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Download or read book The Armchair Detective [88]. written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Armchair Detective written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : G. K. Chesterton
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486143228
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)
Download or read book The Annotated Innocence of Father Brown written by G. K. Chesterton and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Father Brown, an ordinary priest whose unremarkable exterior conceals extraordinary crime-solving ability, is celebrated for his solutions to metaphysical mysteries, a genre perfected by his creator, G. K. Chesterton. More than lighthearted comedies built around puzzling crimes, these superbly written tales contain deeply perceptive philosophical reflections. The Innocence of Father Brown (1911) was the first collection of stories featuring the ecclesiastical sleuth and is widely considered the best. In this annotated edition of the collection, the Chesterton scholar Martin Gardner provides detailed notes and background information on various aspects of such stories as "The Blue Cross," "The Secret Garden," "The Invisible Man," "The Hammer of God," "The Eye of Apollo," and seven more, as well as an informative introduction and an extensive bibliography. Included also are eight illustrations reproduced from the first edition. The result is an indispensable companion for all Chesterton enthusiasts and a perfect introduction for anyone who has yet to meet the incomparable Father Brown.
Author : Kenneth J. Weber
Publisher : Stoddart
ISBN 13 : 9780773752108
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (521 download)
Download or read book 5 Minute Mysteries for the Armchair Detective written by Kenneth J. Weber and published by Stoddart. This book was released on 1988 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : Larry Landrum
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313003270
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book American Mystery and Detective Novels written by Larry Landrum and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1999-05-30 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mystery and detective novels are popular fictional genres within Western literature. As such, they provide a wealth of information about popular art and culture. When the genre develops within various cultures, it adopts, and proceeds to dominate, native expressions and imagery. American mystery and detective novels appeared in the late nineteenth century. This reference provides a selective guide to the important criticism of American mystery and detective novels and presents general features of the genre and its historical development over the past two centuries. Critical approaches covered in the volume include story as game, images, myth criticism, formalism and structuralism, psychonalysis, Marxism and more. Comparisons with related genres, such as gothic, suspense, gangster, and postmodern novels, illustrate similarities and differences important to the understanding of the unique components of mystery and detective fiction. The guide is divided into five major sections: a brief history, related genres, criticism, authors, and reference. This organization accounts for the literary history and types of novels stemming from the mystery and detective genre. A chronology provides a helpful overview of the development and transformation of the genre.
Author : Ian Shimwell
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0244803374
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (448 download)
Download or read book The Armchair Detective Series Nine and the Specials written by Ian Shimwell and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-07-21 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journey from the stunning, unique and ultra-modern Times Apartments to the brooding, Gothic atmosphere of Castle Mandrake... Series Nine of The Armchair Detective plus two feature-length Specials.
Author : Ray Broadus Browne
Publisher : Popular Press
ISBN 13 : 9780879724528
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (245 download)
Download or read book Against Academia written by Ray Broadus Browne and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the study of popular culture in American academia since its (re)introduction in 1967 is filled with misunderstanding and opposition. From the first, proponents of the study of this major portion of American culture made clear that they were interested in making popular culture a supplement to the usual courses in such fields as literature, sociology, history, philosophy, and the other humanities and social sciences; nobody proposed that study of popular culture replace the other disciplines, but many suggested that it was time to reexamine the accepted courses and see if they were still viable. Opposition to the status quo always causes anxiety and opposition, but when the issues are clarified, often opposition and anxiety melt away, as they now are doing. Anxiety and opposition were generated on another level when people in academic and curricular power felt that voices were being raised that questioned their credentials and control. They flailed out with every argument at their command, generally thinking only of their self interest and not that of the students and the future of academic education. Generally this wall of opposition has also been breached. The Popular Culture Association and its many friends and backers in academia, in the United States and abroad, has demonstrated that the study of our everyday and dominant culure should be taken seriously, understandingly and analytically, just as all other aspects of culture should be. Taken that way the study can be useful in developing better educated and responsible citizens from the cradle to the grave. The humanities and social sciences are too important for any portion--especially the majority portion--to be ignored or downplayed. The study of popular culture constitutes a significant and important element, one that can be ignored only at peril.
Author : Ray Broadus Browne
Publisher : Popular Press
ISBN 13 : 9780879728564
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (285 download)
Download or read book Mission Underway written by Ray Broadus Browne and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the study of popular culture in American academic since its (re)introduction in 1967 is filled with misunderstanding and opposition. From the first, proponents of the study of this major portion of american culture made clear that they were interested in making popular culture a supplement to the usual courses in such fields as literature, sociology, history, philosophy, and the other humanities and social sciences; nobody proposed that study of popular culture replace the other disciplines, but many suggested that it was time to reexamine the accepted courses and see if they were still viable. Opposition to the status quo always causes anxiety and oppostion, but when the issues are clarified, often oppoosition and anxiety melt away, as they are now doing.
Author : Allen J. Hubin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Armchair Detective written by Allen J. Hubin and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert E. Skinner
Publisher : Popular Press
ISBN 13 : 9780879724542
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (245 download)
Download or read book Two Guns from Harlem written by Robert E. Skinner and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the many writers who lent their talents to the creation of hard-boiled detective fiction, few have approached it from a more original perspective than Chester Himes. A former criminal himself, Himes brought to the writing of detective fiction the perspective of the black man. Himes made his debut with the brilliant For Love of Imabelle, for which he was awarded the coveted Grand Prix de la Littérature Policière. Two Guns from Harlem probes Himes's early life and career for the roots of this series and for its heroes, Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones. Skinner discusses how Himes's experience as a black man, combined with his unique outlook on sociology, politics, violence, sex, and race relations, resulted not only in an unusual portrait of black America but also opened the way for the creation of the ethnic and female hard-boiled detectives who followed.
Author : David Geherin
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476619182
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Small Towns in Recent American Crime Fiction written by David Geherin and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-11-19 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small towns have long been a commonplace setting in cozy mysteries, but in recent years writers of realistic crime fiction have discovered fresh possibilities in small town settings. There they can take advantage of distinct facets of small town life--a sense of community, slower pace of life, proximity to nature--and yet deal with social, economic and environmental issues. Because crimes in small communities hit closer to home, the human element can better be emphasized. This book focuses on the work of ten contemporary authors who have placed small towns like Rocksburg, Pennsylvania (K. C. Constantine), West Table, Missouri (Daniel Woodrell), Niniltna, Alaska (Dana Stabenow), Aurora, Minnesota (William Kent Krueger), Paradise, Michigan (Steve Hamilton), Millersburg, Ohio (P. L. Gaus), Heartsdale, Georgia (Karin Slaughter), Millers Kill, New York (Julia Spencer-Fleming), Durant, Wyoming (Craig Johnson), and a number of national parks (Nevada Barr) on the map of American crime fiction.
Author : William Contento
Publisher : Hall Reference Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 760 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Index to Crime and Mystery Anthologies written by William Contento and published by Hall Reference Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Armed Chair Detective Magazin
Publisher : Mysterious Press
ISBN 13 : 9780892963232
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (632 download)
Download or read book Armchair Detective written by Armed Chair Detective Magazin and published by Mysterious Press. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ian Shimwell
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 132625295X
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (262 download)
Download or read book The Armchair Detective The Special Scripts written by Ian Shimwell and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-04-21 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrating 5 Years of The Armchair Detective... In this very special collection, I have chosen 5 of my favourite Armchair Detective scripts, one to represent each published year of cosy mystery phenomenon that has sold in its thousands all over the world. The Armchair Detective The Cosy Mystery Series
Author : David MacGregor
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1787056511
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (87 download)
Download or read book Sherlock Holmes: The Hero With a Thousand Faces written by David MacGregor and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sherlock Holmes: The Hero With a Thousand Faces ambitiously takes on the task of explaining the continued popularity of Arthur Conan Doyle's famous detective over the course of three centuries. In plays, films, TV shows, and other media, one generation after another has reimagined Holmes as a romantic hero, action hero, gentleman hero, recovering drug addict, weeping social crusader, high-functioning sociopath, and so on. In essence, Sherlock Holmes has become the blank slate upon which we write the heroic formula that best suits our time and place. Volume One looks at the social and cultural environment in which Sherlock Holmes came to fame. Victorian novelists like Anthony Trollope and William Thackeray had pointedly written "novels without a hero," because in their minds any well-ordered and well-mannered society would have no need for heroes or heroic behavior. Unfortunately, this was at odds with a reality in which criminals like Jack the Ripper stalked the streets and people didn't trust the police, who were generally regarded as corrupt and incompetent. Into this gap stepped the world's first consulting detective, an amateur reasoner of some repute by the name of Sherlock Holmes, who shot to fame in the pages of The Strand Magazine in 1891. When Conan Doyle proceeded to kill Holmes off in 1893, it was American playwright, director, and actor William Gillette who brought the character back to life in his 1899 play Sherlock Holmes, creating a sensation on both sides of the Atlantic with his romantic version of Holmes, and cementing his place as the definitive Sherlock Holmes until the late 1930s. By that point, Sherlock Holmes had developed a cult following who facetiously maintained that Holmes was a real person, formed clubs like The Baker Street Irregulars, and introduced the idea of cosplay to the embryonic world of fandom. These well-educated fanboys subsequently became the self-assigned protectors of Sherlock Holmes, anxious that their version of the character not be besmirched or defamed in any way. In spite of this, there was considerable besmirching and defaming to be seen in the early silent films featuring Sherlock Holmes, which effectively turned him into an action hero due to the lack of sound. When sound films took the industry by storm in the late 1920s, there were a numbers of pretenders who reached for the Sherlock Holmes crown, including Clive Brook, Reginald Owen, and Raymond Massey, but it took more than a decade before a new definitive Sherlock Holmes would be crowned in 1939 in the person of Basil Rathbone.
Author : Ken Weber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780773761421
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (614 download)
Download or read book The Armchair Detective #1 written by Ken Weber and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ken Weber is back with a brand new mystery series, once again testing your sleuthing savvy, daring you to demonstrate your powers of deduction. In forty new stories from the master of five-minute fun, you are the detective, challenged to find the clues hidden in the stories and solve the mystery. And the best part is, you never have to leave your living room. From easy mind teasers for the faint of heart to difficult challenges for the bravest puzzlers, The Armchair Detective #1 will keep you reading long into the night. So recline, relax, and join the ranks of the armchair detectives. Book jacket.
