Download or read book The Talleyrand Maxim written by J. S. Fletcher and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-05-02 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “Talleyrand Maxim” holds that “With time and patience, the mulberry leaf is turned into satin.” The adage has the character of guidance for life for an ambitious legal clerk, Linford Pratt. The moment comes when a “mulberry leaf” falls into Pratt’s hands in the form of the will of a wealthy local industrial magnate, undiscovered at the time of his death. Realizing that possession of it gives him leverage over the natural beneficiaries—the late man’s nephew and niece, and their mother—Pratt sets to work to transform it into his “satin.” As wily as he proves to be, his aspirations face complications, for it seems his possession of the will is not so secret as he supposed. J. S. Fletcher is best known for his detective fiction, but The Talleyrand Maxim is not a typical whodunit. Pratt’s culpability is never hidden from the reader, nor is there a traditional “sleuth.” The suspense lies, rather, in whether he will pull it off, as the suspicions of other interested parties deepen.
Download or read book J S FLETCHER Ultimate Collection 20 Novels 44 Crime Stories Mysteries Detective Stories Historical Novels Illustrated written by J. S. Fletcher and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2024-01-16 with total page 6436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J. S. Fletcher's "Ultimate Collection" is a captivating compilation of over 20 novels and 44 crime stories that delve into mysteries, detective stories, and historical novels. His literary style seamlessly weaves together intricate plots with vivid character development, making each story a page-turner. Set in the early 20th century, Fletcher's works offer a glimpse into the historical context of the time, showcasing societal norms and values of that era. The illustrated edition adds an extra layer of depth to the immersive reading experience. Meticulously researched and expertly crafted, this collection is a must-read for fans of classic detective fiction. J. S. Fletcher's background as a journalist and prolific author undoubtedly informed his ability to construct compelling narratives that keep readers on the edge of their seats. His keen eye for detail and sharp wit shine through in each story, showcasing his passion for storytelling and unravelling the complexities of human nature. I highly recommend J. S. Fletcher's "Ultimate Collection" to anyone who enjoys engaging mysteries and historical fiction. Whether you're a seasoned fan of detective stories or new to the genre, this anthology is sure to satisfy your craving for suspenseful and thought-provoking literature.
Download or read book J S FLETCHER 17 Novels 28 Short Stories Including Detective Mysteries Adventure Novels Crime Stories Historical Works Illustrated written by J. S. Fletcher and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2024-01-16 with total page 4588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J. S. Fletcher's collection of 17 novels and 28 short stories spans multiple genres, showcasing his versatility as a writer. Known for his detective mysteries, adventure novels, crime stories, and historical works, Fletcher captivates readers with his intricate plots and attention to detail. His prose is concise and engaging, making his stories both entertaining and thought-provoking. Set against the backdrop of early 20th-century England, Fletcher's works provide insight into the social dynamics and cultural norms of the time period. The collection is illustrated, adding visual depth to Fletcher's captivating narratives. J. S. Fletcher was a prolific writer whose keen observation and analytical skills are evident in his body of work. His background as a journalist and historian likely influenced his storytelling, giving his narratives a sense of authenticity and depth. Fletcher's ability to craft compelling characters and intricate mysteries sets him apart as a master of his craft. I highly recommend J. S. Fletcher's collection to readers who enjoy classic detective stories, historical fiction, and adventure novels. With its diverse range of genres and captivating narratives, this collection offers something for every reader to enjoy.
Download or read book The Chestermarke Instinct written by Joseph Smith Fletcher and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Charing Cross Mystery written by J. S. Fletcher and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2007-09-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Smith Fletcher (1863-1935) was a British journalist and crime fiction writer. This novel was originally published in 1922 as "Black Money."
Download or read book The Greatest Works of J S Fletcher 64 Titles in One Illustrated Edition written by J. S. Fletcher and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 6437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat presents to you this carefully created volume of "The Greatest Works of J. S. Fletcher (64+ Titles in One Illustrated Edition)" This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Content: Novels Perris of the Cherry Trees The Middle Temple Murder Dead Men's Money The Talleyrand Maxim The Paradise Mystery The Borough Treasurer The Chestermarke Instinct The Herapath Property The Orange-Yellow Diamond The Root of All Evil In The Mayor's Parlour The Middle of Things Ravensdene Court The Rayner-Slade Amalgamation Scarhaven Keep The Charing Cross Mystery The Kang-He Vase The Safety Pin Sea Fog The Borgia Cabinet The Mill House Murder In the Days of Drake Where Highways Cross Short Stories Paul Campenhaye – Specialist in Criminology The French Maid The Yorkshire Manufacturer The Covent Garden Fruit Shop The Irish Mail The Tobacco-Box Mrs. Duquesne The House on Hardress Head The Champagne Bottle The Settling Day The Magician of Cannon Street The Secret of the Barbican and Other Stories Against Time The Earl, the Warder and the Wayward Heiress The Fifteenth-Century Crozier The Yellow Dog Room 53 The Secret of the Barbican The Silhouette Blind Gap Moor St. Morkil's Isle Extra-Judicial The Second Capsule The Way to Jericho Patent No. 33 The Selchester Missal The Murder in the Mayor's Parlour Mr. Poskitt's Nightcaps (Stories of a Yorkshire Farmer) The Guardian of High Elms Farm A Stranger in Arcady The Man Who Was Nobody Little Miss Partridge The Marriage of Mr. Jarvis Bread Cast upon the Waters William Henry and the Dairymaid The Spoils to the Victor An Arcadian Courtship The Way of the Comet Brothers in Affliction A Man or a Mouse A Deal in Odd Volumes The Chief Magistrate Other Stories The Ivory God The Other Sense... Joseph Smith Fletcher (1863-1933) was an English author, one of the leading writers of detective fiction in the Golden Age.
Download or read book The Borough Treasurer written by J. S. Fletcher and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British poet, journalist, and avid amateur historian Joseph Smith Fletcher went on to become one of the foremost figures in the genre of detective fiction in the early to mid-twentieth century. Set in a quiet community in the north of England, The Borough Treasurer is an enjoyable mystery that will keep even the most astute readers guessing.
Download or read book The Paradise Mystery written by J S Fletcher and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A quaint and idyllic English community is rocked to its very core when a dead body is found and foul play is suspected. But with few clues to go on and no likely suspects, it appears that the brutal crime may remain unsolved.
Download or read book Mistress Spitfire written by Various and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fiction presents an interesting account of the life of Richard Coope and his cousin Mistress Alison French at the time of the English Civil War of 1642-1644. Mistress Spitfire is a well-written work with incredibly depicted characters and an elevated writing style that holds the reader's attention throughout the story. Like this one, most of his fiction works largely pre-date his era, and even those few published within that period do not stick to the rigid and strict rules asserted, if not consistently monitored, by the Golden Age writers. The author of this book, Joseph Smith Fletcher (1863 – 1935), was an English journalist and author. He wrote more than 230 books, both fiction and non-fiction, on an expansive variety of subjects and was one of the most talented English writers of detective fiction.
Download or read book The Talleyrand Maxim written by J. S. Fletcher and published by 谷月社. This book was released on 2015-10-29 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Linford Pratt, senior clerk to Eldrick & Pascoe, solicitors, of Barford, a young man who earnestly desired to get on in life, by hook or by crook, with no objection whatever to crookedness, so long as it could be performed in safety and secrecy, had once during one of his periodical visits to the town Reference Library, lighted on a maxim of that other unscrupulous person, Prince Talleyrand, which had pleased him greatly. "With time and patience," said Talleyrand, "the mulberry leaf is turned into satin." This seemed to Linford Pratt one of the finest and soundest pieces of wisdom which he had ever known put into words. A mulberry leaf is a very insignificant thing, but a piece of satin is a highly marketable commodity, with money in it. Henceforth, he regarded himself as a mulberry leaf which his own wit and skill must transform into satin: at the same time he knew that there is another thing, in addition to time and patience, which is valuable to young men of his peculiar qualities, a thing also much beloved by Talleyrand—opportunity. He could find the patience, and he had the time—but it would give him great happiness if opportunity came along to help in the work. In everyday language, Linford Pratt wanted a chance—he waited the arrival of the tide in his affairs which would lead him on to fortune. Leave him alone—he said to himself—to be sure to take it at the flood. If Pratt had only known it, as he stood in the outer office of Eldrick & Pascoe at the end of a certain winter afternoon, opportunity was slowly climbing the staircase outside—not only opportunity, but temptation, both assisted by the Devil. They came at the right moment, for Pratt was alone; the partners had gone: the other clerks had gone: the office-boy had gone: in another minute Pratt would have gone, too: he was only looking round before locking up for the night. Then these things came—combined in the person of an old man, Antony Bartle, who opened the door, pushed in a queer, wrinkled face, and asked in a quavering voice if anybody was in. "I'm in, Mr. Bartle," answered Pratt, turning up a gas jet which he had just lowered. "Come in, sir. What can I do for you?"...
Download or read book The Markenmore Mystery written by J. S. Fletcher and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-07-31 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Markenmore Mystery" by J. S. Fletcher. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book The Paradise Mystery written by J. S. Fletcher and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-25 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paradise is a piece of land near a thirteenth-century Cathedral in England and a quiet small town nearby is a hotbed of local gossip. Mark Ransford is a local doctor and a guardian of Mary and Dick Bewery. His assistant Pemberton Bryce is in love with Mary, but Dr. Ransford doesn't approve it. One day, after a visit to the doctor's house, a certain man finds death as he falls from the Cathedral. Bryce is convinced that Dr. Ransford is involved in the death and starts an investigation. Joseph Smith Fletcher (1863-1933) was an English author and journalist, one of the leading writers of detective fiction in the Golden Age. After his journalist career Fletcher first started writing poems, then historical fiction, and finally moved on to write detective mysteries.
Download or read book The Talleyrand Maxim Esprios Classics written by Joseph S Fletcher and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2021-03-20 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Smith Fletcher (7 February 1863 - 30 January 1935) was an English journalist and author. He wrote more than 230 books on a wide variety of subjects, both fiction and non-fiction, and was one of the most prolific English writers of detective fiction. At age 20, Fletcher began working in journalism, as a sub-editor in London. He subsequently returned to his native Yorkshire, where he worked first on the Leeds Mercury using the pseudonym A Son of the Soil, and then as a special correspondent for the Yorkshire Post covering Edward VII's coronation in 1902. Fletcher's first books published were poetry.
Download or read book Similes Dictionary written by Elyse Sommer and published by Visible Ink Press. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language "Appealing As Sunlight After a Storm." A sentence should read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end. —Henry David Thoreau Prose consists of ... phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house. —George Orwell Whether it invokes hard work or merely a hen-house, a good simile is like a good picture—it's worth a thousand words. Packed with more than 16,000 imaginative, colorful phrases—from “abandoned as a used Kleenex” to “quiet as an eel swimming in oil”—the Similes Dictionary will help any politician, writer, or lover of language find just the right saying, be it original or banal, verbose or succinct. Your thoughts will never be "as tedious as a twice-told tale" or "dry as the Congressional Record." Choose from elegant turns of phrases “as useful as a Swiss army knife” and “varied as expressions of the human face”. Citing more than 2,000 sources—from the Bible, Socrates, Shakespeare, Mark Twain, and H. L. Mencken to popular movies, music, and television shows—the Similes Dictionary covers hundreds of subjects broken into thematic categories that include topics such as virtue, anger, age, ambition, importance, and youth, helping you find the fitting phrase quickly and easily. Perfect for setting the atmosphere, making a point, or helping spin a tale with economy, intelligence, and ingenuity, the vivid comparisons found in this collection will inspire anyone. Love comforteth like sunshine after rain. —William Shakespeare A face like a bucket —Raymond Chandler A man with little learning is like the frog who thinks its puddle a great sea. —Burmese proverb Peace, like charity, begins at home —Franklin Delano Roosevelt You know a dream is like a river ever changing as it flows. —Garth Brooks Fit as a fiddle —John Ray’s Proverbs He's not to be allowed to fall into his grave like an old dog. —Arthur Miller Ring true, like good china. —Sylvia Plath Music yearning like a God in pain —John Keats Busy as a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest. —Pat Conroy Enduring as mother love —Anonymous
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Download or read book Death in White Pyjamas written by John Bude and published by Rare Treasure Editions. This book was released on 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are the ingredients of the plot. SCENE : Sam Richardson's country house. CHARACTERS - Sam himself, a kindly business man, more amiable than artistic. Basil Barnes, his producer, tall, slender, sleek-haired and slightly sinister. Willy Farnham, a grand old character actor, always hard up, Angela Walsh, a brilliant young Ingenue from the Provinces. Deirdre Lehaye, tall, dark, icy, and so dead sure of herself that most men were scared to approach her. Clara Maddison, the company's most tried and trying actress. Rudolph Millar, her nephew, a rising young playwright. That's the set-up. Deirdre Lehaye is murdered. Who did it? And why was she in white pyjamas?
Download or read book The Mill of Many Windows written by J. S. Fletcher and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Mill of Many Windows" by J. S. Fletcher. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
