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The Mummy's Ransom

Author : Fred Hunter
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1466881623
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book The Mummy's Ransom written by Fred Hunter and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mummy's Ransom by Fred Hunter A controversial exhibit of Chinchorro mummies is about to open in Chicago at Dolores Tower, the latest building by the equally controversial local developer Louie Dolores. The mummies - dating from 2000 to 7000 BC - are incredibly fragile, making their transportation and display very risky. Even worse, the pending exhibition is being protested by a group who regard the exploitation of the mummies to be desecration of their ancient dead, leading to both tension and excitement over the coming opening. Lucky for Chicago Police Detective Jeremy Ransom none of this has anything to do with him. He figures as long as he can keep his friend, the elderly Miss Emily Charters, away from the opening, then there won't be a murder and he won't have to get involved. But first there are reports that a mummy is moving around the exhibit at night, then there are death threats against the developer, and when one night, alone in the exhibit, Louie Dolores is attacked by one of the mummies, Ransom is assigned to find out what's going on. With the sharp wits and intelligence of Emily at his beck and call, Ransom has to sort out the truth in what could be his strangest assignment ever before the a volatile situation turns fatal.

The Chicago of Fiction

Author : James A. Kaser
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0810877244
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The Chicago of Fiction written by James A. Kaser and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The importance of Chicago in American culture has made the city's place in the American imagination a crucial topic for literary scholars and cultural historians. While databases of bibliographical information on Chicago-centered fiction are available, they are of little use to scholars researching works written before the 1980s. In The Chicago of Fiction: A Resource Guide, James A. Kaser provides detailed synopses for more than 1,200 works of fiction significantly set in Chicago and published between 1852 and 1980. The synopses include plot summaries, names of major characters, and an indication of physical settings. An appendix provides bibliographical information for works dating from 1981 well into the 21st century, while a biographical section provides basic information about the authors, some of whom are obscure and would be difficult to find in other sources. Written to assist researchers in locating works of fiction for analysis, the plot summaries highlight ways in which the works touch on major aspects of social history and cultural studies (i.e., class, ethnicity, gender, immigrant experience, and race). The book is also a useful reader advisory tool for librarians and readers who want to identify materials for leisure reading, particularly since genre, juvenile, and young adult fiction, as well as literary fiction, are included.

Mystery Women, Volume Three (Revised)

Author : Colleen Barnett
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1615950109
Total Pages : 1090 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book Mystery Women, Volume Three (Revised) written by Colleen Barnett and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-12-31 with total page 1090 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like other fictional characters, female sleuths may live in the past or the future. They may represent current times with some level of reality or shape their settings to suit an agenda. There are audiences for both realism and escapism in the mystery novel. It is interesting, however, to compare the fictional world of the mystery sleuth with the world in which readers live. Of course, mystery readers do not share one simplistic world. They live in urban, suburban, and rural areas, as do the female heroines in the books they read. They may choose a book because it has a familiar background or because it takes them to places they long to visit. Readers may be rich or poor; young or old; conservative or liberal. So are the heroines. What incredible choices there are today in mystery series! This three-volume encyclopedia of women characters in the mystery novel is like a gigantic menu. Like a menu, the descriptions of the items that are provided are subjective. Volume 3 of Mystery Women as currently updated adds an additional 42 sleuths to the 500 plus who were covered in the initial Volume 3. These are more recently discovered sleuths who were introduced during the period from January 1, 1990 to December 31, 1999. This more than doubles the number of sleuths introduced in the 1980s (298 of whom were covered in Volume 2) and easily exceeded the 347 series (and some outstanding individuals) described in Volume 1, which covered a 130-year period from 1860-1979. It also includes updates on those individuals covered in the first edition; changes in status, short reviews of books published since the first edition through December 31, 2008.

Works of Gautier: Spirite ; The campire ; Arria Marcella ; The quartette ; The mummy's foot

Author : Théophile Gautier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 732 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Works of Gautier: Spirite ; The campire ; Arria Marcella ; The quartette ; The mummy's foot written by Théophile Gautier and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Complete Works: Spirite. The vampire. Arria Marcela. The quartette. The mummy's foot

Author : Théophile Gautier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 730 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Works: Spirite. The vampire. Arria Marcela. The quartette. The mummy's foot written by Théophile Gautier and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mummy Eaters

Author : Sherry Shenoda
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496234111
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Mummy Eaters written by Sherry Shenoda and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2022-09 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, Sherry Shenoda’s collection Mummy Eaters follows in the footsteps of an imagined ancestor, one of the daughters of the house of Akhenaten in the Eighteenth Dynasty, Egypt. Shenoda forges an imagined path through her ancestor’s mummification and journey to the afterlife. Parallel to this exploration run the implications of colonialism on her passage. The mythology of the ancient Egyptians was oriented toward resurrection through the preservation of the human body in mummification. Shenoda juxtaposes this reverence for the human body as sacred matter and a pathway to eternal life with the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century European fascination with ingesting Egyptian human remains as medicine and using exhumed Egyptian mummies as paper, paint, and fertilizer. Today Egyptian human remains are displayed in museums. Much of Mummy Eaters is written as a call and response, in the Coptic tradition, between the imagined ancestor and the author as descendant.

The Essential Guide to Mummy Literature

Author : Brian J. Frost
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Essential Guide to Mummy Literature written by Brian J. Frost and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Essential Guide to Mummy Literature, Brian J. Frost provides the first in-depth survey and bibliography of works of fiction featuring mummies.

What Do I Read Next? 2002

Author : Neil Barron
Publisher : Gale Cengage
ISBN 13 : 9780787652951
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book What Do I Read Next? 2002 written by Neil Barron and published by Gale Cengage. This book was released on 2002-10-22 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By identifying similarities in various books, this annual selection guide helps readers to independently choose titles of interest published in the last year.Each entry describes a separate book, listing everything readers need to know to make selections. Arranged by author within six genre sections, detailed entries provide: Title Publisher and publication dateSeriesNames and descriptions of charactersTime period and geographical settingReview citationsStory typesBrief plot summarySelected other books by the authorSimilar books by different authorsAuthor, title, series, character name, character description, time period, geographic setting and genre/sub-genre indexes are included to facilitate research.

Mummies

Author : David Orme
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781841674278
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Mummies written by David Orme and published by . This book was released on 2007-02-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates strange legacies from the past, including the famous mummy's curse. This title is suitable for those with an extremely low level of literacy or learning English as a second language.

What Do I Read Next? Volume 2 2003

Author : Gale Group
Publisher : Gale Cengage
ISBN 13 : 9780787661823
Total Pages : 714 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book What Do I Read Next? Volume 2 2003 written by Gale Group and published by Gale Cengage. This book was released on 2004 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains descriptions of 1,245 books in nine fiction genres, including author or editor's name, publication information, story type, major characters, setting, plot summary, and more.

The Mummy's Curse

Author : Roger Luckhurst
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191640972
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book The Mummy's Curse written by Roger Luckhurst and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2012-10-26 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the winter of 1922-23 archaeologist Howard Carter and his wealthy patron George Herbert, the Fifth Earl of Carnarvon, sensationally opened the tomb of Tutenkhamen. Six weeks later Herbert, the sponsor of the expedition, died in Egypt. The popular press went wild with rumours of a curse on those who disturbed the Pharaoh's rest and for years followed every twist and turn of the fate of the men who had been involved in the historic discovery. Long dismissed by Egyptologists, the mummy's curse remains a part of popular supernatural belief. Roger Luckhurst explores why the myth has captured the British imagination across the centuries, and how it has impacted on popular culture. Tutankhamen was not the first curse story to emerge in British popular culture. This book uncovers the 'true' stories of two extraordinary Victorian gentlemen widely believed at the time to have been cursed by the artefacts they brought home from Egypt in the nineteenth century. These are weird and wonderful stories that weave together a cast of famous writers, painters, feted soldiers, lowly smugglers, respected men of science, disreputable society dames, and spooky spiritualists. Focusing on tales of the curse myth, Roger Luckhurst leads us through Victorian museums, international exhibitions, private collections, the battlefields of Egypt and Sudan, and the writings of figures like Arthur Conan Doyle, Rider Haggard and Algernon Blackwood. Written in an open and accessible style, this volume is the product of over ten years research in London's most curious archives. It explores how we became fascinated with Egypt and how this fascination was fuelled by myth, mystery, and rumour. Moreover, it provides a new and startling path through the cultural history of Victorian England and its colonial possessions.

The Mummy's Foot

Author : Théophile Gautier
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1473398746
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (733 download)

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Download or read book The Mummy's Foot written by Théophile Gautier and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2015-02-11 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mummy's Foot' is a gothic short story written by French writer, Théophile Gautier, author of 'Clarimonde'. The plot follows a man who buys a mummified foot in an antiques shop. It once belonged to an Egyptian princess, and it transpires that she wants it back. He is forced to make a deal. This is a classic short story in the genre and we a republishing it with a brand new introductory biography of the translator of the work, Lafcadio Hearn.

The quartette. The mummy's foot

Author : Théophile Gautier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The quartette. The mummy's foot written by Théophile Gautier and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Works of Théophile Gautier ...: The quartette. The mummy's foot

Author : Théophile Gautier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Works of Théophile Gautier ...: The quartette. The mummy's foot written by Théophile Gautier and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Publishers Weekly

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 758 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book The Publishers Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Mummy!

Author : Jane Loudon
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
ISBN 13 : 151327600X
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book The Mummy! written by Jane Loudon and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2021-03-24 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in 2126, The Mummy!: A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century explores a society led by advanced technology but driven by ego, greed and self-preservation. It’s a vivid clash of genres featuring an old tale with a new twist. In the distant future, society has become enthralled by technology. It’s an integral part of life that has changed the way humans interact. Autonomous machines have a visible presence, taking critical jobs in the workforce. Doctors and lawyers have been replaced by steam-powered devices, as well as farmers who no longer plant or plow. The author presents an early form of the internet that can connect anyone at any time. With all these advancements, mankind has become detached and corrupt. It’s up to Cheops, a reanimated corpse, to make a way in this questionable age. Jane Loudon was a young visionary writer who was ahead of her time. Her version of The Mummy features a speculative world that eerily embodies twenty-first century society. It’s a brilliant work that exposes humanity at its core. With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of The Mummy!: A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century is both modern and readable.

The Mummy!

Author : Mrs. Loudon (Jane)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book The Mummy! written by Mrs. Loudon (Jane) and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: