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First Class Murder

Robin Stevens
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Author : Robin Stevens
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781481422208

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A murdered heiress, a missing necklace, and a train full of shifty, unusual, and suspicious characters leaves Daisy and Hazel with a new mystery to solve in this third novel of the Wells & Wong Mystery series. Hazel Wong and Daisy Wells are taking a vacation across Europe on world-famous passenger train, the Orient Express—and it’s clear that each of their fellow first-class travelers has something to hide. Even more intriguing: There’s rumor of a spy in their midst. Then, during dinner, a bloodcurdling scream comes from inside one of the cabins. When the door is broken down, a passenger is found murdered—her stunning ruby necklace gone. But the killer has vanished, as if into thin air. The Wells & Wong Detective Society is ready to crack the case—but this time, they’ve got competition.

On the Detective Story

Sergei Eisenstein
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Author : Sergei Eisenstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0857424904

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Few figures in cinema history are as towering as Russian filmmaker and theorist Sergei Mikhailovitch Eisenstein (1898-1948). Not only did Eisenstein direct some of the most important and lasting works of the silent era, including Strike, October, and Battleship Potemkin, as well as, in the sound era, the historical epics Alexander Nevsky and Ivan the Terrible--he also was a theorist whose insights into the workings of film were so powerful that they remain influential for both filmmakers and scholars today. ​Seagull Books is embarking on a series of translations of key works by Eisenstein into English. On the Detective Story presents Eisenstein's elaborate study, in four essays and fragments, of the use of dialectical thinking in the creation of art and literature. Drawing on major works from Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Balzac, Gogol, Mayakovsky, Dostoevsky, and more, and ranging from folk tales to contemporary detective stories, it shows the keenly analytic quality of Eisenstein's mind when it turned to questions of creative work.

The Essential Elements of the Detective Story, 1820-1891

LeRoy Lad Panek,Mary M. Bendel-Simso
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Author : LeRoy Lad Panek,Mary M. Bendel-Simso
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476666990

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The Essential Elements of the Detective Story, 1820-1891 by LeRoy Lad Panek,Mary M. Bendel-Simso Pdf

Until recently, only a privileged few could read the rare, early writings that formed the basis of detective fiction in America and made it one of the most popular literary genres of the 19th century. Drawing on the unprecedented access provided by digital collections of period newspapers and magazines, this book examines detective fiction during its formative years, focusing on such crucial elements as setting, lawyers and the law, physicians and forensics, women as victims and heroes, crime and criminals, and police and detectives.

Detective Story

Imre Kertész
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Author : Imre Kertész
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307279651

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From Nobel Laureate Imre Kertész comes this riveting novel about a torturer for the secret police of a Latin American regime who tells the haunting story of the father and son he ensnared and destroyed. Now in prison, Antonio Martens is a torturer for a recently defunct dictatorship. He requests and is given writing materials in his cell, using them to narrate his involvement in the torture and assassination of a wealthy and prominent man and his son whose principled but passive opposition to the regime left them vulnerable to the secret police. Inside Martens's mind, we inhabit the rationalizing world of evil and see firsthand the inherent danger of inertia during times of crisis. A slim, explosive novel of justice railroaded by malevolence, Detective Story is a warning cry for our time.

An Introduction to the Detective Story

LeRoy Panek
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Author : LeRoy Panek
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0879723785

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This book is a no-apologies introduction to Detective Fiction. It's written in an aggressive, modern English well-suited to a genre which has traditionally broken ground in terms of aggressive writing, contemporary scenarios, and tough dialogue.

The Origins of the American Detective Story

LeRoy Lad Panek
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Author : LeRoy Lad Panek
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786481385

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The Origins of the American Detective Story by LeRoy Lad Panek Pdf

Edgar Allan Poe essentially invented the detective story in 1841 with Murders in the Rue Morgue. In the years that followed, however, detective fiction in America saw no significant progress as a literary genre. Much to the dismay of moral crusaders like Anthony Comstock, dime novels and other sensationalist publications satisfied the public's hunger for a yarn. Things changed as the century waned, and eventually the detective was reborn as a figure of American literature. In part these changes were due to a combination of social conditions, including the rise and decline of the police as an institution; the parallel development of private detectives; the birth of the crusading newspaper reporter; and the beginnings of forensic science. Influential, too, was the new role model offered by a wildly popular British import named Sherlock Holmes. Focusing on the late 19th century and early 20th, this volume covers the formative years of American detective fiction. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Lagos Noir

Jude Dibia,Chika Unigwe,Nnedi Okorafor
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Author : Jude Dibia,Chika Unigwe,Nnedi Okorafor
Publisher : Akashic Books
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781617756481

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“A stellar cast of award-winning Nigerian authors . . . a must-read for crime lovers looking for something different.”—Brittle Paper In Akashic Books’s acclaimed series of original noir anthologies, each book comprises all new stories set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. Now, West Africa enters the Noir Series arena, meticulously edited by one of Nigeria’s best-known authors. In Lagos Noir, the stories are set in “a city of more than 21 million and an amazing amalgam of wealth, poverty, corruption, humor, bravery, and tragedy. Abani and a dozen other contributors tell stories that are both unique to Lagos and universal in their humanity . . . This entry stands as one of the strongest recent additions to Akashic’s popular noir series” (Publishers Weekly, starred review, pick of the week). The anthology includes stories by Chris Abani, Nnedi Okorafor, E.C. Osondu, Jude Dibia, Chika Unigwe, A. Igoni Barrett, Sarah Ladipo Manyika, Adebola Rayo, Onyinye Ihezukwu, Uche Okonkwo, Wale Lawal, ’Pemi Aguda, and Leye Adenle. “The beauty of this book, which contains 13 stories from Nigerian writers, is that it serves as a travelogue, too.”—Bloomberg, “The Darkest Summer Reading List for Those Bright, Beachy Days” “With writers like Igoni Barrett, Leye Adenle, and E.C. Osondu contributing, Lagos Noir offers wildly different perspectives on both the city itself and the state of noir fiction. This book is almost like a world in itself, one that you’ll want to dive back into and get lost in again and again.”—CrimeReads, “One of the 10 Best Crime Anthologies of 2018”

Detective Fiction and the Problem of Knowledge

Antoine Dechêne
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Author : Antoine Dechêne
Publisher : Springer
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319944692

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Detective Fiction and the Problem of Knowledge by Antoine Dechêne Pdf

This book establishes the genealogy of a subgenre of crime fiction that Antoine Dechêne calls the metacognitive mystery tale. It delineates a corpus of texts presenting 'unreadable' mysteries which, under the deceptively monolithic appearance of subverting traditional detective story conventions, offer a multiplicity of motifs – the overwhelming presence of chance, the unfulfilled quest for knowledge, the urban stroller lost in a labyrinthine text – that generate a vast array of epistemological and ontological uncertainties. Analysing the works of a wide variety of authors, including Edgar Allan Poe, Jorge Luis Borges, and Henry James, this book is vital reading for scholars of detective fiction.

Murder for Pleasure

Howard Haycraft
Murder for Pleasure Book PDF

Author : Howard Haycraft
Publisher : Dover Publications
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780486829302

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"Genuinely fascinating reading."—The New York Times Book Review "Diverting and patently authoritative."—The New Yorker "Grand and fascinating … a history, a compendium and a critical study all in one, and all first rate."—Rex Stout "A landmark … a brilliant study written with charm and authority."—Ellery Queen "This book is of permanent value. It should be on the shelf of every reader of detective stories."—Erle Stanley Gardner Author Howard Haycraft, an expert in detective fiction, traces the genre's development from the 1840s through the 1940s. Along the way, he charts the innovations of Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins, and Arthur Conan Doyle, as well as the modern influence of George Simenon, Josephine Tey, and others. Additional topics include a survey of the critical literature, a detective story quiz, and a Who's Who in Detection.

A Gentleman's Murder

Christopher Huang
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Author : Christopher Huang
Publisher : Inkshares
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781942645955

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Featuring a half-Chinese detective protagonist, A GENTLEMAN'S MURDER is a must for those who love mysteries and reads like a Christie-esque whodunit with a modern eye toward the historical treatment of Chinese veterans and post-war racism.

The Oxford Book of Detective Stories

Patricia Craig
The Oxford Book of Detective Stories Book PDF

Author : Patricia Craig
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0192803719

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The field of detective fiction is vast, and The Oxford Book of Detective Stories brings together the best short fiction from around the world to show how different nationalities have imposed their own stamp on the genre. As well as English and American stories from acknowledged masters such as Ellery Queen, Dashiell Hammett, and Agatha Christie, the anthology includes stories by Simenon, Conan Doyle, Sarah Paretsky, and Ian Rankin, and roams across Europe and further afield to embrace Japan, Denmark, Holland, Italy, Argentina, Czechoslovakia, and other countries. Women detectives, police procedurals, the amateur sleuth, locked-room mysteries are all here, and in her introduction Patricia Craig examines the figure of the detective in international literature.

The Oxford Book of English Detective Stories

Patricia Craig
The Oxford Book of English Detective Stories Book PDF

Author : Patricia Craig
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Detective and mystery stories, English
ISBN : 0192829688

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Essential reading for all armchair detectives, this collection of 33 classic whodunits is the cream of crime writing.

Detecting Texts

Patricia Merivale,Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
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Author : Patricia Merivale,Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812205459

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Although readers of detective fiction ordinarily expect to learn the mystery's solution at the end, there is another kind of detective story—the history of which encompasses writers as diverse as Poe, Borges, Robbe-Grillet, Auster, and Stephen King—that ends with a question rather than an answer. The detective not only fails to solve the crime, but also confronts insoluble mysteries of interpretation and identity. As the contributors to Detecting Texts contend, such stories belong to a distinct genre, the "metaphysical detective story," in which the detective hero's inability to interpret the mystery inevitably casts doubt on the reader's similar attempt to make sense of the text and the world. Detecting Texts includes an introduction by the editors that defines the metaphysical detective story and traces its history from Poe's classic tales to today's postmodernist experiments. In addition to the editors, contributors include Stephen Bernstein, Joel Black, John T. Irwin, Jeffrey T. Nealon, and others.

Three Bags Full

Leonie Swann
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Author : Leonie Swann
Publisher : Anchor Canada
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385673792

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A witty philosophical murder mystery with a charming twist: the crack detectives are sheep determined to discover who killed their beloved shepherd. On a hillside near the cozy Irish village of Glennkill, a flock of sheep gathers around their shepherd, George, whose body lies pinned to the ground with a spade. George has cared devotedly for the flock, even reading them books every night. Led by Miss Maple, the smartest sheep in Glennkill (and possibly the world), they set out to find George’s killer. The A-team of investigators includes Othello, the “bad-boy” black ram; Mopple the Whale, a Merino who eats a lot and remembers everything; and Zora, a pensive black-faced ewe with a weakness for abysses. Joined by other members of the richly talented flock, they engage in nightlong discussions about the crime, wild metaphysical speculations, and embark on reconnaissance missions into the village, where they encounter some likely suspects. Along the way, the sheep confront their own all-too-human struggles with guilt, misdeeds, and unrequited love. Funny, fresh, and endearing, it introduces a wonderful new breed of detectives to Canadian readers.

How Stories Really Work

Grant P. Hudson
How Stories Really Work Book PDF

Author : Grant P. Hudson
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 1326507265

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How Stories Really Work by Grant P. Hudson Pdf

This book is a powerful tool for understanding fiction and for transforming creative writing and taking it to new levels of clarity, energy and effectiveness. Learn what a story really is and what it is actually doing to and for readers, how all successful fiction follows universal patterns to attract and grip readers, the magnetic power that draws readers into a work of fiction even before the introduction of any character, what the thing called a 'character' actually is, and the secrets of how to rapidly build a convincing one that attracts readers, the things called 'plots', what they are and how they are actually made (rather than how you might suppose they are made). Find out about the writing model which, if followed, will create a machine generating unimaginable numbers of readers and heightened reader satisfaction for you, based on some of the most successful pieces of literature in the English-speaking world.