The Hands Of Mr Ottermole

Author : Thomas Burke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:734050019

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The Hands of Mr Ottermole by Thomas Burke Pdf

Author : Thomas Burke
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781447499664

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The Hands of Mr. Ottermole (Fantasy and Horror Classics) by Thomas Burke Pdf

Thomas Burke's 'The Hands of Mr. Ottermole' is widely regarded as one of the best detective stories of the thirties. First published in 1931, Burke's tale was later adapted for an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Many of the well known western and detective short stories, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author : Donald E. Westlake
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780195104875

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Murderous Schemes by Donald E. Westlake Pdf

An anthology of detective fiction with examples of its sub-genres, armchair detective, the locked room and so on. The first is represented by Agatha Christie's In Blue Geranium, where the detective solves a crime from a conversation, the second by The Leopold Locked Room, in which a policeman is found in a locked room with his wife killed by his gun, but he didn't do it.

Author : Ed Gorman,Martin H. Greenberg
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2002-10-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429993319

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The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories by Ed Gorman,Martin H. Greenberg Pdf

More than 200,000 words of great crime and suspense fiction Each year, Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg, editors of The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, have reached farther past the boundaries of the United States to find the very best suspense from the world over. In this third volume of their series they have included stories from Germany, Belgium, and the United Kingdom as well as, of course, a number of fine stories from the U.S.A. Among these tales are winners of the Edgar Award, the Silver Dagger Award of the British Crime Writers, and other major awards in the field. In addition, here are reports on the field of mystery and crime writing from correspondents in the U.S. (Jon L. Breen), England (Maxim Jakubowski), Canada (Edo Van Belkom), Australia (David Honeybone), and Germany (Thomas Woertche). Altogether, with nearly 250,000 words of the best short suspense published in 2001, this bounteous volume is, as the Wall Street Journal said of the previous year's compilation, "the best value-for-money of any such anthology." The A-to-Z of the authors should excite the interest of any mystery reader: Robert Barnard • Lawrence Block • Jon L. Breen • Wolfgang Burger • Lillian Stewart Carl • Margaret Coel • Max Allan Collins • Bill Crider • Jeffery Deaver • Brendan DuBois • Susanna Gregory • Joseph Hansen • Carolyn G. Hart • Lauren Henderson • Edward D. Hoch • Clark Howard • Tatjana Kruse • Paul Lascaux • Dick Lochte • Peter Lovesey • Mary Jane Maffini • Ed McBain • Val McDermid • Marcia Muller • Joyce Carol Oates • Anne Perry • Nancy Pickard • Bill Pronzini • Ruth Rendell • S. J. Rozan • Billie Rubin • Kristine Kathryn Rusch • Stephan Rykena • David B. Silva • Nancy Springer • Jac. Toes • John Vermeulen • Donald E. Westlake • Carolyn Wheat. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Gary Coville,Patrick Lucanio
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781476607375

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Jack the Ripper by Gary Coville,Patrick Lucanio Pdf

The identity of Jack the Ripper has consumed public curiosity since he first tormented the East End of London in 1888. Numerous theories have been offered as to his identity, but he remains in the shadows where, it seems, only imaginative literature has been able to elucidate his meaning to the modern world. This work surveys the literary, film, television, and radio treatments of Jack the Ripper and his crimes. The works of fiction are thoroughly analyzed, as are the major nonfiction works that have offered various theories about the Ripper's identity. Works whose narratives are obviously inspired by Jack the Ripper and his crimes are also discussed.

Author : Laird R. Blackwell
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476676524

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Frederic Dannay, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and the Art of the Detective Short Story by Laird R. Blackwell Pdf

Frederic Dannay (1905-1982) was--with his partner Manfred Lee--the creator of the Ellery Queen detective novels and short stories. Dannay was also a literary historian and critic, and the editor of the renowned Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. Queen--both a pen name and the fictional protagonist of the stories--was also a vital force behind the continuing popularity of crime fiction in the early to mid-20th century, after the deaths of Arthur Conan Doyle, G.K. Chesterton, Melville Davisson Post, and other Old Masters of the genre. This book presents the first critical study of Ellery Queen's role in the preservation of the detective short story. Many of the writers, characters and stories EQMM championed are covered, including such celebrated authors as Allingham, Ambler, Ellin, Innes, Vickers, and even William Butler Yeats.

Author : Martin Edwards
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 895 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781464203787

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Capital Crimes by Martin Edwards Pdf

Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder Capital Crimes is an eclectic collection of London-based crime stories, blending the familiar with the unexpected in a way that reflects the personality of the city. Alongside classics by Margery Allingham, Anthony Berkeley and Thomas Burke are excellent and unusual stories by authors who are far less well known. The stories give a flavour of how writers have tackled crime in London over the span of more than half a century. Their contributions range from an early serial-killer thriller set on the London Underground and horrific vignettes to cerebral whodunits. What they have in common is an atmospheric London setting, and enduring value as entertainment. Each story is introduced by the editor, Martin Edwards, who sheds light on the authors' lives and the background to their writing.

Author : Otto Penzler
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 930 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780525432494

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The Big Book of Rogues and Villains by Otto Penzler Pdf

Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler's new anthology brings together the most cunning, ruthless, and brilliant criminals in mystery fiction, for the biggest compendium of bad guys (and girls) ever assembled. The best mysteries--whether detective, historical, police procedural, cozy, or comedy--have one thing in common: a memorable perpetrator. For every Sherlock Holmes or Sam Spade in noble pursuit, there's a Count Dracula, a Lester Leith, or a Jimmy Valentine. These are the rogues and villains who haunt our imaginations--and who often have more in common with their heroic counterparts than we might expect. Now, for the first time ever, Otto Penzler gathers the iconic traitors, thieves, con men, sociopaths, and killers who have crept through the mystery canon over the past 150 years, captivating and horrifying readers in equal measure. The 72 handpicked stories in this collection introduce us to the most depraved of psyches, from iconic antiheroes like Maurice Leblanc's Arsène Lupin and Sax Rohmer's Dr. Fu Manchu to contemporary delinquents like Lawrence Block's Ehrengraf and Donald Westlake's Dortmunder, and include unforgettable tales by Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, Washington Irving, Jack London, H.G. Wells, Sinclair Lewis, O. Henry, Edgar Wallace, Leslie Charteris, Erle Stanley Gardner, Edward D. Hoch, Max Allan Collins, Loren D. Estleman, and many more.

Author : Otto Penzler
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101971147

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The Big Book of Jack the Ripper by Otto Penzler Pdf

Edgar Award–winning editor Otto Penzler's latest anthology takes its inspiration from the historical enigma whose name has become synonymous with fear: Jack the Ripper. Of the real-life serial killers whose gruesome acts have been splashed across headlines, none has reached the mythical status of Jack the Ripper. In the Ripper's wake, terror swept through the streets of London’s East End in the fall of 1888. As quickly as his nightmarish reign came, Saucy Jack vanished without a trace—leaving future generations to speculate upon his identity and whereabouts. He was diabolical in a way never seen before—a killer who taunted the police, came up with his own legendary monikers, and, ultimately, got away with his heinous crimes. More than a century later, the man “from hell” continues to live on in the imaginations of readers everywhere—and in some of the most spec­tacularly unnerving stories, both fiction and nonfiction, ever written. The Big Book of Jack the Ripper immerses you in the utterly chilling world of Red Jack’s London, where his unprecedented evil still lurks. Including: · Legendary stories by Marie Belloc Lowndes, Robert Bloch, and Ellery Queen · Captivating essays from George Bernard Shaw, Stephen Hunter, and Peter Underwood · Riveting new stories by contemporary masters Jeffrey Deaver, Loren D. Estleman, Lyndsay Faye, and many more · Astonishing theories from the world’s foremost Ripperologists From the Ripper Vault: · Demonic letters from Jack himself · Gruesome postmortem exams documenting all the bits and pieces of the cases · Harrowing witness statements taken on those hellish nights · Breaking newspaper accounts of the East End hysteria

Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1585 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349813667

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Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers by NA NA Pdf

Author : Rochelle Kronzek
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486119151

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All-Time Favorite Detective Stories by Rochelle Kronzek Pdf

Chosen by Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine as the best detective stories of 1950, these 12 classics include Edgar Allan Poe's "The Purloined Letter," Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Red-Headed League," Dorothy L. Sayers' "Suspicion," and more.

Author : Laird R. Blackwell
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476688374

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Clues from the Couch by Laird R. Blackwell Pdf

The detective story--the classic whodunit with its time-displacement structure of crime--according to most literary historians, is of relatively recent origin. Early in its development, the whodunit was harshly criticized for its tightly formula-bound structure. Many critics prematurely proclaimed "the death of the whodunit" and even of detective fiction altogether. Yet today, the genre is alive, as contemporary authors have brought it into modern times through a significant integration of elaborate character development and psychology. With the modern psychological detective story emerging from the historical cauldron of detective fiction and early psychology, the genre continues to develop a complexity that reflects and guides the literary sophistication needed. This book, the first of its kind, analyzes over 150 whodunit novels and short stories across the decades, from The Moonstone to the contemporary novels that saved the genre from an ignominious death.

Author : Lianne Habinek
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780773554306

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The Subtle Knot by Lianne Habinek Pdf

In the early modern period, poetic form underpinned and influenced scientific progress. The language and imagery of seventeenth-century writers and natural philosophers reveal how the age-old struggle between body and soul led to the brain’s emergence as a curiosity in its own right. Investigating the intersection of the humanities and sciences in the works of authors ranging from William Shakespeare and John Donne to William Harvey, Margaret Cavendish, and Johann Remmelin, Lianne Habinek tells how early modernity came to view the brain not simply as grey matter but as a wealth of other wondrous possibilities – a book in which to read the soul’s writing, a black box to be violently unlocked, a womb to nourish intellectual conception, a creative engine, a subtle knot that traps the soul and thereby makes us human. For seventeenth-century thinkers, she argues, these comparisons were not simply casual metaphors but integral to early ideas about brain function. Demonstrating how the disparate fields of neuroscientific history and literary studies converged, The Subtle Knot tells the story of how the mind came to be identified with the brain.

Author : Peter Haining
Publisher : Barnes & Noble Publishing
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : 0760703450

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London After Midnight by Peter Haining Pdf

In this bone-chilling collection of twenty-two stories, some of London's mos macabre word smith's offer a guided tour of the city's darker side.

Author : Ellery Queen
Publisher : Biblo & Tannen Publishers
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : 0819602388

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In the Queens' Parlor by Ellery Queen Pdf