Author: Julian Symons
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
The Penguin Classic Crime Omnibus
Author: Julian Symons
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
The John Franklin Bardin Omnibus
Author: John Franklin Bardin
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
The Omnibus of Crime
Author: Dorothy L. Sayers
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780849550713
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1177
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780849550713
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1177
Book Description
100 British Crime Writers
Author: Esme Miskimmin
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 113731902X
Category : British literature
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
100 British Crime Writers explores a history of British crime writing between 1855 and 2015 through 100 writers, detailing their lives and significant writing and exploring their contributions to the genre. Divided into four sections: 'The Victorians, Edwardians, and World War One, 1855-1918; 'The Golden Age and World War Two, 1919-1945; 'Post-War and Cold War, 1946-1989; and 'To the Millennium and Beyond, 1990-2015, each section offers an introduction to the significant features of these eras in crime fiction and discusses trends in publication, readership, and critical response. With entries spanning the earliest authors of crime fiction to a selection of innovative contemporary novelists, this book considers the development and progression of the genre in the light of historical and social events.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 113731902X
Category : British literature
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
100 British Crime Writers explores a history of British crime writing between 1855 and 2015 through 100 writers, detailing their lives and significant writing and exploring their contributions to the genre. Divided into four sections: 'The Victorians, Edwardians, and World War One, 1855-1918; 'The Golden Age and World War Two, 1919-1945; 'Post-War and Cold War, 1946-1989; and 'To the Millennium and Beyond, 1990-2015, each section offers an introduction to the significant features of these eras in crime fiction and discusses trends in publication, readership, and critical response. With entries spanning the earliest authors of crime fiction to a selection of innovative contemporary novelists, this book considers the development and progression of the genre in the light of historical and social events.
The Julian Symons Omnibus
Author: Julian Symons
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Detective and mystery stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 858
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Detective and mystery stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 858
Book Description
Cult X
Author: Fuminori Nakamura
Publisher: Soho Press
ISBN: 1616957875
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
The magnum opus by Japanese literary sensation Fuminori Nakamura, Cult X is a story that dives into the psychology of fringe religion, obsession, and social disaffection. When Toru Narazaki’s girlfriend, Ryoko Tachibana, disappears, he tries to track her down, despite the warnings of the private detective he’s hired to find her. Ryoko’s past is shrouded in mystery, but the one concrete clue to her whereabouts is a previous address in the heart of Tokyo. She lived in a compound with a group that seems to be a cult led by a charismatic guru with a revisionist Buddhist scheme of life, death, and society. Narazaki plunges into the secretive world of the cult, ready to expose himself to any of the guru’s brainwashing tactics if it means he can learn the truth about Ryoko. But the cult isn’t what he expected, and he has no idea of the bubbling violence he is stepping into. Inspired by the 1995 sarin gas terrorist attack on the Tokyo subway, Cult X is an exploration of what draws individuals into extremism. It is a tour de force that captures the connections between astrophysics, neuroscience, and religion; an invective against predatory corporate consumerism and exploitative geopolitics; and a love story about compassion in the face of nihilism.
Publisher: Soho Press
ISBN: 1616957875
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
The magnum opus by Japanese literary sensation Fuminori Nakamura, Cult X is a story that dives into the psychology of fringe religion, obsession, and social disaffection. When Toru Narazaki’s girlfriend, Ryoko Tachibana, disappears, he tries to track her down, despite the warnings of the private detective he’s hired to find her. Ryoko’s past is shrouded in mystery, but the one concrete clue to her whereabouts is a previous address in the heart of Tokyo. She lived in a compound with a group that seems to be a cult led by a charismatic guru with a revisionist Buddhist scheme of life, death, and society. Narazaki plunges into the secretive world of the cult, ready to expose himself to any of the guru’s brainwashing tactics if it means he can learn the truth about Ryoko. But the cult isn’t what he expected, and he has no idea of the bubbling violence he is stepping into. Inspired by the 1995 sarin gas terrorist attack on the Tokyo subway, Cult X is an exploration of what draws individuals into extremism. It is a tour de force that captures the connections between astrophysics, neuroscience, and religion; an invective against predatory corporate consumerism and exploitative geopolitics; and a love story about compassion in the face of nihilism.
The Man Who Killed Himself
Author: Julian Symons
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755129636
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Arthur Brownjohn has never quite got anything right. Take the murder of his wife – a bungled, inferior affair despite his having consulting all the experts in the field of killings, executions and dastardly deeds. Resolving never to repeat the same mistakes, he enlists the help of Major Easonby Mellon – a man who really knows what he’s doing...
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755129636
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Arthur Brownjohn has never quite got anything right. Take the murder of his wife – a bungled, inferior affair despite his having consulting all the experts in the field of killings, executions and dastardly deeds. Resolving never to repeat the same mistakes, he enlists the help of Major Easonby Mellon – a man who really knows what he’s doing...
The Paul Cain Omnibus
Author: Paul Cain
Publisher: Mysteriouspress.Com/Open Road
ISBN: 9781480456891
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Fifteen classic hard-boiled stories by an undisputed master Following gangsters, blackmailers, and gunmen through the underbelly of 1930s America on their journeys to do dark deeds, Paul Cain's stories are classics of his genre. The protagonists of ambiguous morality who populate Cain's work are portrayed with a cinematic flair for the grim hardness of their world. This collection presents Cain's classic crime stories to a contemporary audience.
Publisher: Mysteriouspress.Com/Open Road
ISBN: 9781480456891
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Fifteen classic hard-boiled stories by an undisputed master Following gangsters, blackmailers, and gunmen through the underbelly of 1930s America on their journeys to do dark deeds, Paul Cain's stories are classics of his genre. The protagonists of ambiguous morality who populate Cain's work are portrayed with a cinematic flair for the grim hardness of their world. This collection presents Cain's classic crime stories to a contemporary audience.
The Cambridge Companion to the English Short Story
Author: Ann-Marie Einhaus
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107084172
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
This Companion provides an accessible overview of the contexts, periods, and subgenres of English-language short fiction outside of North America.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107084172
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
This Companion provides an accessible overview of the contexts, periods, and subgenres of English-language short fiction outside of North America.
Quarry's Blood
Author: Max Allan Collins
Publisher: Titan Books (US, CA)
ISBN: 1789096693
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
The hitman hero of the acclaimed series Quarry on Cinemax returns for his final act. By Quarry’s creator, the award-winning author of Road to Perdition! QUARRY'S VIOLENT PAST COMES LOOKING FOR HIM The professional hitman known as Quarry -- star of the Cinemax TV miniseries of the same name -- has put killing behind him. But after a beautiful writer of true-crime bestsellers drops by to announce he's the subject of her next book, killers descend to give him some of his own deadly medicine, forcing Quarry to journey into his bloody past to find the answers -- and settle old scores. QUARRY’S BLOOD brings the hitman’s decades-long saga right up to the present day as MWA Grand Master Max Allan Collins explores the startling final act of Quarry’s professional career.
Publisher: Titan Books (US, CA)
ISBN: 1789096693
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
The hitman hero of the acclaimed series Quarry on Cinemax returns for his final act. By Quarry’s creator, the award-winning author of Road to Perdition! QUARRY'S VIOLENT PAST COMES LOOKING FOR HIM The professional hitman known as Quarry -- star of the Cinemax TV miniseries of the same name -- has put killing behind him. But after a beautiful writer of true-crime bestsellers drops by to announce he's the subject of her next book, killers descend to give him some of his own deadly medicine, forcing Quarry to journey into his bloody past to find the answers -- and settle old scores. QUARRY’S BLOOD brings the hitman’s decades-long saga right up to the present day as MWA Grand Master Max Allan Collins explores the startling final act of Quarry’s professional career.