Hugger Mugger In The Louvre A Homer Evans Mystery

Author : Elliot Paul
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,8 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 : Unknown
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 49,8 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 : Elliot Paul
Publisher : Coachwhip Publications
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 51,8 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 : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486251851

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Hugger-Mugger in the Louvre by Elliot Paul Pdf

All Paris is agog at the disappearance of a rare Watteau print until the intervention of a master sleuth and his zany companions. "An excellent cocktail." — The New Republic.

Author : J.K. Van Dover
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 42,5 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 : 45,9 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 : 49,7 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 : 53,5 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 : 45,5 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 : 49,8 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 : 42,6 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 : Elliot Paul
Publisher : Coachwhip Publications
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1616462957

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Mayhem in B-Flat (a Homer Evans Mystery) by Elliot Paul Pdf

Homer Evans is back. You remember Homer. The ever-calm, William Powell-ish sleuth of "The Mysterious Mickey Finn," and "Hugger Mugger in the Louvre" Homer and his incomparable girl friend, Miriam, the gun-totin', sharp-shooting gal from Montana. You'll find them at work and play again in Elliot Paul's Mayhem in B-Flat which has to do with the theft of a priceless Guarnerius violin, a huge dog, rival gangs, murders, tarantulas, dancing girls and loving ladies. Elliot Paul gives you plenty of laughs-and a bumper crop of homicide in this story that takes you from concert hall to cabaret to brothel, at racehorse speed. Even Homer has a hard time keeping up. Author Paul is a sly one. His quips are as fast as Miriam's lightning draw; his innuendos as innocent as a strip-teaser. If you're looking for deep-dyed detective problems, "Mayhem in B-Flat" is not for you. But if you want a hilarious evening, spend it with Homer, Miriam and the gang. You won't regret it. (Literary Guidepost, 1940)

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : UOM:39015052090340

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Joyce Studies Annual by Anonim Pdf

Author : Martin Seymour-Smith,Andrew C. Kimmens
Publisher : New York : H.W. Wilson
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015038536077

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World Authors, 1900-1950 by Martin Seymour-Smith,Andrew C. Kimmens Pdf

Representing a broad range of ethnic diversity, these in-depth profiles present fascinating accounts of lives and careers, the circumstances under which works were produced, and their literary significance. Each profile also includes critical evaluation, a list of the author's principal works with date first published, a list of major critical works, and a portrait or photograph where available.

Author : Elliot Paul
Publisher : Coachwhip Publications
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1616462965

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Fracas in the Foothills (a Homer Evans Western Mystery) by Elliot Paul Pdf

The fourth in the series of Homer Evans mystery adventures takes the reader for the ride of his life all the way from Paris to the badlands of Montana. In the wide open spaces where the last survivors of be Blackfeet and Shoshone Indians still keep their tribal ways in the lower stretches of the Yellowstone, where sheepherders and cattlemen fight to the death on the lone prairie, where behind every clump of sagebrush a dead-eye marksman lurks, there go all the veterans of the bloody campaigns in The Mysterious Mickey Finn, Hugger-Mugger in the Louvre and Mayhem in B-Flat. Guided by Rain-No-More, the Blackfeet son of a chief, directed by the ever-resourceful Homer Evans and trigger-quick Miriam Leonard, and supported by Hugo Weiss the financier, Hjalmar Jansen, the scourge of the studios, Fremont of the Paris police, Anton Diluvio the virtuoso, and all the tried and true shock troops of the previous books, they travel by ship and special train to the frontier battleground. They arrive just in time to participate in the first skirmishes between the cattlemen's forces and the sheepherders' mercenaries recruited among the Great Lakes palefaces, all of them trained braves who had had their baptism of tommy-gun fire in Chicago's gangland wars. The casualties among cowboys, Indians, trigger men, sheep and cattle are appalling. But Homer Evans, by a stroke of tactical genius, turns defeat into victory and forever puts an end to lawlessness in the badlands."