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Book The Compleat Adventures of Chevalier Dupin

Download or read book The Compleat Adventures of Chevalier Dupin written by Michael Harrison and published by Shelburne, Ont. : Battered Silicon Dispatch Box. This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Chevalier Dupin

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  • Author : Paul J. Alpers
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Download or read book The Chevalier Dupin written by Paul J. Alpers and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Exploits of the Chevalier Dupin

Download or read book The Exploits of the Chevalier Dupin written by Quentin Downes and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Exploits of the Chevalier Dupin

Download or read book The Exploits of the Chevalier Dupin written by Michael Harrison and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales written as an homage to Edgar Allan Poe's creation, C. Auguste Dupin.

Book The Exploits of the Chevalier Dupin     With an Introduction by Ellery Queen

Download or read book The Exploits of the Chevalier Dupin With an Introduction by Ellery Queen written by Michael HARRISON (Novelist) and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Canadian Books in Print  Author and Title Index

Download or read book Canadian Books in Print Author and Title Index written by and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 1610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Private Lives of Private Eyes  Spies  Crimefighters   Other Good Guys

Download or read book The Private Lives of Private Eyes Spies Crimefighters Other Good Guys written by Otto Penzler and published by New York : Grosset & Dunlap. This book was released on 1977 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Contains a collection of 25 'biographies' of some of the greatest crimefighters of our time. Includes James Bond, Father Brown, Nick and Nora Charles, Sherlock Holmes, Miss Marple, Sam Spade, Nero Wolfe and others." -- Amazon.com viewed January 29, 2021.

Book Edgar Allan Poe and the Empire of the Dead

Download or read book Edgar Allan Poe and the Empire of the Dead written by Karen Lee Street and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thrilling historical mystery about mesmerism and magic, the shadows of the past, and the endurance of love—the third novel in the author’s acclaimed Poe and Dupin series. “And I prayed that I would find a way to tell my most honorable friend, the Chevalier C. Auguste Dupin, the truth about how I had finally been murdered and by whom.”—EAP Summer, 1849. When Edgar Allan Poe travels to Paris to help his dear friend hunt down the elusive criminal who bought the Dupin family to ruin during the French Revolution, the sleuthing duo are engaged by the prefect of police to recover the stolen letter of an infamous Parisian salonnière. Is the thief one of the French literary greats who attend her salons, or might it be Dupin’s own enemy who is scheming to become the Emperor of France? Poe and Dupin are quickly embroiled in a deadly cat and mouse game that takes them to the treacherous tunnels of the city’s necropolis, where few who venture into the notorious Empire of the Dead manage to return from the darkness… The third in the author’s critically acclaimed Edgar Allan Poe series, Empire of the Dead is a thrilling historical mystery about alchemy, mesmerism and magic, the shadows of the past, and the endurance of love.

Book The Supernatural and Fantastic in Short Detective Fiction

Download or read book The Supernatural and Fantastic in Short Detective Fiction written by Laird R. Blackwell and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-10-30 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although fantasy and supernatural literature have long and celebrated histories, many critics contend that the fantastic and the supernatural have no place in the logical, rational, world of the detective story. This book is the first extensive study of the fantastic in detective fiction and it explores the highly debated question of whether detective fiction and the fantastic can comfortably coexist. The "locked room" mystery--which often uses the fantastic as a red herring to eventually be debunked by reason and logic--has long been among the most popular subgenres of detective fiction. This book also explores stories featuring almost supernaturally gifted detectives, stories where the supernatural is truly encountered, and stories with ambiguous endings. Close to 500 detective stories from 1841 to 2000, in which the fantastic or supernatural plays a central role, are discussed and analyzed. Although not all the stories are judged to be successful as detective tales, in the great majority, the fantastic enlivens the tale and deepens the mystery without weakening the detective elements.

Book The Adventures of Inspector Canal

Download or read book The Adventures of Inspector Canal written by Bruce Fink and published by Red Wheel/Weiser. This book was released on 2018-09-21 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychoanalysts make the best detectives! When it comes to divining motives, deciphering ambiguous pronouncements, detecting delusions, and foiling the tricks memory plays, famed French analyst Jacques Lacan - turned self-proclaimed retired Inspector Quesjac Canal - is second to none (apologies to Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot, Edgar Allen Poe's Dupin, and Umberto Eco's William of Baskerville). Reluctantly drawn into helping hapless New York City police detectives with crimes reported by luminaries like Rolland Saalem, music director of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, and involving prominent personages like Tobias Trickler, Mayor of New York City, and Sandra Errand, Vice-President for North American sales at YVEH Distributors of Spirits, Canal solves cases that are anything but what they appear to be and mends tears of the heart and soul at the same time.

Book Canadian Books in Print 2002

Download or read book Canadian Books in Print 2002 written by Marian Butler and published by . This book was released on 2002-02 with total page 930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book My Sherlock Holmes

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  • Author : Michael Kurland
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2004-01-22
  • ISBN : 9780312325954
  • Pages : 388 pages

Download or read book My Sherlock Holmes written by Michael Kurland and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-01-22 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over a century, readers have thrilled to the exploits of Sherlock Holmes through the tales narrated by his sidekick and official chronicler, Dr. John Watson. But do Dr. Watson's tales really tell the true story of the great detective? In this collection of thirteen original tales, each told by a side character in the original canon, ranging from the famous (Irene Adler, Professor James Moriarty, and Mycroft Holmes) to the decidedly minor (Billy the page boy, Wiggins of the Baker Street Irregulars, and both Mrs. Watsons), readers finally get to hear another side of the legend. From what Inspector Lestrade really thought of Holmes to the untold tale of his encounter with Dr. Fu Manchu, from the bitter reminiscences of him by C. Auguste Dupin to the thoughts of his longtime landlady Mrs. Hudson, the totality of the veil of mystery over the legend that is Sherlock Holmes is at last removed. With stories from Barbara Hambly, Cara Black, Peter Tremayne, and Michael Kurland, among others, My Sherlock Holmes is a unique and compelling entry into the literature of the world's most famous detective.

Book Canadian Books in Print

Download or read book Canadian Books in Print written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 1602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Whodunit

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  • Author : Rosemary Herbert
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 0195157613
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Whodunit written by Rosemary Herbert and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mystery expert investigates how the giants of the genre pull off all those crimes and keep the twists coming page after page, then shows readers how they can do it too.

Book A Collection of Short Stories

Download or read book A Collection of Short Stories written by Danny Guy Lurie and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My parents came from different parts of the Jewish world-my mothers parents came from Poland and Hungary and Austria during the time of Franz-Joseph and my father was born in Yemen. His father had come to Israel with three of his baby nephews but had encountered racism on some parts of the European elements of the population here and had immigrated to America hoping to find work there. My father, later me my mother there and they married-he died when I was eight years old and my mother remarried-I returned to Israel after having passed the age of consent-served in the army and obtained three university degrees-I worked in translation, married, have one hyperactive son and I write.

Book Tarzan Alive

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  • Author : Philip Josä Farmer
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 2006-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780803269217
  • Pages : 412 pages

Download or read book Tarzan Alive written by Philip Josä Farmer and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the tales of Edgar Rice Burroughs, generations of readers have thrilled to the adventures of Lord Greystoke (aka John Clayton, but better known as Tarzan of the Apes). In this biography Philip Josä Farmer pieces together the life of this fantastic man, correcting Burroughs?s errors and deliberate deceptions and tracing Tarzan's family tree back to other extraordinary figures, including Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes, the Scarlet Pimpernel, Doc Savage, Nero Wolfe, and Bulldog Drummond. øTarzan Alive offers the first chronological account of Tarzan's life, narrated in careful detail garnered from Burroughs?s stories and other sources. From the ill-fated voyage that led to Greystoke's birth on the isolated African coast to his final adventures as a group captain in the RAF during World War II, Farmer constructs a comprehensive and authoritative account. Farmer?s assertion that Tarzan was a real person has led him to craft a biography as well researched and compelling as that of any character from conventional history. This definitive Bison Books edition also includes Farmer?s ?Exclusive Interview with Lord Greystoke? as well as ?Extracts from the Memoirs of ?Lord Greystoke?? first anthologized in Mother Was a Lovely Beast.

Book Film Adaptation and Its Discontents

Download or read book Film Adaptation and Its Discontents written by Thomas Leitch and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2007-06-15 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most books on film adaptation—the relation between films and their literary sources—focus on a series of close one-to-one comparisons between specific films and canonical novels. This volume identifies and investigates a far wider array of problems posed by the process of adaptation. Beginning with an examination of why adaptation study has so often supported the institution of literature rather than fostering the practice of literacy, Thomas Leitch considers how the creators of short silent films attempted to give them the weight of literature, what sorts of fidelity are possible in an adaptation of sacred scripture, what it means for an adaptation to pose as an introduction to, rather than a transcription of, a literary classic, and why and how some films have sought impossibly close fidelity to their sources. After examining the surprisingly divergent fidelity claims made by three different kinds of canonical adaptations, Leitch's analysis moves beyond literary sources to consider why a small number of adapters have risen to the status of auteurs and how illustrated books, comic strips, video games, and true stories have been adapted to the screen. The range of films studied, from silent Shakespeare to Sherlock Holmes to The Lord of the Rings, is as broad as the problems that come under review.