Author: Kathleen Gregory Klein
Publisher: Popular Press
ISBN: 9780879726829
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Contributors delineate the range of relationships among women writers, women detectives in mystery fiction, and women readers, examining detective fiction through the eyes of actual and hypothetical women readers in a gender- and genre-specific analysis. They offer a theoretical and critical investigation of both historical and contemporary models of mystery fiction. Authors discussed include Sara Paretsky, Joan Hess, Sue Grafton, and D.R. Meredith. No index. Paper edition (unseen), $12.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Women Times Three
Author: Kathleen Gregory Klein
Publisher: Popular Press
ISBN: 9780879726829
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Contributors delineate the range of relationships among women writers, women detectives in mystery fiction, and women readers, examining detective fiction through the eyes of actual and hypothetical women readers in a gender- and genre-specific analysis. They offer a theoretical and critical investigation of both historical and contemporary models of mystery fiction. Authors discussed include Sara Paretsky, Joan Hess, Sue Grafton, and D.R. Meredith. No index. Paper edition (unseen), $12.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: Popular Press
ISBN: 9780879726829
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Contributors delineate the range of relationships among women writers, women detectives in mystery fiction, and women readers, examining detective fiction through the eyes of actual and hypothetical women readers in a gender- and genre-specific analysis. They offer a theoretical and critical investigation of both historical and contemporary models of mystery fiction. Authors discussed include Sara Paretsky, Joan Hess, Sue Grafton, and D.R. Meredith. No index. Paper edition (unseen), $12.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Tickled to Death
Author: Joan Hess
Publisher: Minotaur Books
ISBN: 1429946822
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Murder is no laughing matter—especially when it comes to marriage. So before Luanne gets in too deep with her new flame, a dentist named Dick, she'd like her best friend to do a background check. Did Dick murder his two previous wives? That's what Arkansas bookseller and amateur sleuth Claire Malloy intends to discover... Everything Claire turns up on this would-be blue-beard keeps leading her down a slippery slope. The police are determined to prove Dick guilty of double homicide, but Claire's not so sure. Something about his story just doesn't add up. But if Dick didn't do the deed, who did? The only thing Claire knows for sure is that Luanne won't have a moment's rest until she finds out...
Publisher: Minotaur Books
ISBN: 1429946822
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Murder is no laughing matter—especially when it comes to marriage. So before Luanne gets in too deep with her new flame, a dentist named Dick, she'd like her best friend to do a background check. Did Dick murder his two previous wives? That's what Arkansas bookseller and amateur sleuth Claire Malloy intends to discover... Everything Claire turns up on this would-be blue-beard keeps leading her down a slippery slope. The police are determined to prove Dick guilty of double homicide, but Claire's not so sure. Something about his story just doesn't add up. But if Dick didn't do the deed, who did? The only thing Claire knows for sure is that Luanne won't have a moment's rest until she finds out...
A Reader's Manifesto
Author: B. R. Myers
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Including: A response to critics, and: Ten rules for "serious" writers, the author continues his fight on behalf of the American reader, arguing against pretension in so-called "literary" fiction, naming names and exposing the literary status quo.
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Including: A response to critics, and: Ten rules for "serious" writers, the author continues his fight on behalf of the American reader, arguing against pretension in so-called "literary" fiction, naming names and exposing the literary status quo.
Poisoned Pins
Author: Joan Hess
Publisher: Minotaur Books
ISBN: 1429940077
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Claire Malloy loves her life. But how did it go by so fast? A bookstore owner, part-time sleuth, and full-time single mother, Claire is about to turn the big four-oh! Good thing her teenage daughter, Caron, has just been recruited by the Kappa Theta Eta girls—whose sorority house is next door to the Malloys'—to be a consultant for the cosmetics empire My Beautiful Self, Inc. At the very least, Claire can get a little help with those fine lines around her eyes...but at what cost? Turns out there's a high price to pay to look one's best. After a series of dangerous and suspicious incidents, including a hit-and-run "accident" that kills a sorority sister, it becomes clear to Claire that the beauty business in Farberville, Arkansas, is getting pretty ugly—and with every new makeover another dark circle rises from beneath the surface....
Publisher: Minotaur Books
ISBN: 1429940077
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Claire Malloy loves her life. But how did it go by so fast? A bookstore owner, part-time sleuth, and full-time single mother, Claire is about to turn the big four-oh! Good thing her teenage daughter, Caron, has just been recruited by the Kappa Theta Eta girls—whose sorority house is next door to the Malloys'—to be a consultant for the cosmetics empire My Beautiful Self, Inc. At the very least, Claire can get a little help with those fine lines around her eyes...but at what cost? Turns out there's a high price to pay to look one's best. After a series of dangerous and suspicious incidents, including a hit-and-run "accident" that kills a sorority sister, it becomes clear to Claire that the beauty business in Farberville, Arkansas, is getting pretty ugly—and with every new makeover another dark circle rises from beneath the surface....
Falcon Boy
Author: Barnaby Taylor
Publisher: Barnaby Taylor
ISBN: 199963327X
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Don’t let stupid win! Dr Don’t Know hates knowledge. He wants to steal the answer to every question ever asked. Dr Don’t Know wants the world to be as stupid as he is. We can’t let this happen! Only Falcon Boy and Bewilder Bird can save the world from Dr Don’t Know. The bad news is that they have been kidnapped. The good news is that they can’t stay kidnapped for long otherwise this story will never get started. Will Dr Don’t Know succeed with his evil plan? There’s only one way to find out. Read on and remember. Don’t let stupid win!!
Publisher: Barnaby Taylor
ISBN: 199963327X
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Don’t let stupid win! Dr Don’t Know hates knowledge. He wants to steal the answer to every question ever asked. Dr Don’t Know wants the world to be as stupid as he is. We can’t let this happen! Only Falcon Boy and Bewilder Bird can save the world from Dr Don’t Know. The bad news is that they have been kidnapped. The good news is that they can’t stay kidnapped for long otherwise this story will never get started. Will Dr Don’t Know succeed with his evil plan? There’s only one way to find out. Read on and remember. Don’t let stupid win!!
The Readers' Advisory Guide to Mystery
Author: John Charles
Publisher: American Library Association
ISBN: 0838993915
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
With several well-chosen booklists, practical programming ideas, and a brand new compendium of print and web-based resources, your only crime would be not adding this guide to your collection!
Publisher: American Library Association
ISBN: 0838993915
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
With several well-chosen booklists, practical programming ideas, and a brand new compendium of print and web-based resources, your only crime would be not adding this guide to your collection!
While Drowning in the Desert
Author: Don Winslow
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312961183
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
When Neal catches up to octogenarian Natty Silver, once a burlesque top banana and now known for his disappearing act, he's supposed to escort him home from Las Vegas to Palm Springs. Sole witness to a crime, Silver is now the quarry of some pretty dangerous people. And bodyguard Neil--scorching through the desert at 80 mph, brooding on his inner child by freezing starlight, and looking down the barrel of one gun too many--is soon dodging vultures and on the brink of a surprise watery grave. Martin's Press.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312961183
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
When Neal catches up to octogenarian Natty Silver, once a burlesque top banana and now known for his disappearing act, he's supposed to escort him home from Las Vegas to Palm Springs. Sole witness to a crime, Silver is now the quarry of some pretty dangerous people. And bodyguard Neil--scorching through the desert at 80 mph, brooding on his inner child by freezing starlight, and looking down the barrel of one gun too many--is soon dodging vultures and on the brink of a surprise watery grave. Martin's Press.
Borrowed Hearts
Author: Rick DeMarinis
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
ISBN: 1609801776
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Borrowed Hearts traces the development of Rick DeMarinis's incantatory voice, including newer work as well as stories selected from his three previous, highly acclaimed collections: Under Wheat (1986), the winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize for short fiction; The Coming of the Free World, a New York Times Notable Book (1988); and The Voice of America (1991). The title story was included in 1991's The Best Stories of the South, and "Your Story" was played on National Public Radio's Selected Shorts.
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
ISBN: 1609801776
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Borrowed Hearts traces the development of Rick DeMarinis's incantatory voice, including newer work as well as stories selected from his three previous, highly acclaimed collections: Under Wheat (1986), the winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize for short fiction; The Coming of the Free World, a New York Times Notable Book (1988); and The Voice of America (1991). The title story was included in 1991's The Best Stories of the South, and "Your Story" was played on National Public Radio's Selected Shorts.
Dying On The Vine
Author: Peter King
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312966836
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
In Provence, France, the Gourmet Detective finds a badly mutilated corpse on the grounds of a vineyard and goes undercover as a journalist to find the murderer.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312966836
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
In Provence, France, the Gourmet Detective finds a badly mutilated corpse on the grounds of a vineyard and goes undercover as a journalist to find the murderer.
Damsels in Distress
Author: Joan Hess
Publisher: Minotaur Books
ISBN: 1429948736
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
A Renaissance Fair is coming to the relatively quiet college town of Farberville Arkansas, which is not the sort of news that usually sets local bookseller Claire Malloy's heart racing. But with Caron, Claire's perpetually petulant teenage daughter, being pulled into volunteering (or face the horror of doing homework over the summer) and her fiancé, Police Lieutenant Peter Rosen, away, Claire finds herself drawn into the strange inner workings of the group putting on the fair. But just as Claire has decided that her time might be better spent fretting over the details of her upcoming nuptials, one of the volunteers helping with the Ren Fair falls victim to arson, her body found burned in the wreckage of her rented home. Even stranger, none of the members of the local chapter of The Association for Renaissance Scholarship and Enlightenment (ARSE) – the group putting on Farberville's first RenFair – had ever met the woman in the flesh and can't provide any information about who she is and where she came from. However, someone is definitely dead and the fire looks very suspicious – but is it murder? When the fair opens, tensions expose the dark secrets and malevolent schemes that lurk beneath the superficial congeniality of the ARSE members. The lords are leaping, the ladies are lying, and the knights are fighting--while someone is committing murder most heinous. And with Claire's dreams of a blissful wedding hanging in the balance, she has no choice left but to fling herself into the battle and match wits with the killer...
Publisher: Minotaur Books
ISBN: 1429948736
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
A Renaissance Fair is coming to the relatively quiet college town of Farberville Arkansas, which is not the sort of news that usually sets local bookseller Claire Malloy's heart racing. But with Caron, Claire's perpetually petulant teenage daughter, being pulled into volunteering (or face the horror of doing homework over the summer) and her fiancé, Police Lieutenant Peter Rosen, away, Claire finds herself drawn into the strange inner workings of the group putting on the fair. But just as Claire has decided that her time might be better spent fretting over the details of her upcoming nuptials, one of the volunteers helping with the Ren Fair falls victim to arson, her body found burned in the wreckage of her rented home. Even stranger, none of the members of the local chapter of The Association for Renaissance Scholarship and Enlightenment (ARSE) – the group putting on Farberville's first RenFair – had ever met the woman in the flesh and can't provide any information about who she is and where she came from. However, someone is definitely dead and the fire looks very suspicious – but is it murder? When the fair opens, tensions expose the dark secrets and malevolent schemes that lurk beneath the superficial congeniality of the ARSE members. The lords are leaping, the ladies are lying, and the knights are fighting--while someone is committing murder most heinous. And with Claire's dreams of a blissful wedding hanging in the balance, she has no choice left but to fling herself into the battle and match wits with the killer...