Off with His Head
Author: Ngaio Marsh
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 675
ISBN-13: 0007328753
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Three Inspector Alleyn novels plus a bonus story "My poor boy."
Author: Ngaio Marsh
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 675
ISBN-13: 0007328753
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Three Inspector Alleyn novels plus a bonus story "My poor boy."
Author: George Woodcock
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1983-04-01
Total Pages: 788
ISBN-13: 1349170666
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Martha Hailey DuBose
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2000-12-11
Total Pages: 486
ISBN-13: 0312209428
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →And though she laments, "So many mysteries, so little time," she makes a good effort at mentioning "some of the best of the rest.""--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Otto Penzler
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2012-08-28
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 1453266402
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The origins of literature’s finest crime fighters, told by their creators themselves Their names ring out like gunshots in the dark of a back alley, crime fighters of a lost era whose heroic deeds will never be forgotten. They are men like Lew Archer, Pierre Chambrun, Flash Casey, and the Shadow. They are women like Mrs. North and the immortal Nancy Drew. These are detectives, and they are some of the only true heroes the twentieth century ever knew. In this classic volume, Otto Penzler presents essays written by the authors who created these famous characters. We learn how Ed McBain killed—and resurrected—the hero of the 87th Precinct, how international agent Quiller wrote his will, and how Dick Tracy first announced that “crime does not pay.” Some of these heroes may be more famous than others, but there is not one whom you wouldn’t like on your side in a courtroom, a shootout, or an old-fashioned barroom brawl.
Author: Bernard Benstock
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1983-12-15
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 1349173134
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Ngaio Marsh
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Published: 2013-12-05
Total Pages: 675
ISBN-13: 0007531419
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Commemorating 75 years since the Empress of Crime’s first book, the seventh volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries
Author: Bruce Harding
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2019-06-12
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 1476637199
DOWNLOAD EBOOK → Considered one of the "Queens of Crime"--along with such greats as Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers and Margery Allingham--Ngaio Marsh (1895-1982) was a gifted writer and a celebrated author of classic British detective fiction, as well as a successful theater director. Best known for the 32 detective novels she published between 1934 and 1982, she was appointed a Dame Commander of the British Empire (DBE) in 1966. Based on years of original research by the curator of the Ngaio Marsh House in Christchurch, New Zealand, this book explores the fascinating literary world of Dame Ngaio.
Author: Lisa Hopkins
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-04-21
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 1137538759
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book explores why crime fiction so often alludes to Shakespeare. It ranges widely over a variety of authors including classic golden age crime writers such as the four ‘queens of crime’ (Allingham, Christie, Marsh, Sayers), Nicholas Blake and Edmund Crispin, as well as more recent authors such as Reginald Hill, Kate Atkinson and Val McDermid. It also looks at the fondness for Shakespearean allusion in a number of television crime series, most notably Midsomer Murders, Inspector Morse and Lewis, and considers the special sub-genre of detective stories in which a lost Shakespeare play is found. It shows how Shakespeare facilitates discussions about what constitutes justice, what authorises the detective to track down the villain, who owns the countryside, national and social identities, and the question of how we measure cultural value.
Author: Dave Mote
Publisher: Saint James Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 560
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Included are authors, both living and dead, who were active in the early 1960s or later and remain popular in the mid-1990s ... representing several fiction and nonfiction categories, including poets, short-story writers, biographers, and other niche authors."--Page xi