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Download or read book The Crime Club written by Frank Froest and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Big Bow Mystery by : Israel Zangwill
Download or read book The Big Bow Mystery written by Israel Zangwill and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2021-05-21 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Big Bow Mystery (1892) is a novel by Israel Zangwill. Although he is frequently recognized as a writer who focused on the plight of London’s Jewish community, Zangwill also wrote works of genre fiction. Originally serialized in The Star, The Big Bow Mystery is a satirical take on the locked room mystery that continues to astound, entertain, and frustrate readers to this day. Having risen through poverty to become an educator and author, Zangwill dedicated his career to the voiceless, the oppressed, and the needy, advocating for their rights and bearing witness to their suffering in some of the most powerful novels and stories of the Victorian era. On a foggy morning in a working-class neighborhood on the East End of London, a landlady rises to light the fire and make a pot of tea. Eventually, Mrs. Drabdump realizes that one of her tenants has overslept, and goes upstairs to wake him. Finding his room locked from the inside, she grows concerned and enlists the help of another tenant. Forcing open the door, they find the man—a prominent activist for worker’s rights—dead in his own bed. When the coroner’s report reveals that the man was neither murdered or killed by his own hand, an investigation is launched involving inept policemen, a major politician, and several strange characters whose peculiarities provide a darkly humorous tint to an otherwise brutal tale of death and urban decay. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Israel Zangwill’s The Big Bow Mystery is a classic of British literature reimagined for modern readers.
Book Synopsis The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and their Creators by : Martin Edwards
Download or read book The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and their Creators written by Martin Edwards and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2022-05-26 with total page 977 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of four major prizes for the best critical/biographical book related to crime fiction: the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity and H.R.F. Keating Awards; and shortlisted for both the Agatha and Gold Dagger Awards. ‘Martin Edwards is the closest thing there has been to a philosopher of crime writing.’ The Times
Book Synopsis Howdunit: A Masterclass in Crime Writing by Members of the Detection Club by : Martin Edwards
Download or read book Howdunit: A Masterclass in Crime Writing by Members of the Detection Club written by Martin Edwards and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the H.R.F. Keating Award for best biographical/critical book related to crime fiction, and nominated for the Edgar Allen Poe and Macavity Awards for Best Critical/Biographical book.
Book Synopsis Mr. Bowling Buys a Newspaper by : Donald Landels Henderson
Download or read book Mr. Bowling Buys a Newspaper written by Donald Landels Henderson and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Overture to Death written by Ngaio Marsh and published by Felony & Mayhem Press. This book was released on 2012-12-15 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A local busybody is silenced for good in this tale by “a peerless practitioner of the slightly surreal, English-village comedy-mystery” (Kirkus Reviews). In their Dorset village, neither Miss Campanula nor her friend Miss Prentice are known as lovable little old ladies. They’re waspish, gossiping snobby little old ladies, passionate only about their amateur theatrical productions, their narrowly defined opinions about how everyone else should behave . . ..and, perhaps, about the local vicar. But could one of them have been sufficiently unpleasant to provoke a murderer? For Miss Campanula has perished on her piano bench—and it’s unclear whether Miss Prentice may have been the actual intended victim . . . “A goodie.” —Kirkus Reviews “It’s time to start comparing Christie to Marsh instead of the other way around.” —New York Magazine “In her ironic and witty hands the mystery novel can be civilized literature.” —The New York Times
Download or read book Red Threads written by Rex Stout and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2010-04-28 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Val Carew had come a long way—from Oklahoma to Wall Street—only to be clubbed to death at his wife’s tomb. The wealthy financier had built the magnificent crypt in memory of his beautiful Cherokee bride, whose premature death left behind a lot of unanswered questions. Now Carew himself is dead, struck down by a reminder from his past: an Indian war club. The case lands in the capable hands of Inspector Cramer of the New York Homicide squad. The cigar-chomping detective has to follow the only clue left behind—a piece of red thread found in the dead man’s hand that no doubt leads to his killer.
Download or read book The Cask written by Freeman Wills Crofts and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Murder by the Book by : Martin Edwards
Download or read book Murder by the Book written by Martin Edwards and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Martin Edwards as librarian and guide, delve into an irresistible stack of bibliomysteries, where "golden age–inspired puzzle masters [are] doing what they do best: bringing together readers, books, and felonies [in] perhaps the single best collection yet in this blue-chip series (Kirkus Reviews)." There is no better hiding place for clues—or red herrings—than inside the pages of a book. But in this world of resentful ghost writers, indiscreet playwrights, and unscrupulous book collectors, literary prowess is often a prologue to disaster. Readers should be warned that the most riveting tales often conceal the deadliest of secrets. Featuring much-loved Golden Age detectives Nigel Strangeways, Philip Trent, Detective Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn, and others, a bookish puzzle threatens an eagerly awaited inheritance; a submission to a publisher recounts a murder that seems increasingly to be a work of nonfiction; an irate novelist puts a grisly end to the source of his writer's block.
Book Synopsis The Three Locks (A Sherlock Holmes Adventure, Book 4) by : Bonnie MacBird
Download or read book The Three Locks (A Sherlock Holmes Adventure, Book 4) written by Bonnie MacBird and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A heatwave melts London as Holmes and Watson are called to action in this new Sherlock Holmes adventure by Bonnie MacBird, author of “one of the best Sherlock Holmes novels of recent memory.”
Book Synopsis A Voice Like Velvet (Detective Club Crime Classics) by : Donald Henderson
Download or read book A Voice Like Velvet (Detective Club Crime Classics) written by Donald Henderson and published by Collins. This book was released on 2021-04 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sensational wartime crime novel about a BBC announcer who abuses his position to commit crimes against the rich and famous...
Book Synopsis Unquiet Spirits: Whisky, Ghosts, Murder (A Sherlock Holmes Adventure, Book 2) by : Bonnie MacBird
Download or read book Unquiet Spirits: Whisky, Ghosts, Murder (A Sherlock Holmes Adventure, Book 2) written by Bonnie MacBird and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2017-07-27 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new novel from the author of Art in the Blood. December 1889. Fresh from debunking a “ghostly” hound in Dartmoor, Sherlock Holmes has returned to London, only to find himself the target of a deadly vendetta.
Book Synopsis A Clubbable Woman by : Reginald Hill
Download or read book A Clubbable Woman written by Reginald Hill and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 1987 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: And When Connon got back from the rugby club, his wife was dead in front of the TV, her head had been caved in. Superintendent Dalziel knew exactly what went on in the clubhouse, but Sergeant Pascoe had other ideas.
Book Synopsis The Silk Stocking Murders by : Anthony Berkeley
Download or read book The Silk Stocking Murders written by Anthony Berkeley and published by Collins. This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic Golden Age crime novel, and one of the first to feature a serial killer. Investigating the disappearance of a vicar's daughter in London, the popular novelist and amateur detective Roger Sheringham is shocked to discover that the girl is already dead, found hanging from a screw by her own silk stocking. Reports of similar deaths across the capital strengthen his conviction that this is no suicide cult but the work of a homicidal maniac out for vengeance - a desperate situation requiring desperate measures. Having established Roger Sheringham as a brilliant but headstrong young sleuth who frequently made mistakes, trusted the wrong people and imbibed considerable liquid refreshment, Anthony Berkeley took his controversial character into much darker territory with The Silk Stocking Murders, a sensational novel about gruesome serial killings by an apparent psychopath bent on targeting vulnerable young women.
Download or read book The Judas Pair written by Jonathan Gash and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every antique dealer is a bit of a detective, following clues to find the trophies that pay the rent, but when Lovejoy takes on the job of tracking down a pair of duelling pistols so rare that he's not even sure actually exist, he needs all the instincts of a detective to pick his way through an unsolved crime. Along the way, he becomes convinced that the weapons do exist but that they have fallen into the hands of a vile murderer. Locating the ancient weapons seems like the least of his problems when Lovejoy then finds himself fighting for his life in a duel to the death!
Download or read book The 1950s written by Nick Bentley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-06 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1950s shape modern British fiction? As Britain emerged from the shadow of war into the new decade of the 1950s, the seeds of profound social change were being sown. Exploring the full range of fiction in the 1950s, this volume surveys the ways in which these changes were reflected in British culture. Chapters cover the rise of the 'Angry Young Men', an emerging youth culture and vivid new voices from immigrant and feminist writers. A major critical re-evaluation of the decade, the book covers such writers as Margery Allingham, Kingsley Amis, E. R. Braithwaite, Rodney Garland, Martyn Goff, Attia Hosain, George Lamming, Marghanita Laski, Doris Lessing, Colin MacInnes, Naomi Mitchison, V. S. Naipaul, Barbara Pym, Mary Renault, Sam Selvon, Alan Sillitoe, John Sommerfield, Muriel Spark, J. R. R. Tolkien, Angus Wilson and John Wyndham.
Book Synopsis Conan Doyle and the Crimes Club by : Stephen Wade
Download or read book Conan Doyle and the Crimes Club written by Stephen Wade and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2017-05-17 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 17 July 1904, an intimate group of like-minded gentlemen sat down to dinner in London's Great Central Hotel. They were united by one shared interest: a fascination with crime and the workings of the criminal mind. This meeting, occurring in the golden age of literary dinners and good fellowship, marked the birth of the Crimes Club, a concept that quickly developed into a professional and academic society boasting members of the legal and literary elite, with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, and gregarious bon viveur at its heart. Until now, the exclusive nature of the club meant that little has been divulged about these aficionados of murder, but Conan Doyle and the Crimes Clubgives readers a thrilling insight into the previously veiled lives of these celebrated men of the time. Recounting their detective investigations, spying escapades, and 'criminous' journalism that no doubt inspired Doyle’s own literary feats, Stephen Wade explores all manner of criminal activities that were examined and discussed by the club, ranging from wives buried in basements, to bodies cast into the River Thames, and lovers poisoned with arsenic. A lively and compelling read, Conan Doyle and the Crimes Club provides a unique window into the Edwardian clique of criminologists and gentleman sleuths. Welcome to the club. Illustrations: 30 black-and-white photographs