Frequent Hearses

Author : Edmund Crispin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448206889

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Stars, Starlets, Floozies and factotums to the film world – Gervase Fen suspects them all... The young actress, Gloria Scott, drowns after throwing herself off Waterloo Bridge. The news sends shock-waves around her film studio where Gervase Fen, Oxford Don and amateur criminologist, just so happens to be working. With help from friend the Inspector Humbleby, the tragic loss of young life leads them to many more dark places. Young Ms. Scott's apartment has been searched, and all signs of her real identity have been removed, and what's more, minutes before Humbleby interrogates her co-workers, one of them, a lecherous cameraman, is poisoned. Equal parts compelling, witty and ingenuous, this novel is a classic example of great British detective fiction. First published in 1950, Frequent Hearses was Edmund Crispin's seventh novel.

Author : David Whittle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351572989

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Bruce Montgomery/Edmund Crispin: A Life in Music and Books by David Whittle Pdf

Under his real name, Bruce Montgomery (1921-1978) wrote concert music and the scores for almost 50 feature films, including some of the most enduring British comedies of the twentieth century, amongst them a number in the series started by Doctor in the House and the first six Carry On films. Under the pseudonym of Edmund Crispin he enjoyed equal success as an author, writing nine highly acclaimed detective novels and a number of short crime stories, as well as compiling anthologies of science fiction which helped to increase the profile of the genre. A close friend of both Philip Larkin and Kingsley Amis, Montgomery did much to encourage their work. In this first biography of Montgomery, David Whittle draws on interviews with people who knew the writer and composer. These interviews, together with in-depth research, provide great insight into the development of Montgomery as a crime fiction writer and as a composer in the ever-demanding world of films. During the late 1950s and early '60s these demands were to prove too much for Montgomery. Alcoholism combined with the onset of osteoporosis and a retreat into a semi-reclusive lifestyle resulted in him writing and composing virtually nothing during the last 15 years of his life. David Whittle examines the reasons for Montgomery's early and rapid decline in this thoroughly researched and engagingly written biography.

Author : Edmund Crispin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : English teachers
ISBN : OCLC:474729800

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Frequent Hearses by Edmund Crispin Pdf

Author : William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin Eli Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 908 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Atlases
ISBN : NLI:3005193-30

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The Century Dictionary: The Century dictionary by William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin Eli Smith Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1822
Category : English poetry
ISBN : HARVARD:HNZTTI

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The Poetical Common-place Book by Anonim Pdf

Author : Edmund Crispin
Publisher : Viking Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1987-06-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0140093559

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Frequent Hearses by Edmund Crispin Pdf

When Oxford don Gervaise Fen serves as a literary advisor on a film, he becomes involved with the death of a bit-part actress

Author : Earl F. Bargainnier
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0879722509

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Twelve Englishmen of Mystery by Earl F. Bargainnier Pdf

There are hundreds of satisfactory and satisfying British mystery writers whose works should be studied both for their own individual accomplishments and for their comments on the society in which they were published, in the last 150 years, but who have not received any critical comment lately. This volume is designed to correct that fault in a dozen of those unjustifiably neglected British authors: Wilkie Collins, A.E.W. Mason, G.K. Chesterton, H.C. Bailey, Anthony Berkeley Cox, Nicholas Blake, Michael Gilbert, Julian Symons, Dick Francis, Edmund Crispin, H.R.F. Keating, and Simon Brett.

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1142 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : American literature
ISBN : PSU:000052000546

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Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Author : Yasmine Gooneratne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1976-09-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521211271

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Alexander Pope by Yasmine Gooneratne Pdf

Although Pope's reputation as a poet has never been higher among scholars and academics, changes in our attitudes to the writing of poetry and to traditional literary values and fashions in versification have created barriers between his genius and the general reader. Pope's poetry has to struggle against the assumptions that verse two centuries ago, filled with allusions to forgotten myths and contemporary personalities, can have little to say that is 'relevant'. Professor Gooneratne's study effectively shows how these barriers can be surmounted by the reader, allowing Pope's work to make its impact upon the imagination in its own way, as the expression of a powerful poetic personality which developed over forty years of continuous authorship. Every major poem in the Pope canon is fully and critically discussed, related to social circumstances that governed its composition and considered both as an example of generic writing and as an expression of personal feelings and convictions. Through detailed analysis of Pope's diction and poetic technique, Professor Gooneratne shows how his best and most deeply-felt verse expresses the living values of the Age of Enlightenment and demonstrates how a good writer can simultaneously extend and criticise the standards of his society.

Author : George Pollen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112071966862

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The Writings of George Pollen by George Pollen Pdf

Author : Edmund Crispin
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448214242

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The Case of the Gilded Fly by Edmund Crispin Pdf

It is October 1940 and at Oxford the Full Term has just begun. Robert Warner, up and coming playwright known for his experimental approach, has chosen an Oxford repertory theater for the premiere of his latest play, Metromania. Together with his cast he comes to Oxford to rehearse a week before the opening, but Warner's troupe is a motley group of actors among whom is the beautiful but promiscuously dangerous Yseut Haskell . She causes quite a stir with her plots, intrigues and love triangles. When she is found shot dead in the college room of a young man who is infatuated with her, everyone is puzzled and worried –most of the actors have had a reason to get rid of the femme fatale and few have alibis. The police are at loss for answers and are ready to proclaim the incident as suicide, but Gervase Fen, an Oxford don and professor of literature, who thrives off solving mysteries, is ready to help. The Case of the Gilded Fly, first published in 1944, is Edmund Crispin's debut novel and also the first Gervase Fen Mystery.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : OSU:32435082269515

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Cassell's Illustrated Family Paper by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Geherin
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476669113

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Funny Thing About Murder by David Geherin Pdf

Focusing on crime fiction and films that artfully combine comedy and misdeed, this book explores the reasons writers and filmmakers inject humor into their work and identifies the various comic techniques they use. The author covers both American and European books from the 1930s to the present, by such authors as Rex Stout, Raymond Chandler, Robert B. Parker, Elmore Leonard, Donald E. Westlake, Sue Grafton, Carl Hiaasen and Janet Evanovich, along with films from The Thin Man to the BBC's Sherlock series.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555008987

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The United Presbyterian Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : I. A. Richards
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351497312

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Practical Criticism by I. A. Richards Pdf

Linguist, critic, poet, psychologist, I. A. Richards (1893-1979) was one of the great polymaths of the twentieth century. He is best known, however, as one of the founders of modern literary critical theory. Richards revolutionized criticism by turning away from biographical and historical readings as well as from the aesthetic impressionism. Seeking a more exacting approach, he analyzed literary texts as syntactical structures that could be broken down into smaller interacting verbal units of meaning. Practical Criticism, fi rst published in 1929, is a landmark volume in demonstrating this method.