The State Vs Elinor Norton

Author : Mary Roberts Rinehart
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781480436541

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The State vs. Elinor Norton by Mary Roberts Rinehart Pdf

Though a woman has confessed to murder, her friend tries to piece together what really happened in a mystery from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author. The state has accused beautiful young Elinor Norton of murder, and she refuses to mount a defense. Guilt is written all over her elegant features, but her childhood best friend refuses to believe it when Elinor confesses to the crime. Forced into a dull marriage against her will, Elinor is just beginning to adjust to life with Lloyd when she meets the man who will tear her world apart. Blair Leighton is her husband’s best friend and was his companion in the war, and he has a charm that makes Elinor quiver from the inside out. At first, her husband is oblivious to this illicit attraction, but when the two men go into business together, the tension threatens to rip the triangle apart. Soon, Elinor is forced to make a chilling decision. One of these men must die—but which?

Author : Mary Roberts Rinehart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1036864195

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The State Vs. Elinor Norton by Mary Roberts Rinehart Pdf

Author : Mary R Rinehart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2001-12-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1575668718

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The State Vs. Elinor Norton - by Mary R Rinehart Pdf

Author : Mary Roberts Rinehart
Publisher : New York : Farrar & Rinehart
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : UOM:39015031301743

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The State Versus Elinor Norton by Mary Roberts Rinehart Pdf

Author : Jan Cohn
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2005-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780822972938

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Improbable Fiction by Jan Cohn Pdf

A compelling account of the life of Pennsylvanian writer Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876-1958). Through the examination of the tension between her seemingly contradictory domestic and professional identities, Jan Cohn illuminates precisely why Rinehart's accomplishments are so remarkable.

Author : Mary Roberts Rinehart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UGA:32108003853069

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The State Versus Elinor Norton by Mary Roberts Rinehart Pdf

Author : Martha Hailey DuBose
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2000-12-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780312276553

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Women of Mystery by Martha Hailey DuBose Pdf

In this remarkable book, Martha Hailey DuBose has given those multitudes of readers who love the mystery novel an indispensable addition to their libraries. Unlike other works on the subject, Women of Mystery is not merely a directory of the novelists and their publications with a few biographical details. DuBose combines extensive research into the lives of significant women mystery writers from Anna Katherine Green and Mary Roberts Rinehart with critical essays on their work, anecdotes, contemporary reviews and opinions and some of the women's own comments. She takes us through the Golden Age of the British women mystery writers, Christie, Sayers, Marsh, Allingham and Tey, to the leading crime novelists of today, focused on the women who have become legends of the genre. And though she laments, "so many mysteries, so little time," she makes a good effort a mentioning "some of the best of the rest." When DuBose writes of the lives of her principal players, she relates them to their times, their families, their personal situations and above all to their books. She subtly points out that Sayers, whose experience with the men in her life was inevitably disastrous, created in Lord Peter the ideal lover -- one who is all that a woman desires and needs. DuBose gives us the curriculum vitae that Dorothy Sayers created to help her bring Peter Wimsey to a virtual actuality. Ngaio Marsh would give up an active presence in the theatrical world she loved, but she recreated it for herself as well as her readers in many of her novels. The biographies of these woman are as engrossing as the stories they wrote, and Martha DuBose has shined a different, intimate and intriguing light on them, their works, and the lives that informed those works. This book is so full of treasure it's hard to see how any mystery enthusiast will be able to do without it. And what a gift it would make for anyone on your list who has been heard to announce "I love a mystery." Some of the treats inside: In the Beginning: The Mothers of Detection Anna Katherine Green Mary Roberts Rinehart A Golden Era: The Genteel Puzzlers Agatha Christie Dorothy L. Sayers Ngaio Marsh Margery Allingham Josephine Tey Modern Motives: Mysteries of the Murderous Mind Patricia Highsmith P.D. James Ruth Rendell Mary Higgins Clark Sue Grafton and more!!

Author : R. Reginald
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780893700225

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Cumulative Paperback Index, 1939-1959 by R. Reginald Pdf

This was the first bibliography and guide to the American mass market paperback book, and it remains one of the most definitive. The major index is by author, and lists: author, title, publisher, book number, year of publication, and cover price. The title index lists titles and authors only. The publisher index provides a history of that imprint, with addresses, number ranges, and general physical description of the books issued. This is the place that all study of the American paperback must begin.

Author : B. Murphy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 45,8 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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1294 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : PSU:000066489306

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Film Year Book by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Ultramarine Publishing
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0893662887

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A Checklist of the Dell Mapbacks by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Bordwell
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231556552

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Perplexing Plots by David Bordwell Pdf

Narrative innovation is typically seen as the domain of the avant-garde. However, techniques such as nonlinear timelines, multiple points of view, and unreliable narration have long been part of American popular culture. How did forms and styles once regarded as “difficult” become familiar to audiences? In Perplexing Plots, David Bordwell reveals how crime fiction, plays, and films made unconventional narrative mainstream. He shows that since the nineteenth century, detective stories and suspense thrillers have allowed ambitious storytellers to experiment with narrative. Tales of crime and mystery became a training ground where audiences learned to appreciate artifice. These genres demand a sophisticated awareness of storytelling conventions: they play games with narrative form and toy with audience expectations. Bordwell examines how writers and directors have pushed, pulled, and collaborated with their audiences to change popular storytelling. He explores the plot engineering of figures such as Raymond Chandler, Agatha Christie, Dashiell Hammett, Patricia Highsmith, Alfred Hitchcock, Dorothy Sayers, and Quentin Tarantino, and traces how mainstream storytellers and modernist experimenters influenced one another’s work. A sweeping, kaleidoscopic account written in a lively, conversational style, Perplexing Plots offers an ambitious new understanding of how movies, literature, theater, and popular culture have evolved over the past century.

Author : Jennifer Haytock
Publisher : Springer
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137347206

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The Middle Class in the Great Depression by Jennifer Haytock Pdf

In contrast to most studies of literature from the Great Depression which focus on representations of poverty, labor, and radicalism, this project analyzes popular representations of middle class life.

Author : Mary Roberts Rinehart
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781480446243

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Familiar Faces by Mary Roberts Rinehart Pdf

The #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Circular Staircase explores domestic anguish and delight in this short story collection. On a transatlantic voyage, a man fills with rage as his wife fusses over her makeup, filling their cramped cabin with powders, oils, and discarded clothes. It would be fine if he could open the porthole, but the porter has ordered it shut—lest a German submarine spot the light. Back in America, an old man with failing health stares out his window and worries about the world. And the wife of a serial philanderer realizes, to her surprise, that she has finally grown tired of her husband’s humiliating displays. These are the people of Mary Roberts Rinehart’s short fiction. Young and old, beautiful and ugly, joyous and downtrodden—they are ordinary people, consumed with the pains and privations of everyday life. Created with Rinehart’s impeccably light touch, they are more than characters on a page—they are a mirror in which we may recognize ourselves.

Author : Charlotte MacLeod
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781504042567

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Had She But Known by Charlotte MacLeod Pdf

Before Agatha Christie, there was America’s Mistress of Mystery. This is the story of her life and creative legacy, from the butler who did it to Batman. In the decades since her death in 1958, master storyteller Mary Roberts Rinehart has often been compared to Agatha Christie. But while Rinehart was once a household name, today she is largely forgotten. The woman who first proclaimed “the butler did it” was writing for publication years before Christie’s work saw the light of day. She also practiced nursing, became a war correspondent, and wrote a novel—The Bat—that inspired Bob Kane’s creation of Batman. Born in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, before it was absorbed into Pittsburgh, and raised in a close-knit Presbyterian family, Mary Roberts was at once a girl of her time—dutiful, God-fearing, loyal—and a quietly rebellious spirit. For every hour she spent cooking, cleaning, or sewing at her mother’s behest while her “frail” younger sister had fun, Mary eked out her own moments of planning, dreaming, and writing. But becoming an author wasn’t on her radar . . . yet. Bestselling mystery writer Charlotte MacLeod grew up on Rinehart’s artfully crafted novels, such as the enormously successful The Circular Staircase—“cozies” before the concept existed. After years of seeing Christie celebrated and Rinehart overlooked, MacLeod realized that it was time to delve into how this seemingly ordinary woman became a sensation whose work would grace print, stage, and screen. From Rinehart’s grueling training as a nurse and her wartime interviews with a young Winston Churchill and Queen Mary to her involvement with the Blackfoot Indians and her work as doctor’s wife, mother of three, playwright, serialist, and novelist, this is the unforgettable story of America’s Grande Dame of Mystery.