Download or read book Booze and the Private Eye written by Rita Elizabeth Rippetoe and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-01-24 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hard-bitten PI with a bottle of bourbon in his desk drawer--it's an image as old as the genre of hard-boiled detective fiction itself. Alcohol has long been an important element of detective fiction, but it is no mere prop. Rather, the treatment of alcohol within the works informs and illustrates the detective's moral code, and casts light upon the society's attitudes towards drink. This examination of the role of alcohol in hard-boiled detective fiction begins with the genre's birth, in an era strongly influenced and affected by prohibition, and follows both the genre's development and its relation to our changing understanding of and attitudes towards alcohol and alcoholism. It discusses the works of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Mickey Spillane, Robert B. Parker, Lawrence Block, Marcia Muller, Karen Kijewski and Sue Grafton. There are bibliographies of both the primary and critical texts, and an index of authors and works.
Download or read book Booze and the Private Eye written by Rita Elizabeth Rippetoe and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2004-09-02 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hard-bitten PI with a bottle of bourbon in his desk drawer--it's an image as old as the genre of hard-boiled detective fiction itself. Alcohol has long been an important element of detective fiction, but it is no mere prop. Rather, the treatment of alcohol within the works informs and illustrates the detective's moral code, and casts light upon the society's attitudes towards drink. This examination of the role of alcohol in hard-boiled detective fiction begins with the genre's birth, in an era strongly influenced and affected by prohibition, and follows both the genre's development and its relation to our changing understanding of and attitudes towards alcohol and alcoholism. It discusses the works of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Mickey Spillane, Robert B. Parker, Lawrence Block, Marcia Muller, Karen Kijewski and Sue Grafton. There are bibliographies of both the primary and critical texts, and an index of authors and works.
Download or read book Private Eye written by S. E. Culpepper and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2011-06-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rafe Bridges stopped mixing business with pleasure long ago, but when he receives a call from an intriguing cop who needs help searching for an old family friend, he breaks down and takes on the case. With each day that passes, Rafe becomes further fascinated by Jeremy Halliday...but the biggest problem isn't his attraction to the cop or his growing need for him. It's the tiny little detail of Jeremy being straight. Jeremy isn't as immune to Rafe as he'd like to believe and as they work together, sifting through a case that is more mysterious and dangerous than it seems, Rafe becomes distant. Knowing he might miss out on someone incredible, Jeremy has to figure out what and who he really wants. And soon. Nothing is black and white anymore.
Download or read book The Private Eye written by Bran Nicol and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Philip Marlowe and Sam Spade to Jake Gittes, private eyes have made for some of the most memorable characters in cinema. We often view these detectives as lone wolves who confront and try to make sense of a violent and chaotic modern world. Bran Nicol challenges this stereotype in The Private Eye and offers a fresh take on this iconic character and the film noir genre. Nicol traces the history of private eye movies from the influential film noirs of the 1940s to 1970s neonoir cinema, whose slow and brilliant decline gave way to the fading of detectives into movie mythology today. Analyzing a number of classic films—including The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep, Chinatown, and The Long Goodbye—he reveals that while these movies are ostensibly thrillers, they are actually occupied by issues of work and love. The private eye is not a romantic hero, Nicol argues, but a figure who investigates the concealments of others at the expense of his own private life. Combining a lucid introduction to an underexplored tradition in movie history with a new approach to the detective in film, this book casts new light on the private worlds of the private eye.
Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Private Eye Stories written by Bill Pronzini and published by Constable. This book was released on 2004 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its roots in the American private detective fiction of the 1920s but traceable back as far as Sherlock Holmes, the private eye story remains as popular as ever. Here are 26 of the finest short novels and stories from the hardboiled world of the private eye.
Download or read book Baby Monkey Private Eye written by Brian Selznick and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caldecott Medalist Brian Selznick and debut children's book author David Serlin create a dazzling new format especially for young children! A New York Times Bestselling Book An Amazon Best Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year Parents Magazine Best Early Reader of the Year "A marvel." --The New York Times "Inventive... fabulously expressive..." --San Francisco Chronicle Who is Baby Monkey? He is a baby. He is a monkey. He has a job. He is Baby Monkey, Private Eye! Lost jewels? Missing pizza? Stolen spaceship? Baby Monkey can help... if he can put on his pants! Baby Monkey's adventures come to life in an exciting blend of picture book, beginning reader, and graphic novel. With pithy text and over 120 black and white drawings accented with red, it is ideal for sharing aloud and for emerging readers.
Download or read book Gender Bending Detective Fiction written by Heather Duerre Humann and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the middle of the last century, views on gender norms have shifted dramatically. Reflecting these changes, storylines that involve cross-dressing and transgender characters have frequently appeared in detective fiction--characters who subvert the conventions of the genre and challenge reader expectations. This examination of 20th and 21st century crime novels reveals what these narratives say about gender identity and gender expression and how they contributed to the evolution of detective fiction.
Download or read book High Holiday Porn written by Eytan Bayme and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine a cross between Chelsea Handler and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer... but it's all true. High Holiday Porn is the story of an Orthodox boy in the Bronx who discovers masturbation during Passover dinner as a child, gets caught with porn on Yom Kippur, fantasizes about marrying his grade school classmate (if only he could get up the nerve to speak to her), and finally figures out that the way into a girl's pants is through her heart. But maybe the heart is all that ever mattered anyway. Eytan Bayme's hilariously honest memoir is the true story of how an anxious boy finally stops masturbating in public, gets the girl, grows up, and begrudgingly makes peace with the unfairness of life and love. It's a heartwarming, fantasy-laden, usually embarrassing, sometimes raunchy and always outrageous look at coming of age. Bayme's stories of young love, fitting in, and social pressure will resonate with anyone who ever felt awkward growing up.
Download or read book Big Hairy Drama Joey Fly Private Eye Book 2 written by Aaron Reynolds and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-11-23 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Greta Divawing, butterfly star of the Scarab Beetle Theatre, goes missing a week before the opening performance of "Bugliacci," Joey Fly is called in to investigate her puzzling disappearance.
Download or read book And Then There Were Gnomes Book 2 written by Colleen AF Venable and published by Graphic Universe ™. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sasspants, PI(G), the world's fluffiest detective, is back on the case?or she will be, if her sidekick Hamisher can convince her there's really a mystery afoot. Hamisher has made up so many stories, Sasspants doesn't believe him. But one by one the mice in Mr. Venezi's pet shop are going missing, and all the spooky clues point to...a ghost! Once our shaggy Sherlocks start digging for answers, they will stop at nothing to ferret out the truth!
Download or read book Dining Room Detectives written by Silvia Baucekova and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-04 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the structuralist understanding as proposed by John G. Cawelti, a classical detective novel is defined as a formula which contains prescribed elements and develops in a predefined, ritualistic manner. When described in this way, the crime fiction formula very closely resembles a recipe: when one cooks, they also add prescribed ingredients in a predefined way in order to produce the final dish. This surprising parallel serves as the starting point for this book’s analysis of classical detective novels by Agatha Christie. Here, a structuralist approach to Golden Age crime fiction is complemented by methodology developed in the field of food studies in order to demonstrate the twofold role that food plays in Christie’s novels: namely, its function as an element of the formula – a literary device – but also as a cultural sign. Christie employed food on various different levels of her stories in order to portray characters, construct plots, and depict settings. What is more, incorporating domesticity and food in her novels helped her fundamentally alter the rigid conventions of the crime fiction genre as it developed in the nineteenth century, and enabled her to successfully introduce the character of the female detective and to feminise the detective novel as such.
Download or read book Jimmy the Wags written by James J. Wagner and published by Berkley. This book was released on 2000-06 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gritty, outrageous memoir of life on the streets as a PI in New York. Stocked with a stellar cast of swells and skells...rarely anything but fun.' - New York Post 'James Wagner is one tough, street-smart hombre, and has some high-wire tales of the PI life to tell. But for my money, the main attraction of this brutally honest book is that it is consistently laugh-out-loud funny. You gotta love this guy.' _ Nicholas Pileggi, author of 'Casino''
Download or read book Zachary Goldman Private Investigator Cases 11 13 written by P.D. Workman and published by pd workman. This book was released on 2023-09-15 with total page 957 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ZACHARY GOLDMAN, PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR, IS FLAWED WITH A CAPITAL F. Shattered by the tragedies of his own life, he will somehow still manage to pick himself up and dig just a little bit deeper than anyone else to find the vital clues. Maybe being broken makes it easier for others who have faced tragedy to trust him. Walk with Zachary as he solves three cases that will stretch his abilities to the limit. A case is only unsolvable as long as it remains unsolved. This set includes: He Drowned in Memory When his younger brother Tyrrell goes missing, PI Zachary Goldman is anxious to find him before something bad happens to him. Or is it already too late? Their Walls Were Empty Nothing is as it appears. As Zachary digs deeper into the theft, it becomes apparent that there is far more at stake here than just some sports memorabilia. Just what has Walter put him in the middle of? They Came for Him There’s been some trouble. That was the understatement of the year. A call from private investigator Zachary Goldman’s older sister puts him on to a murder case, but this time he is trying to help the murderer rather than tracking him down. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Zachary Goldman has become one of my favorite fictional characters. He is so flawed and troubled and loyal and hardworking and, and…I want to be Zach when I grow up! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The writing is skillful, with a wonderfully complex plot and well-developed characters. Highly recommended! Looking for a gritty PI series without foul language and gore? Award-winning and USA Today Bestselling Author P.D. Workman brings you stories that delve into some of the darkest parts of society but leave you feeling good in the end Even with his own life in shambles, Zachary Goldman is still the one you want on the case. ADD ZACHARY TO YOUR BOOKSHELF TODAY.
Download or read book A Drink Before the War written by Dennis Lehane and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2003 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Bost, PIs Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro investigate the death of an African-American cleaning lady, gunned down in a burst of Uzi fire. A tale of street gang violence and of the racial divide between black and irish.
Download or read book Drink the Tea written by Thomas Kaufman and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2010-03-02 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Willis Gidney is a born liar and rip-off artist, an expert at the scam. Growing up without parents or a home, by age twelve he is a successful young man, running his own small empire, until he meets Shadrack Davies. That's Captain Shadrack Davies, of the D.C. Police. Davies wants to reform Gidney and becomes his foster father. Though he tries not to, Gidney learns a small amount of ethics from Shad---just enough to bother a kid from the streets for the rest of his life. Now Gidney is a PI, walking those same streets. So it's no surprise that when his closest friend, jazz saxophonist Steps Jackson, asks Gidney to find his missing daughter, Gidney is compelled to say yes---even though she's been missing for twenty-five years. He finds a woman who may be the girl's mother--and within hours she turns up dead. The police accuse Gidney of the murder and throw him in jail. Maybe Gidney should quit while he's behind. But when his investigation puts him up against a ruthless multinational corporation, a two-faced congressman, and a young woman desperate to conceal her past, Gidney has no time left for second thoughts. In fact, he may have no time left at all. Thomas Kaufman is a winner of the PWA Best First Private Eye Novel Competition. His debut novel, Drink the Tea, which boasts an original PI and an engaging cast of characters, adds a fresh perspective to the genre.
Download or read book Zachary Goldman Private Investigator Cases 1 13 written by P.D. Workman and published by pd workman. This book was released on with total page 2430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ZACHARY GOLDMAN, PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR, IS FLAWED WITH A CAPITAL F. Shattered by the tragedies of his own life, he will somehow still manage to pick himself up and dig just a little bit deeper than anyone else to find the vital clues. Maybe being broken makes it easier for others who have faced tragedy to trust him. Walk with Zachary as he solves cases that will stretch his abilities to the limit. A case is only unsolvable as long as it remains unsolved. This set includes: She Wore Mourning His Hands Were Quiet She Was Dying Anyway He was walking alone They Thought he was Safe He was not there Her Work was Everything She told a Lie He Never Forgot She was at Risk He Drowned in Memory Their Walls Were Empty They Came for Him ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Zachary Goldman has become one of my favorite fictional characters. He is so flawed and troubled and loyal and hardworking and, and…I want to be Zach when I grow up! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The writing is skillful, with a wonderfully complex plot and well-developed characters. Highly recommended! Looking for a gritty PI series without foul language and gore? Award-winning and USA Today Bestselling Author P.D. Workman brings you stories that delve into some of the darkest parts of society but leave you feeling good in the end Even with his own life in shambles, Zachary Goldman is still the one you want on the case. ADD ZACHARY TO YOUR BOOKSHELF TODAY.
Download or read book When the Sacred Ginmill Closes written by Lawrence Block and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the dark days, in a sad and lonely place, ex-cop Matt Scudder is drinking his life away -- and doing "favors" for pay for his ginmill cronies. But when three such assignments flow together in dangerous and disturbing ways, he'll need to change his priorities from boozing to surviving.
