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Book Love Has No Alibi

    Book Details:
  • Author : Octavus Roy Cohen
  • Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
  • Release : 2019-02-04
  • ISBN : 1479449601
  • Pages : 149 pages

Download or read book Love Has No Alibi written by Octavus Roy Cohen and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2019-02-04 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One man stood in the way of the happiness of Kirk Douglas and lovely Dana Warren. That man was Ricardo Sanchez, her husband and dancing partner, who refused to give her a divorce. Otherwise life was pleasant for Kirk -- until someone banked $100,000 in his name and a strange girl was killed in his apartment. Lieutenant Max Gold of Homicide tried to crack the case fast with Kirk as his chief suspect, but ran into trouble after Candy Livingston, queen of the smart-set, made a play for Kirk and the killer struck again -- this time in the Club Caliente, where Dana and Ricardo danced. A suave, sophisticated Manhattan melodrama told against the backdrop of cafe society.

Book For the Love of Psychoanalysis

Download or read book For the Love of Psychoanalysis written by Elizabeth Rottenberg and published by Fordham University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the Love of Psychoanalysis is a book about what exceeds or resists calculation—in life and in death. Rottenberg examines what emerges from the difference between psychoanalysis and philosophy. Part I, “Freuderrida,” announces a non-traditional Freud: a Freud associated not with sexuality, repression, unconsciousness, and symbolization, but with accidents and chance. Looking at accidents both in and of Freud’s writing, Rottenberg elaborates the unexpected insights that both produce and disrupt our received ideas of psychoanalytic theory. Whether this disruption is figured as a foreign body, as traumatic temporality, as spatial unlocatability, or as the death drive, it points to something that is neither simply inside nor simply outside the psyche, neither psychically nor materially determined. Whereas the close reading of Freud leaves us open to the accidents of psychoanalytic writing, Part II, “Freuderrida,” addresses itself to what transports us back and limits the openness of our horizon. Here the example par excellence is the death penalty and the cruelty of its calculating decision. If “Freuderrida” insists on the death penalty, if it returns to it compulsively, it is not only because its calculating drive is inseparable from the history of reason as philosophical reason; it is also because the death penalty provides us with one of the most spectacular and spectacularly obscene expressions of Freud’s death drive. Written with rigor, elegance, and wit, this book will be essential reading for anyone interested in Freud, Derrida, and the many critical debates to which their thought gives rise.

Book BEHIND CLOSED DOORS

Download or read book BEHIND CLOSED DOORS written by Susan Joyner-Stumpf and Ann Landrum Stockstill and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-01-08 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BEHIND CLOSED DOORS will actually open doors for you. It is the hope of Ann Landrum Stockstill and Susan Joyner-Stumpf that you will find this book informative enough to give you the tools of what to look for in any relationship that could possibly be dealing with Narcissistic, Psychopathic and Sociopathic personalities. At that point, you can make your own decision if the abuse is something you can live with or not. This book also deals with Childhood Sexual Abuse that I suffered as a child as well as Domestic Violence, other forms of abuse, and Bullying. Become a Survivor, not a Victim. You deserve more than pain, heartache, fear and sorrow. OPEN the door to those CLOSED doors and be free again.

Book The Mystery Fancier  Vol  1 No  6  November 1977

Download or read book The Mystery Fancier Vol 1 No 6 November 1977 written by Guy M. Townsend and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mystery Fancier, Volume 1 Number 6, November 1977, contains: "Raymond Chandler on Film: An Annotated Checklist, Part I," by Peter Pross, "The Degeneration of Donald Hamilton," by George Kelley, "The Mysterious John Dickson Carr," by Larry L. French, and "The Nero Wolfe Saga, Part IV," by Guy M. Townsend.

Book Love Has No Gender   Gay Classics Collection

Download or read book Love Has No Gender Gay Classics Collection written by Oscar Wilde and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 3277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: June is the Pride month and we have hand-picked the greatest queer classics to spread love and positivity. This collector's collection is a testimony to the versatile writers and poets from the past whose works were throughout the ages - subversive, celebratory, or simply in your face. So come and celebrate the month of love and acceptance. Content: The Picture of Dorian Gray Mrs. Dalloway Joseph and His Friend Regiment of Women Bertram Cope's Year The Green Carnation This Finer Shadow Cecil Dreeme The Satyricon The Sins of the Cities of the Plain Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics The History of Sir Richard Calmady Carmilla

Book When You Love a Prodigal

Download or read book When You Love a Prodigal written by Judy Douglass and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Loving a prodigal is a long and desperate journey, filled with fear, worry, anger, self- recrimination. You wait for the phone call--will it be from jail or the hospital? You plead with your loved one. You search for help. You feel the shame. You cry out to God, "How long, Lord?" Author Judy Douglass knows these lovers of prodigals well. She is one herself and has created a large and growing community with others. When You Love a Prodigal is a collection of 90 essays--90 days of perspective on what God offers to you as you love your prodigal. At the end of each brief essay, response questions will help you process how God intends to use the wilderness journey to mold your spiritual life. You can work through it day by day, or you can read it straight through. Judy has traveled this road with her own prodigal--reading, learning, praying, and seeking God. Over and over he continued to give her wisdom, he sustained her, he covered her with grace, and he filled her with hope. May you, too, be strengthened and filled with hope as together you discover how God will take you through your own valley.

Book Novel Education

    Book Details:
  • Author : Deborah P. Britzman
  • Publisher : Peter Lang
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9780820481487
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book Novel Education written by Deborah P. Britzman and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2006 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is a novel education like? The surprising reply supposes that fiction affects the crisis of understanding work within the human professions of teaching and psychoanalysis. The studies of learning and not learning presented begin with the delicate surprise made from representing affective experiences and conflicts within self/other relations. Freud's question of presenting psychoanalysis to others, and the accidental pedagogy made, continues to animate our debates on the uses of affected learning. Novel Education analyzes the perils and pleasures of inviting, narrating, and interpreting emotional experience in learning and not learning. Drawing upon contemporary psychoanalytic debates on the relation between understanding and therapeutic action, these studies open discussion on the unusual world of psychoanalytic methods and link free association and the transference to the aesthetic conflicts made from thinking about sexuality, and the difficulties of inhibition in learning, listening, and the teacher's memory of remembering learning to teach. Novel Education highlights a discussion of the teacher's depression and the difficulty of formulating subjective knowledge from practices, philosophies, and theories in the human professions. It raises the question of how fields of thought and practice affect themselves. How may we describe the human idiom made in pedagogical and psychoanalytic relationships? And why join learning to not learning? This thought-provoking book is essential reading on a broad range of fields for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as faculty members.

Book Alabama Biographical Dictionary

Download or read book Alabama Biographical Dictionary written by Jan Onofrio and published by Somerset Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alabama Biographical Dictionary contains biographies on hundreds of persons from diverse vocations that were either born, achieved notoriety and/or died in the state of Alabama. Prominent persons, in addition to the less eminent, that have played noteworthy roles are included in this resource. When people are recognized from your state or locale it brings a sense of pride to the residents of the entire state.

Book Black Cypress

    Book Details:
  • Author : Frances Crane
  • Publisher : St. Swithin Press
  • Release : 2013-11-14
  • ISBN : 1927716179
  • Pages : 189 pages

Download or read book Black Cypress written by Frances Crane and published by St. Swithin Press. This book was released on 2013-11-14 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Bodies and bafflement galore in multi-murderous tale with considerable Hollywood glitter, ample suspense, and breathless conclusion. Nice gory going.”—The Saturday Review Pat and Jean are invited by distant relatives to stay at the Black Cypress estate in Laguna Beach. It seems that one of the Abbotts’ less-than-pleasant distant relations, Enid Ponsonby, is being watched with a murderous eye, and Pat and Jean are called in for their sleuthing talents. As a welcoming act, an expert knife thrower offers Jean a pointy death, which she barely has the chance to decline. The next morning a ne’er-do-well visiting from New Orleans is found on the property at the base of a cliff, having taken a shortcut to the bottom. The Abbotts face a cast of characters whose dysfunctional relationships with one another ensure the case is no walk on the beach.

Book The Fourth Postman

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  • Author : Craig Rice
  • Publisher : St. Swithin Press
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 1927551218
  • Pages : 232 pages

Download or read book The Fourth Postman written by Craig Rice and published by St. Swithin Press. This book was released on with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fourth Postman by Craig Rice, the first mystery writer to be featured on the cover of Time magazine. “Plot and people as wacky as ever, with busted Malone and chicken-poxed Justuses supplying plenty of comedy and, surprisingly, much intriguing sleuthing. Verdict: Fun.”—The Saturday Review “Why can’t all murders be as funny as those concocted by Craig Rice?”—The New York Times 1 Postman! 2 Postmen! 3 Postmen! All murdered! John J. Malone sticks his nose into the case of the dead postmen and picks up a crack on the head, an Australian beer hound, and six redheaded twins. It all begins when he takes on a new client, Rodney Fairfaxx. Rodney was tabbed for the postmen murders because he hadn’t received a letter from a dead girl for more than 30 years. Malone doesn’t think that this is enough reason to kill, but he can’t prove it. … “A1.”—Kirkus Reviews

Book The Man in Gray

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  • Author : Frances Crane
  • Publisher : St. Swithin Press
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 1927716136
  • Pages : 186 pages

Download or read book The Man in Gray written by Frances Crane and published by St. Swithin Press. This book was released on with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Man in Gray was published in the United Kingdom as The Gray Stranger “ ‘Now, what’s an enologist?’ I asked the dog. In reply he began to bark furiously and rushed at the front door. He yowled as if in panic.” An enologist is one who studies wine. Daniel Vincent Willoz was one who studied wine until someone put a murderous end to his enological practices. As is often the case, Willoz spent too much time on enology and too little on toxicology. The good news is that Jean and Pat Abbott are present to solve this fiendishly complex murder puzzle set in San Francisco.

Book The Amber Eyes

    Book Details:
  • Author : Frances Crane
  • Publisher : St. Swithin Press
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 1927716071
  • Pages : 191 pages

Download or read book The Amber Eyes written by Frances Crane and published by St. Swithin Press. This book was released on with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Nasty characters and clues pointing off in all directions—quite good.”—The Miami News When some new neighbors move in near the San Francisco home of Pat and Jean Abbott they seem to be a very strange family indeed, and soon they present as puzzling and as nasty a series of attempted murders and suspicious deaths as one could find in the annals of crime. First a child is found dead (suffocation? poison? or both?). Pat Abbott is engaged by one of the grown daughters to investigate, but Homicide is called in, in the person of the saturnine Inspector Sam Bradish and his imperturbable sergeant, Cohen. There are plenty of suspects, for, they find, nearly every one of the Alby family had both motive and opportunity for killing the child. There are various attempts upon the lives of the people involved, including the lovelorn Rona, second wife of Dr. Alby, she of the amber eyes, who would readily sacrifice a fortune for the sleek Don Quayle, who isn’t quite so insensible to the uses of money. Then there is the attempt to kill the elder sister and Rona’s wild swing when she takes a shot at Pat Abbott. Finally Pat uncovers the ugly story of an earlier murder, and the pattern begins to take form. In his masterly reconstruction of the series of crimes, Pat takes a knife thrust which is not serious but which puts the final confirmation on his deductions. Action, Jean’s bright chatter, interesting people—a thoroughly readable and absorbing murder mystery.

Book Murder in Bright Red

    Book Details:
  • Author : Frances Crane
  • Publisher : St. Swithin Press
  • Release : 2013-11-14
  • ISBN : 1927716195
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book Murder in Bright Red written by Frances Crane and published by St. Swithin Press. This book was released on 2013-11-14 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pat and Jean Abbott, visiting relatives in a rich oil town, are called on to clear a pretty air-line hostess, Sally Carroll, who is suspected of having murdered her old beau. By the time the Abbotts arrive on the scene, there has been a curious change of policy: nobody wants them on the case, not the cousin and heir of the dead man, not his widow, and especially not the sheriff. Perversely, they decide to stay. Pat is shot at by a man who is supposed to be helping them, and Jean is buried in an abandoned well by a woman who claims to be on their side. Then a car they think is a friend’s crashes them into a ditch. Nevertheless they stick with the job until they come up with a solution that is both surprising and satisfying—but they cannot prevent the killer from claiming a second victim. “Pro Handling”—The Saturday Review “Congenial and confiding.”—Kirkus

Book Fatal Descent

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Dickson Carr
  • Publisher : St. Swithin Press
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 1927551560
  • Pages : 229 pages

Download or read book Fatal Descent written by John Dickson Carr and published by St. Swithin Press. This book was released on with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fatal Descent by John Dickson Carr and Cecil Street (writing as Carter Dickson and John Rhode) Carr and Street “are such expert mystery-mongers that their collaboration could scarcely fail to produce something extra special in the bafflement line. Fatal Descent is all of that.”—The New York Times “London publisher shot in automatic elevator. Dr. Horatio Glass and Insp. Hornbeam pool wits—and humor—to spot the killer. Neat variation of good old ‘hermetically sealed room’ problem, with two authors—and their sleuths—working beautifully in harness. Verdict: Top Drawer”—The Saturday Review A seemingly impossible murder in a private elevator draws two sleuths to the case. Inspector Hornbeam and Dr. Horatio Glass are at odds from the beginning, each dismissive of the other’s theories, thus creating an atmosphere as much of competition as cooperation. From the novel: The elevator was perhaps six feet square by eight feet high, with steel walls painted to imitate bronze. Sir Ernest Tallant sat very quietly in the rear right-hand corner. His legs were outthrust stiffly, his back bent a little forward; and the brim of the rakish gray hat shaded his face. He might have been a grotesque parody of Little Jack Horner, if it had not been for the widening bloodstains on the left breast of his jacket. His umbrella lay beside him, also looking oddly childish like his posture. Under each roof corner of the elevator there was a tiny electric light; these four little lights illumined even the wrinkles on the backs of the man’s hands, and glittered on the pieces of broken glass. Published in the United Kingdom as Drop to His Death

Book Death on the Boat Train

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Rhode
  • Publisher : St. Swithin Press
  • Release : 2013-11-18
  • ISBN : 1927551978
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book Death on the Boat Train written by John Rhode and published by St. Swithin Press. This book was released on 2013-11-18 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “One always embarks on a John Rhode book with a great sense of security. One knows that there will be a sound plot, well-knit process of reasoning, and a solidly satisfying solution with no loose ends or careless errors of fact.”—Dorothy Sayers From the Jacket: Fair blew the wind from France, and the Channel steamer Isle of Jethou rolled a bit in the stiff south-westerly breeze. But the rough crossing didn’t upset the mysterious passenger who had locked himself into his cabin as soon as he boarded the boat at Guernsey. The same desire for seclusion had manifested itself on the boat-train to Waterloo, for the guard had been presented with a pound-note to reserve a compartment for Mr. Mystery. But did he travel alone? For at Waterloo the gentleman from Guernsey was a pretty genuine corpse. Death on the Boat-Train is a first-rate detective story, once again featuring the coldly clever scientific mind of Dr. Priestley, John Rhode’s brilliant creation.

Book Name Your Poison

    Book Details:
  • Author : Helen Reilly
  • Publisher : St. Swithin Press
  • Release : 2012-08
  • ISBN : 1927551269
  • Pages : 237 pages

Download or read book Name Your Poison written by Helen Reilly and published by St. Swithin Press. This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As McKee follows the trail of a very ambitious poisoner, he finds the next victim on her way from a Connecticut mansion...stuffed in a trunk. "Svelte story...The gentle Scot, McKee, gets at the truth after many consequences. [Reilly's] smooth, romantic manner always pleases."--Kirkus Reviews "The best Inspector McKee mystery yet! Highly emotional, intricately plotted, and tough to guess."--The New York Herald "Verdict: Satisfying"--The Saturday Review From the cover: - An unwelcome box of orange blossoms...a syllable uttered by a dying woman...A leopard-skin coat worn by a messenger of death...a pearl button in a tiny pool of melted snow... A nearly empty coca-cola bottle...A blue wool thread at the bottom of a flight of stairs...A series of cork-tipped Egyptian cigarettes...A snatch of music between the gusts of a snowstorm... A golden box with very deadly contents - A shabby old trunk with very dead contents...a telephone call from a murderer...A single galosh half buried in the snow...A blank sheet of paper showing some curious embossings...a spent bullet in the fold of a shirt... Wouldn't You Like To Know-- - Why Mouse was crying dreadfully in the night? - Who sent her the box of orange blossoms? - What was on the card she tore up and burned? - What caused the peculiar gathering of forces at the Biltmore? - What was behind the four mysterious and meaningless deaths by poison? - What caused the dark fear which gnawed at Julie? - Who was in the living-room when Julie listened at the door? - What Rosetta Westing was doing in Brian's garage? - Why the elegant Conroy was stopping at a shabby roadhouse in Easton? - Who tried to climb in Julie's window? - What was the significance of Julie's sinister dream? You will learn the answers to these questions in the unfolding of one of the grimmest and most perplexing manhunts in Inspector McKee's spectacular career.

Book The Farmhouse

    Book Details:
  • Author : Helen Reilly
  • Publisher : St. Swithin Press
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 1927551765
  • Pages : 211 pages

Download or read book The Farmhouse written by Helen Reilly and published by St. Swithin Press. This book was released on with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Nell Shevlin’s womanly intuition works overtime after she arrives at her old homestead to rest and ponder a proposal of marriage. …Miss Reilly again reveals her artistry by producing a tale in which terror and menace are well sustained and provide a congruous background for McKee to wind up one of his best cases to date.”—The New York Times From the jacket: The shadow of a ruthless killer creeps over a quiet countryside as fear and suspense mount steadily and explode in a crashing climax. Questions abound: Why lanterns are lit each evening on the graves of the four dead Vestry sisters? Why a woman wearing black net stockings and shoes with four-inch heels walks country lanes at night? How a used bus ticket reveals an ingenious blackmail plot? What is the reason for Wick’s strange relationship with the breathtakingly beautiful Rita? Why flowers are heaped on a grave where no one is buried? You will learn the answers as you read this ingenious story of death and terror. Where will the clues and events lead you? A human hand sticking out of a puddle after a rainstorm ... An oil painting of a lady in red ... A pistol found in a pond . . . Blood seeping out from under an attic doorway . . . Lanterns, lighted each day at dusk, on four marble headstones in a quiet country graveyard ... A bullet hidden in the finger of a pigskin glove . . . Rifle shots that shatter the quiet (and a window) of a peaceful farmhouse... . A briefcase hidden among blackberry bushes . . . Oil dripping slowly from a tank that should have been empty . . . Exchange of carpets in an upstairs bedroom ... A powerful narcotic discarded for a quicker and more brutal method of committing murder . . . Filmy yellow silk knotted tightly about a shapely throat . . . murder and violence in a peaceful farming community.