Arthur And The Great Detective

Author : Alan Coren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1995-05-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0140374779

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Author : Alan Coren,John Astrop
Publisher : Pavilion Children's Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09
Category : Arthur (Fictitious character)
ISBN : 1844580105

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Arthur and the Great Detective by Alan Coren,John Astrop Pdf

Author : Zach Dundas
Publisher : HMH
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780544220201

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The Great Detective by Zach Dundas Pdf

A rollicking look at popular culture’s most beloved sleuth: “For even the casual fan, the history of this deathless character is fascinating” (The Boston Globe). Today he is the inspiration for fiction adaptations, blockbuster movies, hit television shows, raucous Twitter banter, and thriving subcultures. More than a century after Sherlock Holmes first capered into our world, what is it about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s peculiar creation that continues to fascinate us? Journalist and lifelong Sherlock fan Zach Dundas set out to find the answer. The result is The Great Detective: a history of an idea, a biography of someone who never lived, a tour of the borderland between reality and fiction, and a joyful romp through the world Conan Doyle bequeathed us. In this “wonderful book” (Booklist, starred review), Dundas unearths the inspirations behind Holmes and his indispensable companion, Dr. John Watson; explores how they have been kept alive over the decades by writers, actors, and readers; and visits locales—from the boozy annual New York City gathering of one of the world’s oldest and most exclusive Sherlock Holmes fan societies; to a freezing Devon heath out of The Hound of the Baskervilles; to sunny Pasadena, where Dundas chats with the creators of the smash BBC series Sherlock. Along the way, he discovers the ingredients that have made Holmes go viral—then, now, and as long as the game’s afoot.

Author : Arthur Hailey
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504022194

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Detective by Arthur Hailey Pdf

A death row confession sparks an investigation that will tear Miami apart in this “engrossing thriller” from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author (Booklist). Detective-Sergeant Malcolm Ainslie, a former Catholic priest, is about to start his vacation when a call comes in from death row. Before serial killer Elroy Doil is taken to the electric chair, he wants to make a full confession to the cop who put him away. To close the books on additional murder cases in which Doil is a suspect, Ainslie drives four hundred miles to Florida State Prison. Although Doil confesses to ten other homicides, he insists that he didn’t commit the crime for which he will be executed the following day: the grisly slaying of a city commissioner and his wife. In his search for the real killer, Ainslie will discover that the upper levels of Miami’s government—including some of his closest colleagues—are more corrupt and dangerous than he ever imagined.

Author : Mary J. Fulton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : 0307909875

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Detective Arthur ; Master Sleuth by Mary J. Fulton Pdf

Scrappy challenges Arthur to solve two out of three mysteries in order to prove he is a master sleuth.

Author : Martin Booth
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781466843585

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The Doctor and the Detective by Martin Booth Pdf

This entertaining, smart biography of Arthur Conan Doyle presents a modern day interpretation of the man who, contrary to his best efforts, will always be known as the creator of the great detective, Sherlock Holmes. Doyle was, however, much more, as Booth shows us in this intriguing study of a man who thrived on the times in which he lived. While Holmes fans will be captivated by the various tidbits that offer insight into their hero's creation; others will be fascinated by this living embodiment of the Victorian masculine ideal.

Author : Troll Communications L.L.C.
Publisher : Troll Communications
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : 0816708002

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Great Detective Stories by Troll Communications L.L.C. Pdf

Author : Julian Barnes
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307371416

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Arthur & George by Julian Barnes Pdf

Brilliantly imagined and irresistibly readable, Arthur & George is a major new novel from Julian Barnes, a wonderful combination of playfulness, pathos and wisdom. Searching for clues, no one would ever guess that the lives of Arthur and George might intersect. Growing up in shabby-genteel nineteenth-century Edinburgh, Arthur is saddled with a dad who is a disgrace and a mum he wishes to protect, and is propelled into a life of action. To his astonishment, his career as a self-made man of letters brings him riches and fame and, in the world at large, he becomes the perfect picture of the honourable English gentlemen. George is irredeemably an outsider, and has no hope of becoming such a picture. Though he’s dogged and logical, a vicar’s son from rural Staffordshire, he is set apart, and he and his family are targeted in his boyhood by a poison-pen campaign. George finds safe harbour in the reliability of rules, and grows up to become a solicitor, putting his faith in the insulating value of British justice. Then crisis upsets the uneasy equilibrium of both men’s lives. Arthur is knocked for a loop by guilt and other dishonourable emotions. George is put to the sorest test, accused of a horrible crime. And from that point on their lives weave together in the most profound and surprising way, as each man becomes the other’s salvation. Arthur & George is a masterful novel about low crime and high spirituality, guilt and innocence, identity, nationality and race. Most of all, it’s a profound and witty meditation on the fateful differences between what we believe, what we know and what we can prove. George and his father pray together, kneeling side by side on the scrubbed boards. Then George climbs into bed while his father locks the door and turns out the light. As he falls asleep, George sometimes thinks of the floor, and how his soul must be scrubbed just as the boards are scrubbed. Father is not an easy sleeper, and has a tendency to groan and wheeze. Sometimes, in the early morning, when dawn is beginning to show at the edges of the curtains, Father will catechize him. "George, where do you live?" "The Vicarage, Great Wyrley." "And where is that?" "Staffordshire, Father." "And where is that?" "The centre of England." "And what is England, George?" "England is the beating heart of the Empire, Father." "Good. And what is the blood that flows through the arteries and veins of the Empire to reach even its farthest shore?" "The Church of England." "Good, George." And after a while Father will begin to groan and wheeze again. George watches the outline of the curtain harden. He lies there thinking of arteries and veins making red lines on the map of the world, linking Britain to all the places coloured pink: Australia and India and Canada and islands dotted everywhere. He thinks of blood bubbling though these tubes and emerging in Sydney, Bombay, the St. Lawrence Waterway. Bloodlines, that is a word he has heard somewhere. With the pulse of blood in his ears, he begins to fall asleep again. —excerpt from Arthur & George

Author : Michael Sims
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781632860385

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Arthur and Sherlock by Michael Sims Pdf

2018 Edgar Award Nominee Shortlisted for the H. R. F. Keating Award from the International Crime Writers Association From Michael Sims, the acclaimed author of The Story of Charlotte's Web, the rich, true tale tracing the young Arthur Conan Doyle's creation of Sherlock Holmes and the modern detective story. As a young medical student, Arthur Conan Doyle studied in Edinburgh under the vigilant eye of a diagnostic genius, Dr. Joseph Bell. Doyle often observed Bell identifying a patient's occupation, hometown, and ailments from the smallest details of dress, gait, and speech. Although Doyle was training to be a surgeon, he was meanwhile cultivating essential knowledge that would feed his literary dreams and help him develop the most iconic detective in fiction. Michael Sims traces the circuitous development of Conan Doyle as the father of the modern mystery, from his early days in Edinburgh surrounded by poverty and violence, through his escape to University (where he gained terrifying firsthand knowledge of poisons), leading to his own medical practice in 1882. Five hardworking years later--after Doyle's only modest success in both medicine and literature--Sherlock Holmes emerged in A Study in Scarlet. Sims deftly shows Holmes to be a product of Doyle's varied adventures in his personal and professional life, as well as built out of the traditions of Edgar Allan Poe, Émile Gaboriau, Wilkie Collins, and Charles Dickens--not just a skillful translator of clues, but a veritable superhero of the mind in the tradition of Doyle's esteemed teacher. Filled with details that will surprise even the most knowledgeable Sherlockian, Arthur and Sherlock is a literary genesis story for detective fans everywhere.

Author : Beau Riffenburgh
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780143126072

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Pinkerton's Great Detective by Beau Riffenburgh Pdf

The story of the legendary Pinkerton detective who took down the Molly Maguires and the Wild Bunch The operatives of the Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency were renowned for their skills of subterfuge, infiltration, and investigation, none more so than James McParland. So thrilling were McParland’s cases that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle included the cunning detective in a story along with Sherlock Holmes. Riffenburgh digs deep into the recently released Pinkerton archives to present the first biography of McParland and the agency’s cloak-and-dagger methods. Both action packed and meticulously researched, Pinkerton’s Great Detective brings readers along on McParland’s most challenging cases: from young McParland’s infiltration of the murderous Molly Maguires gang in the case that launched his career to his hunt for the notorious Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch to his controversial investigation of the Western Federation of Mines in the assassination of Idaho’s former governor. Filled with outlaws and criminals, detectives and lawmen, Pinkerton’s Great Detective shines a light upon the celebrated secretive agency and its premier sleuth.

Author : Daniel Stashower
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781466863156

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Teller of Tales by Daniel Stashower Pdf

Winner of the 1999 Edgar Award for Best Biographical Work, this is "an excellent biography of the man who created Sherlock Holmes" (David Walton, The New York Times Book Review) This fresh, compelling biography examines the extraordinary life and strange contrasts of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the struggling provincial doctor who became the most popular storyteller of his age. From his youthful exploits aboard a whaling ship to his often stormy friendships with such figures as Harry Houdini and George Bernard Shaw, Conan Doyle lived a life as gripping as one of his adventures. Exhaustively researched and elegantly written, Daniel Stashower's Teller of Tales sets aside many myths and misconceptions to present a vivid portrait of the man behind the legend of Baker Street, with a particular emphasis on the Psychic Crusade that dominated his final years--the work that Conan Doyle himself felt to be "the most important thing in the world."

Author : Mary J. Fulton
Publisher : Western Publishing Company
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1971-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0307645355

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Detective Arthur on the Scent by Mary J. Fulton Pdf

By scratching and sniffing treated strips in the illustrations, the reader and Arthur, the bloodhound, follow the same scents in trying to track down the missing birthday cake.

Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780141938530

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The Great Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle Pdf

From the strange case of 'The Red-Headed League' to the extraordinary tale of 'The Engineer's Thumb', Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Dr Watson grapple with treachery, murder, and ingenious crimes of all kinds. But no case is too challening for the immortal detective's unique power of deduction.

Author : Gary Lovisi,Marvin Kaye
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781434447593

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The Great Detective: His Further Adventures by Gary Lovisi,Marvin Kaye Pdf

Sherlock Holmes! That magical name conjures up all that is thrilling and exciting about the classic mystery short story. The Great Detective, created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is without doubt the most well-known and popular fictional character ever created--and with good reason. Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories are fascinating excursions into scientific detection with interesting, well-formed characters, offering intelligent, thoughtful mysteries that all men and women can relate to--and enjoy. Quite simply, Doyle created magic with his Sherlock Holmes stories. Writers over the last hundred years have been desperately trying to capture and recreate that magic, and I feel that the authors in this book have done just that. Here are a dozen well-crafted stories (nine of them original to this book) by writers whose love of the original Holmes stories clearly show in their work. So sit back in your comfortable chair and let the fog of old Victorian London swirl around you. Once again, the game is afoot! [Note: This book has been officially licensed from the Arthur Conan Doyle estate.]

Author : Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798567636466

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Arthur Conan Doyle - The Adventure of the Red Circle by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Pdf

"The Adventure of the Red Circle" is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Arthur Conan Doyle. It is included in the anthology His Last Bow.Includes a biography of the author.