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Book Synopsis 100 Masters of Mystery and Detective Fiction: Margery Allingham by : Fiona Kelleghan
Download or read book 100 Masters of Mystery and Detective Fiction: Margery Allingham written by Fiona Kelleghan and published by Magill's Choice. This book was released on 2001 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection surveys 100 of the writerswho have made the most lasting contributionsto the genre. Most articles are 2,500words, with longer articles on such majorfigures as Raymond Chandler, DashiellHammett, Ellery Queen and Rex Stout.Handy, ready-reference listings aredesigned to accommodate the uniquecharacteristics of mystery and detectivefiction, including author?s pseudonyms,types of plots, principal series and principalseries characters, and even a glossaryof terms peculiar to the genre.Reference elements include a complete,up-to-date list of authors? works, a glossaryof mystery and detective fiction terms,annotated bibliographies, a time line, anindex of series characters and a list ofauthors by plot type.
Download or read book The Detective written by Roderick Thorp and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this bestselling book that inspired the hit movie by the same name, starring Frank Sinatra, an apparent suicide forces a PI to reconsider his most famous case Joe Leland returned from World War II with a chest full of medals, but his greatest honor came after he traded his pilot’s wings for a detective’s shield. Catching the Leikman killer made Joe a local hero, but the shine quickly wore off, and it wasn’t long before he left the police force to start his own private agency. Years after his greatest triumph, Joe has a modest income and a quiet life—both of which may soon fall apart. When Colin MacIver dies at the local racetrack, the coroner rules that he took his own life, but his widow knows better. Because MacIver’s life insurance policy doesn’t cover suicide, his wife is left broke, desperate, and afraid for her safety. She hires Leland to find out who could have killed her gentle, unassuming husband—a simple question that will turn this humble city inside out.
Download or read book Hide My Eyes written by Margery Allingham and published by Ipso Books. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Private detective Albert Campion hunts a serial killer in London’s theatre district, in this crime novel from “the best of mystery writers” (The New Yorker). A spate of murders leaves Campion with only two baffling clues: a left-hand glove and a lizard-skin letter-case. These minimal leads, and a series of peculiar events, set the gentleman sleuth on a race against time that takes him from an odd museum of curiosities hidden in a quiet corner of London to a scrapyard in the East End. Margery Allingham shows her dark edge in Hide My Eyes and evokes the sights, sounds, and inimitable atmosphere of 1950s London, once again proving herself “one of the finest ‘golden age’ crime novelists” (Sunday Telegraph). “Allingham has that rare gift in a novelist, the creation of characters so rich and so real that they stay with the reader forever.” —Sara Paretsky “Allingham’s characters are three-dimensional flesh and blood, especially her villains.” —Times Literary Supplement
Book Synopsis The White Cottage Mystery by : Margery Allingham
Download or read book The White Cottage Mystery written by Margery Allingham and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven people might have murdered Eric Crowther, the mysterious recluse who lived in the gaunt house whose shadow fell across the white cottage. In this novel Detective Chief Inspector Challenor and his son Jerry travel across Europe to unravel a chaos of clues.
Book Synopsis Murderous Schemes by : Donald E. Westlake
Download or read book Murderous Schemes written by Donald E. Westlake and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of detective fiction with examples of its sub-genres, armchair detective, the locked room and so on. The first is represented by Agatha Christie's In Blue Geranium, where the detective solves a crime from a conversation, the second by The Leopold Locked Room, in which a policeman is found in a locked room with his wife killed by his gun, but he didn't do it.
Book Synopsis Heiress in Red Silk by : Madeline Hunter
Download or read book Heiress in Red Silk written by Madeline Hunter and published by Zebra. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A mysterious bequest brings a whole new life - and brand-new love - to three unsuspecting women..."--Page 4 of cover.
Book Synopsis Dance of the Years by : Margery Allingham
Download or read book Dance of the Years written by Margery Allingham and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-08-08 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published as The Galantrys in America, Dance of the Years is one of Margery Allingham's oft overlooked novels. Originally published in 1943, it is a fictionalised account of Allingham's family heritage, which she insisted as the closest records of the facts. First published in 1943, Dance of the Years centres on the birth and growth of James, the fictional representative of Margery's great-grandfather who was 'born in 1800 and left ten thousand pounds and the injunction that no gentleman ever works'. The offspring of a Georgian country gentleman and a gypsy, James becomes an early-Victorian success, devoting his riches to becoming a gentleman and establishing a family name. A fascinating exploration of family ties and values by a famous author of detective crime fiction, this title will appeal to a wide range of readers.
Book Synopsis Six Against the Yard by : The Detection Club
Download or read book Six Against the Yard written by The Detection Club and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six “perfect murders” by Margery Allingham, Dorothy L. Sayers, and other Golden Age Mystery authors of the Detection Club—plus an essay by Agatha Christie. Founded in England in the 1930s, the Detection Club brought together an impressive array of Golden Age Mystery authors. Their projects included The Floating Admiral, a whodunit in which twelve different writers contributed individual chapters, as well as Ask a Policeman, another collaboration in which the mystery writers swapped detectives to solve a murder. In Six Against the Yard, a half dozen mystery masters—Margery Allingham, Father Ronald Knox, Anthony Berkeley, Russell Thorndike, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Freeman Wills Crofts—each create a perfect crime, a seemingly unsolvable mystery. The stories are then analyzed by Ex-Superintendent Cornish, C.I.D., a real-life retired police detective, to see if they would indeed stump Scotland Yard. This edition also features an afterword by inaugural Detection Club member Agatha Christie on a true unsolved case of arsenic poisoning in Britain in 1929.
Download or read book The Eighth Dwarf written by Ross Thomas and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ex-spy and his sidekick hunt for a rogue assassin of Nazi war criminals—“Thomas is without peer in American suspense” (Los Angeles Times). Nicolae Polscaru, a three-and-a-half-foot-tall dwarf, is tossed into a Hollywood swimming pool by four drunken screenwriters, who take bets on how long he can tread water. Minor Jackson, his OSS training still fresh a year after World War II’s end, beats the bullies senseless and pulls Nicolae from the water. A friendship is born. Jackson is broke, his spying days over, and Nicolae offers him a job. A former spy himself, the globetrotting Romanian has a commission to find Kurt Oppenheimer, an expert assassin of high-ranking Nazis. Kurt won’t stop killing, no matter what the bloodshed will do to the fragile world peace, and the Soviets, the British, and the remains of the Nazi High Command all want his head. Jackson will beat them all to finding Kurt—unless his new friend betrays him first.
Book Synopsis Blackkerchief Dick by : Margery Allingham
Download or read book Blackkerchief Dick written by Margery Allingham and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Deadly Duo written by Margery Allingham and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Deadly Duo" by Margery Allingham. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Book Synopsis Mr. Campion: Criminologist by : Margery Allingham
Download or read book Mr. Campion: Criminologist written by Margery Allingham and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prepare to be enthralled as Margery Allingham presents a collection of seven extraordinary cases from the illustrious career of the enigmatic Mr. Campion. In this mesmerizing compilation, Allingham meticulously selects each case to offer readers a captivating glimpse into the brilliant mind of the celebrated criminologist. Among the intricate mysteries, 'The Late Pig' stands as a testament to Campion's unparalleled deductive prowess.
Book Synopsis Detective and Mystery Stories by : Arthur Conan Doyle
Download or read book Detective and Mystery Stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains ones of the sets of linked short stories that Conan Doyle centred on his character of Brigadier Gerard, and six short stories featuring Sherlock Holmes. The other is also available in a volume from CSP.
Download or read book Passport To Panic written by Eric Ambler and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2010-11-26 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lewis Page needs money urgently. He determines to get it from his brother who lives in a remote region of South America. However, he is in the hands of a notorious man named Benevides. Now held prisoner, Lewis learns what is going on. Fearful and dramatic events, with dangerous and violent intermissions follow.
Book Synopsis And Then There Were Nine-- More Women of Mystery by : Jane S. Bakerman
Download or read book And Then There Were Nine-- More Women of Mystery written by Jane S. Bakerman and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within the formulas of crime fiction, this collection ranges from writers Daphne du Maurier and Margery Allingham, whose names are synonymous with conventional subgenres of crime fiction, through Patricia Highsmith, and Shirley Jackson, who deliberately set conventions aside or who moved those conventions into other realms. Most important, perhaps, Jackson, Highsmith and E. X. Ferrars depict civilizations that are not essentially orderly, that are not founded upon a commonly understood concept of justice--where one must make her own order.
Book Synopsis Traitor's Purse by : Margery Allingham
Download or read book Traitor's Purse written by Margery Allingham and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Critical Survey of Mystery and Detective Fiction by : Carl Edmund Rollyson
Download or read book Critical Survey of Mystery and Detective Fiction written by Carl Edmund Rollyson and published by Salem PressInc. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 2387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents critical studies of more than 390 authors of detective and mystery fiction from around the world dating from the mid-eighteenth century to the present day.