Sherlock Holmes And The Copycat Murders

Author : Barry Day
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504016506

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Sherlock Holmes and the Copycat Murders by Barry Day Pdf

A string of murders threatens to draw Sherlock Holmes back into his past It has been too long since his last assignment, and Sherlock Holmes is beginning to come unglued. He stalks around his rooms at 221B Baker Street, too tense to work, and he is about to drive Dr. Watson up the wall when they are rescued by a knock at the door. It is Inspector Lestrade from Scotland Yard, and he has come to save Holmes—with a murder. A man has been found dead in Bayswater, slumped over a piece of homemade stationery marked with the words “Jabez Wilson”—the name of the victim in the long-solved mystery of the Red-Headed League. When Holmes enters the death room, the first thing he spies is the corpse’s flaming red hair. The old case is open again. A series of bizarre crimes follow, each an imitation of one of Holmes’s greatest triumphs. Either Europe is in the grip of a madman—or the great detective has finally gone ’round the bend.

Author : Daniele Della Rocca
Publisher : Youcanprint
Page : 1061 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9791221434118

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Sherlock Holmes. Inglese by Daniele Della Rocca Pdf

Una guida al celebre personaggio, illustrata con numerose fotografie e poster. Il libro comprende cast, trame e commenti di film, adattamenti teatrali, romanzi e fumetti, in un arco di oltre 130 anni. An a-z guide to the famous detective, illustrated with numerous photographs and posters. The book includes cast, storylines and film comments, theatrical adaptations, novels and comics, in over 100 years.

Author : Peter Ridgway Watt,Joseph Green
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351895002

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The Alternative Sherlock Holmes by Peter Ridgway Watt,Joseph Green Pdf

Between 1887 and 1927, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote sixty Sherlock Holmes stories, and his great Canon has become the most praised, most studied, and best-known chapter in the history of detective fiction. Over twenty thousand publications pertaining to the Sherlock Holmes phenomenon are known to have been published, most of them historical and critical studies. In addition, however, almost since the first stories appeared, such was their uniqueness and extraordinary attraction that other authors began writing stories based on or derived from them. A new genre had appeared: pastiches; parodies; burlesques; and stories that attempted to copy or rival the great detective himself. As the field widened, there was hardly a year in the twentieth century in which new short stories or novels did not appear. Many hundreds are now known to have been published, some of them written by authors well-known for their work in other literary fields. The non-canonical Sherlock Holmes literature not only constitutes a literary field of considerable historical interest, but includes many stories that are both enjoyable and fascinating in their own right. Although a large bibliography on these stories exists, and a few limited anthologies have been published, no attempt has previously been made to collect them all and discuss them comprehensively. The Alternative Sherlock Holmes does so: it provides a new and valuable approach to the Sherlock Holmes literature, as well as making available many works that have for years remained forgotten. Presented as an entertaining narrative, of interest to both the aficionado and the scholar, it provides full bibliographic data on virtually all the known stories in the field.

Author : Otto Penzler
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 817 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101872611

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The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories by Otto Penzler Pdf

The biggest collection of Sherlock Holmes stories ever assembled! Arguably no other character in history has been so enduringly popular as Sherlock Holmes. Ever since his first appearance, in Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1887 novella A Study in Scarlet, readers have loved reading about him almost as much as writers have loved writing about him. Here, Otto Penzler collects eighty-three wonderful stories about Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson, published over a span of more than a hundred years. Featuring pitch-perfect cases by acclaimed modern-day Sherlockians Leslie S. Klinger, Laurie R. King, Lyndsay Faye and Daniel Stashower; pastiches by literary luminaries both classic (P. G. Wodehouse, Dorothy B. Hughes, Kingsley Amis) and current (Anne Perry, Stephen King, Colin Dexter); and parodies by Conan Doyle’s contemporaries A. A. Milne, James M. Barrie, and O. Henry, not to mention genre-bending cases by science-fiction greats Poul Anderson and Michael Moorcock. No matter if your favorite Holmes is Basil Rathbone, Jeremy Brett, Robert Downey, Jr., or Benedict Cumberbatch, whether you are a lifelong fan or only recently acquainted with the Great Detective, readers of all ages are sure to enjoy The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories. Including - Over a century’s worth of cases, from Conan Doyle’s 1890s parodies of his own creation to Neil Gaiman’s “The Case of Death and Honey” (2011) - Appearances by those other great detectives Hercule Poirot and C. Auguste Dupin - 15 Edgar Award–winning authors and 5 Mystery Writers of America Grand Masters - Stories by Laurie R. King, Colin Dexter, Anthony Burgess, Anne Perry, Stephen King, P.G. Wodehouse, Kingsley Amis, and many, many more.

Author : Johnny Mercer,Robert Kimball,Barry Day,Miles Kreuger,Eric Davis
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780307265197

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The Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer by Johnny Mercer,Robert Kimball,Barry Day,Miles Kreuger,Eric Davis Pdf

The seventh volume in Knopf’s critically acclaimed Complete Lyrics series, published in Johnny Mercer’s centennial year, contains the texts to more than 1,200 of his lyrics, several hundred of them published here for the first time. Johnny Mercer’s early songs became staples of the big band era and were regularly featured in the musicals of early Hollywood. With his collaborators, who included Richard A. Whiting, Harry Warren, Hoagy Carmichael, Jerome Kern, and Harold Arlen, he wrote the lyrics to some of the most famous standards, among them, “Too Marvelous for Words,” “Jeepers Creepers,” “Skylark,” “I’m Old-Fashioned,” and “That Old Black Magic.” During a career of more than four decades, Mercer was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song an astonishing eighteen times, and won four: for his lyrics to “On the Atchison, Topeka, and the Santa Fe” (music by Warren), “In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening” (music by Carmichael), and “Moon River” and “Days of Wine and Roses” (music for both by Henry Mancini). You’ve probably fallen in love with more than a few of Mercer’s songs–his words have never gone out of fashion–and with this superb collection, it’s easy to see that his lyrics elevated popular song into art.

Author : Raymond Chandler
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780804170482

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The World of Raymond Chandler by Raymond Chandler Pdf

The World of Raymond Chandler shows how Chandler precariously balanced the values of a classical English education against those of a fast-evolving America during the years before the Great War; how he adopted Los Angeles as his home after WWI, with Hollywood in turn adopting him (and adapting his works); how his detective hero and alter ego Philip Marlowe evolved over the years; and, above all, what it is to be a writer, and in particular one writing in the “other language” of hardboiled fiction. Acclaimed biographer and historian Barry Day deftly interweaves images and text, using quotations from Chandler’s novels, short stories, letters, and interviews, to craft a unique portrait of the mystery writer’s life and times.

Author : Noël Coward
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-06
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780307474872

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The Noël Coward Reader by Noël Coward Pdf

The Noël Coward Reader offers a wonderfully wide-ranging selection—the first of its kind—of the best of the Master’s oeuvre, entertainingly annotated and abundantly illustrated, and including material that has never before been published. Here are scenes from Coward’s famous plays, from Private Lives to Blithe Spirit, and his screenplays, from Brief Encounter to In Which We Serve. Here are four of his best short stories, scenes from his only novel, and a generous selection of his verse, alongside the lyrics of many of his most sublime songs, including “Mad Dogs and Englishmen,” “The Stately Homes of England,” and “Mad About the Boy.” The Noël Coward Reader is a must-have book both for those who adore his work and for those who are just discovering the many-faceted delights of his comic genius.

Author : Noël Coward
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781408145906

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The Complete Verse of Noel Coward by Noël Coward Pdf

The Complete Verse of Noël Coward brings together the three volumes of verse produced during his lifetime together with previously unpublished material for the very first time. For the legions of fans of The Master, this definitive collection of Coward's verse writings will prove irresistible. 'Throughout most of the years of my life, since approximately 1908, I have derived a considerable amount of private pleasure from writing verse . . . It is an inherent instinct in the English character.' Beginning with his youthful verse experiments, The Complete Verse arranges in themed chapters Coward's prolific public and personal verse writings. Chapters bring together his verse on a wide variety of subjects including war, the theatre, love, friends, travel, and God and the infinite. It features the satirical 'cod-pieces' - Chelsea Buns and Spangled Unicorn - and the verse collected in the 1967 volume Not Yet the Dodo. But alongside these are the verses sent to friends and family over many years, in letters, memos and cables, which paint a vivid portrait of his more private life and are published here for the first time. With a linking commentary by editor Barry Day and sprinkled with illustrations throughout, The Complete Verse offers to Coward readers further enjoyment and appreciation of his wit, insatiable interest in people and skilful rendering of his public and private lives.

Author : Noël Coward
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 801 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008-12-30
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780307537423

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The Letters of Noel Coward by Noël Coward Pdf

Lavishly illustrated and annotated, this first and definitive collection of letters to and from the great English playwright provides a divine portrait of an age, from the Blitz to the Ritz and beyond. "Superb.... The portrait of a complex, charming, driven, serious and, frankly, courageous artist." —The Wall Street Journal The incomparable Noël Coward loved to correspond with friends, enemies, the famous and infamous, the talented and the powerful, including Virginia Woolf, Winston Churchill, Greta Garbo, Laurence Olivier, Katharine Hepburn, Marlene Dietrich, Lawrence of Arabia, Somerset Maugham, and many more. Granted unlimited access to the Coward archive, Barry Day presents many never-published letters and has unearthed new, startling evidence of Coward's wartime work as a spy. Along with 191 rare photographs, these letters bring to life the people and events that shaped the twentieth century—and a remarkable man who made his own indelible mark at the heart of it.

Author : Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031531842

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Holmes and the Ripper by Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko Pdf

Author : Marvin Kaye,Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781479437412

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Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #24 by Marvin Kaye,Arthur Conan Doyle Pdf

Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #24 features the best in contemporary and classic mystery fiction, with a great linup of crimes and columns. Here are: Features: From Watson's Notebook, by John H. Watson, M. D. Ask Mrs Hudson, by (Mrs) Martha Hudson Non Fiction: SCREEN OF THE CRIME, by Kim Newman COP ROCK, by Eugene D. Goodwin THE LOVELY CASTOR BEAN, by O’Neill Curatolo CONAN DOYLE, HOLMES, WATSON, AND MEDICINE, by Bruce Kilstein, D.O., F.A.C.O.S FICTION THE BUTTERFLY AND THE SPIDER, by Stan Trybulski VOICES, by Michael Haynes INCIDENT AT PUERTO ANGEL, by Dianne Neral Ell TAKE-OUT, by Laird Long NERO WOLFE, PRO BONO, by Archie Goodwin THE SHED, by Ellen Wight CAREER TRANSITIONS, by Marian McMahon Stanley THE OCCURRENCE OF THE MARCHING MARIONETTE, by Teel James Glenn THE MAN BENEATH THE STREET, by Dana Martin Batory THE ADVENTURE OF THE CROOKED MAN, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle POETRY THE GRANDE MADAME, by Mackenzie Clarkes ART & CARTOONS Front Cover by Matias del Carmine Cartoon by Marc Bilgrey

Author : Christine L. Krueger
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : English literature
ISBN : 9780821414606

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Functions of Victorian Culture at the Present Time by Christine L. Krueger Pdf

Annotation The echoes of Victorian literature and culture impact contemporary practices and values, according to Krueger (English, Marquette U.). She presents 11 essays that address such issues as the problematics of temporality in the historiography of Victorian times, the reproduction of Victorian material culture for contemporary consumers, the use of Victorian cultural identities in fashioning today's identities, and the persistence of Victorian methods of legal and social discipline. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Author : Heta Pyrhönen
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 080208267X

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Mayhem and Murder by Heta Pyrhönen Pdf

Both detective and reader attempt to solve the crimes in detective novels, relying on the same motifs but employing different narrative interpretations to do so. A unique and lucid examination of a complex genre.

Author : Dorothy Parker
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015061328392

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Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words by Dorothy Parker Pdf

Using selected and arranged passages Barry Day tells the life of Dorothy Parker.

Author : Noel Coward
Publisher : Methuen Drama
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105215277950

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The Essential Noël Coward Compendium by Noel Coward Pdf

For fans and newcomers to Noel Coward's work, this compendium presents the very best in one entertaining volume.