Bodies from the Library 4

Bodies from the Library 4 PDF Author: Ngaio Marsh
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008380988
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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Book Description
This annual anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together tales from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form, including a short novel by Christianna Brand.

Bodies from the Library 4

Bodies from the Library 4 PDF Author: Ngaio Marsh
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008380988
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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Book Description
This annual anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together tales from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form, including a short novel by Christianna Brand.

Bodies from the Library: Lost Tales of Mystery and Suspense from the Golden Age of Detection

Bodies from the Library: Lost Tales of Mystery and Suspense from the Golden Age of Detection PDF Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008289239
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 297

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Book Description
This anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together 16 tales by masters of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form, including a newly discovered Agatha Christie crime story that has not been seen since 1922.

Bodies from the Library 3

Bodies from the Library 3 PDF Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008380945
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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This anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together 18 tales from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form, including uncollected stories by Ngaio Marsh and John Dickson Carr.

Bodies from the Library 5: Forgotten Stories of Mystery and Suspense from the Golden Age of Detection

Bodies from the Library 5: Forgotten Stories of Mystery and Suspense from the Golden Age of Detection PDF Author: Tony Medawar
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008514771
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 440

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Book Description
Classic crime fiction's 'Indiana Jones' Tony Medawar unearths more unpublished and uncollected stories from the Golden Age of suspense, including John Bude, John Dickson Carr, Dorothy L. Sayers and Julian Symons.

Bodies from the Library 6: Forgotten Stories of Mystery and Suspense by the Masters of the Golden Age of Detection

Bodies from the Library 6: Forgotten Stories of Mystery and Suspense by the Masters of the Golden Age of Detection PDF Author: Tony Medawar
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008522782
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 376

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Book Description
Bodies from the Library brings into the daylight the forgotten, the lost and the unknown, and the 2023 volume is another indispensable collection for crime fans.

The Door With Seven Locks

The Door With Seven Locks PDF Author: Edgar Wallace
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755121406
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209

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Dick Martin is leaving Scotland Yard. His final job, investigating a stolen book, takes him to Gallows Cottage. Arriving home, Martin finds Lew Pheeney being followed by a man for whom he worked. 'Doing what?' demands Martin. Lew confesses. 'I was trying to open a dead man's tomb!' The telephone rings.

Women of Mystery

Women of Mystery PDF Author: Martha Hailey DuBose
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0312276559
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 504

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Book Description
In this remarkable book, Martha Hailey DuBose has given those multitudes of readers who love the mystery novel an indispensable addition to their libraries. Unlike other works on the subject, Women of Mystery is not merely a directory of the novelists and their publications with a few biographical details. DuBose combines extensive research into the lives of significant women mystery writers from Anna Katherine Green and Mary Roberts Rinehart with critical essays on their work, anecdotes, contemporary reviews and opinions and some of the women's own comments. She takes us through the Golden Age of the British women mystery writers, Christie, Sayers, Marsh, Allingham and Tey, to the leading crime novelists of today, focused on the women who have become legends of the genre. And though she laments, "so many mysteries, so little time," she makes a good effort a mentioning "some of the best of the rest." When DuBose writes of the lives of her principal players, she relates them to their times, their families, their personal situations and above all to their books. She subtly points out that Sayers, whose experience with the men in her life was inevitably disastrous, created in Lord Peter the ideal lover -- one who is all that a woman desires and needs. DuBose gives us the curriculum vitae that Dorothy Sayers created to help her bring Peter Wimsey to a virtual actuality. Ngaio Marsh would give up an active presence in the theatrical world she loved, but she recreated it for herself as well as her readers in many of her novels. The biographies of these woman are as engrossing as the stories they wrote, and Martha DuBose has shined a different, intimate and intriguing light on them, their works, and the lives that informed those works. This book is so full of treasure it's hard to see how any mystery enthusiast will be able to do without it. And what a gift it would make for anyone on your list who has been heard to announce "I love a mystery." Some of the treats inside: In the Beginning: The Mothers of Detection Anna Katherine Green Mary Roberts Rinehart A Golden Era: The Genteel Puzzlers Agatha Christie Dorothy L. Sayers Ngaio Marsh Margery Allingham Josephine Tey Modern Motives: Mysteries of the Murderous Mind Patricia Highsmith P.D. James Ruth Rendell Mary Higgins Clark Sue Grafton and more!!

The Wintringham Mystery: Cicely Disappears

The Wintringham Mystery: Cicely Disappears PDF Author: Anthony Berkeley
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008470111
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Book Description
Republished for the first time in nearly 95 years, a classic winter country house mystery by the founder of the Detection Club, with a twist that even Agatha Christie couldn’t solve!

Blood Royal

Blood Royal PDF Author: Eric Jager
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
ISBN: 0316224537
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282

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Book Description
A riveting true story of murder and detection in 15th-century Paris, by one of the most brilliant medievalists of his generation. On a chilly November night in 1407, Louis of Orleans was murdered by a band of masked men. The crime stunned and paralyzed France since Louis had often ruled in place of his brother King Charles, who had gone mad. As panic seized Paris, an investigation began. In charge was the Provost of Paris, Guillaume de Tignonville, the city's chief law enforcement officer -- and one of history's first detectives. As de Tignonville began to investigate, he realized that his hunt for the truth was much more dangerous than he ever could have imagined. A rich portrait of a distant world, Blood Royal is a gripping story of conspiracy, crime and an increasingly desperate hunt for the truth. And in Guillaume de Tignonville, we have an unforgettable detective for the ages, a classic gumshoe for a cobblestoned era.

The Woman and the Kenite

The Woman and the Kenite PDF Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781519455123
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26

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Book Description
The Woman and the Kenite was a little known short story which was published in a little known Italian Magazine in the 1920's. Unusually for Agatha Christie it was a horror short story which is not normally associated with the Great Author. The story was retrieved from the Italian Magazine on the 19th June 2013 and is only 9 pages in length. In normal circumstances, nine pages is not enough to justify a printed version of this little known and recently discovered Agatha Christie work. This book attempts to celebrate the fact that a 'new' work by the Great Author has been discovered and the fact that it can be classified as a horror short story adds to what we know about the Great Lady. The book gives some background to the story in addition to faithfully reproducing the actual Italian translation from the magazine. The English translation follows and the ends with further reference to ensure a full understanding of the story.