Download or read book The Detections of Dr Sam Johnson written by Lillian De La Torre and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Detections of Dr Sam Johnson written by Lillian De La Torre and published by International Polygonics Limited. This book was released on 1984 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Johnson with the aid of his friend, James Boswell, investigates eight cases of strange crimes and baffling mysteries in eighteenth-century England

Download or read book The Detections of Dr Sam Johnson written by Lillian de la Torre and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight exquisite mystery stories set in London, starring Dr. Samuel Johnson, one of the greatest minds of the eighteenth century. In 1775, as the British Empire is about to be cracked by the earthquake of the American Revolution, twenty English families join in the ghoulish bargain known as a tontine. Each puts £5,000 into a common fund to be held in trust for their children with the terrible stipulation that the money will go to the last child left alive. Such a bargain should take seventy or eighty years to come to fruition, but there is a curse upon this tontine. Sixteen of the twenty children are dead within four years—and the survivors have no one to turn to but the great Dr. Sam Johnson. The seventy-year-old scholar has seen his share of trickery, corruption, and murder, but he’s never encountered anything quite as chilling as “The Tontine Curse.” In this story, and the seven others included in this volume, Dr. Johnson and his assistant, biographer James Boswell, pit their wits against the darkest mysteries of the Enlightenment. In this charming, brilliant series, author Lillian de la Torre features Johnson and Boswell, real-life forerunners of Holmes and Watson, in an assortment of “excellent detective puzzles” (The New York Times).

Download or read book The Detection of Dr Sam Johnson written by Lillian De la Torre and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Return of Dr Sam Johnson Detector written by Lillian de la Torre and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Boswell and Dr. Samuel Johnson team up to solve mysteries in this collection of brilliantly baffling historical crime stories. James Boswell is just twenty-two when he comes south from Scotland, determined to befriend Dr. Sam Johnson, the greatest thinker of the eighteenth century. But when he first goes to call on the legendary scholar, a hue and cry is raised throughout the neighborhood because a wealthy old invalid refuses to come to her door. It’s barred from the inside, and when Johnson and Boswell break in, they find the woman dead. There’s nothing like a good locked room mystery, and no detective quite as clever as Dr. Johnson. With Boswell at his side, he will solve the mystery of the barred door, using his wits against everything the killers and thieves of the Enlightenment throw his way. Inspired by real case files from the era, the Dr. Johnson detective stories recreate this period of history with uncanny realism. Funny, challenging, and genuinely thrilling, they are perfect for anyone who’s been searching for an eighteenth-century Sherlock Holmes.

Download or read book Dr Sam Johnson Detector written by Lillian De La Torre and published by . This book was released on 1946-01-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Deformities of Dr Samuel Johnson written by James Thomson Callender and published by . This book was released on 1782 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Dr Sam Johnson Detector written by Lillian de la Torre and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nine mystery tales starring lexicographer Dr. Samuel Johnson in “the finest series of historical detective stories ever written” (Ellery Queen). For over two hundred years, devotees of English literature have lost themselves in James Boswell’s Life of Johnson, a biography of the great eighteenth-century thinker and writer, chronicling everything from kitchen chemistry experiments to tackling a pickpocket to his legendary investigation of the Cock Lane ghost. But Dr. Sam Johnson was more than a great thinker—he was also a talented sleuth. From the chilling affair of the waxwork cadaver to the thrilling search for the stolen seal of England, the nine cases in this volume show Johnson at his very best—using his legendary intellect to apprehend the worst killers and thieves the era had to offer. Written by Lillian de la Torre, a mystery author with “a finely tuned ear for eighteenth-century prose,” these charming stories are so believable, so perfectly in keeping with the Dr. Johnson we know and love, it’s hard to believe they aren’t true (TheNew York Times).

Download or read book Dr Sam Johnson Detector written by L. McCue and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Deformities of Dr Samuel Johnson Selected from his Works By James Thomson Callender written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1782 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Deformities of Dr Samuel Johnson Selected from His Works By James Thomson Callender written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1782 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dr Sam Johnson Detector A Lighthearted Collection of Recently Revealed Episodes in the Career of the Great Lexicographer Narrated as from the Pen of James Boswell written by Lillian DE LA TORRE (pseud.) and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Life of Samuel Johnson LL D Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works in Chronological Order written by James Boswell and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Samuel Johnson written by David Nokes and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking portrait of Samuel Johnson, Nokes positions the great thinker in his rightful place as an active force in the Enlightenment, not a mere recorder or performer, and demonstrates how his interaction with life impacted his work.