The Mammoth Book Of Classical Whodunnits

Author : Mike Ashley
Publisher : C & R Crime
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781472114921

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The Mammoth Book of Classical Whodunnits by Mike Ashley Pdf

In the golden days of Ancient Greece and Rome, amidst the splendid art and architecture, the philosophy and politics - there was always a full measure of intrigue, mystery and murder. In this new collection twenty-two writers take up their pens to give an enthralling picture of classical crime. Favourite historical detectives such as Gordianus the Finder, Decius Metellus, and Sister Fidelma rub shoulders with eminent temporary sleuths such as Socrates and that honourable man Brutus, whilst other great names - Augustus, Archimedes, and even the spoilt and beautiful goddess of love, Aphrodite herself - also become enmeshed in terrible and ingenious crimes. Contributors include: Keith Heller Edward D. Hoch Phyllis Ann Karr Theodore Mathieson Amy Myers Wallace Nichols Anthony Price Steven Saylor Darrell Schweitzer Brian Stableford Keith Taylor and many more

Author : Mike Ashley
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781472117076

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The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits by Mike Ashley Pdf

An all-new collection of exciting murder-mysteries with historical settings This new volume of historical murder and mystery contains over 20 specially commissioned stories ranging in period from Ancient Rome to the reign of Good Queen Bess. It features original stories from such masters as Steven Saylor, Peter Tremayne, Philip Gooden, Susanna Gregory, Kate Ellis, Michael Jecks, Edward D. Hoch and Marilyn Todd. · In Steven Saylor?s Roman tale, Poppy and the Poisoned Cake, Gordianus the Finder feels his latest assignment is suspiciously easy to solve. · Edward D. Hoch puts a novel twist on the locked-room mystery by setting it on a ?locked ship? ? Christopher Columbus?s, in fact! · In Flibbertigibbet Paul Finch unleashes a deranged serial killer on Elizabethan London. · Falstaff ?s successor Sir Johan de Mandeville turns sleuth in Keith Taylor?s Bene?t of Clergy. · Sister Fidelma must solve the mystery of a murdered Celtic monk in Death of an Icon by Peter Tremayne. · A pig provides the key to Michael Jecks?s latest Sir Baldwin mystery.- · Cherith Baldry turns Geoffrey Chaucer into a secret agent in her version of The Pilgrim?s Tale. · Anarchy and murderous intent rule when the Romans leave the British Isles in Richard Butler?s The Last Legion. . . . plus many more tales of dark age murder and mayhem!

Author : Mike Ashley
Publisher : C & R Crime
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781472114877

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The Mammoth Book of Roman Whodunnits by Mike Ashley Pdf

Twenty tales of intrigue, murder and mayhem from this most bloodthirsty and exciting of times. With dramatic settings ranging form the Eternal City of Rome to the most remote outposts of her Empire, here are new tales form the masters of the historical detective story, with classic gems and rare reprints - plus a special introduction, and a new Gordianus the Finder novella from Steven Saylor. A Gladiator Dies Only Once, Steven Saylor: set just before the rebellion of Spartacus, Gordianus is sent to investigate, not a murder but a resurrection. Heads You Lose, Simon Scarrow: someone is beheading soldiers during the siege of Jerusalem, but could the assassin be within the Roman camp? Never Forget, Tom HOlt: having defeated Hannibal, Scipio Africanus has a murder to solve and consults a wily Greek philosopher to help him. The Hostage to Fortune, Michael Jecks: during Caesar's invasion of Britain, the murder of one of the hostages causes a real problem for the guards. The Finger of Aphrodite, Mary Reed and Eric Mayer: with Rome under siege by the Ostrogoths, John the Eunuch is faced with a locked room murder. Edited by Edgar Award winner Mike Ashley

Author : Mike Ashley
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781472117083

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The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits Volume 1 by Mike Ashley Pdf

Divided into three main sections, "The Ancient World", "The Middle Ages" and "Regency and Gaslight", The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits includes: · The Thief versus Rhampsinitus by Herodotus - probably the earliest detective story ever written. · The Locked Tomb Mystery, set in ancient Egypt, by Elizabeth Peters. · A new story by John Maddox Roberts featuring the young Roman detective Decius Metellus. · Robert van Gulik's ingenious He Came With the Rain featuring Judge Dee, a real-life character who lived inseventh-century China. · A new story by Peter Tremayne, set in seventh-century Ireland and featuring Sister Fidelma. · Ellis Peters' Brother Cadfael story The Price of Light. · Paul Harding's The Confession of Brother Athelstan. · A classic locked-room mystery featuring Lillian de la Torre's popular detective Sam Johnson. · A story by Michael Harrison featuring August Dupin, the detective created by Edgar Allan Poe and the inspiration behind Sherlock Holmes. · John Dickson Carr's acclaimed The Gentleman from Paris. ...and many more!

Author : Mike Ashley
Publisher : Running PressBook Pub
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0786712414

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The Mammoth Book of Roman Whodunnits by Mike Ashley Pdf

A compelling, challenging collection of mystery stories set in ancient Rome culls the best writing from writers who like to dabble in this fertile historical period, inclding Paul Doherty, John Maddox Roberts, Steven Saylor, Marilyn Todd, Rosemary Rowe, Darrell Schweitzer, and Michael Kurland. Original.

Author : Gardner Dozois
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1998-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0312207530

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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection by Gardner Dozois Pdf

Gardner Dozois, science fiction's foremost editor, consistently selects the field's best work each year with this showcase anthology. This year's collection presents sterling short stories from veterans and newcomers alike, including Stephen Baxter, Alan Brennert, Carolyn Ives Gilman, James Patrick Kelly, Geoffrey A. Landis, Paul J. McAuley, Robert Reed, William Sanders, Howard Waldrop, and many others. Rounded out with Dozois's insightful Summation of the Year in SF and a long list of Honorable Mentions, this anthology is the book for every science fiction fan.

Author : Darrell Schweitzer,Robert Reginald
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781434412058

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Deadly Things by Darrell Schweitzer,Robert Reginald Pdf

In the tradition of the old "Ace Doubles" two-in-one books, here is the second Wildside Mystery Double: DEADLY THINGS: A COLLECTION OF MYSTERIOUS TALES, by Darrell Schweitzer. Darrell Schweitzer's first mystery collection explores the murderous impulse in a variety of historical settings. Three mysteries are set in ancient Rome, two featuring Pliny the Younger as investigator. Two are Shakespearean mysteries, in one of which King Henry V plays detective, with the other based on The Two Noble Kinsmen. Three Sherlock Holmes tales involve the apparent misapplication of the Great Detective's methods to the supernatural, a revelation of one of Watson's unwritten cases, and a multi-genre record-breaker, an alternate history, vampire cat detective story. THE JUDGMENT OF THE GODS AND OTHER VERDICTS OF HISTORY, by Robert Reginald. Four scintillating tales of detection from ancient and medieval times. In "The Judgment of the Gods," a young Greek trader must solve the murder of Assyrian King Sennacherib. William of Occam, the medieval philosopher, is forced by Pope John XXII in "Occam's Razor" to solve the murders of French King Philip IV and Pope Clement V. Occam returns in "Occam's Treasure," this time unraveling the puzzle surrounding the killing of clergymen in Avigon. In "Occam's Measure," the great thinker must stop a vicious serial killer stalking the night-time streets of the papal city. Great mystery--and fantasy--reading!

Author : Mike Ashley
Publisher : C & R Crime
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781849015394

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The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures by Mike Ashley Pdf

The biggest collection of new Sherlock Holmes stories since Sir Arthur Conan Doyle laid down his pen - nearly 200,000 words of superb fiction featuring the Great Detective by masters of historical crime, including Stephen Baxter, H. R. F. Keating, Michael Moorcock and Amy Myers. Almost all the stories here are specially written; the cases presented in the order in which Holmes solved them. The result is a new life of Sherlock Holmes, with a continuous narrative alongside the stories that identifies the 'gaps' in the canon and places the new and hitherto unrecorded cases in sequence. Plus an invaluable complete Holmes chronology.

Author : Barry Forshaw
Publisher : Oldcastle Books Ltd
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780857305145

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Simenon by Barry Forshaw Pdf

The legendary Georges Simenon was the most successful and influential writer of crime fiction in a language other than English; André Gide called him 'the greatest French novelist of our times'. Celebrated crime fiction expert Barry Forshaw's informed and lively study draws together Simenon's extraordinary life and his work on both page and screen. By the time of Simenon's death in 1989, his French copper Maigret had become an institution, rivalled only by Sherlock Holmes. The pipe-smoking Inspector of Police is a quietly spoken observer of human nature who uses the techniques of psychology on those he encounters (both the guilty and the innocent) - with no rush to moral condemnation. Simenon's non-Maigret standalone books are among the most commanding in the genre, and, as a trenchant picture of French society, his concise novels collectively offer up a fascinating analysis. And his influence on an army of later crime writers is incalculable. Alongside his own considerable insights, Barry Forshaw has interviewed people who worked either with Simenon or on his books: publishers, editors, translators, and other specialist writers. He has created a literary prism through which to appreciate one of the most distinctive achievements in the whole of crime fiction.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Constable
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Civilization, Ancient
ISBN : 1854874632

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Classical Whodunnits by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mike Ashley
Publisher : Carroll & Graf Pub
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1997-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0786704187

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Classical Whodunnits by Mike Ashley Pdf

Historical detectives Gordianus the Finder, Decius Metellus, and Sister Fidelma rub shoulders in this collection with sometime sleuths Socrates and Brutus. For these mystery stories set in the ancient world, award-winning editor Mike Ashley has selected stories by Lindsay Davis, Edward D. Hock, Phyllis Ann Karr, Steven Saylor, and many others.

Author : Mike Ashley
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781472117083

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The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits Volume 1 by Mike Ashley Pdf

Divided into three main sections, "The Ancient World", "The Middle Ages" and "Regency and Gaslight", The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits includes: · The Thief versus Rhampsinitus by Herodotus - probably the earliest detective story ever written. · The Locked Tomb Mystery, set in ancient Egypt, by Elizabeth Peters. · A new story by John Maddox Roberts featuring the young Roman detective Decius Metellus. · Robert van Gulik's ingenious He Came With the Rain featuring Judge Dee, a real-life character who lived inseventh-century China. · A new story by Peter Tremayne, set in seventh-century Ireland and featuring Sister Fidelma. · Ellis Peters' Brother Cadfael story The Price of Light. · Paul Harding's The Confession of Brother Athelstan. · A classic locked-room mystery featuring Lillian de la Torre's popular detective Sam Johnson. · A story by Michael Harrison featuring August Dupin, the detective created by Edgar Allan Poe and the inspiration behind Sherlock Holmes. · John Dickson Carr's acclaimed The Gentleman from Paris. ...and many more!

Author : Mike Ashley
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781472114808

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The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy by Mike Ashley Pdf

This dazzling new collection of off-the-wall fantasies features stories from the minds of the funniest writers in the field, including Esther Friesner, Neil Gaiman, Tom Holt, Paul di Filippo, Adam Roberts and Molly Brown. Here are 35 stories guaranteed to reassure us that the next-door world will be just as mad as this one. It includes a mix of brand-new stories and rare finds or forgotten gems, with a wide range of tales to suit every taste in humour. From the missionary plunged into the bizarre initiation rituals of a lost tribe to the bloke who thought magic would help his love life, from a wizard allergic to magic who sneezes his way into chaos to a man who finds his shoes have taken over control of his life, The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy unfalteringly turns fantasy and horror fiction on its head and makes magic into mayhem. A welcome new shot of comic genius in the sphere of fantasy fiction.

Author : Claire Griffen
Publisher : C & R Crime
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781472100764

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Mammoth Books presents The Case of the Incumbent Invalid by Claire Griffen Pdf

It was in early January 1885 when Holmes and Watson were first embroiled in the question of Lady Abernatty's possible murder. A Junoesque, stylish woman visits the pair out of sheer fear for her stepmother's well-being. Mabel Bertram has always remained a great friend of her stepmother, until one day completely unexpectedly Lady Abernatty stops speaking to her and refuses to see her altogether. Lady Abernatty lives on Grosvenor Square with her two children, Charles and Sabina, who have looked after their mother for years, her formidable manner having driven any potential suitors or lady friends away. It would seem they are servants more than children to her. A costumed Holmes befriends Charles and Sabina to uncover the reason why their mother refuses to see her dear friend and stepdaughter Mabel.

Author : Stephen Jones
Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781783291298

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Dark Detectives: An Anthology of Supernatural Mysteries by Stephen Jones Pdf

CRIMES OF TERROR AND DARKNESS In the battle between good and evil, the supernatural investigators form the first line of defense against the unexplainable. Here are eighteen pulse-pounding tales featuring uncanny sleuths battling against the weird, written by Clive Barker R. Chetwynd-Hayes Basil Copper Neil Gaiman William Hope Hodgson Brian Lumley Brian Mooney Kim Newman Jay Russell Peter Tremayne Manly Wade Wellman Featuring the entire ‘’Seven Stars” saga by Kim Newman, pitting the Diogenes Club against an occult object with the power to ultimately annihilate mankind!