Download or read book Death Wears Yellow Garters written by Rae D. Magdon and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-25 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jay Venkatesan's life was going pretty great. She had Nicole--her perfect new girlfriend--and her anxiety was mostly under control. But when Nicole's grandfather dies under mysterious circumstances at his 70th birthday party, Jay is thrown into a tailspin. Her eccentric Aunt Mimi is determined to solve the mystery no matter what she thinks about it, and the police are eyeing Nicole as one of their prime suspects. No matter how often Jay insists that real life isn't like one of her aunt's crime novels, she finds herself dragged along for the ride as the mystery unravels and the shocking truth comes to light.
Download or read book The Simple Art of Murder written by Raymond Chandler and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Simple Art of Murder" by Raymond Chandler. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book Twentieth Century Crime Fiction written by Lee Horsley and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-08-25 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction aims to enhance understanding of one of the most popular forms of genre fiction by examining a wide variety of the detective and crime fiction produced in Britain and America during the twentieth century. It will be of interest to anyone who enjoys reading crime fiction but is specifically designed with the needs of students in mind. It introduces different theoretical approaches to crime fiction (e.g., formalist, historicist, psychoanalytic, postcolonial, feminist) and will be a useful supplement to a range of crime fiction courses, whether they focus on historical contexts, ideological shifts, the emergence of sub-genres, or the application of critical theories. Forty-seven widely available stories and novels are chosen for detailed discussion. In seeking to illuminate the relationship between different phases of generic development Lee Horsley employs an overlapping historical framework, with sections doubling back chronologically in order to explore the extent to which successive transformations have their roots within the earlier phases of crime writing, as well as responding in complex ways to the preoccupations and anxieties of their own eras. The first part of the study considers the nature and evolution of the main sub-genres of crime fiction: the classic and hard-boiled strands of detective fiction, the non-investigative crime novel (centred on transgressors or victims), and the 'mixed' form of the police procedural. The second half of the study examines the ways in which writers have used crime fiction as a vehicle for socio-political critique. These chapters consider the evolution of committed, oppositional strategies, tracing the development of politicized detective and crime fiction, from Depression-era protests against economic injustice to more recent decades which have seen writers launching protests against ecological crimes, rampant consumerism, Reaganomics, racism, and sexism.
Download or read book Great Writers on the Art of Fiction written by James Daley and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-12-19 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An indispensable source of advice and inspiration, this anthology features essays by Henry James, Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, Sinclair Lewis, Jack London, Raymond Chandler, Raymond Carver, Eudora Welty, and Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Download or read book Delphi Complete Works of Raymond Chandler Illustrated written by Raymond Chandler and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2020-07-29 with total page 3959 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American author of detective fiction, Raymond Chandler created the private detective Philip Marlowe, characterised as a poor, yet honest upholder of ideals in an opportunistic and brutal world. In total, Chandler completed seven novels, all featuring Philip Marlowe as their hero, many of which were adapted for the silver screen as film noir classics. As a founder of the hard-boiled school of detective fiction, Chandler was lionised by critics and leading writers, including W. H. Auden, Evelyn Waugh and Ian Fleming, who admired his literary prose and pithy dialogue. Chandler's innovative approach helped redefine the private eye fiction genre, winning him the designation of the most lyrical of the major crime writers. This comprehensive eBook presents Chandler’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Chandler’s life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * All 7 novels, with individual contents tables * Features the unfinished novel, ‘The Poodle Springs Story’, appearing here for the first time in digital publishing * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Rare short stories available in no other collection * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories * Easily locate the stories you want to read * Includes Chandler’s rare poetry, his first published works – available in no other eBook * Rare essays and reviews * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres Please note: Chandler’s film scripts and the short story ‘English Summer’ cannot appear in this edition, due to copyright restrictions. CONTENTS: The Novels The Big Sleep (1939) Farewell, My Lovely (1940) The High Window (1942) The Lady in the Lake (1943) The Little Sister (1949) The Long Good-bye (1953) Playback (1958) The Poodle Springs Story (1962) The Short Stories The Short Stories of Raymond Chandler The Poetry The Poetry of Raymond Chandler The Non-Fiction Essays and Reviews Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks
Download or read book America Is Elsewhere written by Erik Dussere and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study conceives the literary and cinematic category of 'noir' as a way of understanding the defining conflict between authenticity and consumer culture in post-World War II America. It analyses works of fiction and film in order to argue that both contribute to a 'noir tradition' that is initiated around the end of World War II and continues to develop and evolve in the present.
Download or read book Death by Pen written by Deane Mansfield-Kelley and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 2007 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents stories about amateur detectives, private investigators, and the police from the nineteenth century origins of detective fiction to the present, along with critical articles on the genre.
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Download or read book Detective Fiction Crime and Compromise written by Dick Allen and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P. This book was released on 1974 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology, which may be used for a college class on detective and mystery fiction, includes short stories, selected passages from novels, two poems, and a final section of essays by writers in the genre. Each selection is followed by analytical questions. Includes an appendix: Topics for writing and research; and a bibliography: Suggestions for further reading.
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