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The Saltmarsh Murders

Gladys Mitchell
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Author : Gladys Mitchell
Publisher : Random House
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781409076704

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A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY Rediscover Gladys Mitchell – one of the 'Big Three' female crime fiction writers alongside Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers. Noel Wells, curate in the sleepy village of Saltmarsh, likes to spend his time dancing in the study with the vicar's niece, until one day the vicar's unpleasant wife discovers her unmarried housemaid is pregnant and trouble begins. It is left to Noel to call for the help of sometime-detective and full-time psychoanalyst Mrs Bradley, who sets out on an unnervingly unorthodox investigation into the mysterious pregnancy, an investigation that also takes in a smuggler, the village lunatic, a missing corpse, a public pillory, an exhumation and, of course, a murderer. Mrs. Bradley is easily one of the most memorable personalities in crime fiction and in this classic whodunit she proves that some English villages can be murderously peaceful. Opinionated, unconventional, unafraid... If you like Poirot and Miss Marple, you’ll love Mrs Bradley.

A Siege of Bitterns

Steve Burrows
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Author : Steve Burrows
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781459708457

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Newly appointed police inspector Domenic Jejeune doesn’t mind ruffling a few feathers to flush out suspects in the brutal murder of a renowned ecological activist. 2015 Arthur Ellis Award — Winner, Best First Novel • Globe and Mail 100: Best Books of 2014 • 2015 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize — Shortlisted, Best Mystery Inspector Domenic Jejeune’s success has made him a poster boy for the U.K. police service. The problem is Jejeune doesn’t really want to be a detective at all; he much prefers watching birds. Recently reassigned to the small Norfolk town of Saltmarsh, located in the heart of Britain’s premier birding country, Jejeune’s two worlds collide when he investigates the grisly murder of a prominent ecological activist. His ambitious police superintendent foresees a blaze of welcome publicity, but she begins to have her doubts when Jejeune’s most promising theory involves a feud over birdwatching lists. A second murder only complicates matters. To unravel this mystery, Jejeune must deal with unwelcome public acclaim, the mistrust of colleagues, and his own insecurities. In the case of the Saltmarsh birder murders, the victims may not be the only casualties.

When Last I Died

Gladys Mitchell
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Author : Gladys Mitchell
Publisher : Random House
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781409076803

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A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY Rediscover Gladys Mitchell – one of the 'Big Three' female crime fiction writers alongside Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers. When psychoanalyst and detective Mrs Bradley's grandson finds an old diary in her rented cottage it attracts the interest of this most unconventional of detectives, for the book's owner - now deceased - was once suspected of the murders of both her aunt and cousin. Does the missing diary finally reveal what happened to old aunt Flora? Is the case of Bella Foxley really closed? And what happened to the boys from the local reformatory who went missing at the same time? As events unfold, Mrs. Bradley faces one of her most difficult cases to date, one that will keep readers guessing until the very end... Opinionated, unconventional, unafraid... If you like Poirot and Miss Marple, you’ll love Mrs Bradley.

Death at the Opera

Gladys Mitchell
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Author : Gladys Mitchell
Publisher : Random House
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781407064369

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Rediscover Gladys Mitchell – one of the 'Big Three' female crime fiction writers alongside Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers. Hillmaston School has chosen The Mikado for their next school performance and, in recognition of her generous offer to finance the production, their meek and self-effacing arithmetic mistress is offered a key role. But when she disappears mid-way through the opening night performance and is later found dead, unconventional psychoanalyst and sleuth Mrs Bradley is called in to investigate. To her surprise she soon discovers that the hapless teacher had quite a number of enemies - all with a motive for murder... Opinionated, unconventional, unafraid... If you like Poirot and Miss Marple, you’ll love Mrs Bradley.

The Salt Marsh Murders

Tina Foster
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Author : Tina Foster
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1727343557

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A woman makes a desperate 9-1-1 call claiming someone is trying to kill her. Then her cell phone goes dead. Rookie detective Georgia Thompson does her best to find the missing female. During the search, bodies start turning up in The Great Salt Marsh along the coast of Seaview, Maine. Can the inexperienced Detective Georgia Thompson and her partner, both disliked by the police chief, solve these murders despite his interference? As bodies stack up, Georgia realizes they are dealing with a serial killer. All the victims are from other cities, none from Seaview. Why were these women lured to Seaview and then killed? When Georgia gets too close to the truth, she finds herself in danger of becoming the next victim.

Speedy Death

Gladys Mitchell
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Author : Gladys Mitchell
Publisher : Thomas & Mercer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1477818715

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Guests have gathered to dine at Alastair Bing's elegant country manor, but only one guest--a murderer--is aware of the dead body in an upstairs bathtub. With renowned explorer Mr. Everard Mountjoy noticeably absent from the dining table, the rest of the party searches for him, and soon discovers the explorer's drowned corpse. The murder is mystifying, not in the least because the body in the bath is clearly a woman's! As danger and theories unravel, psychoanalyst Mrs. Beatrice Lestrange Bradley observes and interprets all, from shrieks in the night to drowning attempts to poisoning. It's clear that Mrs. Bradley has a basilisk eye for detail. But can she uncover a motive for murder? Rediscover the notorious detective Mrs. Bradley in her original starring role. This definitive mystery is the first in Gladys Mitchell's sixty-six book series featuring this most unusual and brilliant heroine.

The Mystery of a Butcher's Shop

Gladys Mitchell
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Author : Gladys Mitchell
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781784708672

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The Mystery of a Butcher's Shop by Gladys Mitchell Pdf

Rediscover Gladys Mitchell – one of the 'Big Three' female crime fiction writers alongside Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers. When Rupert Sethleigh's body is found one morning, laid out in the village butcher shop but minus its head, the inhabitants of Wandles Parva aren't particularly upset. Sethleigh was a blackmailing moneylender and when the peerless detective and renowned psycholanalyst Mrs Bradley begins her investigation she finds no shortage of suspects. It soon transpires that most of the village seem to have been wandering about Manor Woods, home of the mysterious druidic stone on which Sethleigh's blood is found splashed, on the night he was murdered, but can she eliminate the red herrings and catch the real killer? Opinionated, unconventional, unafraid... If you like Poirot and Miss Marple, you’ll love Mrs Bradley.

Guilty But Insane

Samantha Walton
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Author : Samantha Walton
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780191034923

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Guilty But Insane takes an historical approach to golden age detective fiction by Margery Allingham, Christianna Brand, Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Gladys Mitchell. It examines how writers and readers of detective fiction during the 1920s to 1940s understood guilt, responsibility, and the workings of the mind as they related to the commission, the investigation, and the punishment of crime. Under the lens of psychology, the detective novel is revealed as a site for the negotiation of competing interpretations of sanity and insanity. An unexplored depth and subtlety is revealed in detective novels that address major controversies in legal and psychiatric theory and practice, while significant resonances with specific concerns of modernist fiction come into focus for the first time. During the interwar years, proponents of competing psychological schools challenged legal concepts of responsibility and free will. In response, golden age writers began to reflect on the genre's promise to accomplish true and just solutions in a social order in which the relationship between law and justice was being problematized on several fronts. By making connections between high modernism and popular culture, and by tracing the impact of psychological discourses across a range of different cultural outputs, this book makes a persuasive case for reading detective fiction historically. It aims to demonstrate the richness of these texts and their value for scholarship, not only as historical documents or residues of discourse, but as literary texts which challenge, subvert, toy with and test the prevailing values and prejudices of interwar Britain.

City and Shore

Gillian Mary Hanson
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Author : Gillian Mary Hanson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786483624

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City and Shore by Gillian Mary Hanson Pdf

Certain settings have long been a common element in British mystery and detective fiction: the quaint village; the country manor; the seaside resort; the streets of London. More than simply providing background, physical setting--in particular the city of London and the British seashore--takes on an added dimension, in a sense becoming a player in the mysteries, one that symbolizes, intensifies, and illuminates aspects of the British mystery novel. The first section examines 18 British mystery novels set in the city of London; the second covers 15 novels set by the sea. The novels span the twentieth century; among the authors whose works are included are Agatha Christie, Graham Greene, G.K. Chesterton and P.D. James. The book includes a short biography and listing of primary works for the authors covered, and appendices offer suggested fiction utilizing the two settings, and critical nonfiction covering the genre.

Murder for Christmas

Francis Duncan
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Author : Francis Duncan
Publisher : Random House
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473545069

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Murder for Christmas by Francis Duncan Pdf

Discover the perfect classic mystery for the Christmas season: mulled wine, mince pies...and murder. Mordecai Tremaine, former tobacconist and perennial lover of romance novels, has been invited to spend Christmas in the sleepy village of Sherbroome at the country retreat of one Benedict Grame. Arriving on Christmas Eve, he finds that the revelries are in full flow - but so too are tensions amongst the assortment of guests. Midnight strikes and the party-goers discover that it's not just presents nestling under the tree...there's a dead body too. A dead body that bears a striking resemblance to Father Christmas. With the snow falling and the suspicions flying, it's up to Mordecai to sniff out the culprit - and prevent someone else from getting murder for Christmas. 'The book nods towards Agatha Christie but retains a crackling atmosphere of dread and horror that will chill the heart however warm your fireside' Metro

Murder by the Book?

Sally Rowena Munt
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Author : Sally Rowena Munt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134838431

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Murder by the Book? by Sally Rowena Munt Pdf

Murder by the Book? is a thorough - and thoroughly enjoyable - look at the blossoming genre of the feminist crime novel in Britain and the United States. Sally Munt asks why the form has proved so attractive as a vehicle for oppositional politics; whether the pleasures of detective fiction can be truly transgressive; and when exactly it was that the dyke detective appeared as the new super-hero for today. Along the way Munt poses some critical questions about the relations between fiction and activism, politics and representations, the writer and the reader. This will be an enticing book both for addicts of the genre and for teachers and their students.

Minute for Murder

Nicholas Blake
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Author : Nicholas Blake
Publisher : Random House
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781446476666

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A VINTAGE MURDER MYSTERY The Second World War has just finished and amateur detective and poet Nigel Strangeways is working at the Ministry of Morale in London, in the Visual Propaganda Division.With war over, life seems to be calm again, that is until the Director's beautiful secretary is poisoned in full view of seven members of the division, including Nigel himself. Who could have killed her? And how? A Nigel Strangeways murder mystery - the perfect introduction to the most charming and erudite detective in Golden Age crime fiction.

Murder in the Closet

Curtis Evans
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Author : Curtis Evans
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476626338

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Murder in the Closet by Curtis Evans Pdf

Before the 1969 Stonewall Riots, LGBTQ life was dominated by the negative image of "the closet"--the metaphorical space where that which was deemed "queer" was hidden from a hostile public view. Literary studies of queer themes and characters in crime fiction have tended to focus on the more positive and explicit representations since the riots, while pre-Stonewall works are thought to reference queer only negatively or obliquely. This collection of new essays questions that view with an investigation of queer aspects in crime fiction published over eight decades, from the corseted Victorian era to the unbuttoned 1960s.

The Finishing Stroke

Ellery Queen
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Author : Ellery Queen
Publisher : Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781625672193

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The Finishing Stroke by Ellery Queen Pdf

At the tail end of the Roaring Twenties, a birthday bash for publishing heir John Sebastian, Jr., perfectly coincides with the twelve days of Christmas. Among the twelve invited guests is Ellery Queen, a newly published mystery writer planning to enjoy every last minute. But when an uninvited Santa Claus shows up on Christmas Eve and then mysteriously goes missing, the party takes a disturbing turn. Threatening clues masked as gifts begin to appear under the tree, and Queen - a novice crime fighter on his first solo case - must try to solve the killer's puzzle before someone gets murdered. After a dead body turns up, Queen is no closer to stopping the killer. If he can’t anticipate the next clue before it shows up, John Sebastian’s birthday will end up his funeral.

The Encyclopedia of Murder and Mystery

B. Murphy
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Author : B. Murphy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1999-12-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230107359

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The Encyclopedia of Murder and Mystery by B. Murphy Pdf

Bruce Murphy's Encyclopedia of Murder and Mystery is a comprehensive guide to the genre of the murder mystery that catalogues thousands of items in a broad range of categories: authors, titles, plots, characters, weapons, methods of killing, movie and theatrical adaptations. What distinguishes this encyclopedia from the others in the field is its critical stance.