Download or read book 12 Cases for Max Carrados written by Ernest Bramah and published by . This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twelve earliest Max Carrados mystery stories (first published in the UK in 1913) are collected here. One of the "blind detectives" of the golden-age of detective fiction, Carrados was intelligent, resourceful, and used his highly-developed senses to track down criminals, often in aid of his friend, the private detective Mr. Carlyle.
Download or read book The Eyes of Max Carrados written by Ernest Bramah and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Greatest Murder Mysteries of S S Van Dine 12 Titles in One Volume Illustrated Edition written by S.S. Van Dine and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-26 with total page 2383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philo Vance is a stylish, even foppish dandy, a New York dilettante and bon vivant possessing a highly intellectual bent he likes to use for solving some quite complicated crimes. His methods are unusual and often in contradiction to the firm police rules and official requirements, but his wit always gets him a step further. Philo Vance novels were chronicled by his friend Van Dine, who appears as a kind of Dr. Watson figure in the books. Table of Contents: Introduction Twenty Rules for Writing Detective Stories The Philo Vance Series The Benson Murder Case The Canary Murder Case The Greene Murder Case The Bishop Murder Case The Scarab Murder Case The Kennel Murder Case The Dragon Murder Case The Casino Murder Case The Garden Murder Case The Kidnap Murder Case The Gracie Allen Murder Case The Winter Murder Case S. S. Van Dine is the pseudonym used by American art critic Willard Huntington Wright when he wrote detective novels. He was an important figure in avant-garde cultural circles in pre-WWI New York, and under the pseudonym he created the immensely popular fictional detective Philo Vance.
Download or read book The Edwardian Detective written by Professor Joseph A Kestner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 1999 & examines the range of detective literature produced between 1901 and 1915 in Britain, during the reign of Edward VII and the early reign of George V. The book assesses the literature as cultural history, with a focus on issues such as legal reform, marital reform, surveillance, Germanophobia, masculinity/femininity, the "best-seller", the arms race, international diplomacy and the concept of "popular" literature. The work also addresses specific issues related to the relationship of law to literature, such as: the law in literature; the law as literature, the role of literature in surveillance and policing; the interpretation of legal issues by literature; the degree to which literature describes and interprets law; the description of legal processes in detective literature; and the connections between detective literature and cultural practices and transitions.
Download or read book McCarty Incog written by Isabel Ostrander and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mystery Fanfare written by Michael L. Cook and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a composite index of the complete runs of all mystery and detective fan magazines that have been published, through 1981. Added to it are indexes of many magazines of related nature. This includes magazines that are primarily oriented to boys' book collecting, the paperbacks, and the pulp magazine hero characters, since these all have a place in the mystery and detective genre.
Download or read book Sequels written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vintage Mystery and Detective Stories written by David Stuart Davies and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 2006 with total page 1284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a richly entertaining collection of stories from the golden age of crime fiction - a period when crimes were solved by the wit and ingenuity of the sleuth with only his own intelligence to rely on
Download or read book The Game Played in the Dark written by Ernest Bramah and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Game Played in the Dark by Ernest Bramah is a detective suspense novel following Inspector Beedle and his many mystifying cases. Excerpt: "'It's a funny thing, sir,' said Inspector Beedel, regarding Mr. Carrados with the pensive respect that he always extended towards the blind amateur, 'it's a funny thing, but nothing seems to go on abroad now but what you'll find some trace of it here in London if you take the trouble to look.' 'In the right quarter,' contributed Carrados."
Download or read book CRIME MYSTERY COLLECTION 12 Thrillers Action Adventure Novels Illustrated written by Richard Marsh and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-16 with total page 2596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Crime & Mystery Collection by Richard Marsh includes: Crime and the Criminal The Datchet Diamonds The Chase of the Ruby The Twickenham Peerage Miss Arnott's Marriage The Great Temptation The Master of Deception A Duel The Woman with One Hand The Coward behind the Curtain A Woman Perfected Violet Forster's Lover
Download or read book Detective Fiction written by W. B. Stevenson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-22 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1958 guide to detective fiction is divided into 'The Old Masters' and 'The Moderns'.
Download or read book Catalogues of Sales written by Sotheby & Co. (London, England) and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sequels Adult books written by and published by [London] : Association of Assistant Librarians. This book was released on 1974 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Coin of Dionysius A Classic Short Story of Detective Max Carrados written by Ernest Bramah and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-01-18 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This early work by Ernest Bramah was originally published in 1914 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. 'The Coin of Dionysius' is a mystery short story of a coin and a blind man. Ernest Bramah Smith was born was near Manchester in 1868. He was a poor student, and dropped out of the Manchester Grammar School when sixteen years old to go into the farming business. Bramah found commercial and critical success with his first novel, The Wallet of Kai Lung, but it was his later stories of detective Max Carrados that assured him lasting fame.
Download or read book 12 English Detective Stories written by Michael Cox and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These twelve stories provide an entertaining exploration of this extensive and fascinating corner of English popular fiction, celebrating the detective's intellectual and intuitive powers when confronted with murder, theft, and other mysteries. The main focus of this collection is from the 1890s to the 1920s, the period when the classic English detective story was at its confident and original best, but it also offers examples from earlier and later periods. Presenting a balance of classic and more unusual stories, and featuring works by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, G. K. Chesterton, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Michael Innes, this anthology will appeal to both the newcomer and aficionado of the genre.
Download or read book Bulletin of Bibliography written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
