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From the New York Times bestselling author of Moriarty and Trigger Mortis, this fiendishly brilliant, riveting thriller weaves a classic whodunit worthy of Agatha Christie into a chilling, ingeniously original modern-day mystery. When editor Susan Ryeland is given the manuscript of Alan Conway’s latest novel, she has no reason to think it will be much different from any of his others. After working with the bestselling crime writer for years, she’s intimately familiar with his detective, Atticus Pünd, who solves mysteries disturbing sleepy English villages. An homage to queens of classic British crime such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers, Alan’s traditional formula has proved hugely successful. So successful that Susan must continue to put up with his troubling behavior if she wants to keep her job. Conway’s latest tale has Atticus Pünd investigating a murder at Pye Hall, a local manor house. Yes, there are dead bodies and a host of intriguing suspects, but the more Susan reads, the more she’s convinced that there is another story hidden in the pages of the manuscript: one of real-life jealousy, greed, ruthless ambition, and murder. Masterful, clever, and relentlessly suspenseful, Magpie Murders is a deviously dark take on vintage English crime fiction in which the reader becomes the detective.
Jules Verne,Charles Dickens,Mark Twain,Fyodor Dostoyevsky,Oscar Wilde,Edgar Allan Poe,William Hope Hodgson,John Buchan,Anna Katharine Green,Bram Stoker,Charlotte Brontë,Anne Brontë,Emily Brontë,Arthur Conan Doyle,Frances Hodgson Burnett,Joseph Conrad,Algernon Blackwood,Guy de Maupassant,Ernest Bramah,Walter Scott,Thomas Hardy,Mary Roberts Rinehart,Daniel Defoe,Arthur Morrison,Agatha Christie,Marie Belloc Lowndes,Sax Rohmer,Alexandre Dumas,Washington Irving,Maurice Leblanc,Erskine Childers,Gaston Leroux,Wilkie Collins,Earl Derr Biggers,Edgar Wallace,Marcel Allain,Richard Marsh,H. G. Wells,E. Phillips Oppenheim,J. S. Fletcher,R. Austin Freeman,E. W. Hornung,G. K. Chesterton,A. A. Milne,D. H. Lawrence,E. C. Bentley,H. P. Lovecraft,F. Scott Fitzgerald,Dorothy L. Sayers,Anton Chekhov,Robert William Chambers,Sheridan Le Fanu,Nikolai Gogol,Émile Gaboriau,Annie Haynes,Sapper,S. S. Van Dine
Author : Jules Verne,Charles Dickens,Mark Twain,Fyodor Dostoyevsky,Oscar Wilde,Edgar Allan Poe,William Hope Hodgson,John Buchan,Anna Katharine Green,Bram Stoker,Charlotte Brontë,Anne Brontë,Emily Brontë,Arthur Conan Doyle,Frances Hodgson Burnett,Joseph Conrad,Algernon Blackwood,Guy de Maupassant,Ernest Bramah,Walter Scott,Thomas Hardy,Mary Roberts Rinehart,Daniel Defoe,Arthur Morrison,Agatha Christie,Marie Belloc Lowndes,Sax Rohmer,Alexandre Dumas,Washington Irving,Maurice Leblanc,Erskine Childers,Gaston Leroux,Wilkie Collins,Earl Derr Biggers,Edgar Wallace,Marcel Allain,Richard Marsh,H. G. Wells,E. Phillips Oppenheim,J. S. Fletcher,R. Austin Freeman,E. W. Hornung,G. K. Chesterton,A. A. Milne,D. H. Lawrence,E. C. Bentley,H. P. Lovecraft,F. Scott Fitzgerald,Dorothy L. Sayers,Anton Chekhov,Robert William Chambers,Sheridan Le Fanu,Nikolai Gogol,Émile Gaboriau,Annie Haynes,Sapper,S. S. Van Dine Publisher : Good Press Page : 11368 pages File Size : 44,8 Mb Release : 2023-12-26 Category : Fiction ISBN : EAN:8596547790440
50 Masterpieces of Murder Mystery & Detective Fiction (Vol. 2) by Jules Verne,Charles Dickens,Mark Twain,Fyodor Dostoyevsky,Oscar Wilde,Edgar Allan Poe,William Hope Hodgson,John Buchan,Anna Katharine Green,Bram Stoker,Charlotte Brontë,Anne Brontë,Emily Brontë,Arthur Conan Doyle,Frances Hodgson Burnett,Joseph Conrad,Algernon Blackwood,Guy de Maupassant,Ernest Bramah,Walter Scott,Thomas Hardy,Mary Roberts Rinehart,Daniel Defoe,Arthur Morrison,Agatha Christie,Marie Belloc Lowndes,Sax Rohmer,Alexandre Dumas,Washington Irving,Maurice Leblanc,Erskine Childers,Gaston Leroux,Wilkie Collins,Earl Derr Biggers,Edgar Wallace,Marcel Allain,Richard Marsh,H. G. Wells,E. Phillips Oppenheim,J. S. Fletcher,R. Austin Freeman,E. W. Hornung,G. K. Chesterton,A. A. Milne,D. H. Lawrence,E. C. Bentley,H. P. Lovecraft,F. Scott Fitzgerald,Dorothy L. Sayers,Anton Chekhov,Robert William Chambers,Sheridan Le Fanu,Nikolai Gogol,Émile Gaboriau,Annie Haynes,Sapper,S. S. Van Dine Pdf
E-artnow presents to you this unique collection of the greatest classics of thriller and mystery every fan of the genre should experience at least once in their life: The Hound of the Baskervilles (Arthur Conan Doyle) The Valley of Fear (Arthur Conan Doyle) The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle) His Last Bow (Arthur Conan Doyle) The Double (Fyodor Dostoyevsky) The Murder on the Links (Agatha Christie) The Man in the Brown Suit (Agatha Christie) The Secret of Chimneys (Agatha Christie) The Fall of the House of Usher (Edgar Allan Poe) The Tell-Tale Heart (Edgar Allan Poe) The Cask of Amontillado (Edgar Allan Poe) The Clue of the Twisted Candle (Edgar Wallace) That Affair Next Door (Anna Katharine Green) The Wisdom of Father Brown (G. K. Chesterton) The Incredulity of Father Brown (G. K. Chesterton) The Man Who Was Thursday (G. K. Chesterton) The Moonstone (Wilkie Collins) Great Expectations (Charles Dickens) Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë) The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett) Nostromo (Joseph Conrad) Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson) The Mysterious Island (Jules Verne) The Wings of the Dove (Henry James) The Mysterious Portrait (Nikolai Gogol) Moll Flanders (Daniel Defoe) The Plumed Serpent (D. H. Lawrence) The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald) The Bat (Mary Roberts Rinehart) Max Carrados (Ernest Bramah) The King in Yellow (Robert William Chambers) The Great Impersonation (E. Phillips Oppenheim) The Middle Temple Murder (J. S. Fletcher) The Beetle (Richard Marsh) The Man in the Iron Mask (Alexandre Dumas) The Hollow Needle (Maurice Leblanc) The Mystery of the Yellow Room (Gaston Leroux) Monsieur Lecoq (Émile Gaboriau) The Jewel of Seven Stars (Bram Stoker) In a Glass Darkly (Sheridan Le Fanu) At the Mountains of Madness (H. P. Lovecraft) Carnacki, the Ghost Finder (William Hope Hodgson) The Horla (Guy de Maupassant) Trent's Last Case (E. C. Bentley) The Red House Mystery (A. A. Milne) The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu (Sax Rohmer) The Riddle of the Sands (Erskine Childers) The Amateur Cracksman (E. W. Hornung) The House Without a Key (Earl Derr Biggers) The Benson Murder Case (S. S. Van Dine)
Several valuable paintings have been stolen from the prestigious Manhattan Museum of Art, and the museum's curator--who may have witnessed the crime--has been murdered. Now, as detectives Matt and Brooke Devlin sort through an elegant gallery of suspects, contradictory evidence, and concealed motives, they find themselves being framed by a calculating killer poised to conclude their investigation with a deadly finishing stroke.
Jules Verne,Charles Dickens,Mark Twain,Fyodor Dostoyevsky,Oscar Wilde,Edgar Allan Poe,William Hope Hodgson,John Buchan,Anna Katharine Green,Bram Stoker,Charlotte Brontë,Anne Brontë,Emily Brontë,Arthur Conan Doyle,Frances Hodgson Burnett,Joseph Conrad,Algernon Blackwood,Guy de Maupassant,Ernest Bramah,Walter Scott,Thomas Hardy,Mary Roberts Rinehart,Daniel Defoe,Arthur Morrison,Agatha Christie,Marie Belloc Lowndes,Sax Rohmer,Alexandre Dumas,Washington Irving,Maurice Leblanc,Erskine Childers,Gaston Leroux,Wilkie Collins,Earl Derr Biggers,Edgar Wallace,Marcel Allain,Richard Marsh,H. G. Wells,E. Phillips Oppenheim,J. S. Fletcher,R. Austin Freeman,E. W. Hornung,G. K. Chesterton,A. A. Milne,D. H. Lawrence,E. C. Bentley,H. P. Lovecraft,F. Scott Fitzgerald,Dorothy L. Sayers,Anton Chekhov,Robert William Chambers,Sheridan Le Fanu,Nikolai Gogol,Émile Gaboriau,Annie Haynes,Sapper,S. S. Van Dine
Author : Jules Verne,Charles Dickens,Mark Twain,Fyodor Dostoyevsky,Oscar Wilde,Edgar Allan Poe,William Hope Hodgson,John Buchan,Anna Katharine Green,Bram Stoker,Charlotte Brontë,Anne Brontë,Emily Brontë,Arthur Conan Doyle,Frances Hodgson Burnett,Joseph Conrad,Algernon Blackwood,Guy de Maupassant,Ernest Bramah,Walter Scott,Thomas Hardy,Mary Roberts Rinehart,Daniel Defoe,Arthur Morrison,Agatha Christie,Marie Belloc Lowndes,Sax Rohmer,Alexandre Dumas,Washington Irving,Maurice Leblanc,Erskine Childers,Gaston Leroux,Wilkie Collins,Earl Derr Biggers,Edgar Wallace,Marcel Allain,Richard Marsh,H. G. Wells,E. Phillips Oppenheim,J. S. Fletcher,R. Austin Freeman,E. W. Hornung,G. K. Chesterton,A. A. Milne,D. H. Lawrence,E. C. Bentley,H. P. Lovecraft,F. Scott Fitzgerald,Dorothy L. Sayers,Anton Chekhov,Robert William Chambers,Sheridan Le Fanu,Nikolai Gogol,Émile Gaboriau,Annie Haynes,Sapper,S. S. Van Dine Publisher : DigiCat Page : 12151 pages File Size : 45,6 Mb Release : 2023-11-26 Category : Fiction ISBN : EAN:8596547734048
50 Masterpieces of Murder Mystery & Detective Fiction (Vol. 1) by Jules Verne,Charles Dickens,Mark Twain,Fyodor Dostoyevsky,Oscar Wilde,Edgar Allan Poe,William Hope Hodgson,John Buchan,Anna Katharine Green,Bram Stoker,Charlotte Brontë,Anne Brontë,Emily Brontë,Arthur Conan Doyle,Frances Hodgson Burnett,Joseph Conrad,Algernon Blackwood,Guy de Maupassant,Ernest Bramah,Walter Scott,Thomas Hardy,Mary Roberts Rinehart,Daniel Defoe,Arthur Morrison,Agatha Christie,Marie Belloc Lowndes,Sax Rohmer,Alexandre Dumas,Washington Irving,Maurice Leblanc,Erskine Childers,Gaston Leroux,Wilkie Collins,Earl Derr Biggers,Edgar Wallace,Marcel Allain,Richard Marsh,H. G. Wells,E. Phillips Oppenheim,J. S. Fletcher,R. Austin Freeman,E. W. Hornung,G. K. Chesterton,A. A. Milne,D. H. Lawrence,E. C. Bentley,H. P. Lovecraft,F. Scott Fitzgerald,Dorothy L. Sayers,Anton Chekhov,Robert William Chambers,Sheridan Le Fanu,Nikolai Gogol,Émile Gaboriau,Annie Haynes,Sapper,S. S. Van Dine Pdf
E-artnow presents to you this unique collection of the greatest classics of thriller and mystery every fan of the genre should experience at least once in their life: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Agatha Christie) The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Agatha Christie) The Secret Adversary (Agatha Christie) The Murders in the Rue Morgue (Edgar Allan Poe) The Masque of the Red Death (Edgar Allan Poe) The Purloined Letter (Edgar Allan Poe) A Study in Scarlet (Arthur Conan Doyle) The Sign of Four (Arthur Conan Doyle) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle) The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle) The Innocence of Father Brown (G. K. Chesterton) The Abbey Court Murder (Annie Haynes) The Man Who Knew Too Much (G. K. Chesterton) The Woman in White (Wilkie Collins) Bleak House (Charles Dickens) Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy) Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad) Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson) Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Jules Verne) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain) Tom Sawyer, Detective (Mark Twain) The Turn of the Screw (Henry James) Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky) The Shooting Party (Anton Chekhov) Guy Mannering (Walter Scott) The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde) The Invisible Man (H. G. Wells) The Four Just Men (Edgar Wallace) The Red Thumb Mark (R. Austin Freeman) The Leavenworth Case (Anna Katharine Green) The Circular Staircase (Mary Roberts Rinehart) Bulldog Drummond (Sapper) Martin Hewitt Investigator (Arthur Morrison) The Lodger (Marie Belloc Lowndes) Whose Body? (Dorothy L. Sayers) The Thirty-Nine Steps (John Buchan) The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas) Arsène Lupin (Maurice Leblanc) The Phantom of the Opera (Gaston Leroux) The Widow Lerouge (Émile Gaboriau) Fantômas (Marcel Allain) Dracula (Bram Stoker) Uncle Silas (Sheridan Le Fanu) The Call of Cthulhu (H. P. Lovecraft) The House on the Borderland (William Hope Hodgson) The Willows (Algernon Blackwood) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Washington Irving) The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Charles Dickens)
Famed for having killed his cousin Alessandro, the Duke of Florence, in 1537, but also for writing accomplished literary works, including a comedy and several poems, Lorenzino de' Medici remains one of the most enigmatic figures of Italian literature. In his masterpiece, Apology for a Murder, he reveals the inner motives behind his act, portraying himself as a hero to be numbered alongside the great tyrannicides of ancient Rome and Greece.Lorenzino himself, in 1548, was murdered by two soldiers hired either by the emperor Charles V or by Cosimo, Alessandro's successor as Duke, and this volume includes the dramatic account of his killing by Francesco Bibboni, one of the assassins, as well as a selection of Lorenzino's poems, giving a fully rounded image of the antihero of Alfred de Musset's Lorenzaccio.
An artist of death is stalking Victorian London, recreating earlier masterpieces of murder. Police suspicion falls on the notorious 'opium-eater' Thomas De Quincey, recently returned to the capital, who wrote in detail about the original crimes. Someone is using his essays as inspiration - and he must uncover the truth before the killer completes his work. In MURDER AS A FINE ART, London becomes a battleground between a literary star and a brilliant murderer - whose lives are linked by secrets long buried, but never forgotten.
*A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * One of The East Hampton Star's 10 Best Books of the Year* From the New York Times bestselling author of The Most Dangerous Book, the true story behind the creation of another masterpiece of world literature, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. The Sinner and the Saint is the deeply researched and immersive tale of how Dostoevsky came to write this great murder story—and why it changed the world. As a young man, Dostoevsky was a celebrated writer, but his involvement with the radical politics of his day condemned him to a long Siberian exile. There, he spent years studying the criminals that were his companions. Upon his return to St. Petersburg in the 1860s, he fought his way through gambling addiction, debilitating debt, epilepsy, the deaths of those closest to him, and literary banishment to craft an enduring classic. The germ of Crime and Punishment came from the sensational story of Pierre François Lacenaire, a notorious murderer who charmed and outraged Paris in the 1830s. Lacenaire was a glamorous egoist who embodied the instincts that lie beneath nihilism, a western-influenced philosophy inspiring a new generation of Russian revolutionaries. Dostoevsky began creating a Russian incarnation of Lacenaire, a character who could demonstrate the errors of radical politics and ideas. His name would be Raskolnikov. Lacenaire shaped Raskolnikov in profound ways, but the deeper insight, as Birmingham shows, is that Raskolnikov began to merge with Dostoevsky. Dostoevsky was determined to tell a murder story from the murderer's perspective, but his character couldn't be a monster. No. The murderer would be chilling because he wants so desperately to be good. The writing consumed Dostoevsky. As his debts and the predatory terms of his contract caught up with him, he hired a stenographer to dictate the final chapters in time. Anna Grigorievna became Dostoevsky's first reader and chief critic and changed the way he wrote forever. By the time Dostoevsky finished his great novel, he had fallen in love. Dostoevsky's great subject was self-consciousness. Crime and Punishment advanced a revolution in artistic thinking and began the greatest phase of Dostoevsky's career. The Sinner and the Saint now gives us the thrilling and definitive story of that triumph.
Why is it so much fun to read about death and dismemberment? In Murder Book, lifelong true-crime obsessive and New Yorker cartoonist Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell tries to puzzle out the answer. An unconventional graphic exploration of a lifetime of Ann Rule super-fandom, amateur armchair sleuthing, and a deep dive into the high-profile murders that have fascinated the author for decades, this is a funny, thoughtful, and highly personal blend of memoir, cultural criticism, and true crime with a focus on the often-overlooked victims of notorious killers.
Author : Sam B. Girgus Publisher : John Wiley & Sons Page : 288 pages File Size : 54,7 Mb Release : 2014-01-08 Category : Social Science ISBN : 9780745656489
The steady rise of Clint Eastwood’s career parallels a pressing desire in American society over the past five decades for a figure and story of purpose, meaning, and redemption. Eastwood has not only told and filmed that story, he has come to embody it for many in his public image and film persona. Eastwood responds to a national yearning for a vision of individual action and initiative, personal responsibility, and potential for renewal. An iconic director and star for his westerns, urban thrillers, and adventure stories, Eastwood has taken film art to new horizons of meaning in a series of masterpieces that engage the ethical and moral consciousness of our times, including Unforgiven, Million Dollar Baby, and Mystic River. He revolutionized the war film with the unprecedented achievement of filming the opposing sides of the same historic battle in Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima, using this saga to present a sharply critical representation of the new America that emerged out of the war, a society of images and spectacles. This timely examination of Clint Eastwood’s oeuvre against the backdrop of contemporary America will be fascinating reading for students of film and popular culture, as well as readers with interests in Eastwood’s work, American film and culture.
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time From the Modern Library’s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by Truman Capote—also available are Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Other Voices, Other Rooms (in one volume), Portraits and Observations, and The Complete Stories Truman Capote’s masterpiece, In Cold Blood, created a sensation when it was first published, serially, in The New Yorker in 1965. The intensively researched, atmospheric narrative of the lives of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, and of the two men, Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, who brutally killed them on the night of November 15, 1959, is the seminal work of the “new journalism.” Perry Smith is one of the great dark characters of American literature, full of contradictory emotions. “I thought he was a very nice gentleman,” he says of Herb Clutter. “Soft-spoken. I thought so right up to the moment I cut his throat.” Told in chapters that alternate between the Clutter household and the approach of Smith and Hickock in their black Chevrolet, then between the investigation of the case and the killers’ flight, Capote’s account is so detailed that the reader comes to feel almost like a participant in the events.
How many acts of murder have each of us followed on a screen? What does that say about us? Do we remain law-abiding citizens who wouldn’t hurt a fly? Film historian David Thomson, known for wit and subversiveness, leads us into this very delicate subject. While unpacking classics such as Seven, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Strangers on a Train, The Conformist, The Godfather, and The Shining, he offers a disconcerting sense of how the form of movies makes us accomplices in this sinister narrative process. By turns seductive and astringent, very serious and suddenly hilarious, Murder and the Movies admits us into what Thomson calls “a warped triangle”: the creator working out a compelling death; the killer doing his and her best; and the entranced reader and spectator trying to cling to life and a proper sense of decency.
When the bodies of three teenagers were found on the shores of Lake Waco, Texas in July, 1982, even seasoned lawmen were taken aback by the savage mutilation and degradation they had been subjected to. Yet only 52 days after the gruesome triple-murder was discovered, frustrated authorities suspended the case indefinitely. Patrol Sergeant Truman Simons, who had been called to the scene that night, saw the carnage first-hand -- and vowed to find the ferocious killer or killers. He soon became a man with a mission, risking his career and his family's safety in search of evidence. Plunging himself into a netherworld of violence and evil, Simons finally got close enough to a murderous ringleader to hear his careless whispers--and ultimately, put him and his three accomplices behind bars for the brutal slayings. Now, in his Edgar Award-winning account of the Lake Waco killings, acclaimed true crime writer Carlton Stowers lays bare the facts behind the tragic crimes, the twisted predators, and the heroic man who broke the investigation--with important updated information based on new developments in the case.
