The Case of the Angry Actress

The Case of the Angry Actress PDF Author: E. V. Cunningham
Publisher: Dell Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780440110934
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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Book Description
Detective Sergeant Masao Masuto searches for the ingenious killer of a movie mogul amid the posh surroundings and wealthy celebrities of Beverly Hills

The Case of the Angry Actress

The Case of the Angry Actress PDF Author: E. V. Cunningham
Publisher: Dell Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780440110934
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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Book Description
Detective Sergeant Masao Masuto searches for the ingenious killer of a movie mogul amid the posh surroundings and wealthy celebrities of Beverly Hills

Millie

Millie PDF Author: Howard Fast
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 145323537X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150

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DIVA PR man investigates the tortured life of a mysterious acquaintance—and winds up knee-deep in the wrong kind of trouble/div DIVFor a public relations guru like Al Brody, witnessing death is not part of the job description. But that is just what the call from Andrew Capestone requires. When Brody arrives at his old friend’s bedside, it’s not long before the man dies. Brody has not thought of Capestone, his onetime Harvard acquaintance, for decades. In the years since college he has established a successful career, gotten married, gotten divorced, and fallen in love with his assistant Millie. But everything Brody has worked for is put in peril when Capestone’s dead body goes missing, and Brody is suddenly involved in a shocking criminal cabal./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author’s estate./div

Sally

Sally PDF Author: Howard Fast
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1453235191
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 149

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DIVA small-town girl flees from the assassin she hired to kill her/div DIVWhen the doctor in her small hometown tells Sally Dillman that she has six months to live, the quiet young schoolteacher sells her house and moves to New York City. She comes not to see the sights, not for one last thrill, but to die as quickly as possible. Savings in hand, she pays a mobster $3,000 to put a contract out on her life. She wants to be killed before leukemia saps her strength, and she wants it to be a surprise. Only later does she learn of her terrible mistake./divDIV /divDIVAs the date of her appointed death draws closer, Sally feels none of the effects of her disease. A visit to the hospital confirms that the first diagnosis was wrong. She is no longer in danger from leukemia, but it is too late to stop the assassin. No longer prepared to die, Sally must fight to escape the deadly trap she laid for herself./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author’s estate./div

Radio Series Scripts, 1930-2001

Radio Series Scripts, 1930-2001 PDF Author:
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476606706
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 432

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Who were the 35 actors that performed with stars Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in radio's The Abbott and Costello Show? Do scripts survive for the old Burns and Allen shows or the children's crime fighter series The Green Hornet? Serious researchers and curious browsers interested in Golden Age radio will find a wealth of information in this reference collection. Most are from the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, though subsequent decades are included for long-running shows. Crime series, whodunits, romances, situation comedies, variety shows, soap operas, quiz show series and others are included. Casual browsers will find tidbits on the radio careers of notables from other media (Humphrey Bogart, Ginger Rogers), mention of adaptations by famous authors (Jack London, Ray Bradbury), curious episode titles ("The Gorilla That Always Said Yeh-ah") and series titles (Whispering Streets), and interesting sponsors (Insect-O-Blitz). The first section is an alphabetical list of T.O. Library's significant radio script collections, with notes on their content and format. The second section is the guide to series scripts by program title. Entries include title and basic information, including collection(s) in which they are found; producers, directors, writers, musicians and regular cast; sponsors; and holdings by date, episode number and title. Increasing the book's usefulness for researchers are indexes by name, program and sponsor.

Phyllis

Phyllis PDF Author: Howard Fast
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1453235310
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 158

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DIVTwo scientists—one American and one Russian—form a pact for nuclear disarmament that threatens to bring civilization to its knees/div DIVThe physicists met during a nuclear conference in London. Wanting to hurry America and the Soviet Union into nuclear non-proliferation, they each construct a crude atomic bomb, hiding one in New York and one in Moscow, and then they disappear. The United States and the USSR have forty days to renounce nuclear weapons, or two world capitals will burn./divDIV /divDIVThe American government chooses police detective Thomas Clancy to save his city. As a cop with a background in physics, he enters the faculty of Knickerbocker University to investigate the American professor. Clancy’s hope is that Phyllis Goldmark, the vanished physicist’s former lover, may know some clue to his location. The clock is ticking as the fate of millions rests on the shoulders of Phyllis and Clancy./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author’s estate./div

Heroes and Humanities

Heroes and Humanities PDF Author: Ray Broadus Browne
Publisher: Popular Press
ISBN: 9780879723712
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 156

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Book Description
Mystery fiction, although essentially the same in all its national varieties, nevertheless comes in several types and several wrappings. The present study of American, Australian, and Canadian detective fiction concerns literature which speaks in the ways of heroes and humanities about the human condition. All authors studied here, to one degree or another, demonstrate their concern with human society, some more strongly than others, but all with their eyes on the human situation and human existence. At times these studies lean toward the tragic in their outlook and development. In all instances they center on the humanistic.

Howard Fast

Howard Fast PDF Author: Andrew F. Macdonald
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1573566470
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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Howard Fast, one of the most prolific American writers of the 20th century, has enjoyed wide popularity for his writing and suffered from great notoriety for his politics, but has never been given full credit for his contribution to the essential tales of American culture, the American Revolution, and immigrant acculturation. Although his novels have sold close to eighty million copies, this is the first book-length critical study of his work. In addition to an overview of his fiction, it offers close, critical readings of his historical novels of the American Revolution, Citizen Tom Paine, April Morning, and his most recent, Seven Days in June, his novels about slavery, Freedom Road and Spartacus, and his popular series about the American experience, The Immigrants. A biographical chapter is partly based on an extensive interview granted by Fast exclusively for this book. A comprehensive bibliography completes the work. This critical study begins with a biographical chapter that links life and works, showing how Fast transmuted his experience into fiction. Macdonald asserts that for all Fast's notoriety as a Communist in the 1940s and 1950s, his works show him to be deeply committed to the principles that inspired the American Revolution. A chapter on literary background discusses all of Fast's major works and most of his minor ones, placing the historical novels into literary context and the other works into their genre traditions. The remaining six chapters focus on his most important individual novels. Each novel is analyzed for plot structure, characterization, and thematic elements. In addition, Macdonald defines and applies alternative critical perspectives from which to read each novel. A genealogy table for The Immigrants series, and a complete, up-to-date bibliography of all of Fast's nearly one hundred published works, as well as selected reviews and background reading, make this study invaluable for research and critical understanding. This study of Fast's classic works of historical fiction will aid the student and support the interdisciplinary American history/literature curriculum.

Diversity and Detective Fiction

Diversity and Detective Fiction PDF Author: Kathleen Gregory Klein
Publisher: Popular Press
ISBN: 9780879727963
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Book Description
The distinguishing characteristic of the book is its mix of essays focusing on teaching cultural diversity in the classroom and illustrating diversity through fiction to the general readers."--BOOK JACKET.

Something about the Author

Something about the Author PDF Author: Kevin S. Hile
Publisher: Something about the Author
ISBN: 9780810322936
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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Book Description
Series covers individuals ranging from established award winners to authors and illustrators who are just beginning their careers. Entries cover: personal life, career, writings and works in progress, adaptations, additional sources, and photographs.

Max

Max PDF Author: Howard Fast
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1453237623
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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The New York Times–bestselling novel of one man’s journey from New York’s slums to become one of America’s first film moguls—from the author of Spartacus. Max tells the story of the rise of Max Britsky, entwined with the film industry’s beginnings near the turn of the twentieth century. When he was twelve, Max’s father died, leaving him to scrape out a living in Manhattan’s Lower East Side slums to provide for his mother and siblings. But Max was a natural entrepreneur, and he followed his business instincts and love of the theater to become one of the first film moguls in the history of American moviemaking. Britsky’s life story is tragic and triumphant, and yet another example of the unmatched storytelling prowess of Howard Fast, one of the most prolific and widely read authors of the twentieth century. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author’s estate.