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Book The Derek Smith Omnibus

Download or read book The Derek Smith Omnibus written by Derek Howe Smith and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher's Weekly calls Derek Smith's Whistle Up The Devil "one of the most intelligent and crafty impossible murder novels of all time." Frequently cited in Top 10 locked room mystery lists, and nominated to the Masterpiece category in Roland Lacourbe et al's 1001 Chambres Closes (1001 Locked Rooms) 2013 bibliography, Whistle up the Devil (1953) is an indispensable addition to any locked room lover's library. But Derek Smith also wrote two other impossible crime novels, neither of which was published in the USA or the UK: -Come to Paddington Fair (1997) featured the same series detective Algy Lawrence, solving a very clever murder in plain sight on a London stage during a live performance, which no one could have committed. Its Japanese publisher called it a masterpiece.-Model for Murder, written as an addition to the Sexton Blake canon, but probably too cerebral for the audience, it is nevertheless a well-constructed thriller with an ingenious locked room puzzle.This omnibus edition includes all three novels, together with an introduction by noted locked room expert Bob Adey, who knew Derek well, plus an unpublished short story (not an impossible crime.) It also includes a mass of illuminating background material about this little-known Golden Age writer who deserves a much wider audience.

Book Whistle Up the Devil

    Book Details:
  • Author : Derek Smith
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2015-07-21
  • ISBN : 9781515161516
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Whistle Up the Devil written by Derek Smith and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Washington Post calls Whistle Up the Devil "dazzling" and "a masterpiece."Publisher's Weekly's starred review calls it "one of the most intelligent and crafty impossible murder novels of all time."Roger Querrin died alone in a locked and guarded room, beyond the reach of human hands. Algy Lawrence ...could not explain the mystery of this "miracle" murder. And then, faced with a second crime which could not possibly have been committed, he began to wonder, at last, if somebody had conjured up an invisible demon who could blast out locks and walk through solid walls... Locked Room International translates and publishes impossible crime/locked room works from all over the world, including the works of Paul Halter, regarded by many as the successor to John Dickson Carr. For more information go to mylri.com or contact [email protected] for signed and lettered copies.

Book Skinheads 1979 1984

    Book Details:
  • Author : Derek Ridgers
  • Publisher : Omnibus Press
  • Release : 2014-07-14
  • ISBN : 1783231246
  • Pages : 160 pages

Download or read book Skinheads 1979 1984 written by Derek Ridgers and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In early '79 I was already engaged in what eventually turned out to be a lengthy photographic study of the New Romantics (though back then they were not known as such). I'd been documenting this nascent scene in the Soho nightclub 'Billy's' and, one evening, a group of about half-a-dozen skinheads turned up. They saw me taking photographs and one of them, a guy called Wally, asked me if I'd like to take some photos of them too. They seemed pretty friendly and not at all camera shy. I took a few snaps, we got talking and Wally suggested I go with the whole gang on one of their Bank Holiday jaunts to the seaside. That was what led, eventually, to five years of photographing skinheads. In those five years I got to know some of the skinheads quite well and liked many of them." Derek Ridgers All the photos were taken between 1979 - 1984 in either London or nearby coastal towns. Over 100 photos including 32 pages of colour.

Book Riotous Assembly

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tom Sharpe
  • Publisher : Atlantic Monthly Press
  • Release : 1987
  • ISBN : 9780871131430
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book Riotous Assembly written by Tom Sharpe and published by Atlantic Monthly Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A South African woman struggles to convince the police that she has murdered her black cook.

Book Vampire Apocalypse  Trail of Tears

Download or read book Vampire Apocalypse Trail of Tears written by Derek Gunn and published by Permuted Press. This book was released on 2014-04-11 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a cold and stormy evening the small human settlement celebrate their survival. Not all of their number have returned though and it is a bitter-sweet celebration. The festivities are interrupted when an elite force of Carter’s thralls find their hidden home and attack. The fallout from the nuclear plant is also creeping south with the prevailing winds, forcing the humans to abandon their home. While they prepare to leave the weather worsens and they are forced to abandon many of their belonging and trek miles to what they hope will be a better life. Carter now knows where they are, though, and mounts a huge offensive to destroy the human threat and gain possession of the new, vampire-killing ammunition. Caught between the approaching thrall army, the violent storms and the poisoned air the humans make a desperate journey along the trail of tears. In California, Von Richelieu must re assert his authority over the cabals or lose everything. The small rebel band become more than a nuisance and Von Richelieu puts plans in place to destroy them once and for all. The clock for the serum’s deadly effects finally winds down and humans die in their thousands. With food scarce and the vampires falling prey to their growing madness the world falls closer to its apocalyptic end.

Book The Tokyo Zodiac Murders

    Book Details:
  • Author : Soji Shimada
  • Publisher : Pushkin Vertigo
  • Release : 2015-09-15
  • ISBN : 1782271422
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book The Tokyo Zodiac Murders written by Soji Shimada and published by Pushkin Vertigo. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Astrologer, fortuneteller, and self-styled detective Kiyoshi Mitarai must in one week solve a macabre murder mystery that has baffled Japan for 40 years. Who murdered the artist Umezawa, raped and killed his daughter, and then chopped up the bodies of six others to create Azoth, the supreme woman? With maps, charts, and other illustrations, this story of magic and illusion, pieced together like a great stage tragedy, challenges the reader to unravel the mystery before the final curtain.

Book Come to Paddington Fair

    Book Details:
  • Author : Derek Smith
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2015-07-23
  • ISBN : 9781515192510
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Come to Paddington Fair written by Derek Smith and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-07-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Washington Post calls Come to Paddington Fair "a masterpiece."The death scene of a West End play goes horribly wrong in front of a matinee audience to which someone has invited a Scotland Yard inspector and his detective friend. But was the heroine shot by the stage gun fired by her jealous lover, or by the mystery man alone in a stage-side box? Apparently neither could have done it... Impossibility is piled on impossibility in the extraordinary plot which contains a new twist in every chapter. Locked Room International translates and publishes impossible crime/locked room works from all over the world, including the works of Paul Halter, regarded by many as the successor to John Dickson Carr. For more information go to mylri.com or contact [email protected] for signed and lettered copies.

Book The Vampire Tree

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paul Halter
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2016-11-25
  • ISBN : 9781539139355
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Vampire Tree written by Paul Halter and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-11-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Newlywed Patricia Sheridan is traveling from London by train to the quiet backwater of Lightwood, but after a disconcerting conversation with a stranger, she misses her stop. When Patricia, who has warned her new husband of her unpredictable mood swings, finally makes her way to the Sheridan ancestral home, she has a nightmare about being attacked by the old tree visible from her bedroom. That vision becomes more terrifying after she learns that a supposed vampire was buried under the tree, which was also the site of an impossible murder"--

Book Heat Storm

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard Castle
  • Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
  • Release : 2017-05-02
  • ISBN : 1368002013
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Heat Storm written by Richard Castle and published by Disney Electronic Content. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nikki Heat and Derrick Storm, New York Times bestselling author Richard Castle's most enduring and beloved characters, team up for the first time to save Nikki's mother, Cynthia, who has been in hiding (and presumed dead) for 17 years. Standing in their way is a nefarious group of Chinese businessmen known as the Shanghai Seven, who have the resources—and ruthlessness—to stop them.

Book The Pig Book

    Book Details:
  • Author : Citizens Against Government Waste
  • Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
  • Release : 2013-09-17
  • ISBN : 146685314X
  • Pages : 212 pages

Download or read book The Pig Book written by Citizens Against Government Waste and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The federal government wastes your tax dollars worse than a drunken sailor on shore leave. The 1984 Grace Commission uncovered that the Department of Defense spent $640 for a toilet seat and $436 for a hammer. Twenty years later things weren't much better. In 2004, Congress spent a record-breaking $22.9 billion dollars of your money on 10,656 of their pork-barrel projects. The war on terror has a lot to do with the record $413 billion in deficit spending, but it's also the result of pork over the last 18 years the likes of: - $50 million for an indoor rain forest in Iowa - $102 million to study screwworms which were long ago eradicated from American soil - $273,000 to combat goth culture in Missouri - $2.2 million to renovate the North Pole (Lucky for Santa!) - $50,000 for a tattoo removal program in California - $1 million for ornamental fish research Funny in some instances and jaw-droppingly stupid and wasteful in others, The Pig Book proves one thing about Capitol Hill: pork is king!

Book B P R D  Omnibus Volume 1

Download or read book B P R D Omnibus Volume 1 written by Mike Mignola and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2022-10-11 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join Hellboy creator Mike Mignola and a slew of talented writers and artists as they bring you the first volume in a series of omnibuses that collect the main B.P.R.D. storyline. In 2001, Hellboy quit the B.P.R.D., leaving its roster of special agents to defend the world from any occult threats, and the growing menace of the frog army. Now their adventures are collected in one continuous saga, following the exploits of Abe Sapien, Liz Sherman, Roger the Homunculus, Johann Krauss, Kate Corrigan, Ashley Strode, and many more from the war on frogs through the end of Ragna Rok. Collects B.P.R.D.: Hollow Earth & Other Stories, B.P.R.D.: The Soul of Venice & Other Stories, and B.P.R.D.: Plague of Frogs.

Book The English Catalogue of Books

Download or read book The English Catalogue of Books written by Sampson Low and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 1126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.

Book Bayou Dogs

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tony Abbott
  • Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 0545034302
  • Pages : 148 pages

Download or read book Bayou Dogs written by Tony Abbott and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Derek and his older brother, Ronny, are on therun from the dead. Souls are translating intoliving bodies on the brink of death. Even Ronny'sbody is inhabited by a different soul. Lucky forRonny, this soul is one of the good ones.Not all of them are.The evil souls are coming back, and they'reready for a fight.

Book Locked Room Murders

Download or read book Locked Room Murders written by Robert Adey and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Locked Room Murders is a bibliography containing a description of the problem and, separately, the solution to locked room and impossible crime novels and short stories.It has been a classic in the locked room pantheon for over 40 years, beginning with a 1972 article by Bob Adey in The Armchair Detective. The first edition of Locked Room Murders, published by Ferret Fantasy in 1979, covered 1280 titles. The 1991 second edition, published by Crossover Press, covered 2019 titles. Due to limited print runs, both editions have become prohibitively expensive. Locked Room International (LRI) is now making a revised version of the Second Edition available at an affordable price. Edited by Brian Skupin, LRI consultant and co-publisher of Mystery Scene magazine, this revised version contains the same 2019 titles, but with corrections and additional references which have appeared since 1991.Plans are in place to publish a Supplemental Edition in 2019, to include novels and short stories (including translations from sources outside the Anglosphere) published since 1991, films, TV series, graphic novels, and other media. It will not contain any of the titles in the Second Edition, Revised.

Book Asterix Omnibus Vol  4

Download or read book Asterix Omnibus Vol 4 written by René Goscinny and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In “Asterix the Legionary,” one of the three classic Asterix graphic novels collected here, Asterix and Obelix do as the Romans do and join the Roman Legion in hopes to get closer to Obelix’s big crush in the process. Instead, the troops are sent far from Gaul to North Africa. Then, in “Asterix and the Chieftain’s Shield” with the village chief away, Caesar and his men come to play—and get their hands on a priceless Gaul shield! Asterix must foil their search and protect his village. Then Asterix heads to Greece to participate in the Olympic games. But how do the Gauls register themselves? As Romans? And is their powerful potion an ancient form of performance enhancers? It’s an international bout for the ages and just when you think you know what to expect in Asterix, the creators Goscinny and Uderzo throw things at you that you never could’ve imagined. Includes a new afterword by Alexander Simmons providing historical and cultural context for Asterix, both in 50 B.C. and in the time the classic comics were made addressing various racial depictions

Book Double Helix Omnibus

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter David
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2002-10-30
  • ISBN : 0743473930
  • Pages : 1132 pages

Download or read book Double Helix Omnibus written by Peter David and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-10-30 with total page 1132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like a strand of mutating DNA, a deadly conspiracy winds its way through the Alpha Quadrant, even as it stretches across several years of Starfleet history. This special omnibus volume contains the entire bestselling saga-by some of Star Trek's most popular authors: Book One: Infection John Gregory Betancourt Deanna Troi's life is endangered by a mysterious plague that threatens to spread throughout the Federation and beyond! Book Two: Vectors Dean Wesley Smith & Kristine Kathryn Rusch On the Cardassian space station known as Terok Nor, Dr. Katherine Pulaski struggles to heal the planet Bajor! Book Three: Red Sector Diane Carey An elderly Dr. McCoy reunites with Ambassador Spock to save the Romulan royal family-and a new generation! Book Four: Quarantine John Vornholt Lieutenant Tom Riker joins forces with the outlaw Maquis to rescue a world in peril! Book Five: Double or Nothing Peter David Along with Captain Mackenzie Calhoun of the Starship Excalibur, Jean-Luc Picard tracks the deadly contagion to its source! Book Six: The First Virtue Michael Jan Friedman & Christie Golden Years before commanding the U.S.S. Enterprise™, a young Picard must prevent a war -- and witness the secret origin of a diabolical threat that would someday menace all he cares for!

Book The English Catalogue of Books

Download or read book The English Catalogue of Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 2000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: