Download or read book The Corpse in the Snowman written by Nicholas Blake and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Corpse in the Snowman written by Nicholas Blake and published by Agora Books. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PI Nigel Strangeways returns in a “finely written wits-twister” with a “surprise shake-up at the finish” from the renowned Golden Age mystery author (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Sex. Money. Drugs. Take your choice. In middle of a cold snap, with snow swirling round the imposing Easterham Manor, Nigel and Georgia Strangeways enter the warmth of the Victorian estate. But upon their arrival, the couple quickly learns that all is not as cozy as it seems. The whole house is pervaded by a sense of foreboding: A room is haunted, the cat is possessed, and the specter of the enigmatic Elizabeth Restorick looms. Confounded by the guests’ strange reactions to the very mention of Elizabeth’s name, Nigel never gets the chance to form his own opinion of the young woman. The next morning, Elizabeth Restorick is found hanged and naked in her room, a hint of a smile playing on her painted lips. Could her apparent suicide be more than just that? Would this beautiful girl—sensuous, compassionate, full of vitality—have taken her own life? Or did someone take it from her? With too many loose ends to count, planted evidence, and motives mounting, Nigel must delve into Miss Restorick’s colorful past to solve this tragic mystery. Praise for Nicholas Blake “An outstanding mystery novel. Mr. Blake’s writing is a delight in itself.” —The New York Times “The Nicholas Blake books are something quite by themselves in English detective fiction.” —Elizabeth Bowen “His plots are ingenious.” —The Times Literary Supplement “A master of detective fiction.” —The Daily Telegraph
Download or read book The Corpse in the Snowman written by Cecil Day Lewis and published by New York London, Harper & brothers [c1941]. This book was released on 1941 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Subdue Devil In 100 Days written by Nan ShanJiuCang and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-04-29 with total page 941 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rise on the Wheel Platform Annihilation before the Spiritual Shower Pearl Extraterritorial search for mustard seeds Black and White Books for Interrupting Love The boy ordered Tang Thirty-Six to find his father. In order to find his father, he and the fortune-teller Wang Heming and the Yin Yang Eyes set foot on a path that could not be turned back. Love and hate intertwined, trust and doubt intertwined, conspiracy and arrangement. For a hundred days, let's see how the three of them find their loved ones, capture demons, subdue demons, fight against the mysterious organization's wits, fight against the strong opponent to the death, and fight against the time race step by step ... Waves strange cloud, the human heart is difficult to predict, who with you fight shoulder to shoulder, who with you wind and rain, who with you life and death?
Download or read book I Am The City King written by Lao PaoEr and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-11-14 with total page 831 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small people also had the opportunity to traverse the city. Here, there was a different life in the city. There was also the chance to reverse the flow of life. Beautiful women surrounded the scenery around them. When minor characters are angry, the ancient martial arts are close to the body, the foreign world, the city freely shuttles back and forth. "Hey, what are you daydreaming for? Is the report not ready? " "CEO doesn't want it, I will continue to work hard!" Hu Yang worked hard, while the Ice Mountain female CEO cried out ...
Download or read book In the Beginning written by Mary Jean DeMarr and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Others concentrate more on analysis of the subject novel itself, indicating more briefly how that book relates to those which follow it. Some discuss such questions as what exactly is the first novel in some rather complex series and in several cases more than one initiating book is discussed. No attempt has been made to include consideration of a representative sample of the various types of detective series, but a variety of authors is covered, ranging from such classics as Agatha Christie, Rex Stout, and Dorothy L. Sayers, to more recent authors like James McClure, Joseph Hansen, and Colin Dexter.
Download or read book Fake Funeral written by Xi XiFuSi and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2019-10-11 with total page 994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We have a very secret ritual around here. It's called a fake burial.Fake burial, as the name implies, was a fake funeral.The old man at home was ill and wanted to find the patient's old clothes and make a dummy of him. It's called Regeneration.After the "Regeneration" was done, the old man's next of kin would carry it on his back and bury it on the mountain. This process was called burial sickness.That day, it was my turn to carry the "Regeneration". As a result, something strange happened.
Download or read book The Body written by Thirteen O'Clock Press and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-03-31 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Body. The one we walk around in, the one we see lying in the mud and gore of a murder scene, the one built by those with skills... how many bodies are there in your imagination, how many have been drawn vividly and horrifically by Thirteen authors...
Download or read book The Essential Mystery Lists written by Roger M Sobin and published by Poisoned Pen Press Inc. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time in one place, Roger M. Sobin has compiled a list of nominees and award winners of virtually every mystery award ever presented. He has also included many of the “best of” lists by more than fifty of the most important contributors to the genre.; Mr. Sobin spent more than two decades gathering the data and lists in this volume, much of that time he used to recheck the accuracy of the material he had collected. Several of the “best of” lists appear here for the first time in book form. Several others have been unavailable for a number of years.; Of special note, are Anthony Boucher’s “Best Picks for the Year.” Boucher, one of the major mystery reviewers of all time, reviewed for The San Francisco Chronicle, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, and The New York Times. From these resources Mr. Sobin created “Boucher’s Best” and “Important Lists to Consider,” lists that provide insight into important writing in the field from 1942 through Boucher’s death in 1968.? This is a great resource for all mystery readers and collectors.; ; Winner of the 2008 Macavity Awards for Best Mystery Nonfiction.
Download or read book The Frozen Dead written by Bernard Minier and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2014-08-12 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saint-Martin-de-Comminges is a small town nestled in the French Pyrenees. The kind of place where winters are harsh and unforgiving and where nothing ever happens. Until the winter morning when a group of workers discover the headless, flayed body of a horse, hanging suspended from the edge of a frozen cliff. On the same day the gruesome discovery takes place, Diane Berg, a young psychiatrist starts her first job at a high-security asylum for the criminally insane, just a few miles away. She is baffled by the slightly unorthodox methods the asylum's director uses, and then greatly alarmed when she realizes that drugs are disappearing from within the fortified institution while someone seems to be slipping out at night. Commandant Martin Servaz, a charismatic city cop from nearby Toulouse fond of quoting Latin, can't believe he has been called out over the death of an animal. But there's something disturbing about this crime that he can't ignore. Then DNA from one of the most notorious inmates of the asylum, a highly intelligent former prosecutor, accused of killing and raping several women, is found on the horse carcass . . . and a few days later the first human murder takes place. A dark story of madness and revenge seems to be unfolding.Servaz and his colleague, the mysterious Irene Ziegler, must use all their skill to solve the terrifying mystery and best one of the most fiendish and clever opponents they could ever imagine.
Download or read book Seven Jokers In The Glass Cage written by Eray Aydın and published by Cosmo Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-03 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BEST SELLERS IN TURKEY -The shocking revenge story of an art genius from Istanbul… -When intelligence, patience and brutality come together, revenge becomes an art. If you do not have them all, you would better forgive your enemy… Peyami Recai Son is a famous artist with his past full of secrets. Since he was shot in the face years ago, he begins to wear a face mask instead of having his face operated. That he masks his face and his talent is appreciated around the world for a long time gives him a mysterious fame at the same time. In this way, he becomes one of the most famous and interesting persons in the country. Ahmet Duman is a former journalist, who goes through mental health problems. After a few unsuccessful attempts for writing books, he becomes weary of life. One day, Ahmet receives a letter from Peyami because Peyami, the mysterious artist, wants his life and secrets to be written on a book and chooses especially Ahmet for this job despite so many great journalists in the community. Ahmet is both surprised and very happy to receive such an offer. However, the day before he starts writing his book, Peyami dies as a result of an accident in his art gallery. Ahmet, who misses the opportunity of his life, still wants to finish his book and explores Peyami’s life. Ahmet, who wants to collect information about the life of Peyami from Mikail Mikail, Peyami’s only known close-friend, visits Mikail, who lives isolated and safe on the 77th floor of a residence for a long time. However, Ahmet discovers that what is between these two friends is not a friendship but a deadly hostility and becomes the key person in an old revenge story even though he does not want to. Eray AYDIN
Download or read book The Snowman written by Jo Nesbo and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One night, after the first snowfall of the year, a boy named Jonas wakes up and discovers that his mother has disappeared. Only one trace of her remains: a pink scarf, his Christmas gift to her, now worn by the snowman that inexplicably appeared in their yard earlier that day. Inspector Harry Hole suspects a link between the missing woman and a suspicious letter he’s received. The case deepens when a pattern emerges: over the past decade, eleven women have vanished—all on the day of the first snow. But this is a killer who makes his own rules . . . and he’ll break his pattern just to keep the game interesting, as he draws Harry ever closer into his twisted web. With brilliantly realized characters and hair-raising suspense, internationally bestselling author Jo Nesbo presents his most chilling case yet—one that will test the very limits of Harry Hole's sanity.
Download or read book Recharting the Thirties written by Patrick J. Quinn and published by Susquehanna University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of Recharting the Thirties is to revitalize the awareness of the reading public with regard to eighteen writers whose books have been largely ignored by publishers and scholars since their major works first appeared in the thirties. The selection is not based on a political agenda, but encompasses a wide and divergent range of philosophies; clearly, the contrasts between Empson and Upward, or between Powell and Slater, indicated the wide-ranging vision of the period. Women writers of the period have largely been marginalized, and the writings of Sackville-West and Burdekin, for example, not only present distinct feminine voices of the period, but also illuminate how much good literature has been forgotten.
Download or read book Clues from the Couch written by Laird R. Blackwell and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-06-13 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The detective story--the classic whodunit with its time-displacement structure of crime--according to most literary historians, is of relatively recent origin. Early in its development, the whodunit was harshly criticized for its tightly formula-bound structure. Many critics prematurely proclaimed "the death of the whodunit" and even of detective fiction altogether. Yet today, the genre is alive, as contemporary authors have brought it into modern times through a significant integration of elaborate character development and psychology. With the modern psychological detective story emerging from the historical cauldron of detective fiction and early psychology, the genre continues to develop a complexity that reflects and guides the literary sophistication needed. This book, the first of its kind, analyzes over 150 whodunit novels and short stories across the decades, from The Moonstone to the contemporary novels that saved the genre from an ignominious death.
Download or read book The Perfect Murder written by David Lehman and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a selection of the best British and American detective fiction past and present, Lehman takes readers on a probing investigation of why men and women of all educational and social backgrounds are continually fascinated by the murder mystery.
Download or read book Doctor Who Summer Falls and Other Stories written by Amelia Williams and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-10-24 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a new introduction by Amelia Williams, as well as a rare interview with the reclusive author, 'The Girl Who Never Grew Up'. Summer Falls by Amelia Williams In the seaside village of Watchcombe, young Kate is determined to make the most of her last week of summer holiday. But when she discovers a mysterious painting entitled ‘The Lord of Winter’ in a charity shop, it leads her on an adventure she never could have planned. The painting is a puzzle - and with the help of some bizarre new acquaintances, she plans on solving it... (Inspired by the Doctor Who episode 'The Bells of Saint John') The Angel’s Kiss by Melody Malone Detective Melody Malone has an unexpected caller: movie star Rock Railton thinks someone is out to kill him – and when he mentions the ‘kiss of the Angel’, she takes the case. At the press party for Railton’s latest movie, studio owner Max Kliener invites Melody to become their next star. But the cost of fame, she’ll soon discover, is greater than anyone could possibly imagine. (Inspired by the Doctor Who episode, 'The Angels Take Manhattan') Devil in the Smoke, as recounted by Mr Justin Richards On a cold day in December, two young boys, tired of sweeping snow from the workhouse yard, decide to build a snowman – and are confronted with a strange and grisly mystery. In horrified fascination, they watch as their snowman begins to bleed... The search for answers to this impossible event will plunge Harry into the most hazardous – and exhilarating – adventure of his life. (Inspired by the Doctor Who episode, 'The Snowmen')
Download or read book The Oxford Companion to Twentieth century Literature in English written by Jenny Stringer and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Survey of twentieth century English-language writers and writing from around the world, celebrating all major genres, with entries on literary movements, periodicals, more than 400 individual works, and articles on approximately 2,400 authors.
