johan de Mandeville turns sleuth in Keith Taylor?s Bene?t of Clergy. · Sister Fidelma must solve the mystery of a murdered Celtic monk in Death of an Icon by Peter Tremayne. · A pig provides the key to Michael Jecks?s latest Sir Baldwin mystery.- · Cherith Baldry turns Geoffrey Chaucer into a secret agent in her version of The Pilgrim?s Tale. · Anarchy and murderous intent rule when the Romans leave the British Isles in Richard Butler?s The Last Legion. . . . plus many more tales of dark age murder and mayhem!

Classical Whodunnits (Usa)

Author : Random House
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780099821922
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (219 download)

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Download or read book Classical Whodunnits (Usa) written by Random House and published by . This book was released on 1997-03-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Detective as Historian

Author : Ray B. Browne
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0879728817
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (797 download)

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Download or read book The Detective as Historian written by Ray B. Browne and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers of detective stories are turning more toward historical crime fiction to learn both what everyday life was like in past societies and how society coped with those who broke the laws and restrictions of the times. The crime fiction treated here ranges from ancient Egypt through classical Greece and Rome; from medieval and renaissance China and Europe through nineteenth-century England and America. Topics include: Ellis Peter’s Brother Cadfael; Umberto Eco’s Name of the Rose; Susanna Gregory’s Doctor Matthew Bartholomew; Peter Heck’s Mark Twain as detective; Anne Perry and her Victorian-era world; Caleb Carr’s works; and Elizabeth Peter’s Egyptologist-adventurer tales.

Dark Detectives: An Anthology of Supernatural Mysteries

Author : Stephen Jones
Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
ISBN 13 : 178329129X
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book Dark Detectives: An Anthology of Supernatural Mysteries written by Stephen Jones and published by Titan Books (US, CA). This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CRIMES OF TERROR AND DARKNESS In the battle between good and evil, the supernatural investigators form the first line of defense against the unexplainable. Here are eighteen pulse-pounding tales featuring uncanny sleuths battling against the weird, written by Clive Barker R. Chetwynd-Hayes Basil Copper Neil Gaiman William Hope Hodgson Brian Lumley Brian Mooney Kim Newman Jay Russell Peter Tremayne Manly Wade Wellman Featuring the entire ‘’Seven Stars” saga by Kim Newman, pitting the Diogenes Club against an occult object with the power to ultimately annihilate mankind!

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection

Author : Gardner Dozois
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 9780312207533
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection written by Gardner Dozois and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 1998-05-15 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gardner Dozois, science fiction's foremost editor, consistently selects the field's best work each year with this showcase anthology. This year's collection presents sterling short stories from veterans and newcomers alike, including Stephen Baxter, Alan Brennert, Carolyn Ives Gilman, James Patrick Kelly, Geoffrey A. Landis, Paul J. McAuley, Robert Reed, William Sanders, Howard Waldrop, and many others. Rounded out with Dozois's insightful Summation of the Year in SF and a long list of Honorable Mentions, this anthology is the book for every science fiction fan.

Ovid and the Moderns

Author : Theodore Ziolkowski
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801442742
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (427 download)

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Download or read book Ovid and the Moderns written by Theodore Ziolkowski and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The reasons for the conspicuous popularity of Ovid--his life as well as his works--at the turn of the new millennium bear investigation.... This book speaks of the new bodies assumed in the twentieth century by the poems and tales to which Ovid gave their classic form--including prominently the account of his own life, which has been hailed by many writers of our time as the archetype of exile.... I intend to suggest some of the reasons for Ovid's appeal to different writers and different generations."--from the PrefaceTheodore Ziolkowski approaches Ovid's Latin poetry as a comparatist, not as a classicist, and maintains that the contextualization of individual works helps place them in a larger tradition. Covering the period 1912-2002, Ovid and the Moderns deals with the reception of Ovid and of Ovid's works in literature. After beginning with a discussion of Giorgio de Chirico's Ariadne paintings of 1912 and the Hofmannsthal-Strauss opera Ariadne auf Naxos, Ziolkowski considers European literary landmarks from the High Modernism of Joyce, Kafka, Mandelstam, and Pound, by way of the mid-century exiles, to postmodernism and the century's end, when a surge of interest in Ovid was fueled by a new generation of translations. One of Ziolkowski's conclusions is that the popularity of Ovid alternates in a regular rhythm and for definable reasons with that of Virgil.

A Gladiator Dies Only Once

Author : Steven Saylor
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1429908645
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book A Gladiator Dies Only Once written by Steven Saylor and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steven Saylor's Roma Sub Rosa series of novels, set in the late Roman Republic and featuring Gordianus the Finder, has garnered unusual acclaim from readers and reviewers alike, establishing him as one of the pre-eminent historical crime writers. In A Gladiator Dies Only Once, the second collection of his award-winning stories featuring Gordianus, Saylor more than meets his own high standards. Set during period between the events of his novels Roman Blood and Catalina's Riddle, these previously untold adventures range from twisted search for truth behind a threatening blind item in the Acta Diurna ("The Consul's Wife") and a kidnapping and murder during the revolt of Sertorius ("The White Fawn") to the story behind Cicero's discovery of Archimedes's tomb ("Archimedes Tomb") and a perplexing domestic situation in Gordianus's own home ("If a Cyclops Could Vanish in a Glimpse of an Eye.") These tales from the early career of Gordianus - when his adopted son Eco was still a mute boy and his wife Bethesda was but his slave - will delight Saylor's many fans while illuminating the details of the ancient world like no other writer can.

Postcolonial Postmortems

Author : Christine Matzke
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042020148
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Postcolonial Postmortems written by Christine Matzke and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2006 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent crime fiction increasingly transcends national boundaries, with investigators operating across countries and continents. Frequently, the detective is a migrant or comes from a transcultural background. To solve the crime, the investigator is called upon to decipher the meaning(s) hidden in clues and testimonies that require transcultural forms of understanding. For the reader, the investigation discloses new interpretive methods and processes of social investigation, often challenging facile interpretations of the postcolonial world order. Under the rubric 'postcolonial postmortems', this collection of essays seeks to explore the tropes, issues and themes that characterise this emergent form of crime fiction. But what does the 'postcolonial' bring to the genre apart from the well-known, and valid, discourses of resistance, subversion and ethnicity? And why 'postmortems'? A dissection and medical examination of a body to determine the cause of death, the 'postmortem' of the postcolonial not only alludes to the investigation of the victim's remains, but also to the body of the individual text and its contexts. This collection interrogates literary concepts of postcoloniality and crime from transcultural perspectives in the attempt to offer new critical impulses to the study of crime fiction and postcolonial literatures. International scholars offer insights into the 'postcolonial postmortems' of a wide range of texts by authors from Africa, South Asia, the Asian and African Diaspora, and Australia, including Robert G. Barrett, Unity Dow, Wessel Ebersohn, Romesh Gunesekera, Kazuo Ishiguro, Sujata Massey, Alexander McCall Smith and Michael Ondaatje.

Classical Whodunnits

Author : Random House
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780099814047
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Classical Whodunnits written by Random House and published by . This book was released on 1996-10-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Deadly Things

Author : Darrell Schweitzer
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1434412059
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Deadly Things written by Darrell Schweitzer and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of the old "Ace Doubles" two-in-one books, here is the second Wildside Mystery Double: DEADLY THINGS: A COLLECTION OF MYSTERIOUS TALES, by Darrell Schweitzer. Darrell Schweitzer's first mystery collection explores the murderous impulse in a variety of historical settings. Three mysteries are set in ancient Rome, two featuring Pliny the Younger as investigator. Two are Shakespearean mysteries, in one of which King Henry V plays detective, with the other based on The Two Noble Kinsmen. Three Sherlock Holmes tales involve the apparent misapplication of the Great Detective's methods to the supernatural, a revelation of one of Watson's unwritten cases, and a multi-genre record-breaker, an alternate history, vampire cat detective story. THE JUDGMENT OF THE GODS AND OTHER VERDICTS OF HISTORY, by Robert Reginald. Four scintillating tales of detection from ancient and medieval times. In "The Judgment of the Gods," a young Greek trader must solve the murder of Assyrian King Sennacherib. William of Occam, the medieval philosopher, is forced by Pope John XXII in "Occam's Razor" to solve the murders of French King Philip IV and Pope Clement V. Occam returns in "Occam's Treasure," this time unraveling the puzzle surrounding the killing of clergymen in Avigon. In "Occam's Measure," the great thinker must stop a vicious serial killer stalking the night-time streets of the papal city. Great mystery--and fantasy--reading!

The Mammoth Book of Egyptian Whodunnits

Author : Mike Ashley
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1472114892
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Egyptian Whodunnits written by Mike Ashley and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2014-02-13 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mystery and murder from the Sands of Time; This anthology covers two periods in history - the time of 'Ancient Egypt' which stretches from the First Dynasty in 4000 BC to the time of the Roman Empire, and the time of the Discoveries, which covers the Napoleonic and Victorian periods of excavation. The anthology will be a collection of new stories and rare reprints, including contributions from Lynda Robinson, featuring Lord Meren, Lauren Haney and a Lieutenant Bak mystery, plus stories from Gillian Linscott, Kate Ellis, Marilyn Todd, Paul Doherty, Suzanne Franke, Amy Myers, Michael Pearce, Elizabeth Peters and many more. So from the famed Cleopatra to Howard Carter and the Curse of the Pharaohs, here are 25 stories to enthral and enchant devotees of the genre.

The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures

Author : Mike Ashley
Publisher : C & R Crime
ISBN 13 : 1849015392
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures written by Mike Ashley and published by C & R Crime. This book was released on 2009-05-28 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biggest collection of new Sherlock Holmes stories since Sir Arthur Conan Doyle laid down his pen - nearly 200,000 words of superb fiction featuring the Great Detective by masters of historical crime, including Stephen Baxter, H. R. F. Keating, Michael Moorcock and Amy Myers. Almost all the stories here are specially written; the cases presented in the order in which Holmes solved them. The result is a new life of Sherlock Holmes, with a continuous narrative alongside the stories that identifies the 'gaps' in the canon and places the new and hitherto unrecorded cases in sequence. Plus an invaluable complete Holmes chronology.

A Companion to Ovid

Author : Peter E. Knox
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118451341
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (184 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Ovid written by Peter E. Knox and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-12-26 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Ovid is a comprehensive overview of one of the most influential poets of classical antiquity. Features more than 30 newly commissioned chapters by noted scholars writing in their areas of specialization Illuminates various aspects of Ovid's work, such as production, genre, and style Presents interpretive essays on key poems and collections of poems Includes detailed discussions of Ovid's primary literary influences and his reception in English literature Provides a chronology of key literary and historical events during Ovid's lifetime