Corkscrew And Other Stories

Author : Dashiell Hammett
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504036009

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Corkscrew and Other Stories by Dashiell Hammett Pdf

From the sands of Arizona to the alleys of the Tenderloin, the Continental Op deals out rough justice, in this collection of short stories from master of noir fiction Dashiell Hammett In the Arizona desert, the sun’s high, the heat’s relentless, and there’s murder in the air. Across this long stretch of sunbaked hell, one town stands out as the worst of all. Someone is killing the cowboys of Corkscrew, and Continental Op has been hired to stop the slaughter. From the moment he rides into town, he tastes dust on his teeth and blood in the wind. The locals have no respect for this hardboiled San Francisco detective, so it’s up to the Op to show them he deserves his badge. But before peace can come to Corkscrew, more men will die. A portrait of a tough man in a rough town, “Corkscrew” offers a taste of Dashiell Hammett’s first novel, the legendary epic of hardboiled violence Red Harvest. Along with the other stories in this volume—“Dead Yellow Women” and “The Gutting of Couffignal”—it shows Hammett and his infamous Continental Op at the top of their forms.

Author : Maria Edgeworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590327580

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The false key, by M. Edgeworth. [and other stories]. by Maria Edgeworth Pdf

Author : Антон Чехов
Publisher : Litres
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9785040757275

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Love and Other Stories by Антон Чехов Pdf

Author : Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547357209

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Love and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Love and Other Stories" by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. 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.

Author : Sam Kates
Publisher : Sam Kates
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781912718153

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Pond Life and Other Stories by Sam Kates Pdf

A deadly infatuation. Apocalypse. A haunted hotel. These are what you'll meet if you dare to venture inside. How would you react if you came across someone who claimed he caused the end of humankind? This is the question Jake must answer in The Third Coming, the story that spawned the Earth Haven trilogy. Would you dive into a pond that will alter you fundamentally? What if you are on a beach at Dunkirk, already facing near-certain death, when you look into the eyes of true evil? Try to avoid the Obsessives' Club—it's not somewhere you want to stay. Encounter a novel way of dealing with antisocial behaviour, a condemned prisoner who's convinced that she's Dorothy Gale, and a daring but brutal escape from a Siberian prison camp. Then there's a girl who claims she can fly, not to mention a ghost, maybe two. Ten stories of the macabre and the wondrous and the seemingly mundane… until you scratch beneath the surface.

Author : Dashiell Hammett
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307767448

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Nightmare Town by Dashiell Hammett Pdf

Twenty long-unavailable stories by Dashiell Hammett, the author of The Maltese Falcon and the incomparable master of detective fiction. In the title story, a man on a bender enters a small town and ends up unraveling the dark mystery at its heart. A woman confronts the brutal truth about her husband in the chilling story "Ruffian's Wife." "His Brother's Keeper" is a half-wit boxer's eulogy to the brother who betrayed him. "The Second-Story Angel" recounts one of the most novel cons ever devised. In seven stories, the tough and taciturn Continental Op takes on a motley collection of the deceitful, the duped, and the dead, and once again shows his uncanny ability to get at the truth. In three stories, Sam Spade confronts the darkness in the human soul while rolling his own cigarettes. And the first study for The Thin Man sends John Guild on a murder investigation in which almost every witness may be lying. In Nightmare Town, Dashiell Hammett, America's poet laureate of the dispossessed, shows us a world where people confront a multitude of evils. Whether they are trying to right wrongs or just trying to survive, all of them are rendered with Hammett's signature gifts for sharp-edged characters and blunt dialogue. Hammett said that his ambition was to elevate mystery fiction to the level of art. This collection of masterful stories clearly illustrates Hammett's success, and shows the remarkable range and variety of the fiction he produced.

Author : Anton Chekhov
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783734019647

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Love and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov Pdf

Reproduction of the original: Love and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov

Author : Dashiell Hammett
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307767486

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Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett Pdf

The steadfast and sturdy Continental Op has been summoned to the town of Personville—known as Poisonville—a dusty mining community splintered by competing factions of gangsters and petty criminals. The Op has been hired by Donald Willsson, publisher of the local newspaper, who gave little indication about the reason for the visit. No sooner does the Op arrive, than the body count begins to climb . . . starting with his client. With this last honest citizen of Poisonville murdered, the Op decides to stay on and force a reckoning—even if that means taking on an entire town. Red Harvest is more than a superb crime novel: it is a classic exploration of corruption and violence in the American grain.

Author : Steven Laine
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781684422616

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Root Cause by Steven Laine Pdf

Can you imagine a world without wine? Corvina Guerra is a flying winemaker who dreams of one day settling down in her native Italy on her family’s vineyard. On a visit to a vineyard in Italy, Corvina makes a startling discovery: Phylloxera, a menacing plant louse that devastated vineyards in Europe more than a hundred years ago, has infested the vines. The deeper Corvina and Brian search, the more they become convinced that Universal Wines holds the answer to everything, and the harder they pursue their investigation the more surprises pile up for both of them. In spite of devastating consequences, Corvina and Brian vow to continue their investigation and do what they can to contain the spread of the infestation – but time is running short and they always seem to be a step behind. Unless they can find a way to stop the Philomena – vineyards around the world will be ruined for decades; potentially causing the collapse of the wine industry. Can Corvina and Brian get to the root cause and save the international wine industry from ruin?

Author : Lewis Carroll
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781607109617

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Stories by Lewis Carroll Pdf

Scurry down the rabbit hole and step through the looking glass with this compilation of works from Lewis Carroll. Don’t be late--it’s a very important date! Witty, whimsical, and often nonsensical, the fiction of Lewis Carroll has been popular with both children and adults for over 150 years. Canterbury Classics's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland takes readers on a trip down the rabbit hole in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, where height is dynamic, animals talk, and the best solutions to drying off are a dry lecture on William the Conqueror and a Caucus Race in which everyone runs in circles and there is no clear winner. Through the Looking Glass begins the adventure anew when Alice steps through a mirror into another magical world where she can instantly be made queen if she can only get to the other side of the colossal chessboard. Complete with the original drawings by John Tenniel, this edition is a steal for new readers and Carroll fans alike.

Author : Marilynn Gelfman Karp,Jeremy Franklin Brooke
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780789213778

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Uncorked by Marilynn Gelfman Karp,Jeremy Franklin Brooke Pdf

A splendid (and giftable) visual guide to the beautifully convoluted world of corkscrews Ever since the standardized wine bottle came into use in the eighteenth century, thirsty people have sought a convenient means of removing its cork stopper. At first they employed whatever was at hand—including the helical gun screws used to clean out firearms—but the patent corkscrew emerged by 1795 and soon multiplied into more permutations than the proverbial better mousetrap. In Uncorked, Marilynn Gelfman Karp uses her own collection of corkscrews—carefully chosen both for their inventiveness and for their decorative qualities—to trace the history and evolution of this curious tool. She establishes a taxonomy of the corkscrew, based on the fundamental characteristics of handle, shaft, and screw, and then presents more than 650 individual specimens by category. They range from the simplest “basic T” models to the most whimsical flights of fancy (a folding pair of legs, a seahorse) and the most elaborate mechanical contrivances. Each example is illustrated with superb color photography and fully described. Uncorked is at once a serious contribution to the history of material culture, and a delight to page through. It will be an essential reference for helixophiles (as collectors of these gadgets are called) and an agreeable gift for any corkscrew-wielding wine lover.

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UBBS:UBBS-00095734

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Christmas Stories, and Other Stories by Charles Dickens Pdf

Author : Les Galloway
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781452127149

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The Forty Fathom Bank and Other Stories by Les Galloway Pdf

Called "stunning and suspenseful" (Andrea Barrett, Outside), and "exquisitely detailed" (Alan Cheuse, NPR), The Forty Fathom Bank is a gripping novella of adventure and desperation in the tradition of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. This acclaimed cult classic tells the story of two men seeking riches on a late-season fishing trip off the coast of San Francisco. When a storm hits and the engine fails, they confront more than treacherous seas in their fight for survival. This edition also includes the late author's other rarely seen stories of the sea, as well as an afterword by his friend and editor, Jerome Gold. As James Lee Burke says, "No one who reads this book will ever forget it."

Author : Abraham Cahan
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547101307

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The Imported Bridegroom, and Other Stories of the New York Ghetto by Abraham Cahan Pdf

The Imported Bridegroom, and Other Stories of the New York Ghetto is a collection of short stories by Abraham Cahan. Contents: Imported Bridegroom, A Providential Match, A Sweat-Shop Romance, Circumstances and A Ghetto Wedding.

Author : Steve Almond
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006-04-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781565128644

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The Evil B.B. Chow and Other Stories by Steve Almond Pdf

Steve Almond, the man whose candy jones fueled the bestseller Candyfreak, returns with a collection of stories that both seals his reputation as a master of the modern form and risks getting him arrested. The cast of characters in The Evil B.B. Chow and Other Stories includes a wealthy family certain they have been abducted by space aliens, a sexy magazine editor who falls for a worldclass cad, and a beleaguered dentist who refuses to read his best friend’s novel. Michael Jackson and Abraham Lincoln make cameos, as do a variety of desperate and beautiful loonies, all of whom are laid bare, often literally. In these twelve stories, Almond refuses to let his characters off the hook, or to abandon them, until we have seen the full measure of ourselves within their struggle.