The Divinations of Kala Persad and Other Stories

The Divinations of Kala Persad and Other Stories PDF Author: Headon Hill
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Category : Zambra, Sebastian (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 266

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The Divinations of Kala Persad and Other Stories

The Divinations of Kala Persad and Other Stories PDF Author: Headon Hill
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Category : Zambra, Sebastian (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 266

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After Sherlock Holmes

After Sherlock Holmes PDF Author: LeRoy Lad Panek
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476618100
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 225

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The appearance of Sherlock Holmes in The Strand Magazine in 1891 began a stampede of writers who wanted to emulate, build upon or even satirize Arthur Conan Doyle's work. This book explores the development of detective fiction during the critical period between Conan Doyle's creation of Holmes and the advent of the Golden Age of the detective story during World War I. Both British and American detective writers of the period are surveyed--as well as writers who turned to gentleman burglars and master criminals.

The Boy in Grey and Other Stories and Sketches

The Boy in Grey and Other Stories and Sketches PDF Author: Henry Kingsley
Publisher: London : Ward, Lock
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Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 360

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Guilty Creatures

Guilty Creatures PDF Author: Martin Edwards
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1464215855
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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"An unusually rewarding anthology whose most dangerous species remain Homo sapiens."— Kirkus Reviews Feline friends, canine companions and aviary associates are often the truest reflections of their owners and have played a crucial role in classic crime fiction—be they detectives, or delinquents. Martin Edwards reaches into the British Library of Crime Classics to collect mysteries featuring an animal cohort. Guilty Creatures celebrates an often-overlooked species of classic crime fiction. Since the dawn of the crime fiction genre, animals of all kinds have played a memorable part in countless mysteries, and in a variety of roles: the perpetrator, the key witness, the sleuth's trusted companion. This collection of fourteen stories corrals plots centered around cats, dogs, and insects alongside more exotic incidents involving gorillas, parakeets, and serpents—complete with a customary shoal of red herrings. The collection includes an introduction on animals in detective fiction by Martin Edwards. "From the first detective story, Edgar Allan Poe's locked room puzzle 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' onwards, animals, birds, and insects have played a memorable part in countless mysteries, and in a wide variety of ways. Count Fosco, the brilliantly characterized villain in Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White was surrounded by "a cockatoo, two canary-birds and a whole family of white mice," while the hound of the Baskervilles famously terrorised Dartmoor in Arthur Conan Doyle's superb Sherlock Holmes novel. Since then, many crime writers have written about members of the animal kingdom."

The Author

The Author PDF Author:
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Category : Authors and publishers
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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The Speaker

The Speaker PDF Author:
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Languages : en
Pages : 736

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The English Catalogue of Books [annual]

The English Catalogue of Books [annual] PDF Author:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 756

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Vols. for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.

Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature

Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature PDF Author:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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Catalogue of Printed Books

Catalogue of Printed Books PDF Author:
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Languages : en
Pages : 344

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The Big Book of Victorian Mysteries

The Big Book of Victorian Mysteries PDF Author: Otto Penzler
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN: 0593311027
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 641

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Edgar Award winner Otto Penzler—“detective fiction’s best editor and champion” (The Washington Post)—returns with a new anthology of exhilarating mysteries, assembling Victorian society's lords and ladies and most miserable miscreants. Behind the velvet curtains of horsedrawn carriages and amid the soft glow of the gaslights are the detectives and bobbies sniffing out the safecrackers and petty purloiners who plague everything from the soot-covered side streets of London to the opulent manors of the countryside. With his latest title in the Big Book series, Otto Penzler is cracking cases and serving up the most thrilling, suspenseful Victorian mysteries. This collection brings together incredible stories from Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Hardy, Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and Guy de Maupassant among other legendary writers of the grand era of the British Empire. So brush off your dinner jackets and straighten out your ball gowns for these exciting, glitzy mysteries.