Author: Barry Forshaw
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1405383879
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The Rough Guide to Crime Fiction takes the reader on a guided tour of the mean streets and blind corners that make up the world’s most popular literary genre. The insider’s book recommends over 200 classic crime novels from masterminds Raymond Chandler and Patricia Highsmith to modern hotshots James Elroy and Patricia Cornwall. You’ll investigate gumshoes, spies, spooks, serial killers, forensic females, prying priests and patsies from the past, present, and future. Complete with extra information on what to read next, all movie adaptions, and illustrated throughout with photos and diagrams ...all the evidence that counts
The Rough Guide to Crime Fiction
Author: Barry Forshaw
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1405383879
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The Rough Guide to Crime Fiction takes the reader on a guided tour of the mean streets and blind corners that make up the world’s most popular literary genre. The insider’s book recommends over 200 classic crime novels from masterminds Raymond Chandler and Patricia Highsmith to modern hotshots James Elroy and Patricia Cornwall. You’ll investigate gumshoes, spies, spooks, serial killers, forensic females, prying priests and patsies from the past, present, and future. Complete with extra information on what to read next, all movie adaptions, and illustrated throughout with photos and diagrams ...all the evidence that counts
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1405383879
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The Rough Guide to Crime Fiction takes the reader on a guided tour of the mean streets and blind corners that make up the world’s most popular literary genre. The insider’s book recommends over 200 classic crime novels from masterminds Raymond Chandler and Patricia Highsmith to modern hotshots James Elroy and Patricia Cornwall. You’ll investigate gumshoes, spies, spooks, serial killers, forensic females, prying priests and patsies from the past, present, and future. Complete with extra information on what to read next, all movie adaptions, and illustrated throughout with photos and diagrams ...all the evidence that counts
Jacquot and the Angel
Author: Martin O'Brien
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780755322855
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Daniel Jacquot is on the case again ndash; this time in a Provencal village with a crime going back to the war
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780755322855
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Daniel Jacquot is on the case again ndash; this time in a Provencal village with a crime going back to the war
Jacquot and the Angel
Author: Martin O'Brien
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781846480874
Category : Talking books
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
Chief Inspector Daniel Jacquot of the Cavaillon Regional Crime Squad has never seen anything like it: an entire wealthy German family wiped out by a shotgun fired at close range. The arrival of a mysterious young woman claiming special insight could be the breakthrough Jacquot needs in this baffling case. Together they follow a trail leading them back more than half a century - a story of love, betrayal, hatred and blackmail in which Jacquot's own family had a tragic part to play.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781846480874
Category : Talking books
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
Chief Inspector Daniel Jacquot of the Cavaillon Regional Crime Squad has never seen anything like it: an entire wealthy German family wiped out by a shotgun fired at close range. The arrival of a mysterious young woman claiming special insight could be the breakthrough Jacquot needs in this baffling case. Together they follow a trail leading them back more than half a century - a story of love, betrayal, hatred and blackmail in which Jacquot's own family had a tragic part to play.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
Author: Thomas Byerly
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Jacquot and the Master
Author: Martin O'Brien
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780755335053
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In a sensual region of France, a crime detective like no other... Chief Inspector Daniel Jacquot of the Cavaillon Regional Crime Squad is called to an artist`s retreat in Provence, a luxury hill-top hotel where a young woman, it seems, has been murdered. There are bloodstains, but no body. Among the guests are those who have both means and motive, with personal secrets, hidden agendas and their own dangerous liaisons to conceal. Looming over them all is a celebrated and reclusive artist whose masterworks are priceless. When a summer storm isolates the hotel, and not one but two bodies are found, passions start to run high...
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780755335053
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In a sensual region of France, a crime detective like no other... Chief Inspector Daniel Jacquot of the Cavaillon Regional Crime Squad is called to an artist`s retreat in Provence, a luxury hill-top hotel where a young woman, it seems, has been murdered. There are bloodstains, but no body. Among the guests are those who have both means and motive, with personal secrets, hidden agendas and their own dangerous liaisons to conceal. Looming over them all is a celebrated and reclusive artist whose masterworks are priceless. When a summer storm isolates the hotel, and not one but two bodies are found, passions start to run high...
The Atheneum
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Containing original essays; historical narratives, biographical memoirs, sketches of society, topographical descriptions, novels and tales, anecdotes, select extracts from new and expensive works, the spirit of the public journals, discoveries in the arts and sciences, useful domestic hints, etc. etc. etc.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Containing original essays; historical narratives, biographical memoirs, sketches of society, topographical descriptions, novels and tales, anecdotes, select extracts from new and expensive works, the spirit of the public journals, discoveries in the arts and sciences, useful domestic hints, etc. etc. etc.
The Spirit of the English Magazines
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Jacquot and the Waterman
Author: Martin O'Brien
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312349981
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Set in Marseilles, the first novel in the Jacquot series follows rugby star-turned detective Daniel Jacquot's investigation into a series of disturbing killings--beautiful female victims are found battered and submerged in water.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312349981
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Set in Marseilles, the first novel in the Jacquot series follows rugby star-turned detective Daniel Jacquot's investigation into a series of disturbing killings--beautiful female victims are found battered and submerged in water.
Bizarre
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description