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Book Synopsis The Mysterious Mickey Finn by : Elliot Paul
Download or read book The Mysterious Mickey Finn written by Elliot Paul and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It has the delicious irresponsibility of a Wodehouse plot. . . . It's one of the funniest books we've read in a long time. It contains a great deal of shrewd satire."—The New York Times Multimillionaire and philanthropist Hugo Weiss is known in every capital of the Western world as a munificent patron of the arts. When Weiss suddenly vanishes while on a visit to Paris, his disappearance sets the stage for this uncommonly witty and urbane mystery. Homer Evans, an intrepid American detective, turns his keen intellect and remarkable intuition toward solving the puzzle of the financier's disappearance. Assisted by his sharpshooting girlfriend, a cowgirl from the American West, Evans plunges into a maelstrom of kidnapping, art forgery, tax evasion, murder, and a plot to restore the French monarchy. Set against the backdrop of bohemian Montparnasse, the story hurtles along at a breathless pace and in a tone of relentless good cheer, despite the rising body count. The first installment in a popular series that parodies the famous Philo Vance stories of S. S. Van Dine, this novel offers sophisticated humor amid a madcap romp as well as a challenging mystery. "A rollicking, madcap comic mystery that will have you alternately laughing out loud and reading in silent amazement as the plot becomes more and more complex and the actions more extreme and unpredictable. It is impossible to predict what will happen next. A delicious treat for mystery lovers." — The Mutt Cafe
Book Synopsis The Mysterious Mickey Finn by : Elliot Paul
Download or read book The Mysterious Mickey Finn written by Elliot Paul and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2015-03-18 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multimillionaire's disappearance incites a maelstrom of kidnapping, murder, and a plot to restore the French monarchy. "One of the funniest books we've read in a long time." — The New York Times.
Download or read book Mysterious Chicago written by Adam Selzer and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Chicago historian Adam Selzer, expert on all of the Windy City’s quirks and oddities, comes a compelling heavily researched anthology of the stories behind its most fascinating unsolved mysteries. To create this unique volume, Selzer has collected forty unsolved mysteries from the 1800s to modern day. He has poured through all newspaper, magazine, and book references to them, and consulted expert historians. Topics covered include who really started the great Chicago fire, who was the first “automobile murderer,” and even if there was actually a vampire slaying at Rose Hill cemetery. The result is both a colorful read to get lost in, a window to a world of curiosity and wonder, as well as a volume that separates fact from fiction—true crime from urban legend. Complementing the gripping stories Selzer presents are original images of the crime and its suspects as developed by its original investigators. Readers will marvel at how each character and crime were presented, and happily journey with Selzer as he presents all facts and theories presented at the time of the “crime” and uses modern hindsight to assemble the pieces.
Download or read book Killer Routine written by Alan Orloff and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2011-04-08 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comedian Channing Hayes survived a tragic auto accident that claimed the life of his fiancée, Lauren. Physically and emotionally scarred, he’s put his performing career on hold, resigned to getting laughs vicariously as co-owner of The Last Laff Comedy Club. There, he instructs Lauren’s sister Heather in the fine art of stand-up. When Heather skips out on her set during the club’s comedy showcase, Channing searches for his AWOL protégée. Then Heather’s ex-lovers start turning up dead—and Channing must fight to keep Heather from being the next hit in this deadly line-up.
Book Synopsis After the Trauma by : Harvey Curtis Webster
Download or read book After the Trauma written by Harvey Curtis Webster and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lucid book a distinguished scholar and critic measures British fiction from World War I through the convulsive effects of the Depression and World War II, and the importance of the writing that has been done since Finnegan's Wake. Webster presents a moving account of the shattering impact of the Great War upon British writers, particularly Rose Macaulay, Aldous Huxley, Evelyn Waugh, and Ivy Compton-Burnett. The cynicism and despair which afflicted them also bore heavily on the novelists of the thirties and forties—Graham Greene, Joyce Cary, L. P. Hartley, C. P. Snow, who endured the disorder and violence of the Depression and World War II. Though all of these writers spoke with individual voices ranging from pessimism to joyful affirmation, they were all marked ineradicably by the turmoil of the period. The book closes with an overview of the writers who have developed since World War II. Penetrating, fresh, affirmative in its values, the book is an important assessment of this protean group of writers.
Book Synopsis The Detective and the Artist by : J.K. Van Dover
Download or read book The Detective and the Artist written by J.K. Van Dover and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-01-25 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the distinctive role that artists have played in detective fiction--as detectives, as villains and victims, and as bystanders. With a few significant exceptions, literary detectives have always identified themselves as essentially the deconstructors of the artful crimes of others. They may use various methods--ratiocinative, scientific, or hard-boiled--but they always unravel the threads that the villains have woven into deceptive covers for their crimes. The detective does, in the end, produce a work of art: a narrative that explains everything that needs explanation. But the detective's moral work is often juxtaposed to the aesthetic work of the painters, poets, and writers that the detective encounters during an investigation. The author surveys this juxtaposition in works by important authors from the early development of the genre (Poe, Conan Doyle), the golden age (Bentley, Christie, Sayers, James, et al.), and the hard-boiled era (Hammett, Chandler, Macdonald, Spicer et al.).
Download or read book Vera written by Elizabeth von Arnim and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this foreshadowing of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, a vulnerable young woman marries a wealthy widower who sweeps her off to an isolated mansion haunted by the memory of his first wife.
Book Synopsis The Chess Endgame Study by : A. J. Roycroft
Download or read book The Chess Endgame Study written by A. J. Roycroft and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2016-10-10 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thorough discourse and rigorous analysis, enlivened by wit, offers a classic exposition of the endgame. Commentary, statistics, and more than 400 studies have been completely revised and updated by the author.
Download or read book The Log Cabin Book written by Oliver Kemp and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2016-10-07 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This vintage guide from over a century ago offers timeless, practical advice on building log cabins. Simply stated, well-illustrated advice ranges from felling trees to furnishing and decorating interiors.
Download or read book Deadly Valentine written by Carolyn Hart and published by Crimeline. This book was released on 2010-08-25 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mystery bookstore owner Annie Laurance didn't really want to go to her neighbor's Valentine Day masked ball -- particularly not after the voluptuous brunette made a pass at Annie's husband, Max. So when her dizzy mother-in-law, Laurel, made a surprise visit to Broward's Rock Island, Annie thought it would be a perfect excuse to skip the party. She should have known better: True to form, Laurel accepted the invitation for all three of them. But the biggest surprise of all came at the party's end, when Annie found the amorous hostess in the gazebo--murdered.
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Book Synopsis Expatriate Paris by : Arlen J. Hansen
Download or read book Expatriate Paris written by Arlen J. Hansen and published by Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paris has long been a storied center of art and culture, and of romance, but in the 1920s its magnetism was especially irresistible. From around the world writers, artists, and composers steamed in, to visit or linger, some to reside. For travelers, Francophiles and the curious, this gossipy retrospective of expatriate life in Paris in the 1920s is a mosaic of quick glimpses—Sarah Bernhardt sleeping in a coffin to overcome her fear of death, Igor Stravinsky diving through a huge wreath at the premiere of his ballet Les Noces, Ford Madox Ford meeting Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes near starvation, Josephine Baker establishing her nightclub. The list of expatriates is long and luminous, and this book—a work of immense erudition spiced with anecdotes and gossip—documents their haunts and habits, their comings and goings, their relationships intimate and artistic. Structured in thirty-three geographical and very walkable sections, Expatriate Paris is cross-referenced by streets, names, and topics and equipped with nine maps to satisfy the most demanding traveler, whether real or armchair.
Book Synopsis Fracas in the Foothills by : Elliot Paul
Download or read book Fracas in the Foothills written by Elliot Paul and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fracas in the Foothills, first published in 1940, is a rollicking, fast-paced action – western – mystery – adventure story set in the 1930s and moving from Paris to the American West (especially in the lower Yellowstone River valley Montana). The book features scholar-sleuth Homer Evans, the subject of several books by author Elliot Paul, and a host of additional, often wacky characters including his French cohorts, gangsters, Native Americans, ranchers, rustlers, and even rattlesnakes. Evans and his group return to Montana to solve a murder but the plot takes many often humorous twists along the way.
Book Synopsis Literary Globalism by : Carolyn A. Durham
Download or read book Literary Globalism written by Carolyn A. Durham and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Johnson's Le Divorce and Le Mariage allow for a consideration of the profound changes that the international novel of Henry James has undergone in a globalized world of altered Franco-American cultural relations. Tremain's The Way I Found Her illustrates the use of cultural borrowing to create an international corpus of texts and a cosmopolitan community of readers. Harris's Chocolat and Blackberry Wine reveal her metaphoric use of the space of provincial France to represent postmodernity as a world of mobility and rootlessness.
Book Synopsis The Red Badge of Courage by : Stephen Crane
Download or read book The Red Badge of Courage written by Stephen Crane and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2004-05-11 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During his service in the Civil War a young Union soldier matures to manhood and finds peace of mind as he comes to grips with his conflicting emotions about war.
Book Synopsis Toward the Golden Age by : Mike Ashley
Download or read book Toward the Golden Age written by Mike Ashley and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2016-08-17 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intriguing compilation of crime fiction from 1905 to 1921 includes G. K. Chesterton's "The Blue Cross," "The Ninescore Mystery" by Baroness Orczy, Mary Roberts Rinehart's "The Papered Door," plus 12 other tales.
Book Synopsis A Journal to Stella by : Jonathan Swift
Download or read book A Journal to Stella written by Jonathan Swift and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2017-09-20 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This letter-diary, written between 1710–1713 and addressed to Swift's lifelong friend, sparkles with the satirist's renowed wit and offers an intimate account of the personalities, politics, and drama of Queen Anne's court.
