Download or read book The Poet and the Private Eye written by Rob Gittins and published by Y Lolfa. This book was released on 2014 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York. 1953. A private investigator takes on a tail job, his quarry a newly-arrived visitor from the UK. The private eye has never heard of him, but he will. The mark is the Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas. And in three weeks' time, Mr Thomas will be dead. Reprint; first published in 2014.
Download or read book Private Eye written by Wendy Morton and published by Ekstasis Editions. This book was released on 2001 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Private Eye draws upon the metaphor of the poet as private investigator to uncover a world of wonder hidden beneath the ordinary. The precise yet musical use of language brings to life a world of food, fantasy, family and friendship, while penetrating the shadows of loss.
Download or read book Marty Frye Private Eye written by Janet Tashjian and published by Henry Holt and Company BYR Paperbacks. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marty Frye is not your ordinary private eye. Marty Frye is "the poet detective"--he solves petty crimes by turning rhymes. In the course of a busy day, Marty tracks down his friend Emma's lost diary, finds a box of toys missing from Mr. Lipsky's store; and locates a bag of disappearing flour for his little sister, Katie. Although he hits some dead ends along the way, Marty Frye combines his three favorite hobbies--sleuthing, rhyming, and climbing trees--and leaves no case unsolved or unrhymed. Three short stories with clear, simple sentences make this charming easy-reader an ideal stepping-stone to longer chapter books. Laurie Keller's quirky illustrations capture the spirit of Janet Tashjian's tongue-in-cheek humor. Young readers will be off in search of a rhyme in no time.
Download or read book A Very Private Eye written by Barbara Pym and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2023-10-05 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Barbara Pym is one of my most favourite novelists. Few other writers have given me more laughter and more pleasure’ - Jilly Cooper ‘I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym’ - Richard Osman ‘Could one write a book based on one’s diaries over thirty years? I certainly have enough material,’ wrote Barbara Pym. This book, selected from the diaries, notebooks and letters of this much-loved novelist to form a continuous narrative, is indeed a unique autobiography, providing a privileged insight into a writer’s mind. It includes a forward from bestselling author – and Barbara Pym fan – Jilly Cooper. Philip Larkin wrote that Barbara Pym had ‘a unique eye and ear for the small poignancies of everyday life’. Her autobiography amply demonstrates this, as it traces her life from exuberant times at Oxford in the thirties, through the war when, scarred by an unhappy love affair, she joined the WRNS, to the published novelist of the fifties. It also deals with the long period when her novels were out of fashion and no one would publish them, her rediscovery in 1977, and the triumphant success of her last few years. It is now possible to describe a place, situation or person as ‘very Barbara Pym’. A Very Private Eye, at once funny and moving, shows the variety and depth of her own story. Praise for A Very Private Eye: ‘It increases the understanding and enjoyment of her novels enormously’ - Auberon Waugh, Daily Mail ‘The perfect complement to the fiction’ - Paul Bailey, The Observer ‘Her sharp and very private eye never failed her’ Victoria Glendinning, The New York Times
Download or read book Marty Frye Private Eye The Case of the Busted Video Games written by Janet Tashjian and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 3 in the Marty Frye young chapter book mystery series by bestselling author-illustrator team Janet Tashjian and Laurie Keller! In this new collection of mysteries, everyone’s favorite poet detective is back in action. When a prankster tangles all the school jump ropes into knots and gym is canceled, Marty pins down the culprit. When five machines are mysteriously found broken at the arcade, Marty jumps on the case. And when Mom’s phone goes missing after a trip to the mall, Marty races against the clock to track it down before dinner. But can he still manage to make up rhymes while he solves new crimes? Broken into three short stories with a generous amount of art on each page, this is an ideal stepping stone to longer chapter books. Young readers will be off in search of a rhyme in no time. Christy Ottaviano Books
Download or read book Victory written by Victory Lance and published by Denlingers Pub Limited. This book was released on 1996 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Booze and the Private Eye written by Rita Elizabeth Rippetoe and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-01-24 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hard-bitten PI with a bottle of bourbon in his desk drawer--it's an image as old as the genre of hard-boiled detective fiction itself. Alcohol has long been an important element of detective fiction, but it is no mere prop. Rather, the treatment of alcohol within the works informs and illustrates the detective's moral code, and casts light upon the society's attitudes towards drink. This examination of the role of alcohol in hard-boiled detective fiction begins with the genre's birth, in an era strongly influenced and affected by prohibition, and follows both the genre's development and its relation to our changing understanding of and attitudes towards alcohol and alcoholism. It discusses the works of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Mickey Spillane, Robert B. Parker, Lawrence Block, Marcia Muller, Karen Kijewski and Sue Grafton. There are bibliographies of both the primary and critical texts, and an index of authors and works.
Download or read book Karl Marx Private Eye written by Jim Feast and published by PM Press. This book was released on 2023-04-25 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rattling good yarn and a suspenseful whodunit, against the backdrop of real historical events, that brings sixteen-year-old Sherlock Holmes together with Karl Marx and his brilliant daughter Eleanor to solve a cascading series of murders at a Bohemian spa. Karl Marx Private Eye is a page-turner filled with tricky clues, colorful detectives, and an "exotic" setting. Written in a brilliant parody of Arthur Conan Doyle, this cozy historical mystery will keep readers guessing until its shocking final pages.
Download or read book Stewart Sinclair Private Eye written by Elizabeth Greenwood and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-07-03 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Steward Sinclair, Part II, Sinclair takes on more cases and becomes more and more blunt and outspoken about the dysfunctional society in which he lives to the dismay of his inexperienced assistant who is meek and mild, an archaeological student in a gap year who earns pocket money on the side being a drag artist in a seedy Sailors Club in London Docklands. One of the cases Sinclair takes on verges on the Gothic horror story, hopefully acting as a brain teaser.
Download or read book Marty Frye Private Eye The Case of the Stolen Poodle written by Janet Tashjian and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2017-07-03 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 2 in the Marty Frye young chapter book mystery series by bestselling author-illustrator team Janet Tashjian and Laurie Keller! In this new collection of mysteries from bestselling author-illustrator team Janet Tashjian and Laurie Keller, everyone’s favorite poet detective is back in action. When the school nurse’s equipment is stolen, Marty tracks it down. When special candy disappears from the store, Marty finds the culprit. And most importantly, when a friend's poodle goes missing, Marty comes to the rescue. But can he still manage to make up rhymes while he solves new crimes? Broken into three short stories, this is an ideal stepping stone to longer chapter books. Young readers will be off in search of a rhyme in no time. A Christy Ottaviano Book
Download or read book Encyclopedia of the New York School Poets written by Terence Diggory and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An A-to-Z reference to writers of the New York School, including John Ashbery, who is often considered America's greatest living poet. Examines significant movements in literary history and its development through the years.
Download or read book Marty Frye Private Eye The Case of the Stolen Poodle written by Janet Tashjian and published by Henry Holt Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 2017-06-27 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven-year-old Marty Frye is on the job again, speaking in rhyme as he solves three new mysteries for the school nurse, the candy store owner, and a neighbor.
Download or read book Marty Frye Private Eye The Case of the Missing Action Figure written by Janet Tashjian and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2017-06-27 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marty Frye is not your ordinary sleuth. Marty Frye is a poet detective - he makes up rhymes as he solves small crimes. When his friend Emma's diary is missing, Marty is on the case. When Katie's flour is nowhere to be found, Marty tracks it down. And when the brand-new Action Chuck figures mysteriously vanish from the toy store, Marty unravels the mystery. Will there ever be a case too hard for Marty to solve? Or a word too impossible to rhyme? Broken into three short stories of poetry and petty crime, this charming chapter book will have young readers in search of a rhyme in no time. A Christy Ottaviano Book
Download or read book Private Eyes written by Robert Allen Baker and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Private Eyes is the complete map to what Raymond Bhandler called "the mean streets," the exciting world of the fictional private eye. It is intended to entertain current PI fans and to make new ones.
Download or read book Asian Diaspora Poetry in North America written by Benzi Zhang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-12-12 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting a new way of reading that helps us discern some previously unnoticed or unnoticeable features of Asian diaspora poetry, this volume highlights how poetry plays a significant role in mediating and defining cross-cultural and transnational positions. Asian diaspora poetry in North America is a rich body of poetic works that not only provide valuable material for us to understand the lives and experiences of Asian diasporas, but also present us with an opportunity to examine some of the most important issues in current literary and cultural studies. As a mode of writing across cultural and national borders, these poetic works challenge us to reconsider the assumptions and meanings of identity, nation, home, and place in a broad cross-cultural context. In recent postcolonial studies, diaspora has been conceived not only as a process of migration in which people crossed and traversed the borders of different countries, but also as a double relationship between different cultural origins. With all its complexity and ambiguity associated with the experience of multi-cultural mediation, diaspora, as both a process and a relationship, suggests an act of constant repositioning in confluent streams that accommodate to multiple cultural traditions. By examining how Asian diaspora poets maintain and represent their cultural differences in North America, Zhang is able to seek new perspectives for understanding and analyzing the intrinsic values of Asian cultures that survive and develop persistently in North American societies.
Download or read book Pete Boone Private Eye Australia s Worst Private Detective written by David MURDOCH and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-01-18 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia's Worst Private Detective and his first year on the job!Selected from the original short stories of the 1980s which became the hit cult comedy of national community television of the 2000s! Arguably the funniest and most creative and original series ever on Australian television, read where it all began...Pete Boone is a young man in his early twenties (too young for a life of crime?). From the Western Suburbs, his dream is to be a 'real' private detective... You know, the ones featured in novels, on the movie screen, on television... Up the corridor is his 'enemy' in crime, Dirk Lombarde. A detective who's sleazy, clean cut, and successful... Everything opposite to Pete Boone! Pennant Falls Police Station, under the very patient Constable O'Flynn, puts up with his antics - sometimes only because by staying close to Pete Boone the criminal comes to light... Oh yes... Another important fact about Pete Boone is that HE NEVER CORRECTLY SOLVES A CASE!
Download or read book Asian Diaspora Poetry in North America written by and published by Routledge. This book was released on with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
