Download or read book The Best Martin Hewitt Detective Stories written by Arthur Morrison and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2017-10-18 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sherlock Holmes's contemporary solves nine mysteries that include a rash of jewel robberies, the theft of a sacred relic, a suicide that might have been a murder, and other intriguing cases.
Download or read book The Best Martin Hewitt Detective Stories written by Arthur Morrison and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2017-09-20 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sherlock Holmes's contemporary solves nine mysteries that include a rash of jewel robberies, the theft of a sacred relic, a suicide that might have been a murder, and other intriguing cases.
Download or read book Martin Hewitt Investigator written by Arthur Morrison and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic detective fiction by one of the earliest rivals of Sherlock Holmes. This book contains seven exciting stories featuring Martin Hewitt.
Download or read book Martin Hewitt the Complete Collection 25 Cases written by Arthur Morrison and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-23 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur George Morrison (1863 - 1945) was an English writer and journalist known for his realistic novels and stories about working-class life in London's East End, and for his detective stories, featuring the detective Martin Hewitt. This was an extraordinarily successful collection of short stories, originally in four volumes (but all collected in this book), of a detective that was called "The Sherlock Holmes of the Working Class", and whose adventures have survived as classics.MARTIN HEWITTTHE COMPLETE 25 CASES IN FOUR BOOKSMartin Hewitt, InvestigatorChronicles Of Martin HewittAdventures Of Martin HewittThe Red Triangle: Further Chronicles Of Martin Hewitt
Download or read book The Best Dr Thorndyke Detective Stories written by R. Austin Freeman and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2017-07-18 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight compelling tales by "the father of the scientific detective story" feature inverted mysteries, in which crime and culprit are revealed at the outset and Dr. Thorndyke formulates evidence from subtle clues.
Download or read book Purity and Contamination in Late Victorian Detective Fiction written by Dr Christopher Pittard and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concentrating on works by authors such as Fergus Hume, Arthur Conan Doyle, Grant Allen, L.T. Meade, and Marie Belloc Lowndes, Christopher Pittard explores the complex relation between the emergence of detective fictions in the 1880s and 1890s and the concept of purity. The centrality of material and moral purity as a theme of the genre, Pittard argues, both reflected and satirised a contemporary discourse of degeneration in which criminality was equated with dirt and disease and where national boundaries were guarded against the threat of the criminal foreigner. Situating his discussion within the ideologies underpinning George Newnes's Strand Magazine as well as a wide range of nonfiction texts, Pittard demonstrates that the genre was a response to the seductive and impure delights associated with sensation and gothic novels. Further, Pittard suggests that criticism of detective fiction has in turn become obsessed with the idea of purity, thus illustrating how a genre concerned with policing the impure itself became subject to the same fear of contamination. Contributing to the richness of Pittard's project are his discussions of the convergence of medical discourse and detective fiction in the 1890s, including the way social protest movements like the antivivisectionist campaigns and medical explorations of criminality raised questions related to moral purity.
Download or read book Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms written by Gerard Russell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite its reputation for religious intolerance, the Middle East has long sheltered many distinctive and strange faiths: one regards the Greek prophets as incarnations of God, another reveres Lucifer in the form of a peacock, and yet another believes that their followers are reincarnated beings who have existed in various forms for thousands of years. These religions represent the last vestiges of the magnificent civilizations in ancient history: Persia, Babylon, Egypt in the time of the Pharaohs. Their followers have learned how to survive foreign attacks and the perils of assimilation. But today, with the Middle East in turmoil, they face greater challenges than ever before. In Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms, former diplomat Gerard Russell ventures to the distant, nearly impassable regions where these mysterious religions still cling to survival. He lives alongside the Mandaeans and Ezidis of Iraq, the Zoroastrians of Iran, the Copts of Egypt, and others. He learns their histories, participates in their rituals, and comes to understand the threats to their communities. Historically a tolerant faith, Islam has, since the early 20th century, witnessed the rise of militant, extremist sects. This development, along with the rippling effects of Western invasion, now pose existential threats to these minority faiths. And as more and more of their youth flee to the West in search of greater freedoms and job prospects, these religions face the dire possibility of extinction. Drawing on his extensive travels and archival research, Russell provides an essential record of the past, present, and perilous future of these remarkable religions.
Download or read book Among the Red Stars written by Gwen C. Katz and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A suspenseful historical YA debut inspired by the true story of an all-female bomber unit in Russia during World War II. World War II has erupted in Valka’s homeland of Russia, and Valka is determined to help the effort. She’s a pilot—and a good one—so she eagerly joins an all-female bomber regiment. Flying has always meant freedom and exhilaration for Valka, but dropping bombs on German targets is something else entirely. The raids are dangerous, but as Valka watches her fellow pilots putting everything on the line in the face of treachery, she learns the true meaning of bravery. As the war intensifies, though, and those around her fall, Valka must decide how much she is willing to risk to defend the skies she once called home. Inspired by the true story of a famous all-female Russian bomber regiment, Gwen C. Katz weaves a tale of strength and sacrifice, of learning to fight for yourself, and of the perils of a world at war.
Download or read book Detection by Gaslight written by Douglas G. Greene and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-05-04 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen extraordinary Victorian and Edwardian crime stories by Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jacques Futrelle, G. K. Chesterton, and others — many never before published in book form.
Download or read book Rivals of Sherlock Holmes written by Alan K. Russell and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tales of Mean Streets written by Arthur Morrison and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-08-05 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Tales of Mean Streets by Arthur Morrison
Download or read book The Mystery Fancier Vol 1 No 5 September 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 5, September 1977, contains: "Piercing the Closed Circle: The Technique of Point of View in Works by P. D. James," by Jane S. Bakerman, "Fear and Loathing With the Lone Wolf," by George Kelley, "The Avon Classic Crime Collection," by Jeff Meyerson, and "The Nero Wolfe Saga, Part III," by Guy M. Townsend.
Download or read book Queen s Quorum written by Ellery Queen and published by Biblo & Tannen Publishers. This book was released on 1969 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book L A WOMAN written by Eve Babitz and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soon to be a TV show on Hulu Eve Babitz is a writer like no other—she “is to prose what Chet Baker is to jazz” (Vanity Fair)—and she has influenced a generation of writers and readers with her sophisticated, witty, and delightful work. L.A. Woman is quintessential Babitz, the story of Sophie, a twenty-something blonde Jim Morrison groupie gliding through a golden existence in L.A. and Lola, a German immigrant who settles in Hollywood in the twenties to drive Pierce Arrows recklessly down Sunset Boulevard and who knows that Maybelline mascara cakes and Rudolph Valentino are the essence of life. Sophie and Lola, like the many other women who move in and out of this electric saga know that while L.A. is constantly changing it is essentially eternal; through their eyes we see the mixture of high culture and low, the promises of youth and the fulfillment of nostalgia, the pink sunsets and the palm trees that are L.A. And through this fantastic tale, Babitz shares what it is to be a woman in what she convinces us is the capital of civilization.
Download or read book The Man Who Walked Through Time written by Colin Fletcher and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable classic of nature writing by the first man ever to have walked the entire length of the Grand Canyon.
Download or read book British Detective Fiction 1891 1901 written by Clare Clarke and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-13 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the developments in British serial detective fiction which took place in the seven years when Sherlock Holmes was dead. In December 1893, at the height of Sherlock’s popularity with the Strand Magazine’s worldwide readership, Arthur Conan Doyle killed off his detective. At the time, he firmly believed that Holmes would not be resurrected. This book introduces and showcases a range of Sherlock’s most fascinating successors, exploring the ways in which a huge range of popular magazines and newspapers clamoured to ensnare Sherlock’s bereft fans. The book’s case-study format examines a range of detective series-- created by L.T. Meade; C.L. Pirkis; Arthur Morrison; Fergus Hume; Richard Marsh; Kate and Vernon Hesketh-Prichard— that filled the pages of a variety of periodicals, from plush monthly magazines to cheap newspapers, in the years while Sherlock was dead. Readers will be introduced to an array of detectives—professional and amateur, male and female, old and young; among them a pawn-shop worker, a scientist, a British aristocrat, a ghost-hunter. The study of these series shows that there was life after Sherlock and proves that there is much to learn about the development of the detective genre from the successors to Sherlock Holmes. “In this brilliant, incisive study of late Victorian detective fiction, Clarke emphatically shows us there is life beyond Sherlock Holmes. Rich in contextual detail and with her customary eye for the intricacies of publishing history, Clarke’s wonderfully accessible book brings to the fore a collection of hitherto neglected writers simultaneously made possible but pushed to the margins by Conan Doyle’s most famous creation.” — Andrew Pepper,, Senior Lecturer in English and American Literature, Queen's University, Belfast Professor Clarke's superb new book, British Detective : The Successors to Sherlock Holmes, is required reading for anyone interested in Victorian crime and detective fiction. Building on her award-winning first monograph, Late-Victorian Crime Fiction in the Shadows of Sherlock, Dr. Clarke further explores the history of serial detective fiction published after the "death" of Conan Doyle's famous detective in 1893. This is a path-breaking book that advances scholarship in the field of late-Victorian detective fiction while at the same time introducing non-specialist readers to a treasure trove of stories that indeed rival the Sherlock Holmes series in their ability to puzzle and entertain the most discerning reader. — Alexis Easley, Professor of English, University of St.Paul, Minnesota
Download or read book The Mystery Fancier Vol 2 No 1 January 1978 written by Guy M. Townsend and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mystery Fancier, Volume 2 Number 1, January 1978, contains: "The Professorial Sleuth of Roy Winsor," by Larry L. French, "The Vengeance Novels of Brian Garfield," by George Kelley, "Miscellaneous Mystery Mis-Mash," by Marvin Lachman, "Chance and Illogic and The Black Box Murder," by E. F. Bleiler, "An Index of Books Reviewed in TMF Volume 1 (Including the Preview Issue)," compiled by Jeff Meyerson, and "The Nero Wolfe Saga, Part V," by Guy M. Townsend.
