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The China Governess

Author : Margery Allingham
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504087240
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The China Governess written by Margery Allingham and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Margery Allingham stands out like a shining light. And she has another quality, not usually associated with crime stories, elegance.” —Agatha Christie Timothy Kinnit is rich, handsome, and successful, but his past is a mystery to him. When he learns, on the eve of his elopement, that he is adopted, he must question everything he thought he knew. In desperate search of answers, Kinnit calls on private detective Albert Campion to shed some light on his past, and how it connects him to the notorious Turk Street Mile slum. Meanwhile, his illustrious adopted family has a sinister secret of its own—involving a murderous nineteenth-century governess—that must also be brought to light by Campion’s investigations. “Allingham is very, very good and those who are not familiar with her have a discovery awaiting them.”—Los Angeles Times

The China Governess

Author : Margery Allingham
Publisher : Ipso Books
ISBN 13 : 1504048776
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The China Governess written by Margery Allingham and published by Ipso Books. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Margery Allingham stands out like a shining light. And she has another quality, not usually associated with crime stories, elegance.” —Agatha Christie Timothy Kinnit is rich, handsome, and successful, but his past is a mystery to him. When he learns, on the eve of his elopement, that he is adopted, he must question everything he thought he knew. In desperate search of answers, Kinnit calls on private detective Albert Campion to shed some light on his past, and how it connects him to the notorious Turk Street Mile slum. Meanwhile, his illustrious adopted family has a sinister secret of its own—involving a murderous nineteenth-century governess—that must also be brought to light by Campion’s investigations. “Allingham is very, very good and those who are not familiar with her have a discovery awaiting them.”—Los Angeles Times

Mysteries Unlocked

Author : Curtis Evans
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476616086
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Mysteries Unlocked written by Curtis Evans and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In honor of the 70th birthday of Professor Douglas G. Greene, mystery genre scholar and publisher, this book offers 24 new essays and two reprinted classics on detective fiction by contributors around the world, including ten Edgar (Mystery Writers of America) winners and nominees. The essays cover a myriad of authors and books from more than a century, from J.S. Fletcher's The Investigators, originally serialized in 1901, to P.D. James' Death Comes to Pemberley, published at the end of 2011. Subjects covered include detective fiction in the Edwardian era and the "Golden Age" between the two world wars; hard-boiled detective fiction; mysteries and intellectuals; and pastiches, short stories and radio plays.

Living with Strangers

Author : Chiara Briganti
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000182029
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Living with Strangers written by Chiara Briganti and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-03 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living with Strangers examines the history and cultural representation of bed-sitting rooms and boarding houses in England from the early twentieth century to the present. Providing a historical overview, the authors explore how these alternative domestic spaces came to provide shelter for a diverse demographic of working women and men, retired army officers, gay people, students, bohemians, writers, artists, performers, migrants and asylum seekers, as well as shady figures and criminals. Drawing on historical records, case studies, and examples from literature, art, and film, the book examines how the prevalence and significance of bedsits and boarding houses in novels, plays, detective stories, Ealing comedies, and contemporary fiction and film produced its own genre of narrative. The nine chapters are written by an international range of established and emerging scholars in the fields of literary studies, art and film history, political theory, queer studies and cultural studies. A lively, highly original study, Living with Strangers makes a significant contribution to the cross-disciplinary field of home studies and provides insight into a crucial aspect of British cultural history. It is essential reading for students and researchers in anthropology, history, literary studies, sociology, gender and sexuality studies, film studies and cultural studies.

Women Authors of Detective Series

Author : Moira Davison Reynolds
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 078645069X
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Women Authors of Detective Series written by Moira Davison Reynolds and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the roots of the detective novel go back to the 19th century, the genre reached its height around 1925 to 1945. This work presents information on 21 British and American women who wrote during the 20th century. As a group they were largely responsible for the great popularity of the detective novel in the first half of the century. The British authors are Dora Turnbull (Patricia Wentworth), Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Elizabeth Mackintosh (Josephine Tey), Ngaio Marsh, Gladys Mitchell, Margery Allingham, Edith Pargeter (Ellis Peters), Phyllis Dorothy James White (P.D. James), Gwendoline Butler (Jennie Melville), and Ruth Rendell, and the Americans are Patricia Highsmith, Carolyn G. Heilbrun (Amanda Cross), Edna Buchanan, Kate Gallison, Sue Grafton, Sara Paretsky, Nevada Barr, Patricia Cornwell, Carol Higgins Clark, and Megan Mallory Rust. A flavor of each author's work is provided.

Traitor's Purse

Author : Margery Allingham
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504087259
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Traitor's Purse written by Margery Allingham and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “If I had to vote for the single best detective story, this would be it.” —A.S. Byatt Celebrated amateur detective Albert Campion awakes in hospital, accused of attacking a police officer and suffering from acute amnesia. All he can remember is that he was on a mission of vital importance to His Majesty’s government before his accident. On the run from the police and unable to recognize even his faithful servant or his beloved fiancée, Campion struggles desperately to put the pieces together—while World War II rages and the very fate of England is at stake. Published in 1941, Traitor’s Purse is “a wartime masterpiece” (The Guardian). “Uncommonly exciting stuff, replete with Allingham’s skill in story-building and the plausible characters that make her as much a fine novelist as a mystery writer.” —The New Republic “Margery Allingham stands out like a shining light. And she has another quality, not usually associated with crime stories, elegance.” —Agatha Christie

Hide My Eyes

Author : Margery Allingham
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504087380
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Hide My Eyes written by Margery Allingham and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 271 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

The Beckoning Lady

Author : Margery Allingham
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504087275
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Beckoning Lady written by Margery Allingham and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murder darkens the bright days of summer in an idyllic Suffolk village, in an Albert Campion mystery that is simply “unforgettable” (A.S. Byatt). Private detective Albert Campion’s glorious summer in Pontisbright is blighted by death. Amidst the preparations for Minnie and Tonker Cassand’s fabulous summer party, a murder is discovered—and it falls to Campion to unravel the intricate web of motives, suspicion and deception. Danger is hardly unknown in this idyllic rural village, but it is a less romantic peril than Campion faced on his first visit, more than twenty years ago . . . “My very favourite of the four Queens of Crime is Allingham.” —J. K. Rowling “Margery Allingham has precious few peers and no superiors.” —The Sunday Times “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

Culture Bumps

Author : Ritva Leppihalme
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 9781853593734
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (937 download)

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Download or read book Culture Bumps written by Ritva Leppihalme and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 1997 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work focuses on translators and readers as participants in the communicative process, where the use of allusions is one type of problem to be solved. Reader-response tests and interviews with professional translators highlight the difficulty in conveying the function and meaning of allusive passages to readers in another culture. The many examples discussed also provide materials for translation teachers wanting to address the translation of allusions in their courses.

A Dictionary of Anglo-American Proverbs & Proverbial Phrases, Found in Literary Sources of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Author : George B. Bryan
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820479477
Total Pages : 890 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (794 download)

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Anglo-American Proverbs & Proverbial Phrases, Found in Literary Sources of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries written by George B. Bryan and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2005 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Dictionary of Anglo-American Proverbs & Proverbial Phrases Found in Literary Sources of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries is a unique collection of proverbial language found in literary contexts. It includes proverbial materials from a multitude of plays, (auto)biographies of well-known actors like Britain's Laurence Olivier, songs by William S. Gilbert or Lorenz Hart, and American crime stories by Leslie Charteris. Other authors represented in the dictionary are Horatio Alger, Margery Allingham, Samuel Beckett, Lewis Carroll, Raymond Chandler, Benjamin Disraeli, Edward Eggleston, Hamlin Garland, Graham Greene, Thomas C. Haliburton, Bret Harte, Aldous Huxley, Sinclair Lewis, Jack London, George Orwell, Eden Phillpotts, John B. Priestley, Carl Sandburg, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Jesse Stuart, Oscar Wilde, and more. Many lesser-known dramatists, songwriters, and novelists are included as well, making the contextualized texts to a considerable degree representative of the proverbial language of the past two centuries. While the collection contains a proverbial treasure trove for paremiographers and paremiologists alike, it also presents general readers interested in folkloric, linguistic, cultural, and historical phenomena with an accessible and enjoyable selection of proverbs and proverbial phrases.

The Adventures of Margery Allingham

Author : Julia Jones
Publisher : Golden Duck UK Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9781899262014
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book The Adventures of Margery Allingham written by Julia Jones and published by Golden Duck UK Ltd. This book was released on 2009 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography was researched in the very room where Margery Allingham worked, and was written with the full co-operation of Margery's sister, her secretary and her housekeeper. It was first published in 1991. Since then, however, new material has becoma available, including a revalationary collection of letters and the startling truth about her husband's relationship with the writer Nancy Spain. Was there a corpse underneath the sofa? The book's new title, new introduction and afterword invite the reader to look again. The Adventures of Margery Allingham is a new edition of Margery Allingham: a Biography published by William Heinemann Ltd in 1991.

Murder in the Closet

Author : Curtis Evans
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476626332
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Murder in the Closet written by Curtis Evans and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-01-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the 1969 Stonewall Riots, LGBTQ life was dominated by the negative image of "the closet"--the metaphorical space where that which was deemed "queer" was hidden from a hostile public view. Literary studies of queer themes and characters in crime fiction have tended to focus on the more positive and explicit representations since the riots, while pre-Stonewall works are thought to reference queer only negatively or obliquely. This collection of new essays questions that view with an investigation of queer aspects in crime fiction published over eight decades, from the corseted Victorian era to the unbuttoned 1960s.

Flowers for the Judge

Author : Margery Allingham
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504087267
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Flowers for the Judge written by Margery Allingham and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gentleman sleuth Albert Campion tries to solve the murder of a prominent publisher in this “vivid and witty” British mystery (The New York Times). Scandal hits the prestigious publishing house of Barnabas when one of the directors is found dead in a locked cellar. All eyes are on the other partners at the firm—cousins of the dead man with much to gain from his demise—and all rumors hint at a connection to the disappearance of another director decades earlier. Desperate to salvage their reputation, the cousins turn to Albert Campion—but will his investigations clear the Barnabas family name, or besmirch it forever? “My very favourite of the four Queens of Crime is Allingham.” —J. K. Rowling “Ms. Allingham has a strong, controlled sense of humour and is never dull.” —Times Literary Supplement

The Return of Mr. Campion

Author : Margery Allingham
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504089901
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Return of Mr. Campion written by Margery Allingham and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of thirteen short stories brings back an acclaimed Golden Age mystery author’s beloved sleuth, as well as a host of fresh characters and genres. Margery Allingham fans will delight at being reunited with the Queen of Crime’s most thrilling detective, Albert Campion. From capers and traditional mysteries to slice-of-life stories, romantic tales, and even a Christmas story, this anthology is a must-have for Allingham enthusiasts, as well as readers who have yet to discover the esteemed English author. Praise for Margery Allingham “Margery Allingham stands out like a shining knight.” —Agatha Christie “My very favourite of the four Queens of crime is Allingham.” —J.K. Rowling “Margery Allingham deserves to be rediscovered.” —P.D. James “Spending an evening with Campion is one of life’s pure pleasures.” —The Sunday Times “Startlingly good.” —The Guardian “At once exciting and amusing.” —The New York Times

Sweet Danger

Author : Margery Allingham
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504087461
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Sweet Danger written by Margery Allingham and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With gentleman sleuth Albert Campion on the case and plenty of European intrigue, “Sweet Danger is for the connoisseur of detective fiction” (Sunday Times). Nestled along the Adriatic coastline, the kingdom of Averna has suddenly—and suspiciously—become the hottest property in Europe, and Albert Campion is given the task of recovering the long-missing proofs of ownership. His mission takes him from the French Riviera to the sleepy village of Pontisbright, where he meets the flame-haired Amanda Fitton. Her family claim to be the rightful heirs to the principality, and insist on joining Campion's quest. Unfortunately for them, a criminal financier and his heavies are also on the trail. The clock is ticking for Campion and his cohorts to outwit the thugs and solve the mystery of Averna. “Margery Allingham stands out like a shining light. And she has another quality, not usually associated with crime stories, elegance.” —Agatha Christie “The best of mystery writers.” —The New Yorker

London Bridges

Author : Jane Stevenson
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618257737
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book London Bridges written by Jane Stevenson and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2002 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A superbly entertaining, high-spirited novel, London Bridges gives a very contemporary spin to the classic English detective thriller. Set in 1990s London, the plot centers on a treasure lost in the Blitz and newly discovered by an unscrupulous lawyer, who is tempted by greed into a series of crimes leading to murder. "The true treasure here is Stevenson's motley chorus of characters" (The New Yorker); the main character is London itself, lovingly depicted in all its rich variousness. With elegant wit, keen social observation, and dazzling intelligence, Stevenson explores the ways that people's lives intertwine in a great city, often with startling results.

Deadlier Than The Male

Author : Jessica Mann
Publisher : eBook Partnership
ISBN 13 : 1783016272
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Deadlier Than The Male written by Jessica Mann and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2015-01-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are English women so good at murder? Among the books which have survived for more than half a century, always in print and always in demand, are the murder mysteries by Dorothy L. Sayers, Agatha Christie and other women writers. Yet their male competitors are mostly forgotten. What is it about these womens' work that has kept it alive? And what was it about the authors that gave them such violent or cunning imaginations, always hidden behind the most respectable of facades? In this book, first published in 1981, Jessica Mann brings the perception of a fellow crime writer to her investigation of her predecessors' lives and work. She discusses the changes in the mystery form over the years, and its enduring worldwide popularity, in a book that was described by one critic as "e;obligatory reading for any reader of crime fiction"e;, and of which another wrote "e;I cannot recall a better work of criticism devoted to the crime story."e;