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Author: Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2006-01-24
Total Pages: 518
ISBN-13: 9780312425661
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen three unpopular police officers are killed by an assassin in Rio de Janeiro, 12th Precinct chief Espinosa links another death to the murders and finds things complicated by a government official's wife, who has become obsessed with the case.
Author: Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780312424541
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe third in the author's Brazilian crime series follows the mystery surrounding a man who had just been told by a psychic that he will kill someone and faces accusations of murder when two bodies turn up in the Copacabana precinct.
Author: Mitzi M. Brunsdale
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2006-04-30
Total Pages: 473
ISBN-13: 0313040885
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe enormous explosion of crime fiction over the last decade means that more people are looking for a good mystery than ever before. This dictionary of fictional detectives helps readers learn about the series in which their favorite detectives are featured. Included are alphabetically arranged entries on roughly 150 fictional detectives, which provide information about the works in which the detective appears, the locales in which the detective operates, the detective's investigative methods, and other important information. Helpful bibliographical citations direct the reader to other interesting works. The volume closes with a selected, general bibliography; various appendices; and an extensive index. The enormous explosion of crime fiction over the last decade means that more people are looking for a good mystery than ever before. Many of the most popular mystery books appear in series, and these series feature carefully developed detectives.
Author: Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2003-07
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780312421182
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInspector Espinosa investigates the murder of a corporate executive found dead in his car, piecing together clues surrounding the victim's missing secretary, a life insurance policy, the victim's widow, and two additional murder victims.
Author: Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2008-08-05
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780805079609
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe murder of an anonymous beggar in the wealthy precincts of Copacabana haunts Inspector Espinosa in this beguiling series.
Author: Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
Published: 2013-07-09
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1466850345
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Rio de Janeiro Thriller When his daughter disappears and a patient emerges as the prime suspect, a troubled psychiatrist comes to Espinosa for help, in the fifth novel in the beguiling Brazilian crime series A hospital psychiatrist feels he's being stalked by a young patient. For as long as possible, he convinces himself that the young man is harmless, but when the doctor's daughter disappears and the patient goes missing, too, he calls on Espinosa for help. Soon after, the patient turns up dead. With his death begins a chain of other deaths, each more mysterious than the one that preceded it, each seemingly linked to the doctor and his former patient. As Espinosa learns more about the doctor's history, it becomes harder to discern the stalker from the stalked, reality from fantasy, and the sane from the diabolical. In this installment of the "seductive, fascinating" (The New York Times Book Review) series, the sultry maze of Rio de Janeiro's streets conspires against Espinosa, confounding his judgment, stymieing his search, and, somewhere, concealing a murderer.
Author: Elizabeth Horodowich
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-11-16
Total Pages: 371
ISBN-13: 1107122872
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume considers Italy's history and examines how Italians became fascinated with the New World in the early modern period.
Author: Eric Sandberg
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2018-04-12
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 1442278234
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCrime fiction is one of the most popular literary genres and has been for more than a century. At the heart of almost all forms of mysteries—from the Golden Age puzzler to the contemporary police procedural, from American hardboiled fiction to the Japanese timetable mystery—is the investigator. He—or, increasingly, she—can be a private eye, a police officer, or a general busybody. But whatever forms these investigators take, they are the key element of crime fiction. Criminals and their crimes come and go, while our attention is captured by these fascinating characters who exist at the intersection of so many different literary and social roles. 100 Greatest Literary Detectives offers a selection of the most influential, important, and intriguing fictional sleuths—amateur or professional—from around the world. From Sherlock Holmes to Harry Hole, Kinsey Millhone to Kiyoshi Mitarai, the detectives profiled here give readers a broader picture of one of fiction’s most popular genres. Each entry summarizes the distinctive features of notable investigators and their approaches to crime, provides a brief outline of major features of their fictional careers, and makes a case for their importance based on literary-historical impact, novelty, uniqueness, aesthetic quality, or cultural resonance. The characters profiled here include Lew Archer, Martin Beck, Father Brown, Brother Cadfael, Adam Dalgliesh, Mike Hammer, Miss Jane Marple, Hercule Poirot, Ellery Queen, Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins, Kay Scarpetta, Sam Spade, Phillip Trent, V. I. Warshawski, Lord Peter Wimsey, Nero Wolfe, and many others. Readers will find some of their favorite detectives here, learn more about their literary and cultural significance, and discover other great sleuths—old and new, local and international—in this engaging volume. 100 Greatest Literary Detectives provides a fascinating look into some of the most intriguing fictional characters of all time.
Author: Soraia Nakib
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 405
ISBN-13: 1462023320
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnderneath a Flight Attendant talks about the author's adventures during her long flying career as a cabin crew and her musings as a spiritual guru and peace seeker. All the stories in the book are true facts experienced by the author and some told through her by her close friends. It talks about all subjects: love, politics, religion and science. A book to entertain, but also to teach─ "We've all got something to teach others, but also learn until our last breath." The title "Flight Attendant" was chosen by the author since it's still so popular in USA, but she explains that "Cabin Crew" is the latest title used in Europe and the Middle East. This book is also a good reminder for passengers all over the world, especially those who travel 4 or 5-star airlines; on how to be a conscious economy passenger and behave well. The author reveals to the world her psychic abilities. She describes ways for you to understand that anyone can start practicing their good luck habits and add waves of good energy into their quotidian. Hence, attracting positive bids in your professional or personal life. "I tried to summarize my so far lived vicarious life in one book. Since this book talks about various subjects and the chapters are not sequences, there's no need to start it from the beginning. Just try a chapter that inspires you first at the contents page."
Author: Jane Rendell
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007-09-12
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 1134120028
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCritical Architecture examines the relationship between critical practice in architecture and architectural criticism. Placing architecture in an interdisciplinary context, the book explores architectural criticism with reference to modes of criticism in other disciplines - specifically art criticism - and considers how critical practice in architecture operates through a number of different modes: buildings, drawings and texts. With forty essays by an international cast of leading architectural academics, this accessible single source text on the topical subject of architectural criticism is ideal for undergraduate as well as post graduate study.
