Veiled Shadows A Crime Fiction Novella

Author : Rick Anthony
Publisher : Rick Anthony
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Veiled Shadows: A Crime-Fiction Novella by Rick Anthony Pdf

In a world ruled by violence and corruption, a super-assassin known as Shadow becomes disillusioned with his life of killing and yearns for redemption. When he meets Emma, the daughter of a police officer who is testifying against his boss, Shadow sees an opportunity to make amends for his past sins. As he works to protect Emma from the dangerous and ruthless members of The Syndicate, Shadow begins to question his loyalties and his own sense of right and wrong. Along the way, he forms an unlikely alliance with Detective Sullivan, Emma's father, and together they must navigate the complex web of deceit and violence that threatens to destroy them all. As the stakes become higher and the dangers more intense, Shadow, Emma, and Detective Sullivan must learn to rely on each other and trust in their own strength and resilience if they are to survive. Will they be able to bring down The Syndicate and find redemption, or will the shadows of their past consume them all? Find out in this thrilling tale of action, suspense, and the power of human connection.

Author : C. Clarke
Publisher : Springer
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780230390546

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Late Victorian Crime Fiction in the Shadows of Sherlock by C. Clarke Pdf

This book investigates the development of crime fiction in the 1880s and 1890s, challenging studies of late-Victorian crime fiction which have given undue prominence to a handful of key figures and have offered an over-simplified analytical framework, thereby overlooking the generic, moral, and formal complexities of the nascent genre.

Author : Jocelyn Green
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781493422753

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Veiled in Smoke (The Windy City Saga Book #1) by Jocelyn Green Pdf

Meg and Sylvie Townsend manage the family bookshop and care for their father, Stephen, a veteran still suffering in mind and spirit from his time as a POW during the Civil War. But when the Great Fire sweeps through Chicago's business district, they lose much more than just their store. The sisters become separated from their father and make a harrowing escape from the flames with the help of Chicago Tribune reporter Nate Pierce. Once the smoke clears away, they reunite with Stephen, only to learn soon after that their family friend was murdered on the night of the fire. Even more shocking, Stephen is charged with the crime and committed to the Cook County Insane Asylum. Though homeless and suddenly unemployed, Meg must not only gather the pieces of her shattered life, but prove her father's innocence before the asylum truly drives him mad.

Author : Carolyne Topdjian
Publisher : Polis Books
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781951709846

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The Hitman's Daughter by Carolyne Topdjian Pdf

The Château du Ciel was once the destination for the rich and famous to play, drink and ski—complete with a private railway to shuttle those desiring extra privacy—now, however, the guests are few and far between. The New Year’s Eve party was supposed to hoist the rundown hotel back to its former status, until a massive blizzard hits, trapping the guests who’ve come to celebrate the grand hotel’s last hurrah. The circumstances might even be romantic, if the hotel wasn't reputed to be haunted. When hotel employee Mave Michael finds the resident artist dead, and shortly thereafter hotel security finds Mave alone with the body, the reputation that Mave has fought long and hard to outrun comes back to haunt her. You see, her father is a notorious hitman who is serving multiple life sentences in prison. She has changed her name and location dozens of times, but he somehow manages to track her down—even sending her a postcard on the eve of her birthday, January 1st. She’s the perfect choice to frame for murder, and now the number one suspect. Mave can no longer deny the lessons in survival her father taught her, and calls on that and her uncanny sixth-sense in “finding” lost objects to navigate the maze of the hotel. To save herself, she not only has to stop running from her own past, she must unearth the history of the hotel, its elite guests and buried secrets—one deadly sin at a time. An homage to classic gothic horror, that proves that the ghosts of family and classism are alive and well.

Author : Wilkie Collins
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788026837596

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The Woman in White (Illustrated): A Mystery Suspense Novel from the prolific English writer, best known for The Moonstone, No Name, Armadale, The Law and The Lady, The Dead Secret, Man and Wife, Poor Miss Finch and The Black Robe by Wilkie Collins Pdf

The Woman in White is considered to be among the first mystery novels and is widely regarded as one of the first (and finest) in the genre of "sensation novels". The story is sometimes considered an early example of detective fiction with the hero, Walter Hartright, employing many of the sleuthing techniques of later private detectives. Walter Hartright, a young art teacher, meets a mysterious and distressed woman dressed in white. He helps her on her way, but later learns that she has escaped from an asylum.

Author : Sawyer Bennett
Publisher : Big Dog Books, LLC
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Shadow Princess by Sawyer Bennett Pdf

Living an idyllic life in Wyoming, Thalia Clairmont is completely unaware that her world is about to be turned upside down. Step into the next dimension with The Shadow Princess, the newest story in The Chronicles of the Stone Veil series from New York Times bestselling author Sawyer Bennett. My name is Thalia Clairmont and I am heir to the throne of Vyronas. A title that was unknown to me after the love of my life, Bastien Dunne, had me stripped of my memories and sent me through the veil into another dimension. He maintains it was for my protection after my parents were killed and our kingdom was overthrown, but I see it as a betrayal. Overwhelmed by my feelings of both love and anger for Bastien, I quickly understand that things aren’t what they once were. Vyronas is at war and an evil sorceress has claimed my throne by casting her blood magic to subjugate my people. With my memories returned, I realize Bastien isn’t the man I once loved and has instead become a distant, hardened warrior whose heart is as cold as ice. My magic alone cannot defeat the blood sorcery, so I delve into the deepest shadows to find a way to regain control of my kingdom. Can I defeat evil without succumbing to the darkness? And will Bastien and I be able to reclaim the love we once shared? I am the Shadow Princess and it’s time for me to reclaim my throne. The Shadow Princess is a standalone second chance romance with a fantastical flourish within The Chronicles of the Stone Veil series.

Author : E. J. Dawson
Publisher : Literary Wanderlust
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1942856881

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Behind the Veil by E. J. Dawson Pdf

In 1920s Los Angeles, Letitia Hawking inhabits the veil between life and death. Using her scrying bowl to experience the final moments of the deceased, Letitia brings what little closure she can to her clients, allowing them to move on with their lives. Grief-stricken war widows and mourning families find peace when they visit Letitia. She knows no such peace. For Letitia, it's penance.For Alasdair Driscoll, Letitia's abilities offer the chance to save his beloved niece, Finola, from her nightmares and-as he fears-her growing insanity. But when Letitia sees a shadowy figure attached to the Driscoll family, old fears of her unspeakable past in England surface. She refuses to help him, despite his money and insistence. Instead, Letitia finds herself facing a father whose young daughter has been kidnapped-the third girl to have gone missing in as many months. Evading a determined Mr. Driscoll, a man used to getting his way, proves difficult. And as the darkness creeps in, Letitia makes the connection between the missing girls and Finola: the shadows haunting her visions. Letitia thought she could find refuge in a new, burgeoning city, far from her past. But she'll discover that unless she helps Mr. Driscoll rid his niece of her nightmares, the shadows will haunt Letitia-risking not only her newfound sanctuary but also her very sanity.

Author : Alfred Bendixen,Olivia Carr Edenfield
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317190707

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The Centrality of Crime Fiction in American Literary Culture by Alfred Bendixen,Olivia Carr Edenfield Pdf

This collection of essays by leading scholars insists on a larger recognition of the importance and diversity of crime fiction in U.S. literary traditions. Instead of presenting the genre as the property of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, this book maps a larger territory which includes the domains of Mark Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Richard Wright, Flannery O’Connor, Cormac McCarthy and other masters of fiction.The essays in this collection pay detailed attention to both the genuine artistry and the cultural significance of crime fiction in the United States. It emphasizes American crime fiction’s inquiry into the nature of democratic society and its exploration of injustices based on race, class, and/or gender that are specifically located in the details of American experience.Each of these essays exists on its own terms as a significant contribution to scholarship, but when brought together, the collection becomes larger than the sum of its pieces in detailing the centrality of crime fiction to American literature. This is a crucial book for all students of American fiction as well as for those interested in the literary treatment of crime and detection, and also has broad appeal for classes in American popular culture and American modernism.

Author : Nicholas Carter
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781479479016

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Nick Carter in The Blue Veil by Nicholas Carter Pdf

Has Nick Carter finally met his match? A new master-criminal is on the New York scene—and armed with medical knowledge, a talent for impersonation, and a brazen set of schemes that even use Nick to his advantage, he's pulled off a series of thefts that no one seems able to stop.

Author : Sir Hall Caine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UVA:X030809062

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The Shadow of a Crime by Sir Hall Caine Pdf

Author : Gary Hoppenstand
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0879722134

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The Dime Novel Detective by Gary Hoppenstand Pdf

Provides reprints of the texts of 5 detective dime novels, and lists of all the titles in the series published by the five publishers.

Author : Jeffrey J. Folks,James A. Perkins
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813157269

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Southern Writers at Century's End by Jeffrey J. Folks,James A. Perkins Pdf

Since the end of World War II, the South has experienced a greater awareness of growth and of its accompanying tensions than other regions of the United States. The rapid change that climaxed with the war in Vietnam, the Cold War, civil rights demonstrations, and Watergate has forced the traditional South to come to terms with social upheaval. As the essays collected in Southern Writers at Century's End point out, southern writing: since 1975 reflects the confusion and violence that have characterized late-twentieth-century public culture. These essays consider the work of twenty-one of the foremost southern writers whose most important fiction has appeared in the last quarter of this century. As the region's contemporary writers have begun to gain a wide audience, critics have begun to distinguish what Hugh Holman has called "the fresh, the vital, and the new" in southern literary culture. Southern Writers at Century's End is the first volume to take an extensive look at the current generation of southern writers. Authors considered include: James Lee Burke, Fred Chappell, Robert Drake, Andre Dubus, Clyde Edgerton, Richard Ford, Kaye Gibbons, John Grisham, Barry Hannah, Mary Hood, Josephine Humphreys, Randall Kenan, Richard Marius, Bobbie Ann Mason, Cormac McCarthy, Tim McLaurin, T.R. Pearson, Lee Smith, Anne Tyle,r Alice Walker, and James Wilcox.

Author : Charles Dickens,Edgar Allan Poe,Anna Katharine Green,Arthur Conan Doyle,Mary Roberts Rinehart,John Kendrick Bangs,Agatha Christie,Robert Barr,Ellis Parker Butler,Maurice Leblanc,Wilkie Collins,Grace Livingston Hill,Edgar Wallace,Melville Davisson Post,Paul Thorne,Mabel Thorne,Marion Harvey,R. Austin Freeman,A. E. W. Mason,E. W. Hornung,G. K. Chesterton,Victor L. Whitechurch
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 9589 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547774051

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Christmas Under the Veil of Mystery – Ultimate Collection for the Murder Mystery Holiday by Charles Dickens,Edgar Allan Poe,Anna Katharine Green,Arthur Conan Doyle,Mary Roberts Rinehart,John Kendrick Bangs,Agatha Christie,Robert Barr,Ellis Parker Butler,Maurice Leblanc,Wilkie Collins,Grace Livingston Hill,Edgar Wallace,Melville Davisson Post,Paul Thorne,Mabel Thorne,Marion Harvey,R. Austin Freeman,A. E. W. Mason,E. W. Hornung,G. K. Chesterton,Victor L. Whitechurch Pdf

Good Press presents to you a collection of the greatest mystery cases and puzzles for you to solve and relax with during Christmas and winter holidays: Agatha Christie: The Mysterious Affair at Styles The Murder on the Links The Kidnapped Prime Minister The Million Dollar Bond Robbery The Secret Adversary R. Austin Freeman: Dr. Thorndyke's Cases The Adventures of Dr. Thorndyke Dr. Thorndyke's Casebook Arthur Conan Doyle: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes A Study in Scarlet The Sign of Four The Hound of the Baskervilles The Valley of Fear A. E. W. Mason: At the Villa Rose The Affair at the Semiramis Hotel Mary Roberts Rinehart: The Circular Staircase The Amazing Adventures of Letitia Carberry Tish – The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions More Tish Edgar Allan Poe: The Murders in the Rue Morgue The Mystery of Marie Rogêt The Purloined Letter Charles Dickens: Hunted Down Wilkie Collins: The Moonstone The Woman in White The Haunted Hotel Robert Barr: The Triumph of Eugéne Valmont Jennie Baxter, Journalist The Adventures of Sherlaw Kombs The Adventure of the Second Swag E. W. Hornung: The Amateur Cracksman The Black Mask; or, Raffles: Further Adventures A Thief in the Night Mr. Justice Raffles John Kendrick Bangs: Mrs. Raffles R. Holmes & Co Melville Davisson Post: The Sleuth of St. James's Square Edgar Wallace: The Four Just Men The Clue of the Twisted Candle Victor L. Whitechurch: The Canon in Residence Anna Katharine Green: The Leavenworth Case A Strange Disappearance The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow That Affair Next Door Lost Man's Lane The Circular Study G. K. Chesterton: The Innocence of Father Brown The Wisdom of Father Brown The Donnington Affair Ellis Parker Butler: Philo Gubb Correspondence-School Detective Maurice Leblanc: Arsene Lupin The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin Mabel & Paul Thorne: The Sheridan Road Mystery Marion Harvey: The Mystery of the Hidden Room Grace Livingston Hill: The Mystery of Mary

Author : Tim Pratt
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781839081378

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The Veiled Masters by Tim Pratt Pdf

The galaxy stands on the brink of war, yet hope remains that the vast web of schemes can be exposed before it’s too late, in this astounding space opera from the acclaimed game, Twilight Imperium The balance of power is shifting, with bold new alliances, unknown invaders, and the rumored return of the galaxy’s ancient masters. When black-ops spy Amina Azad saves a Hacan ambassador from assassination, she draws him into her investigation of a vast conspiracy: unseen forces are destabilizing the whole galaxy, at the worst possible time. Pursued by agents from dozens of other factions, they can only make progress by allying with their apparent enemies. But even they might be compromised – duped into action by a secret puppet-master. How can they trust an alliance when they can’t trust themselves?

Author : Anthea Trodd
Publisher : Springer
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1988-12-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781349196388

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Domestic Crime In The Victorian Novel by Anthea Trodd Pdf