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Author : Michael Harrison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Peter Cheyney, Prince of Hokum written by Michael Harrison and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Cheyney
Publisher : Murder Room
ISBN 13 : 1471901416
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (719 download)
Download or read book Poison Ivy written by Peter Cheyney and published by Murder Room. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the second Lemmy Caution novel, the FBI man is sent by his bosses to Casablanca to investigate the disappearance of two million dollars, which have seemingly vanished into thin air. There he meets Carlotta de la Rue, the eponymous Poison Ivy, whose character is based on a true-life femme fatale nightclub singer. Lemmy soon uncovers a gang of gold smugglers, whose boss might be Rudy Saltierra, Carlotta's boyfriend. She, in turn, may or may not be on Lemmy's side ... This is vintage Cheyney, with a stunning twist.
Author : Peter Cheyney
Publisher : Murder Room
ISBN 13 : 1471901807
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (719 download)
Download or read book Dark Hero written by Peter Cheyney and published by Murder Room. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rene Burg, one-time Chicago gunman, finds himself mixed up in the Norwegian underground movement during the war. As well as gunning for the German Army in general, Burg is out to get one person in particular: a beautiful deadly woman who has brought the technique of double-crossing to a fine art. And he doesn't have much time, because they are both under sentence of death.
Author : John Sutherland
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300182430
Total Pages : 1456 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Lives of the Novelists written by John Sutherland and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 1456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No previous author has attempted a book such as this: a complete history of novels written in the English language, from the genre's seventeenth-century origins to the present day. In the spirit of Dr. Johnson’s Lives of the Poets, acclaimed critic and scholar John Sutherland selects 294 writers whose works illustrate the best of every kind of fiction—from gothic, penny dreadful, and pornography to fantasy, romance, and high literature. Each author was chosen, Professor Sutherland explains, because his or her books are well worth reading and are likely to remain so for at least another century. Sutherland presents these authors in chronological order, in each case deftly combining a lively and informative biographical sketch with an opinionated assessment of the writer's work. Taken together, these novelists provide both a history of the novel and a guide to its rich variety. Always entertaining, and sometimes shocking, Sutherland considers writers as diverse as Daniel Defoe, Henry James, James Joyce, Edgar Allan Poe, Virginia Woolf, Michael Crichton, Jeffrey Archer, and Jacqueline Susann. Written for all lovers of fiction, Lives of the Novelists succeeds both as introduction and re-introduction, as Sutherland presents favorite and familiar novelists in new ways and transforms the less favored and less familiar through his relentlessly fascinating readings.
Author : Peter Cheyney
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1471901602
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (719 download)
Download or read book Dangerous Curves written by Peter Cheyney and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dame has to have more than beauty and breeding to stop Slim Callaghan doing things his way. Mrs Riverton has plenty of both, but when she begins to interfere in Slim's search for her stepson, things start to hot up. Slim's motto is: 'We get there somehow and who the hell cares'. The problem is that someone does ...
Author : Peter Cheyney
Publisher : Murder Room
ISBN 13 : 1471901726
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (719 download)
Download or read book Dark Duet written by Peter Cheyney and published by Murder Room. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The British, once they take the gloves off - once they forget to play cricket, to be English gentlemen - they are the toughest things on earth,' says one German espionage agent to another in Dark Duet. And the trouble with Michael Kane, hero of this spy thriller is that he never plays cricket with Nazi spies ... 'Dark Duet seems to me damn good' Raymond Chandler
Author : Peter Cheyney
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 9781471901485
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (14 download)
Download or read book You'd Be Surprised written by Peter Cheyney and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel features Lemmy Caution, an FBI agent created by British writer Peter Cheyney (1896-1951).
Author : Peter Cheyney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Urgent Hangman written by Peter Cheyney and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Matthew Worley
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230276520
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Oswald Mosley and the New Party written by Matthew Worley and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-05-13 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full-length study of the organization that incubated Britain's most provocative and successful fascist movement. Exploring Sir Oswald Mosley's secession from Labour, his evolving politics and his eventual embrace of fascism, this book examines the process by which he transformed from Labour politician to fascist.
Author : Antony Taylor
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441121854
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book London's Burning written by Antony Taylor and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-01-26 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the early years of the nineteenth century, cultural pessimists imagined in fiction the political forces that might bring about the destruction of London. Periods of popular protest or radicalism have generated novels that consider the methods insurgents might use to terrorise the metropolis. There has been a tendency to dismiss such writings as the lurid imaginings of pulp novelists but this book re-evaluates the contribution of popular fiction to the construction of the terrorist threat. It analyses the high-points for the production of such works, and locates them in their cultural and historical context. From the 1840s, when a fear of Chartist insurgency was paramount in the minds of authors, it moves through the anarchist thrillers of the 1890s, considers writers' fears about Bolshevik revolution in the East End of the 1920s and 1930s, explores fears of Fascism in the inter-war years, and assesses the concerns with underground counter-culture that feature in the thriller literature of the 1970s. It concludes with a re-evaluation of the metropolitan background to the figure of the Islamist terrorist.
Author : Graham Andrews
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476673683
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book American Rivals of James Bond written by Graham Andrews and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-02-13 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a critical history of spy fiction, film and television in the United States, with a particular focus on the American fictional spies that rivaled (and were often influenced by) Ian Fleming's James Bond. James Fenimore Cooper's Harvey Birch, based on a real-life counterpart, appeared in his novel The Spy in 1821. While Harvey Birch's British rivals dominated spy fiction from the late 1800s until the mid-1930s, American spy fiction came of age shortly thereafter. The spy boom in novels and films during the 1960s, spearheaded by Bond, heavily influenced the espionage genre in the United States for years to come, including series like The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and Matt Helm. The author demonstrates that, while American authors currently dominate the international spy fiction market, James Bond has cast a very long shadow, for a very long time.
Author : Stephen Knight
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137020210
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Crime Fiction since 1800 written by Stephen Knight and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-04-09 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its appearance nearly two centuries ago, crime fiction has gripped readers' imaginations around the world. Detectives have varied enormously: from the nineteenth-century policemen (and a few women), through stars like Sherlock Holmes and Miss Marple, to newly self-aware voices of the present - feminist, African American, lesbian, gay, postcolonial and postmodern. Stephen Knight's fascinating book is a comprehensive analytic survey of crime fiction from its origins in the nineteenth century to the present day. Knight explains how and why the various forms of the genre have evolved, explores a range of authors and movements, and argues that the genre as a whole has three parts – the early development of Detection, the growing emphasis on Death, and the modern celebration of Diversity. The expanded second edition has been thoroughly updated in the light of recent research and new developments, such as ethnic crime fiction, the rise of thrillers in the serial-killer and urban collapse modes, and feel-good 'cozies'. It also explores a number of fictional works which have been published in the last few years and features a helpful glossary. With full references, and written in a highly engaging style, this remains the essential short guide for readers of crime fiction everywhere!
Author : Andrew Pettegree
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 1541604350
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (416 download)
Download or read book The Book at War written by Andrew Pettegree and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2023-12-05 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "magisterial" (Sunday Times) history of how books were used in war across the twentieth century—both as weapons and as agents for peace We tend not to talk about books and war in the same breath—one ranks among humanity’s greatest inventions, the other among its most terrible. But as esteemed literary historian Andrew Pettegree demonstrates, the two are deeply intertwined. The Book at War explores the various roles that books have played in conflicts throughout the globe. Winston Churchill used a travel guide to plan the invasion of Norway, lonely families turned to libraries while their loved ones were fighting in the trenches, and during the Cold War both sides used books to spread their visions of how the world should be run. As solace or instruction manual, as critique or propaganda, books have shaped modern military history—for both good and ill. With precise historical analysis and sparkling prose, The Book at War accounts for the power—and the ambivalence—of words at war.
Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349813664
Total Pages : 1585 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (498 download)
Download or read book Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers written by NA NA and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-25 with total page 1585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alan Burton
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442255870
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of British Spy Fiction written by Alan Burton and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-04-04 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Historical Dictionary of British Spy Fiction is a detailed overview of the rich history and achievements of the British espionage story in literature, cinema and television. It provides detailed yet accessible information on numerous individual authors, novels, films, filmmakers, television dramas and significant themes within the broader field of the British spy story. It contains a wealth of facts, insights and perspectives, and represents the best single source for the study and appreciation of British spy fiction. British spy fiction is widely regarded as the most significant and accomplished in the world and this book is the first attempt to bring together an informed survey of the achievements in the British spy story in literature, cinema and television. The Historical Dictionary of British Spy Fiction contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 200 cross-referenced entries on individual authors, stories, films, filmmakers, television shows and the various sub-genres of the British spy story. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about British spy fiction.
Author : Lee Server
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438109121
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Pulp Fiction Writers written by Lee Server and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an introduction to American pulp fiction during the twentieth century with brief author biographies and lists of their works.
Author : Peter Cheyney
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1471901386
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (719 download)
Download or read book This Man is Dangerous written by Peter Cheyney and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first of the Lemmy Caution series, a group of organised gangsters are operating a 'snatch' racket, laying a plan - worked out in the minutest detail - to kidnap the daughter of an American millionaire while she is in England. And their plot must not only account for the actual luring of the victim into the snare and the collection of the ransom money, but also evade interference from the English police and rival gangs.
