Download or read book Black Cat Thrillogy 4 3 Mysteries by Stephen Wasylyk written by Stephen Wasylyk and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2017-12-26 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen Wasylyk (1922-1996) was a prolific author for both Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine and Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, penning more than 175 mysteries. He only published short stories during a career than spanned four decades. FAVOR PARENTAL DISCRETION FOOD FOR THE TIGER

Download or read book Black Cat Thrillogy 9 3 Historical Mysteries by Edith Maxwell written by Edith Maxwell and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2018-08-22 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edith Maxwell writes the historical Quaker Midwife Mysteries—two of which appear in this collection, as well as a related story. Included are: A Questionable Death The Mayor and the Midwife Adam and Eva Edith Maxwell's latest novel, Turning the Tide, appeared from Midnight Ink in April, 2018.

Download or read book Black Cat Thrillogy 11 3 Great Tales by Kaye George written by Kaye George and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2019-02-07 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kaye George, an Agatha nominated short story writer, is the author of Choke: An Imogene Duckworthy Mystery (Mainly Murder Press), as well as A Patchwork of Stories, a collection of her previously published stories, and The Bavarian Krisp Caper, available at Untreed Reads. Fish Tales: The Guppy Anthology contains her story, “The Truck Contest”. She reviews for Suspense Magazine, and writes for several newsletters and blogs. This volume collects 3 of her Imogene Duckworthy mysteries: "Immy Goes to the Dogs" "Snatched Potatoes" "As the Screw Turns"

Download or read book 3 Sherlockian Parodies written by John Kendrick Bangs and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2019-06-28 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Sherlock Holmes Parody THRILLOGY collects 3 rare Holmes parodies (plus a bous short-short) by turn-of-the-century authors. Included are: SHYLOCK HOLMES, by Anonymous AS PLAIN AS A NOSE, by Anonymous THE MAN WORE RUBBERS, by Anonymous (short-short) MR. HOMES RADIATES A WIRELESS MESSAGE, by John Kendrick Bangs

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Download or read book Boneland written by Alan Garner and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2012-08-30 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major novel from one of the country’s greatest writers, and the crowning achievement of an astonishing career, ‘Boneland’ is also the long-awaited conclusion to the story of Colin and Susan – a story that began over fifty years ago in ‘The Weirdstone of Brisingamen’...

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Download or read book Cuba Music and Revolution written by Stuart Baker and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning Cuban music from rumba to salsa, and graphic styles from socialist realist to geometric abstraction, this volume of Cuban record cover art traces a musical form in constant revolution. The first ever book about Cuban record sleeve design, compiled by Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker, Cuba: Music and Revolutionfeatures hundreds of rarely seen vinyl records from the start of the Cuban Revolution at the beginning of the 1960s up until 1985, when Cuba's Special Period, brought about by the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the withdrawal of Russia's financial support for the Cuban government, led to the demise of vinyl-record manufacturing in Cuba. The artwork here reflects both the cultural and musical depth of Cuba as well as the political influence of revolutionary communism. Over the past century, Cuban music has produced a seemingly endless variety of styles--rumba, mambo, son, salsa--at a dizzyingly fast rate. Since the 1940s a steady stream of Cuban musicians has also made the migration to the US, sparking changes in North American musical forms: bandleader Machito set New York's jazz and Latin scene on fire, and master drummer Chano Pozo's entry into Dizzy Gillespie's group led to the birth of Latin jazz, to name just two. After the Cuban Revolution in 1959, the new government closed American-owned nightclubs and consolidated the island's recording industry under a state-run monopoly. Out of this new socialist agenda came new musical styles, including the Nueva Trova movement of left-wing songwriters. The 1980s saw more experimentation in modernist jazz, salsa and Afro-Cuban folkloric music. Generously illustrated with hundreds of color images, Cuba: Music and Revolutionpresents the history of Cuban record cover art, including many examples previously unseen outside the island itself.

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Download or read book The Lyre of Orpheus written by Robertson Davies and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as a literary masterpiece, Robertson Davies' The Cornish Trilogy comes to a brilliant conclusion in The Lyre of Orpheus. Available as an eBook for the first time. There is an important decision to be made. The Cornish Foundation is thriving under the directorship of Arthur Cornish when Arthur and his beguiling wife, Maria Theotoky, decide to undertake a project worthy of Francis Cornish– connoisseur, collector, and notable eccentric–whose vast fortune endows the Foundation. The grumpy, grimy, extraordinarily talented music student Hulda Schnakenburg is commissioned to complete E.T.A. Hoffmann’s unfinished opera Arthur of Britain, or The Magnanimous Cuckold; and the scholarly priest Simon Darcourt finds himself charged with writing the libretto. Complications both practical and emotional arise: the gypsy in Maria’s blood rises with a vengeance; Darcourt stoops to petty crime; and various others indulge in perjury, blackmail, and other unsavory pursuits. Hoffmann’s dictum, “the lyre of Orpheus opens the door of the underworld,” seems to be all too true—especially when the long-hidden secrets of Francis Cornish himself are finally revealed. Baroque and deliciously funny, this third book in The Cornish Trilogy shows Robertson Davies at his very considerable best.