Author: Jane Haddam
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1453293078
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
DIVMcKenna investigates the first casualty in a New York literary war/divDIV The romance boom has ended, and the women who made fortunes writing bodice-rippers are now scribbling mysteries instead. When the genre’s “true” authors fight back, a battle breaks out in every high-class gin joint in Manhattan. It is take-no-prisoners fighting, and Patience McKenna is caught in the middle./divDIV /divDIVThis ex-romance author has just turned to true crime writing when Sarah English comes to visit. A would-be romance writer from the Great Plains, English is dowdy, wide-eyed, and naïve—but she is about to toughen up. When a fading romance writer gets pushed in front of a subway train, English is among the suspects. To prove her new friend innocent, McKenna will need the skills gleaned in both her literary genres. /div
Death's Savage Passion
Author: Orania Papazoglou
Publisher: Doubleday Books
ISBN: 9780385199544
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Publisher: Doubleday Books
ISBN: 9780385199544
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
A Passionate Death
Author: Deepak Gupta
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing
ISBN: 1608600556
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
David Hawthorne is a naive young man who was raised by an evil Catholic preacher and betrayed by a treacherous woman. After being released from a mental hospital for killing his girlfriend, Rachel, he meets another woman, sleeps with her, and kills her. Enjoying the murder, he starts a killing spree. Unaware of his nefarious nature, Melanie, David's long-time lawyer friend begins a romantic relationship with him. Along with David, Detective Harold Thompson suspects George Wycliffe as the serial killer after he confesses to one of the murders. As the cat and mouse game between them ensues, Thompson learns that he has much in common with David, including an obsession with Melanie. As David struggles to keep his two lives separate and tries to put his past behind him, an old friend of Rachel's shows up and reveals David's dark secrets and the true identity of his father. Is David a victim of circumstance or is he a cold-blooded serial killer? Pursue him and watch this treacherous maze of murder, lies, love and suspense intensify
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing
ISBN: 1608600556
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
David Hawthorne is a naive young man who was raised by an evil Catholic preacher and betrayed by a treacherous woman. After being released from a mental hospital for killing his girlfriend, Rachel, he meets another woman, sleeps with her, and kills her. Enjoying the murder, he starts a killing spree. Unaware of his nefarious nature, Melanie, David's long-time lawyer friend begins a romantic relationship with him. Along with David, Detective Harold Thompson suspects George Wycliffe as the serial killer after he confesses to one of the murders. As the cat and mouse game between them ensues, Thompson learns that he has much in common with David, including an obsession with Melanie. As David struggles to keep his two lives separate and tries to put his past behind him, an old friend of Rachel's shows up and reveals David's dark secrets and the true identity of his father. Is David a victim of circumstance or is he a cold-blooded serial killer? Pursue him and watch this treacherous maze of murder, lies, love and suspense intensify
Mystery Women, Volume Two (Revised)
Author: Colleen Barnett
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1615950095
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Many bibliographers focus on women who write. Lawyer Barnett looks at women who detect, at women as sleuths and at the evolving roles of women in professions and in society. Excellent for all women's studies programs as well as for the mystery hound. Look at the popularity of such reading guides as Willetta Heising's Detecting Women (3rd ed. 0-9644593-7-X) or Amanda Cross' fiction (Honest Doubt 0-345-44011-0 11/00).
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1615950095
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Many bibliographers focus on women who write. Lawyer Barnett looks at women who detect, at women as sleuths and at the evolving roles of women in professions and in society. Excellent for all women's studies programs as well as for the mystery hound. Look at the popularity of such reading guides as Willetta Heising's Detecting Women (3rd ed. 0-9644593-7-X) or Amanda Cross' fiction (Honest Doubt 0-345-44011-0 11/00).
Sleuths in Skirts
Author: Frances A. DellaCava
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780815338840
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
This volume is a comprehensive collection of critical essays on The Taming of the Shrew, and includes extensive discussions of the play's various printed versions and its theatrical productions. Aspinall has included only those essays that offer the most influential and controversial arguments surrounding the play. The issues discussed include gender, authority, female autonomy and unruliness, courtship and marriage, language and speech, and performance and theatricality.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780815338840
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
This volume is a comprehensive collection of critical essays on The Taming of the Shrew, and includes extensive discussions of the play's various printed versions and its theatrical productions. Aspinall has included only those essays that offer the most influential and controversial arguments surrounding the play. The issues discussed include gender, authority, female autonomy and unruliness, courtship and marriage, language and speech, and performance and theatricality.
The Crop of Christ; Or Meditations on the Death and Passion of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour
Author: Walter Farquhar Hook (Dean of Chichester.)
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Death-bed Scenes
Author: John Warton
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Category : Pastoral theology
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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Category : Pastoral theology
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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Death-bed scenes, and pastoral conversations, by John Warton, ed. by his sons
Author: William Wood
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Languages : en
Pages : 458
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Languages : en
Pages : 458
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Voyages round the world, from the death of captain Cook to the present time
Author: World
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Languages : en
Pages : 588
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Pages : 588
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Cathedra Petri: Book XIV. From the death of Innocent III to the dawn of the reformation
Author: Thomas Greenwood
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 604
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 604
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Voyages Round the World, from the Death of Captain Cook to the Present Time; Including Remarks on the Social Condition of the Inhabitants in the Recently-discovered Countries; Their Progress in the Arts, and ... in Religious Knowledge
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Languages : en
Pages : 556
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Pages : 556
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