Author: Jeffrey B. Burton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781929763320
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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America's leading mystery writers are being brutally murdered. Third-tier author Guy Davitt—a would-be Dashiell Hammett—stumbles upon the killer's bizarre M.O. (the deaths are lifted from mystery novels). But Davitt cannot convince deeply skeptical police a “Sleuth Slayer” actually exists. Through a dark labyrinth of film studio power brokers, publishing industry politics, a decadent family's wealthy influence, police immorality—as well as the dawning realization that he himself is on the killer's list—Davitt pursues the truth.
Author: Paul Mathews
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 19
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Author: Robert E. Bartholomew
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9819742722
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 367
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Author: Spinnaker Weddington
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1493116398
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 709
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The Afterloch is the second narrative collection of the Unleash The Loch series. Primarily mental philosophy, it establishes a narrative which exists mostly in the minds of those who are stuck in situations without knowing what has happened. Cursed or blessed with unconsciousness and a lack of being able to immediately remember and reflect upon where they have been and what has happened to them, very little communication and incidence ensues and they all end up somewhat trapped in the philosophical mentalities they are snagged into by being void of any connection to any true fictional reality. If no-thing much is happening, all they can really do is 'think' and 'think' they do; but much of their inner lives is philosophy, religion, and social -judicial histrionicism. Essentially nothing is really happening in terms of conversation and incidence. But what unravels is how even when seemingly nothing is happening, so much can be happening inside peoples' minds. Moreover something is happening in terms of their contexts. More a concourse of philosophy and thinking than any true narrative entertainment, what unravels stands in difference to the consistent fictional element of the earlier book and predicates a somewhat sinister expos on the problems of living a life in the mind. At bottom if fiction is not happening, philosophy is. And if such is in somewhat uncomfortable situations, fanaticism is bred.
Author: Emily Anne Croom
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 9780806317878
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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Originally published: Cincinnati, Ohio: Betterway Books, 2000.
Author: Drewey Wayne Gunn
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0810885883
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 443
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In The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film (2005), scholar Drewey Wayne Gunn examined the history of gay detectives beginning with the first recognized gay novel, The Heart in Exile, which appeared in 1953. In the years since the original edition's publication, hundreds of novels and short stories in this sub-genre have been produced, and Gunn has unearthed many additional representations previously unrecorded. In this new edition, Gunn provides an overview of milestones in the development of gay detectives over the last several decades. Also included in this volume is an annotated list of novels, short stories, plays, graphic novels, comic strips, films, and television series with gay detectives, gay sleuths of secondary importance, and non-sleuthing gay policemen. The most complete listing available--including the only listing of early gay pulp novels, present-day male-to-male romances, and erotic films--this new edition brings the work up to date with publications missed in the first edition, particularly cross-genre mysteries, early pulps, and some hard-to-find volumes. The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film: A History and Annotated Bibliography lists all printed works in English (including translations) presently known to include gay detectives (such as amateur sleuths, police detectives, private investigators, and investigative reporters), from the 1929 play Rope until the present day. It includes all films in English, subtitled or dubbed, from the screen version of Rope in 1948 and the launch of the independent film Spy on the Fly in 1966 through the end of 2011. Complete with two appendices--a bibliography of sources and a list of Lambda Literary Awards--and indexes of titles, detectives, and actors, this extensively revised and updated reference will prove invaluable to mystery collectors, researchers, aficionados of the subgenre, and those devoted to GLBTQ studies.
Author: Laird R. Blackwell
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476639450
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 215
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Although fantasy and supernatural literature have long and celebrated histories, many critics contend that the fantastic and the supernatural have no place in the logical, rational, world of the detective story. This book is the first extensive study of the fantastic in detective fiction and it explores the highly debated question of whether detective fiction and the fantastic can comfortably coexist. The "locked room" mystery--which often uses the fantastic as a red herring to eventually be debunked by reason and logic--has long been among the most popular subgenres of detective fiction. This book also explores stories featuring almost supernaturally gifted detectives, stories where the supernatural is truly encountered, and stories with ambiguous endings. Close to 500 detective stories from 1841 to 2000, in which the fantastic or supernatural plays a central role, are discussed and analyzed. Although not all the stories are judged to be successful as detective tales, in the great majority, the fantastic enlivens the tale and deepens the mystery without weakening the detective elements.
Author: Garyn G. Roberts
Publisher: Popular Press
ISBN: 9780879724757
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 124
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This collection provides a concentrated sampling of female detective stories from the Old Sleuth serials.
Author: Mark Edward Thomas Piotrowski
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557330491
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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Publicly shunned and ostracized by the "Firm" and the London Times for unethical legal reasons beyond their control, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson are forced into the private sector to which may very well be their last case together. On a cold and rainy October Sunday afternoon at the end of the 19th Century-our two fine private detectives are formally solicited by a leading British scientist Dr. Charles Landers on investigating and recovering stolen top secret government plans which could bring an end to the British Empire. Throughout their investigation and without any formal assistance from Scotland Yard and the Home Office-Holmes and Watson will make great leads in the case and meet up with a key witness of such feminine appeal and finally discover the true sole sinister mastermind and chief architect from their past who's behind this world shattering heist.
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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