Hugger Mugger In The Louvre

Author : Elliot Paul
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486803241

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Hugger-Mugger in the Louvre by Elliot Paul Pdf

The gendarmes are baffled and all Paris is agog at the disappearance of a rare Watteau print. Enter master sleuth Homer Evans, whose hilarious approach to crime-solving follows a twisted trail from the darkest recesses of the Louvre to underworld lairs, the studios of shady art dealers, and an insane asylum. Evans and his zany associates—including his sharpshooting girlfriend, Mademoiselle Montana, and his drinking buddy, Gonzo—trace a bizarre series of clues to uncover an ever-thickening plot involving fraud, kidnapping, and murder. Author Elliot Paul satirized the conventions of detective fiction with the first Homer Evans adventure, The Mysterious Mickey Finn. This sequel, hailed as "an excellent cocktail" by The New Republic, offers another furious frolic that upends every convention of the traditional murder mystery.

Author : Elliot Paul
Publisher : Coachwhip Publications
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1616462949

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Hugger Mugger in the Louvre (a Homer Evans Mystery) by Elliot Paul Pdf

Homer Evans has a wacky group of friends who lead you all over Paris, up and down the Seine, through cafes filled with celebrities, taxidermist shops, subway stations, the musty dens of Egyptologists and the wards of a fantastic madhouse. There is violence aplenty and corpses are in the most unexpected places. The New York Herald Tribune Books says, "This, as you might guess, is the funniest mystery on tap-that is, the funniest by far, for all other comic thrillers seem pale and wan beside Mr. Paul's robustious works." You can't fail to get plenty of gusty guffaws and spine-tickling chills as you join lovely Miriam Leonard, hard-drinking Norwegian-American painter Hjalmar Jansen, former member of the Tsar's army Lvov Kvek, Chief of Detectives Fremont of the Paris Police, and the medical examiner, Dr. Hyacinthe Toudoux, to help Homer Evans solve this mystery that starts with the theft of a famous Watteau painting from the Louvre. "Fantastically amusing and thrilling . . . completely cockeyed and hugely entertaining." Jack Ketch, New York Herald Tribune"

Author : Elliot Paul
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Evans, Homer (Fictitious character)
ISBN : OCLC:1916876

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Hugger-mugger in the Louvre by Elliot Paul Pdf

Author : J.K. Van Dover
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476677491

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The Detective and the Artist by J.K. Van Dover Pdf

This book focuses on the distinctive role that artists have played in detective fiction--as detectives, as villains and victims, and as bystanders. With a few significant exceptions, literary detectives have always identified themselves as essentially the deconstructors of the artful crimes of others. They may use various methods--ratiocinative, scientific, or hard-boiled--but they always unravel the threads that the villains have woven into deceptive covers for their crimes. The detective does, in the end, produce a work of art: a narrative that explains everything that needs explanation. But the detective's moral work is often juxtaposed to the aesthetic work of the painters, poets, and writers that the detective encounters during an investigation. The author surveys this juxtaposition in works by important authors from the early development of the genre (Poe, Conan Doyle), the golden age (Bentley, Christie, Sayers, James, et al.), and the hard-boiled era (Hammett, Chandler, Macdonald, Spicer et al.).

Author : Cuthbert Girdlestone
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1969-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0486262006

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Jean-Philippe Rameau by Cuthbert Girdlestone Pdf

Definitive, full-scale biography and critical study of great 18th-century composer. Rameau's life and times, influence on Gluck, acoustic and harmonic theories, other topics, plus full treatment of great operas and ballets. Over 300 musical examples.

Author : Arno Nehrling,Irene Nehrling
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1976-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0486232638

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Gardening for Flower Arrangement by Arno Nehrling,Irene Nehrling Pdf

Thorough cultivation instructions for over 500 shrubs, trees, annuals, perennials, herbs, and vegetables, plus instructions for arranging, cutting, forcing, and more. Will help you design a garden that provides a variety of colors, blooms, and forms in a harmonious scheme. Specific instructions for drying 371 different plants. 33 photographs, 142 drawings.

Author : Arthur Cleveland Bent
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1963-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0486210820

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Life Histories of North American Marsh Birds by Arthur Cleveland Bent Pdf

Coots, bitterns, rails, crakes, cranes, herons, egrets, many others. 180 photographs.

Author : Albert H. Beiler
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1964-01-01
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780486210964

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Recreations in the Theory of Numbers by Albert H. Beiler Pdf

Number theory proves to be a virtually inexhaustible source of intriguing puzzle problems. Includes divisors, perfect numbers, the congruences of Gauss, scales of notation, the Pell equation, more. Solutions to all problems.

Author : Arthur Cleveland Bent
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1963-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0486258319

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Life Histories of North American Flycatchers, Larks, Swallows, and Their Allies by Arthur Cleveland Bent Pdf

The definitive study of North American birds (United States, Canada, Mexico), prepared under auspices of Smithsonian Institution. Contains practically everything known about birds: description, habitat, range, life history, habits, relation to man, etc. These books will never be surpassed in fullness and useability. Indispensable to every serious birds watcher. All are fully illustrated. 78 species. Nesting, plumage, courtship, migration, range, etc. 117 black-and-white photographs.

Author : John E. Leffler,Ernest Grunwald
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0486660680

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Rates and Equilibria of Organic Reactions as Treated by Statistical, Thermodynamic, and Extrathermodynamic Methods by John E. Leffler,Ernest Grunwald Pdf

Graduate-level text stresses extrathermodynamic approach to quantitative prediction and constructs a logical framework that encompasses and classifies all known extrathermodynamic relationships. Numerous figures and tables. Author and Subject Indexes.

Author : Guy M. Townsend
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781434403858

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The Mystery Fancier (Vol. 1 No. 6) November 1977 by Guy M. Townsend Pdf

The Mystery Fancier, Volume 1 Number 6, November 1977, contains: "Raymond Chandler on Film: An Annotated Checklist, Part I," by Peter Pross, "The Degeneration of Donald Hamilton," by George Kelley, "The Mysterious John Dickson Carr," by Larry L. French, and "The Nero Wolfe Saga, Part IV," by Guy M. Townsend.

Author : Sean Latham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107073906

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The Cambridge Companion to Ulysses by Sean Latham Pdf

Through a series of incisive and insightful essays by accomplished scholars, this Companion offers readers a new window to the world of Ulysses.

Author : Elliot Paul
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781839740244

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Fracas in the Foothills by Elliot Paul Pdf

Fracas in the Foothills, first published in 1940, is a rollicking, fast-paced action – western – mystery – adventure story set in the 1930s and moving from Paris to the American West (especially in the lower Yellowstone River valley Montana). The book features scholar-sleuth Homer Evans, the subject of several books by author Elliot Paul, and a host of additional, often wacky characters including his French cohorts, gangsters, Native Americans, ranchers, rustlers, and even rattlesnakes. Evans and his group return to Montana to solve a murder but the plot takes many often humorous twists along the way.

Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1585 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349813667

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Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers by NA NA Pdf

Author : Elliot Paul
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486806082

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Mayhem in B-Flat by Elliot Paul Pdf

Serious detection meets madcap adventure in this stylish whodunit, which unfolds in 1930s Paris and features a colorful cast that includes a concert violinist, his eccentric accompanist, and a notorious gang member.