Author: R. Austin Freeman
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
The Aluminum Dagger is a story from a series of 21 novels and 40 short stories by British author R. Austin Freeman featuring the investigations of the brilliant detective Dr. John Evelyn Thorndyke. This time he has to deal with murder behind the doors locked inside, and the only his link is an aluminum dagger shoved into the back of the victim.
The Aluminum Dagger
Author: R. Austin Freeman
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
The Aluminum Dagger is a story from a series of 21 novels and 40 short stories by British author R. Austin Freeman featuring the investigations of the brilliant detective Dr. John Evelyn Thorndyke. This time he has to deal with murder behind the doors locked inside, and the only his link is an aluminum dagger shoved into the back of the victim.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
The Aluminum Dagger is a story from a series of 21 novels and 40 short stories by British author R. Austin Freeman featuring the investigations of the brilliant detective Dr. John Evelyn Thorndyke. This time he has to deal with murder behind the doors locked inside, and the only his link is an aluminum dagger shoved into the back of the victim.
McClure's Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 706
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 706
Book Description
The Supernatural and Fantastic in Short Detective Fiction
Author: Laird R. Blackwell
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476639450
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
Although fantasy and supernatural literature have long and celebrated histories, many critics contend that the fantastic and the supernatural have no place in the logical, rational, world of the detective story. This book is the first extensive study of the fantastic in detective fiction and it explores the highly debated question of whether detective fiction and the fantastic can comfortably coexist. The "locked room" mystery--which often uses the fantastic as a red herring to eventually be debunked by reason and logic--has long been among the most popular subgenres of detective fiction. This book also explores stories featuring almost supernaturally gifted detectives, stories where the supernatural is truly encountered, and stories with ambiguous endings. Close to 500 detective stories from 1841 to 2000, in which the fantastic or supernatural plays a central role, are discussed and analyzed. Although not all the stories are judged to be successful as detective tales, in the great majority, the fantastic enlivens the tale and deepens the mystery without weakening the detective elements.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476639450
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
Although fantasy and supernatural literature have long and celebrated histories, many critics contend that the fantastic and the supernatural have no place in the logical, rational, world of the detective story. This book is the first extensive study of the fantastic in detective fiction and it explores the highly debated question of whether detective fiction and the fantastic can comfortably coexist. The "locked room" mystery--which often uses the fantastic as a red herring to eventually be debunked by reason and logic--has long been among the most popular subgenres of detective fiction. This book also explores stories featuring almost supernaturally gifted detectives, stories where the supernatural is truly encountered, and stories with ambiguous endings. Close to 500 detective stories from 1841 to 2000, in which the fantastic or supernatural plays a central role, are discussed and analyzed. Although not all the stories are judged to be successful as detective tales, in the great majority, the fantastic enlivens the tale and deepens the mystery without weakening the detective elements.
Christianity and the Detective Story
Author: Anya Morlan
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443865419
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Christianity and the Detective Story is the first book to gather together academic criticism on this particular connection between religion and popular culture. The articles cover the origin of this relationship in the works of G. K. Chesterton, examine its development through the “Golden Age” of mystery writers such as Dorothy L. Sayers, and include discussions of recent and contemporary television crime dramas. The volume makes a strong case for viewing mystery writing as a valid means of providing both entertainment and religious insight.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443865419
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Christianity and the Detective Story is the first book to gather together academic criticism on this particular connection between religion and popular culture. The articles cover the origin of this relationship in the works of G. K. Chesterton, examine its development through the “Golden Age” of mystery writers such as Dorothy L. Sayers, and include discussions of recent and contemporary television crime dramas. The volume makes a strong case for viewing mystery writing as a valid means of providing both entertainment and religious insight.
Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution
Author: Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Discoveries in science
Languages : en
Pages : 874
Book Description
Reports for 1884-1886/87 issued in 2 pts., pt. 2 being the Report of the National Museum.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Discoveries in science
Languages : en
Pages : 874
Book Description
Reports for 1884-1886/87 issued in 2 pts., pt. 2 being the Report of the National Museum.
The Mechanical Engineer's Pocket-book
Author: William Kent
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mechanical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1122
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mechanical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1122
Book Description
Hard Rain
Author: Russell James
Publisher: Crossroad Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
Welcome to the ghostpocalypse. Stuart Angelino is a former gang enforcer on his way through empty western Kansas, fresh out of prison and ready to get his life back on track. He stops at an isolated convenience store for gas and a break. While he’s there, a strange, expanding storm blows in with purple-black clouds and green lightning. He and several others are trapped inside by this storm that doesn’t slacken. A nightgown-clad woman wanders into the parking lot. One of the men in the store goes out into the rain to help her, and she viciously murders him before running off into the storm. Soon others appear, vengeful ghosts from many different times and places. Something has opened a rift between the spirit world and ours, and ghosts are returning in waves. When it’s clear no one outside the storm has entered it, the group realizes they are the world’s best bet to stop what one of them calls the ghostpocalypse. But they will have to battle the weather, mobs of crazed spirits, as well as ghosts with specific grudges against those in the store. And more dangers await, because the rift is letting more than just ghosts into our reality.
Publisher: Crossroad Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
Welcome to the ghostpocalypse. Stuart Angelino is a former gang enforcer on his way through empty western Kansas, fresh out of prison and ready to get his life back on track. He stops at an isolated convenience store for gas and a break. While he’s there, a strange, expanding storm blows in with purple-black clouds and green lightning. He and several others are trapped inside by this storm that doesn’t slacken. A nightgown-clad woman wanders into the parking lot. One of the men in the store goes out into the rain to help her, and she viciously murders him before running off into the storm. Soon others appear, vengeful ghosts from many different times and places. Something has opened a rift between the spirit world and ours, and ghosts are returning in waves. When it’s clear no one outside the storm has entered it, the group realizes they are the world’s best bet to stop what one of them calls the ghostpocalypse. But they will have to battle the weather, mobs of crazed spirits, as well as ghosts with specific grudges against those in the store. And more dangers await, because the rift is letting more than just ghosts into our reality.
Without Cloak Or Dagger
Author: Miles Copeland
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
"Miles Copland is one of the handful of men in the world who really know what the spying business is all about. A man who has worked closely with the CIA and with the State Department, and the author of the best-selling The Game of Nations, Copeland has written, in Without Cloak or Dagger, the authoritative, definitive, complete description of today’s espionage game. Because the guidelines for the 1970s espionage systems of the great nations are so radically different from the traditional ones, no one has really explained how it all works – until now. The book ranges through the American CIA, the British SIS (or MI-6), the Soviet KGB, the French SDECE; from the espionage operations of World War II – whose long-term effects are still being felt – to today: the Vietnam post-mortems; Watergate; the ITT affair in Chile; the CIA’s “old boy net” troubles; the SIS shake-up that brought about the downfall of Jack Rennie, the “M” of James Bond fame." -- Book jacket.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
"Miles Copland is one of the handful of men in the world who really know what the spying business is all about. A man who has worked closely with the CIA and with the State Department, and the author of the best-selling The Game of Nations, Copeland has written, in Without Cloak or Dagger, the authoritative, definitive, complete description of today’s espionage game. Because the guidelines for the 1970s espionage systems of the great nations are so radically different from the traditional ones, no one has really explained how it all works – until now. The book ranges through the American CIA, the British SIS (or MI-6), the Soviet KGB, the French SDECE; from the espionage operations of World War II – whose long-term effects are still being felt – to today: the Vietnam post-mortems; Watergate; the ITT affair in Chile; the CIA’s “old boy net” troubles; the SIS shake-up that brought about the downfall of Jack Rennie, the “M” of James Bond fame." -- Book jacket.
Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature
Author: Anna Lorraine Guthrie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1478
Book Description
An author subject index to selected general interest periodicals of reference value in libraries.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1478
Book Description
An author subject index to selected general interest periodicals of reference value in libraries.
Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mechanical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1874
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mechanical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1874
Book Description