Author: Mignon Good Eberhart
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780786235162
Category : Large print books
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"The Amberlys were rich, handsome and high on the social register. One of them was also a killer. Beautiful Fran Hilliard found herself among them, but not one of them. She had something they desperately wanted--the key to a secret that would destroy them. One midnight, she heard footsteps moving toward her in the darkness. The killer was stalking his second victim ..."--Page 4 of cover.
R.S.V.P. Murder
Author: Mignon Good Eberhart
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780786235162
Category : Large print books
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"The Amberlys were rich, handsome and high on the social register. One of them was also a killer. Beautiful Fran Hilliard found herself among them, but not one of them. She had something they desperately wanted--the key to a secret that would destroy them. One midnight, she heard footsteps moving toward her in the darkness. The killer was stalking his second victim ..."--Page 4 of cover.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780786235162
Category : Large print books
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"The Amberlys were rich, handsome and high on the social register. One of them was also a killer. Beautiful Fran Hilliard found herself among them, but not one of them. She had something they desperately wanted--the key to a secret that would destroy them. One midnight, she heard footsteps moving toward her in the darkness. The killer was stalking his second victim ..."--Page 4 of cover.
America's Agatha Christie
Author: Rick Cypert
Publisher: Susquehanna University Press
ISBN: 9781575910888
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Between 1929 and 1988, American mystery writer Mignon Good Eberhart wrote fifty-nine mystery novels, at least as many short stories, and served a term as president and Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America. This study of Eberhart's life and work considers the influence of her childhood in Nebraska, her marriage and frequent travels, and her various professional and personal contacts in Chicago and on the East Coast. Eberhart's friendships with well-known literary figures, including mystery and romance authors, provide a fascinating glimpse into the social matrix of a bygone publishing world. Eberhart's experiences with Hollywood and Broadway show how the mystery genre, and writer, were transformed in an alternate medium. Leading women's magazines of the day also sought Eberhart's talent and inevitably transformed her writing. Eberhart's novels and correspondence provide insight into the social mores of her day, in particular about women's friendships, repressed sexuality, and closeted homosexuality. Those interested in cultural studies, women's studies, and twentieth-century popular literature will find this book valuable.
Publisher: Susquehanna University Press
ISBN: 9781575910888
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Between 1929 and 1988, American mystery writer Mignon Good Eberhart wrote fifty-nine mystery novels, at least as many short stories, and served a term as president and Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America. This study of Eberhart's life and work considers the influence of her childhood in Nebraska, her marriage and frequent travels, and her various professional and personal contacts in Chicago and on the East Coast. Eberhart's friendships with well-known literary figures, including mystery and romance authors, provide a fascinating glimpse into the social matrix of a bygone publishing world. Eberhart's experiences with Hollywood and Broadway show how the mystery genre, and writer, were transformed in an alternate medium. Leading women's magazines of the day also sought Eberhart's talent and inevitably transformed her writing. Eberhart's novels and correspondence provide insight into the social mores of her day, in particular about women's friendships, repressed sexuality, and closeted homosexuality. Those interested in cultural studies, women's studies, and twentieth-century popular literature will find this book valuable.
Murder in Black Tie
Author: Sara Rosett
Publisher: Sara Rosett
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Top hats and tails. Mink and murder . . . November, 1923. An invitation to a house party at the estate of Parkview Hall is a welcome respite for Olive Belgrave, a newly minted working girl who’s become the solver of high society’s trickiest problems. But when the sumptuous black tie event turns deadly, Olive’s cousin Peter becomes the main suspect. Olive must unmask a sophisticated killer before an innocent man takes the blame . . . because murder doesn’t RSVP. Murder in Black Tie is the fourth standalone installment in the High Society Lady Detective series. If you like mysteries with elegant settings, charming characters, and a whodunit that will keep you guessing, you’ll love USA Today bestselling author Sara Rosett’s series of delightful historical mysteries. Escape into an elegant country home mystery with Murder in Black Tie.
Publisher: Sara Rosett
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Top hats and tails. Mink and murder . . . November, 1923. An invitation to a house party at the estate of Parkview Hall is a welcome respite for Olive Belgrave, a newly minted working girl who’s become the solver of high society’s trickiest problems. But when the sumptuous black tie event turns deadly, Olive’s cousin Peter becomes the main suspect. Olive must unmask a sophisticated killer before an innocent man takes the blame . . . because murder doesn’t RSVP. Murder in Black Tie is the fourth standalone installment in the High Society Lady Detective series. If you like mysteries with elegant settings, charming characters, and a whodunit that will keep you guessing, you’ll love USA Today bestselling author Sara Rosett’s series of delightful historical mysteries. Escape into an elegant country home mystery with Murder in Black Tie.
Murder in the Closet
Author: Curtis Evans
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476626332
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
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.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476626332
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
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.
Napa Murder of Anita Fagiani Andrews, The: A Cold Case That Caught a Serial Killer
Author: Raymond A. Guadagni
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467147419
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
In 1974, the brutal murder of Anita Fagiani Andrews, a fifty-one-year-old former beauty queen and mother of two, shook the small working-class town of Napa. Detectives, criminalists and forensic experts raced to identify who'd struck Anita down in her own bar, but despite their efforts, the case went cold. Decades passed, during which the town grew into a world-renowned wine region and tourist destination, but the case remained an open question. After thirty-seven years, thanks to DNA evidence, the killer--imprisoned for a different murder--was finally found and brought to justice. Join author and retired judge Raymond A. Guadagni as he tells the story of the shocking murder, the investigation and the subsequent trial over which he presided in 2011.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467147419
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
In 1974, the brutal murder of Anita Fagiani Andrews, a fifty-one-year-old former beauty queen and mother of two, shook the small working-class town of Napa. Detectives, criminalists and forensic experts raced to identify who'd struck Anita down in her own bar, but despite their efforts, the case went cold. Decades passed, during which the town grew into a world-renowned wine region and tourist destination, but the case remained an open question. After thirty-seven years, thanks to DNA evidence, the killer--imprisoned for a different murder--was finally found and brought to justice. Join author and retired judge Raymond A. Guadagni as he tells the story of the shocking murder, the investigation and the subsequent trial over which he presided in 2011.
The Essential Mystery Lists
Author: Roger M Sobin
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press Inc
ISBN: 1615952039
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 591
Book Description
For the first time in one place, Roger M. Sobin has compiled a list of nominees and award winners of virtually every mystery award ever presented. He has also included many of the “best of” lists by more than fifty of the most important contributors to the genre.; Mr. Sobin spent more than two decades gathering the data and lists in this volume, much of that time he used to recheck the accuracy of the material he had collected. Several of the “best of” lists appear here for the first time in book form. Several others have been unavailable for a number of years.; Of special note, are Anthony Boucher’s “Best Picks for the Year.” Boucher, one of the major mystery reviewers of all time, reviewed for The San Francisco Chronicle, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, and The New York Times. From these resources Mr. Sobin created “Boucher’s Best” and “Important Lists to Consider,” lists that provide insight into important writing in the field from 1942 through Boucher’s death in 1968.? This is a great resource for all mystery readers and collectors.; ; Winner of the 2008 Macavity Awards for Best Mystery Nonfiction.
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press Inc
ISBN: 1615952039
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 591
Book Description
For the first time in one place, Roger M. Sobin has compiled a list of nominees and award winners of virtually every mystery award ever presented. He has also included many of the “best of” lists by more than fifty of the most important contributors to the genre.; Mr. Sobin spent more than two decades gathering the data and lists in this volume, much of that time he used to recheck the accuracy of the material he had collected. Several of the “best of” lists appear here for the first time in book form. Several others have been unavailable for a number of years.; Of special note, are Anthony Boucher’s “Best Picks for the Year.” Boucher, one of the major mystery reviewers of all time, reviewed for The San Francisco Chronicle, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, and The New York Times. From these resources Mr. Sobin created “Boucher’s Best” and “Important Lists to Consider,” lists that provide insight into important writing in the field from 1942 through Boucher’s death in 1968.? This is a great resource for all mystery readers and collectors.; ; Winner of the 2008 Macavity Awards for Best Mystery Nonfiction.
Death Rang the Bell
Author: Carol Pouliot
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781685120009
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
21st-century journalist Olivia Watson travels back in time to 1934 to attend a Halloween party and witnesses a murder and fears the killer saw her face.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781685120009
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
21st-century journalist Olivia Watson travels back in time to 1934 to attend a Halloween party and witnesses a murder and fears the killer saw her face.
Murder & Mayhem Can Be Fun
Author: Ellen Burrell
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595437052
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
I have always enjoyed unusual things and in many ways this book displays my passion for strange. We have Yorek, who lived the good life and was struck down in his prime at his 95th birthday party. Barnwick Humbug is every small town's politician, until he converses with his cat, Jasper, for advice. Faith and Calvin were at one time star struck lovers until Calvin found a sex kitten to add to the group, he learns a valuable lesson. Fairy Tales are really quite gory and vicious. The big bad wolf is always coming to town to blow down houses or threaten old ladies. Innocent women are usually the victims as in Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella and we must not forget poor Peter's wife stuck in a pumpkin shell. Who do we all find disturbing? That voice that tells us you now have four options. Lydia the grandmother from the past finds help in the future. Six games to play at parties.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595437052
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
I have always enjoyed unusual things and in many ways this book displays my passion for strange. We have Yorek, who lived the good life and was struck down in his prime at his 95th birthday party. Barnwick Humbug is every small town's politician, until he converses with his cat, Jasper, for advice. Faith and Calvin were at one time star struck lovers until Calvin found a sex kitten to add to the group, he learns a valuable lesson. Fairy Tales are really quite gory and vicious. The big bad wolf is always coming to town to blow down houses or threaten old ladies. Innocent women are usually the victims as in Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella and we must not forget poor Peter's wife stuck in a pumpkin shell. Who do we all find disturbing? That voice that tells us you now have four options. Lydia the grandmother from the past finds help in the future. Six games to play at parties.
Whodunit?
Author: Rosemary Herbert
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198035829
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Who populates the pages of crime and mystery writing? Who are the characters we willingly follow into the mystery genre's uneasy imaginative territory? And who created those characters in the first place? What life experience and expertise informs their work? What are the sources of their themes, regional accents, and even the axes that some grind? Why do some wish to give us a good laugh, while others seem hell-bent on making us shudder? Whodunit? answers these questions and more. Here mystery expert Rosemary Herbert brings together enlightening and entertaining information on hundreds of classic and contemporary characters and authors. Some--such as P.D. James, Ian Rankin, Sherlock Holmes, and Kinsey Millhone--appear in individual entries. Still more keep company in articles about characters we admire, such as the Clerical Sleuth, and in pieces about those we love to hate, including the Femme Fatale and Con Artist. There is even an article on a figure that haunts so many great works of mystery--The Corpse. Drawing on the Edgar Award-nominated volume The Oxford Companion to Crime & Mystery Writing, Herbert adds 101 new entries on the hottest new names in works ranging from puzzling whodunits to chilling crime novels.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198035829
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Who populates the pages of crime and mystery writing? Who are the characters we willingly follow into the mystery genre's uneasy imaginative territory? And who created those characters in the first place? What life experience and expertise informs their work? What are the sources of their themes, regional accents, and even the axes that some grind? Why do some wish to give us a good laugh, while others seem hell-bent on making us shudder? Whodunit? answers these questions and more. Here mystery expert Rosemary Herbert brings together enlightening and entertaining information on hundreds of classic and contemporary characters and authors. Some--such as P.D. James, Ian Rankin, Sherlock Holmes, and Kinsey Millhone--appear in individual entries. Still more keep company in articles about characters we admire, such as the Clerical Sleuth, and in pieces about those we love to hate, including the Femme Fatale and Con Artist. There is even an article on a figure that haunts so many great works of mystery--The Corpse. Drawing on the Edgar Award-nominated volume The Oxford Companion to Crime & Mystery Writing, Herbert adds 101 new entries on the hottest new names in works ranging from puzzling whodunits to chilling crime novels.
Listening to Killers
Author: James Garbarino
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520958748
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
Listening to Killers offers an inside look at twenty years' worth of murder files from Dr. James Garbarino, a leading expert psychological witness who listens to killers so that he can testify in court. The author offers detailed accounts of how killers travel a path that leads from childhood innocence to lethal violence in adolescence or adulthood. He places the emotional and moral damage of each individual killer within a larger scientific framework of social, psychological, anthropological, and biological research on human development. By linking individual cases to broad social and cultural issues and illustrating the social toxicity and unresolved trauma that drive some people to kill, Dr. Garbarino highlights the humanity we share with killers and the role of understanding and empathy in breaking the cycle of violence.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520958748
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
Listening to Killers offers an inside look at twenty years' worth of murder files from Dr. James Garbarino, a leading expert psychological witness who listens to killers so that he can testify in court. The author offers detailed accounts of how killers travel a path that leads from childhood innocence to lethal violence in adolescence or adulthood. He places the emotional and moral damage of each individual killer within a larger scientific framework of social, psychological, anthropological, and biological research on human development. By linking individual cases to broad social and cultural issues and illustrating the social toxicity and unresolved trauma that drive some people to kill, Dr. Garbarino highlights the humanity we share with killers and the role of understanding and empathy in breaking the cycle of violence.